Critical thinkers in China Studies
China Studies is dominated by voices who maintain their access to the field by avoiding important topics and overlooking perspectives that are essential to understanding China. We need more critical thinkers who can consider multiple perspectives and address different social phenomena in their work.
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@drdavidtobin.bsky.social
@zhubochubo.bsky.social
@kasgarlikarluk.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology&Chinese Studies @iibf_ahbv, Visiting Scholar @unisqaus, @sheffielduni. Interested in China Studies, Uyghur Genocide, Sino-Turkic relations, Ethnicity, Assimilation. Editor in Chief of @daadtr. RT Doğruluğunu değil, ilgiyi gösterir.
@tingguowrites.bsky.social
Religion, gender, (post)secular politics. @shichapodcast cohost. JAAR book review editor. She/her/伊/佢
@jleibold.bsky.social
Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
@billcallahan.bsky.social
China curious filmmaker and writer for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/ Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
@jwassers.bsky.social
Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia out in June https://indiepubs.com/products/the-milk-tea-alliance?srsltid=AfmBOoot8bW8ddRXno-tjJbRKTV99aXVFPFQn-Q8KaAAQixLtka0HWxd
@methorley.bsky.social
Book on UK-China shadow international relations: http://tinyurl.com/3ny5c5ee Senior Analyst at GI-TOC: developing concept of geocriminality. PhD on shadow international relations. Previously academia. Views my own. Erstwhile 北漂儿
@letahongfincher.bsky.social
Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
@rianthum.bsky.social
Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
@ericschluessel.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ. Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
@emilyupson.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Newcastle University: Transnational Advocacy Networks for Uyghur human rights. Also Amnesty UK, Irish Uyghur, drinking coffee. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/our-people/profile/eupson2.html
@nathanattrill.bsky.social
China Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
@andrewmfischer.bsky.social
Prof at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Chair of Development and Change @devandchg.bsky.social, Canuck in Europe. Working on development economics, demography & social policy, Tibet & western China. Wrote Poverty as Ideology (2018) & other stuff.
@madeinchinajournal.com
The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com. A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
@angrant.bsky.social
Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare
@chowleen.bsky.social
@chowleen elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times. Duke prof, APSI Dir of Grad Studies, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Taiwan: Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher 周成蔭 #everynightapoem
@yaqiu.bsky.social
Chinese human rights researcher and advocate | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
@mayawang.bsky.social
Associate China director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns + proud board member @hkdc_us. Email me: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org. Mostly China stuff, a bit of tech.
@donaldcclarke.bsky.social
Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X. Website: http://donaldclarke.net Twitter: @donaldcclarke
@chinadigitaltimes.net
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
@bennoweiner.bsky.social
History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
@steveharrell.bsky.social
Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, nature lover, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--adoptive 'Hamster. Would like to be wittier than I am.
@pm-thornton.bsky.social
Associate Professor Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member. Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
@gblee.bsky.social
Writer and academic. Founding Professor of Chinese Studies @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. 香港人文學院院士. Formerly SOAS/PKU/Cambridge/UChicago/HKU/BBC/社科院. Founding Director IETT, Lyon. General editor Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本 跨文化: Journal of Global Cultural
@dgtam86.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China at Trinity University (focus on language, identity, gender, protest, Hong Kong); author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960; NCUSCR PIPVII 2021-2023; Wilson Fellow 2022-2023. 4th-gen Italian-American
@scholarsstage.bsky.social
• Director https://www.strategictranslation.org/ • Essayist http://scholars-stage.org • Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, ancient history
@geraldroche.bsky.social
AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/ ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
@dbyler.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
@chinalawtranslate.bsky.social
Chinalawtranslate.com is a cooperative website for translations and commentary on Chinese Law. Jeremy Daum is a Sr. Researcher at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, focussing on criminal justice and policing.
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social
Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights @ucdpolitics.bsky.social Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u Associate Editor @cpcs.bsky.social & Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. she/her. 不必等待炬火. co-host @shichapodcast.bsky.social https://chenchenzhang.net/
@fravel.bsky.social
Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
@redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account I talk about pens. 🖋️
@davidstroup.bsky.social
Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester. Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
@htheaker.bsky.social
Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
@dos3ab.bsky.social
@timothyagrose.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
@drdavidtobin.bsky.social
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Author of 'Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang' (Cambridge University Press) https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/people/academic-staff/david-tobin