Greater China on Bluesky
A range of smart people thinking about China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and their diasporas
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@ehundman.bsky.social
@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
@pekinghotel.substack.com
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@yangyangcheng.bsky.social
Research Scholar at Yale Law School studying the history of science in China and US-China relations. Particle physicist by training. Writer at various places. Editor at Made in China Journal. Co-host of Dissident at the Doorstep.
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, political economy, knowledge, theory, & China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
@casperwits.bsky.social
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Leiden University International history&Geopolitics: China🇨🇳|Japan🇯🇵|Taiwan 🇹🇼|EU🇪🇺 @geopolitieknu.bsky.social
@arunabhghosh.bsky.social
Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
@svshen.bsky.social
political scientist + environmental engineer @ Stanford Doerr | author @ Cambridge UP - Political Regulation Wave, Compliance with Policy | http://svshen.com
@christoph.bsky.social
👣 did a thing #TheLongestWay 🖥️ agonizing over a video I'm making 📘 books available 🀄️ 中文账号 老雷 ☕️ just ordered an expresso 👊🏼 #fuckputin
@lchen2024.bsky.social
JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
@jnbpage.bsky.social
Asia Diplomatic Editor for The Economist, covering China, India & geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific. I was the WSJ's chief political & diplomatic reporter in Beijing 2010-21. Earlier, The Times correspondent in Moscow & Delhi. www.linkedin.com/in/jnbpage
@ianhutchinson.bsky.social
Comms guy at Rhodium Group. Old bikes, photography, and Irish sports.
@austinramzy.bsky.social
Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
@christiangoebel.bsky.social
Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
@andypeaps.bsky.social
News editor at The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social. Host and founder of Asia Matters podcast. Views expressed here are my own.
@wingkuang.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, audio producer, NAATI interpreter for Cantonese. 📻: Little Red Podcast, NüVoices, Initium Reports, All The Best, SBS News, etc. 📰: The Saturday Paper, Al Jazeera English, Guardian Australia, etc. 📧: wingkuang.journalist@gmail.com
@beijia-b.bsky.social
Shanghai Bureau Chief for AFP. Asia Matters Podcast founding producer. Reposts are not endorsements.
@siegeweather.bsky.social
I work on medieval Chinese literature, calligraphy, book history, and material culture. PhD in Chinese, UC Berkeley. Professor. Translator. Teacher of Mandarin and Classical Chinese. Go/围棋/바둑 try-hard.
@michaeldavidson.bsky.social
Asst prof in policy and engineering at UC San Diego. Decarbonizing world’s toughest grids @ Power Transformation Lab. pwrlab.org
@hushuo.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G. @HuShuo@mastodon.social
@mikeygow.bsky.social
China Studies academic. Research focus on CSR, business ethics, consumerism, citizenship and state-building in Contemporary #China. Cultural Studies. Gramsci. Bourdieu. #Everton FC “Top Wool” @brianwoolfinder.bsky.social All posts in personal capacity
@qiaoj.bsky.social
History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
@michaelmazza.bsky.social
The Project2049 Institute. The Global Taiwan Institute | Former AEI | China. Taiwan. Japan. Korea. SE Asia. Dog dad. People dad, too. Spy balloon appreciator.
@kjoules.org
👨🏻💻The data & stats guy from #HKTwitter 👕 Custom Slim Fit, Medium 📍香港 Hong Kong, also 🇹🇼🇨🇦 ☢️ @hksushireport.bsky.social I have Hong Kong-related Starter Packs, Feeds, and Lists for those getting started
@memostothefuture.bsky.social
Documentary Filmmaker, based in China. 25+ year Expat. I won't die on a couch. 坚持就是胜利。
@nathanattrill.bsky.social
China Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@dadakim.bsky.social
Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics. Editor in Chief, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
@simonlester.com
Founded WorldTradeLaw.net & ChinaTradeMonitor.com Non-Resident Fellow @bakerinstitute.bsky.social Formerly @wto.org Trade Policy feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqzu2eazvxb5fohoc4nap33y/feed/aaab5ctu4u4fc
@katemh.bsky.social
Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer. Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
@nadmussen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
@yilinwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social
✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨ @theemancipator.org contributing senior editor (opinions are my own) Culture/food writer | illustrator | semiotician | Trekkie She/her
@jeremywallace.bsky.social
China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
@bokane.org
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming and Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Signal: @bokane.1644. http://www.burninghou.se
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
@jfallows.bsky.social
Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
@cammacmurchy.com
Former journalist, radio / TV host, and scribbler on 9to5Mac. Now handling communications for a global tech company. Media, travel, tech, Canucks. @ Hong Kong | Bangkok.
@hermannaubie.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Global China, Taiwan, Human Rights, Climate Emergency.
@svortherms.bsky.social
Poli Sci Asst. Prof UCI | Comparative Politics | China | Migration | Development
@yaqiu.bsky.social
Chinese human rights researcher and advocate | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
@newchinabooks.bsky.social
All the books you could ever read about China. Formerly on Twitter, please follow me here and spread the word!
@lorentzen.bsky.social
Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。
@izading.bsky.social
Political Scientist professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer izading.substack.com
@xianyangcb.bsky.social
The Stratagems of the Warring States and other open access Classical Chinese translations. Pronouns: 臣/臣之. MQGA.
@npcobserver.com
Independent coverage of China's National People's Congress and its Standing Committee | “[I]nvaluable,” per 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵: http://bit.ly/4csmiTK | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/npcobserver
@xiaobolu.bsky.social
Comparative Political economy, Authoritarian Parties, Chinese Politics Associate Professor of Government, UT-Austin. Very infrequent social media user.
@davidonformosa.bsky.social
Interested in Taiwan, democracy and human rights. https://davidonformosa.wordpress.com/
@vivianchang36.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Security @GMU Schar School. Faculty director of IRTF. Coercion, security & IPE, Chinese foreign policy & domestic politics.
@cstraube.bsky.social
Project Manager #China @stiftungmercator.bsky.social | Alumnus Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, Tsinghua University & @daadworldwide.bsky.social | AFS #Malaysia '01 | #fieldwork in #Zambia '15-16
@jessicacweiss.bsky.social
David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies SAIS Johns Hopkins, senior fellow Asia Society Center for China Analysis, previously Cornell, State Dept, Yale
@taiwanreporter.bsky.social
Journalist in Taipei: taiwanreporter.de Blog & Podcast: intaiwan.net Since 2009: facebook.com/taiwanreporter
@vicshih.bsky.social
Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
@thianun.bsky.social
台灣戰貓. Assistant Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book forthcoming: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, 2025). she/hers
@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
@chongjaian.bsky.social
Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
@pybaubry.bsky.social
Un Français à Taipei. Mon blog sur les livres de/sur Taiwan: www.lettresdetaiwan.com
@andreaghiselli.bsky.social
Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project. Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo More at https://andreaghiselli.com/ 无巧不成书
@doublethinklab.bsky.social
A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!
@mareikeohlberg.bsky.social
Senior fellow @gmfus | CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
@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).
@ilariamariasala.bsky.social
words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore Follow me on IG: @ilariamariasala
@vierth.bsky.social
Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
@taiwantrailsandtales.com
I’m a British woman living and working in Taiwan, my partner’s homeland, and I’m here to spam your feed with all things mountains, trails, #hiking and #Taiwan. www.taiwantrailsandtales.com ⛰️🥾🏕️ 🇹🇼🇬🇧
@dsorennie.bsky.social
Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
@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.
@shellyk.bsky.social
Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
@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
@raykwong.bsky.social
WSJ caption 🏆 | Space | Clean Energy | US-China | USC | RT/Like ≠ endorsement. Twitter transplant. Bad posts written by my intern. #ENDALZ #NASASocial #resist 💙 https://x.com/raykwong
@jonasnahm.com
Associate Professor at Hopkins/SAIS. Former White House industrial strategy economist. Industrial policy, trade, climate, economic security. Views my own. DC | SF. 🏳️🌈
@jmulich.bsky.social
Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
@mattingly.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
@dialogueearth.bsky.social
Environmental journalism that lifts up local voices & fosters constructive global conversations. Find us at: https://dialogue.earth
@tommazanec.bsky.social
Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JAOS editor. Father of 2. Cantonese learner. Christ follower. https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
@ckafura.bsky.social
Director, foreign policy and public opinion @Chicago Council; Fellow @Truman National Security Project; old Young Leader @Pacific Forum. Dad, husband, and hockey player. Via Columbia, Yale, and Appalachia.
@kharist.bsky.social
Political scientist w/ Hoover Project on Taiwan in Indo-Pacific @Stanford. Formerly @UMich @UofR. Oregon-born and raised.
@jayjamescarter.bsky.social
Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly and NYC. Weekly words @ https://tinyurl.com/bdecudb4 Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin https://tinyurl.com/3vw9s48u
@emilyywu.com
Producer / Founder, Ghost Island Media podcast network based in Taiwan. Twitter @ emilyywu https://ghostisland.media
@rudyakmarina.bsky.social
China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China & CCP, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹 www.decodingchina.eu www.deconspirator.eu
@rollandnadege.bsky.social
Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research | China’s grand strategy | Current research project: https://strategicspace.nbr.org
@pekingmikenyt.bsky.social
Reporter on the investigations team at the NYT. I always have a China-focused story in the works. Co-author of bestselling “When McKinsey Comes to Town”. Navy veteran. Send tips to Michael.forsythe@nytimes.com. DM for Signal.
@sensehofstede.nl
Looking for a job | Researcher and teacher of the Indo-Pacific. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; nationalism, party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
@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
@jamestwotree.bsky.social
Historian of Taiwan & the World. Assistant Professor, University of Washington Jackson School. Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025) Website: ocf.io/jameslin he/him
@yuenchan.bsky.social
"Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky" @xinwenxiaojie on the app formerly known as Twitter. Hongkonger, South Londoner. Teaching journalism at City St George's, University of London.
@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
@chinafile.bsky.social
Online magazine from Asia Society Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
@thoc.bsky.social
“一场 Timeless 的 Classic” | 遊俠 of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [秦朝], Kangxi [康熙] Era, e. 18th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
@mauracunningham.bsky.social
She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper. https://mauracunningham.org/
@zichen.bsky.social
Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火. https://chenchenzhang.net
@prchovanec.bsky.social
Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
@andrewryan.bsky.social
Taiwan-based journalist + sound collector • TaiwanPlus Deputy News Director • Fulbright • buttered toast enthusiast • 🌈 • he/him
@uselesstree.bsky.social
I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Currently Director of Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford.
@takingthepith.bsky.social
Hong Kong. Camping in the hills because the Murray Barracks were full