Holy shit I just spent an hour playing the Meta Quest II — 'Vader Immortal,' and only the lightsaber dojo and not even the game itself, and it was insanely fun. Got the thing for my son for his graduation gift and man, if I had had one in high school I never would have finished.

In her journal collection Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life, Harriett Low gave us a glimpse of Macau, then a Portuguese colony, during 1829~1834. Find out more about this book at #UltimateChinaBookshelf . Link in comments!

Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies Asian Arguments - available everywhere & on Bloomsbury's site here - bloomsbury.com/uk/southern-to…

“One person familiar with the rule who requested anonymity to discuss national security matters said the US hasn’t published a list because officials want to be able to expand or change the definitions of what constitutes a threat as needed.”Sheridan Prasso
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This Thursday, May 30: A great panel of participants from PRC, Taiwan, Poland, and Ukraine discuss the relevance of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to a potential PRC move on Taiwan. I'll be moderating, and will tape for the @Sinicapodcast. ua-china.org/?events=the-gl…

I'm just 150 pages into Pete Hessler's new book 'Other Rivers' and already it's one of the best China books I've read. Hard to think of any books in English that have captured the experience and perspectives of ordinary Chinese in the last 40 years as well.

On Sinica this week I said 王羲之 (the 4th century calligrapher) when I meant 王致和 (the once great, now kinda shitty brand of fermented doufu, or 酱豆腐 aka 豆腐乳). Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Another great China in Africa Podcast from the The China-Global South Project, featuring Alexandra Bloom on illegal logging in Mozambique. Don't miss this one! chinaglobalsouth.com/podcasts/illeg…

Please join us for a webinar on 'How Should the U.S. and China Manage Their Nuclear Relationship During the ‘New Cold War’”? Discussants are Tong Zhao, Taylor Fravel and David Santoro. chinafocus.info/webinar-how-sh… Kaiser Kuo National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

This week on the Sinica Podcast , Kaiser Kuo is joined by his old friend Ed Lanfranco, who lived in Beijing from 1988 to 2009. Listen to a Peking Packrat talks about some of his treasures from the decades and even centuries before his arrival! Link in comments.

Great thread. Most thought-provoking!

The excellent ⁦Edward Luce⁩ is still batting 1000. America is pulling up the drawbridge ft.com/content/97024f…

It simple does not matter what American musicians actually mean. If they make a sardonic reference to American patriotism ... it becomes a patriotic song!
Born in the USA
Now: Keep on Rocking in the Free World.

Here are the darkly ironic lyrics:

There’s colors on the street