Category: China
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Weekly Wanderings: September 29, 2024
September 28, 2014 marked the start of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. While these protests were by no means the first mass activism in Hong Kong agains Beijing’s rule, they captured worldwide attention in a way that previous demonstrations had not. Student movement leaders like Joshua Wong and Nathan Law became media celebrities; photographers and journalists…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 22, 2024
Happy Sunday and happy fall—allegedly, as I am writing this with a fan trained on my face and a glass of ice water at hand. Despite the continuing summer temperatures, there are hints of the season’s impending change: a touch of red and gold on the trees, pumpkin spice everything in stores, the beginning of…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 16, 2024
Keeping it short and simple as I continue catching up after my trip west. Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Laurie Chen, “China wants academic exchange but historians say increased censorship makes research hard” Dalia Parete, “A New Shade of Chinese Feminism” — interview with Ohio University scholar Eva Liu about the…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 11, 2024
I’m heading home from Montana today after more than a week of vacation in the Gallatin Valley and Yellowstone National Park. I’ve posted some photos on Instagram and am working on a write-up of my trip to share here at some point. For the moment, here’s a snippet that I wrote while taking a rest…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 25, 2024
At 4:00pm this past Friday, I shut down the computer in my office at the Association for Asian Studies and officially started a month-long sabbatical. I like my job very much—I’m fortunate to have found a position that keeps me tied in to academia while also devoting my days to reading, writing, and editing. After…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 18, 2024
Recommendations China Stories Jude Blanchette, “China Is in Denial About the War in Ukraine” Keith Bradsher, “How China Built Tech Prowess: Chemistry Classes and Research Labs” Tang spent eight years in Taiwan’s government (the last two as the world’s first minister of digital affairs), putting her theory into practice – and it has worked, from…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 11, 2024
Recommendations China Stories Mr. Hu has not explained his silence; nor have China’s internet authorities. But many in China think he has been censored, pointing to signs that party officials may have been irked — paradoxically — because Mr. Hu lauded them in the wrong way. In China, even misplaced praise for the party may…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 4, 2024
Happy August, and thanks for reading. Recommendations China Stories James T. Areddy and Chun Han Wong, “Kamala Harris’s Record Offers Only Hints of a China Worldview” Migratory grief stems from the losses experienced when one moves away from home. These span both the physical and the intangible, which makes the grief a complicated process. The…
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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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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…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 