Month: July 2024

• Weekly Wanderings: July 31, 2024

  

  Sometimes … well, sometimes a week is more like 10 days, which feel like a month. Can’t explain it, time works in mysterious ways. Thanks for reading. Recent Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories David Bandurski, “Xi’s Ten-Year Bid to Remake China’s Media” Cate Cadell, Nick Miroff, and Li Qiang, “Walk the Line: Chinese migration surge…

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  July 31, 2024

  Baseball, Books, China, History, Weekly Wanderings

• Weekly Wanderings: July 21, 2024

  

  Recommendations China Stories Amy Hawkins, “‘Garbage time of history’: Chinese state media pushes back on claims country has entered a new epoch” Amy Hawkins, “Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association” Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Code of Silence” Timothy McLaughlin, “When the Press Turns Its Back on Press Freedom” John Ruwitch, “5…

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  July 21, 2024

  China, History, Hong Kong, Weekly Wanderings

• Weekly Wanderings: July 15, 2024

  

  No note from me up top this week because (a) What a wild weekend we’ve just had in the United States, and (b) I flew back from Indonesia on Friday-Saturday so my brain is nothing but mush at the moment. I do have a new piece of writing to share. The Wall Street Journal has…

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  July 15, 2024

  Books, China, History, Weekly Wanderings, Writing

• Weekly Wanderings: July 7, 2024

  

  Greetings from Jakarta! I am in Indonesia for the briefest of long-haul trips—on the ground for six days, down to the hour—to work at the AAS-in-Asia conference this week. I arrived Saturday afternoon and will leave for the conference in Yogyakarta tomorrow morning, giving me one free day for some quick tourism. I walked around…

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  July 7, 2024

  Baseball, China, Higher Education, History, Hong Kong, Travel, Weekly Wanderings, Work/Life