Michael Szonyi
@michaelszonyi.bsky.social
宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
1/ About a year ago I went to an interesting talk about Europe-China comparisons. I was disappointed that the speaker talked a lot about kinship in China without, apparently, having read my work.
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
1/ About a year ago I went to an interesting talk about Europe-China comparisons. I was disappointed that the speaker talked a lot about kinship in China without, apparently, having read my work.
"For me, she became the model of an ethical engaged scholar-activist, devoted to getting to the root of problems that continue to make women’s lives difficult, but also delighted by the variety and creativity that she found among women in the villages." positionspolitics.org/gail-hershat...
Gail Hershatter, Gao Xiaoxian: A Short Remembrance - positions politics
I first met Gao Xiaoxian in 1992 at a conference at Peking University, but even before that I had heard about her extraordinary work with the Women’s Federation and her deep knowledge of life in the S...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"For me, she became the model of an ethical engaged scholar-activist, devoted to getting to the root of problems that continue to make women’s lives difficult, but also delighted by the variety and creativity that she found among women in the villages." positionspolitics.org/gail-hershat...
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Obeying in advance — this is how the anaconda in the ceiling works in America. Cancel anything non-western, non-white
statenews.com/article/2025...
statenews.com/article/2025...
MSU college abruptly cancels Lunar New Year event, citing Trump DEI orders - The State News
MSU cancelled an annual Lunar New Year celebration following new executive orders targeting DEI and concerns from students.
statenews.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Obeying in advance — this is how the anaconda in the ceiling works in America. Cancel anything non-western, non-white
statenews.com/article/2025...
statenews.com/article/2025...
A cool honor - "keys to the village" x.com/HolaFujian/s...
January 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A cool honor - "keys to the village" x.com/HolaFujian/s...
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I’m always glad to be asked to name China books of the year by @fivebooks.com (as challenging as the selecting is—I see it as just picking 5 of the many recent worthy books on the topic broadly defined that I’d like more readers to know about). Here are my 2024 choices fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best China Books of 2024
From an issue of a literary magazine that brings together contemporary writing from across mainland China to history books focusing on different periods of its 20th-century history, it's been another ...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
I’m always glad to be asked to name China books of the year by @fivebooks.com (as challenging as the selecting is—I see it as just picking 5 of the many recent worthy books on the topic broadly defined that I’d like more readers to know about). Here are my 2024 choices fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
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A while back the great people at the Journal of Social History asked me to write a piece about agency and environmental history as part of a retrospective on Walter Johnson’s tremendous article. It’s now live in the world in case you need a nerd-read
#envhist #envhum
academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...
#envhist #envhum
academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...
On the Agency of Environmental History
Abstract. Twenty years ago, Walter Johnson warned historians not to rely on a concept that let both user and audience alike feel better without doing better. Th
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December 11, 2023 at 10:41 PM
A while back the great people at the Journal of Social History asked me to write a piece about agency and environmental history as part of a retrospective on Walter Johnson’s tremendous article. It’s now live in the world in case you need a nerd-read
#envhist #envhum
academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...
#envhist #envhum
academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...
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Book news, my short one that moves between Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Burma via profiles of activists and exiles, is in copy editing now, has a release date (June 10) & has a cover ( @columbiagr.bsky.social keeping up its tradition of eye catching covers here) indiepubs.com/products/the...
The Milk Tea Alliance
Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Only Burma is in a ...
indiepubs.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Book news, my short one that moves between Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Burma via profiles of activists and exiles, is in copy editing now, has a release date (June 10) & has a cover ( @columbiagr.bsky.social keeping up its tradition of eye catching covers here) indiepubs.com/products/the...
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The design department at @uwapress.bsky.social created a great cover. Forthcoming spring 2025.
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People
State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costsFrom the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures tran...
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November 26, 2024 at 6:09 PM
The design department at @uwapress.bsky.social created a great cover. Forthcoming spring 2025.
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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The most essential #China starter pack is our #PIPFellows: the next generation of American specialists on China in diverse fields, from U.S.-China subnational relations to technology in Sinophone theatre.
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Check out the people we're following:
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November 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM
The most essential #China starter pack is our #PIPFellows: the next generation of American specialists on China in diverse fields, from U.S.-China subnational relations to technology in Sinophone theatre.
Check out the people we're following:
go.bsky.app/5QojsQC
Check out the people we're following:
go.bsky.app/5QojsQC
I'll be speaking tomorrow about Kinmen/Quemoy with Oscar-nominated director Leo Chiang at the Freedom Crossing Film Festival. Details/online reg here: freedomcrossing.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:49 PM
I'll be speaking tomorrow about Kinmen/Quemoy with Oscar-nominated director Leo Chiang at the Freedom Crossing Film Festival. Details/online reg here: freedomcrossing.org
Some personal reflections about the Taiwan elections, and very thoughtful analysis by my brilliant
@FairbankCenter
colleagues: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...
@FairbankCenter
colleagues: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...
January 26, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Some personal reflections about the Taiwan elections, and very thoughtful analysis by my brilliant
@FairbankCenter
colleagues: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...
@FairbankCenter
colleagues: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blo...