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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 14h

👇 Thrilled to get this latest Good Reads review of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, published June 10 by @columbiagr.bsky.social h

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 14h

👇 Thrilled to get this latest Good Reads review of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, published June 10 by @columbiagr.bsky.social h

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 2d

History PhD students at Scottish universities may be interested in this upcoming SGSAH Discipline+ Catalyst in person training workshop in St Andrews: Coding Literacy for Historians in the Age of AI - 17-18 Oct, 2025 spatialhistory.net/info/coding.... Limited places; registration by 15 October

Coding Literacy for Historians in the Age of AI

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 2d

Very nice to be referred to here as I look forward to giving talks the Hague on related themes, eg this on Oct 23rd leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre... & at the Nowhere bookstore on the 24th cc @annegerritsen.bsky.social @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social @melissakchan.bsky.social

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 2d

Good thread & very glad to see @lisadupuy.bsky.social bring in our discussions of The Milk Tea Alliance as relevant to think about as a very different wave of youth protests takes place, with some overlap of issues, similar uses of pop culture symbols, & other parallels amidst the notable contrasts

Lisa Dupuy @lisadupuy.bsky.social · 3d

Begin deze week in de krant: in bijna 4 jaar tijden vonden in 3 Zuid-Aziatische landen flinke omwentelingen plaats. Het meest recente voorbeeld is Nepal, nog geen maand geleden; in Sri Lanka en Bangladesh gebeurde eerder hetzelfde. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Jongeren krijgen corrupte regimes in Zuid-Azië op de knieën – maar dan?

Protest: In Sri Lanka, Bangladesh en Nepal wisten demonstranten regimes tot aftreden te dwingen. Jongeren waren een drijvende kracht. Zette Gen Z een ‘Aziatische Lente’ in gang? En hoe gaat het verder...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to being back at Stanford on December 2 for this very special event, on a program about Chinese typewriters, Lin Yutang, and all sorts of related issues with @tsmullaney.bsky.social @yangyangcheng.bsky.social & other special people cc @afrawang.bsky.social @koxinga.bsky.social

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong

www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 5d

The legendary 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐊𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 has been found. On 2 Dec, Stanford will reintroduce it to the world, featuring: Tom Mullaney, Yangyang Cheng, Emma Teng, David Brock, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Willie Liu, & Martin Wong

www.eventbrite.com/e/mingkwai-r...
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 5d

Stop by the Wagner School at NYU this afternoon to join me, @jwassers.bsky.social , and Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal speaking about transnational circuits of music and political dissent.

Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 20d

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics.

It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all.

www.nysean.org/events/songs...

Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections — New York Southeast Asia Network

Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. B...

www.nysean.org

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for hosting me, all at CSCC, great questions and all around nice to be back speaking at Penn and seeing people there after a long time

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 6d

Folks in Philly, don't miss @jwassers.bsky.social 's talk today at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu
cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

From Beijing to Bangkok and Back Again: Songs and Slogans from the Time of Tiananmen to the Era of the Milk Tea Alliance and White Paper Protests | Center for the Study of Contemporary China

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 6d

👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-i... review in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 6d

Nice place for your lovely book to be

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Connla Stokes @connla-stokes.bsky.social · 6d

'Falling for Saigon' keeping company with some splendid looking books (novels and histories) inspired by Vietnam at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in Covent Garden of Old London Town.

Looks like a FANTASTIC bookshop—and if you're in the market for a large globe or map, you'd be in the right place.

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 6d

My book talk at Nowhere Bookstore in The Hague October 24 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign-up Form for Book Presentation: The Milk Tea Alliance

In recent years, young activists across Asia have forged creative alliances to confront authoritarianism and oppression. Despite distinct political contexts in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong, these mo...

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

✨ OCTOBER ISSUE OUT NOW!✨

🎃🍂 Read it FREE through October 30 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55657

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 8d

Another good episode

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Jeremiah Jenne @jeremiahjenne.com · 8d

In this special episode of Barbarians at the Gate, I’m joined by Alexander Boyd of China Books Review to discuss Sima Qian, The Records of the Grand Historian, and what it means to speak truth to power.

open.substack.com/pub/jeremiah...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 8d

Very nice to see a piece by @laujessie.bsky.social of @nuvoices.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social

The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 8d

'When, in 1991, China opened its doors to foreign adoption, international demand led to the trafficking of babies overseas'

Jessie Lau: Two victims of China’s one-child policy

Baby snatchers

www.the-tls.com

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 8d

'When, in 1991, China opened its doors to foreign adoption, international demand led to the trafficking of babies overseas'

Jessie Lau: Two victims of China’s one-child policy

Baby snatchers

www.the-tls.com

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David Cowhig 高大伟 @gaodawei.bsky.social · 9d

Full article: The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line

This article develops ‘the imperial gaze’ concept to explore how maps not only represent the world, but also do things in geopolitics, even provoking mass demonstrations. It examines China’s early-...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 9d

New review essay out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @masonlwong.bsky.social on three books, one of them Honghong Tinn's Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 9d

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 10d

“As public rhetoric about technology adopts a dire and self-righteous tone, the ethical and normative stakes of this contest have become less and less clear.” Mason Wong on three books about US-China tech competition and the global chip industry. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-grove/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 10d

“As public rhetoric about technology adopts a dire and self-righteous tone, the ethical and normative stakes of this contest have become less and less clear.” Mason Wong on three books about US-China tech competition and the global chip industry. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-grove/

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Mason L. Wong 王樂知 @masonlwong.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Palantir, the chip industry, US-China competition, and what tech firms mean when they talk about "defending Western civilization."

Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and the LARB team for the edits!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 11d

"A gripping look at the hidden infrastructure that binds the modern world—and the chaos that follows when it snaps." Kirkus on a forthcoming CGR volume, The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables that Connect Our World

Columbia Global Reports @columbiagr.bsky.social · Sep 3

We've started the post-Labor Day week off strong in the CGR office!

Early copies of THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World, by journalist Samanth Subramanian.

🛜 On sale Oct 14, but you can preorder right now:
globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-we...

stacks of copies of the book The Web Beneath the Waves, by Samanth Subramanian, some spine-out, some facing-out so you can see the full cover

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