Ting
@tingguowrites.bsky.social
Religion, gender, &politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca｜ @shichapodcast.bsky.social 時差 cohost |🐻JAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |🐻 AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. https://ting902.com/
The most inspiring aspect of Anderson’s Imagined Communities: how colonialism engenders anti-colonial nationalisms (& its relationship to the paradox of Marxist nationalism).
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The most inspiring aspect of Anderson’s Imagined Communities: how colonialism engenders anti-colonial nationalisms (& its relationship to the paradox of Marxist nationalism).
Noticing smth new each time in Village Life in #HongKong: #Politics, #Gender,& #Ritual in the New Territories: it was written during the Cultural Revolution/right after the “67 riot” in HK; the Watsons contextualised the political-economic making of Chinese patrilineage (“ #Confucianism”❌)
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Noticing smth new each time in Village Life in #HongKong: #Politics, #Gender,& #Ritual in the New Territories: it was written during the Cultural Revolution/right after the “67 riot” in HK; the Watsons contextualised the political-economic making of Chinese patrilineage (“ #Confucianism”❌)
Happy new year! 1st book talk in 2026 & first time on UTSC campus! RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#toronto #love #booksky #utsc
#toronto #love #booksky #utsc
January 13, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Happy new year! 1st book talk in 2026 & first time on UTSC campus! RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#toronto #love #booksky #utsc
#toronto #love #booksky #utsc
Researching on women & #Buddhism in #HongKong; history indeed looks entirely different if we centre women instead. The earliest Buddhist community, school, hospital, chaplaincy… were all founded by women, monastic or lay, during the war, the Cold War, social upheavals, famines, pandemics, and more.
December 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Speaking of mourning; if in #Vancouver, a memorial gathering for #hongkong:
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Speaking of mourning; if in #Vancouver, a memorial gathering for #hongkong:
#hongkong 🥹 local NGO (that usually facilitates food waste reduction) opening up for those in need to stay, w/ two meals a day, all FREE OF CHARGE up to three months:
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#hongkong 🥹 local NGO (that usually facilitates food waste reduction) opening up for those in need to stay, w/ two meals a day, all FREE OF CHARGE up to three months:
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I wrote a book how #religious #nationalism works in the contemporary world, even in a #secular ( #socialist) context:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I wrote a book how #religious #nationalism works in the contemporary world, even in a #secular ( #socialist) context:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
So glad that #Indigenous Knowledge in #Taiwan and Beyond (eds Shu-mei Shih, Lin-chin Tsai) now has a Chinese edition:
#booksky
#booksky
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
So glad that #Indigenous Knowledge in #Taiwan and Beyond (eds Shu-mei Shih, Lin-chin Tsai) now has a Chinese edition:
#booksky
#booksky
Last day #aarsbl25. Edited amazing reviews on incredible books b4 heading to the airport. Doing editorial work during a mega conference was ☠️👻 But reading such engaging, empathetic words can be magically therapeutic & empowering. This is what makes the job meaningful. Thank U all for ur part in it
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Last day #aarsbl25. Edited amazing reviews on incredible books b4 heading to the airport. Doing editorial work during a mega conference was ☠️👻 But reading such engaging, empathetic words can be magically therapeutic & empowering. This is what makes the job meaningful. Thank U all for ur part in it
More books from #aarsbl25 #aarsbl2025 incl Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making #Buddhist Families in Modern #Taiwan, Countless Sands: #Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments, #Islamic China: An #Asian History
@protass.bsky.social
@protass.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
More books from #aarsbl25 #aarsbl2025 incl Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making #Buddhist Families in Modern #Taiwan, Countless Sands: #Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments, #Islamic China: An #Asian History
@protass.bsky.social
@protass.bsky.social
Taking a moment from #aarsbl25 to celebrate this recently award-winning #hongkong film #Queerpanorama 眾生相. #Queer and #Buddhist at the same time (each trans-boundary encounter contributes to the making of the protagonist’s sense of identity).
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Taking a moment from #aarsbl25 to celebrate this recently award-winning #hongkong film #Queerpanorama 眾生相. #Queer and #Buddhist at the same time (each trans-boundary encounter contributes to the making of the protagonist’s sense of identity).
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
In the same panel, Myung-Sahm Suh on the #transpacific connections to “make Korea great again”
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In the same panel, Myung-Sahm Suh on the #transpacific connections to “make Korea great again”
And we have #billygraham (& his role in creating anti #communist #ColdWar #postcolonial #Christian #nationalism in #Korea)
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
And we have #billygraham (& his role in creating anti #communist #ColdWar #postcolonial #Christian #nationalism in #Korea)
#aarsbl25 Sandra Park on #Christian #nationalism in #Korea as an enemy-making product of the violent conditions of the (religious) #ColdWar
( #Religion, #Resistance, and Reform: #Political Polarization in the Wake of South Korea’s 2024 Martial Law Decree panel)
( #Religion, #Resistance, and Reform: #Political Polarization in the Wake of South Korea’s 2024 Martial Law Decree panel)
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
#aarsbl25 Sandra Park on #Christian #nationalism in #Korea as an enemy-making product of the violent conditions of the (religious) #ColdWar
( #Religion, #Resistance, and Reform: #Political Polarization in the Wake of South Korea’s 2024 Martial Law Decree panel)
( #Religion, #Resistance, and Reform: #Political Polarization in the Wake of South Korea’s 2024 Martial Law Decree panel)
#aarsbl25 So-Yi Chung, on #Joseon #Confucian #women ‘s writings on “resenting heaven”: from passive #emotions to reflexive transformation
#koreanreligions #kreligion
#koreanreligions #kreligion
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#aarsbl25 So-Yi Chung, on #Joseon #Confucian #women ‘s writings on “resenting heaven”: from passive #emotions to reflexive transformation
#koreanreligions #kreligion
#koreanreligions #kreligion
Beyond grateful to everyone at my book panel 🥹🫶 it’s a book about top-down language & politics of #love (its #religious & #socialist affects), and such solidarity is precisely what subverts, disrupts, & transforms.
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl @aarweb.bsky.social
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl @aarweb.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Beyond grateful to everyone at my book panel 🥹🫶 it’s a book about top-down language & politics of #love (its #religious & #socialist affects), and such solidarity is precisely what subverts, disrupts, & transforms.
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl @aarweb.bsky.social
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl @aarweb.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Full house for Sharon Suh’s edited volume Emergent Dharma: #Asian American #Feminist #Buddhists on Practice, #Identity, and #Resistance
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl #sblaar
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl #sblaar
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Full house for Sharon Suh’s edited volume Emergent Dharma: #Asian American #Feminist #Buddhists on Practice, #Identity, and #Resistance
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl #sblaar
#aarsbl25 #aarsbl #sblaar
Esmond Soh on Institutional and #Ritual Reproductions of Male Authority in the Nine Emperor Gods Festival of #Postcolonial #SoutheastAsia
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Esmond Soh on Institutional and #Ritual Reproductions of Male Authority in the Nine Emperor Gods Festival of #Postcolonial #SoutheastAsia
#aarsbl2025 #sblaar Masculinities in #Chinese #Religions: Beyond Wen and Wu; Kin Cheung on “The #Masculinity of a Chinese Religious #Healer [in #newyork; aka his father] beyond Wen-Wu: Attending to Wounds, Physical Contact, and #Intimacy in the Healer-Patient Relationship”
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#aarsbl2025 #sblaar Masculinities in #Chinese #Religions: Beyond Wen and Wu; Kin Cheung on “The #Masculinity of a Chinese Religious #Healer [in #newyork; aka his father] beyond Wen-Wu: Attending to Wounds, Physical Contact, and #Intimacy in the Healer-Patient Relationship”
Relevant to all the “(re)civilisational” discourses; from yours truly: Reinventing #Confucianism: Authoritarian Traditionalism & Parental Governance
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Relevant to all the “(re)civilisational” discourses; from yours truly: Reinventing #Confucianism: Authoritarian Traditionalism & Parental Governance
Not many universities are willing to purchase physical copies nowadays. Extra grateful to friends at Seoul National University!!
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Not many universities are willing to purchase physical copies nowadays. Extra grateful to friends at Seoul National University!!
And on Saturday, I’ll have the pleasure of joining @naasr.bsky.social ‘s “Contextualizing Crisis w/o Universalism” roundtable!
#aarsbl #aarsbl2025
#aarsbl #aarsbl2025
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
And on Saturday, I’ll have the pleasure of joining @naasr.bsky.social ‘s “Contextualizing Crisis w/o Universalism” roundtable!
#aarsbl #aarsbl2025
#aarsbl #aarsbl2025