Today! Just dropped! Trailer for INVISIBLE NATION:
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'Invisible Nation' Sells to Abramorama🎉!! ⁦蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen⁩ ⁦Bi-khim Hsiao 蕭美琴⁩ ⁦⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳⁩ ⁦Freddy Lim 林昶佐⁩ ⁦Council on Foreign Relations⁩ ⁦Orville Schell⁩ ⁦Chris Horton 何貴森⁩ ⁦Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧)⁩ ⁦Shawna Yang Ryan⁩ ⁦Global Taiwan Inst.⁩ ⁦wen liu⁩ variety.com/2024/film/news…

'Invisible Nation' From Veteran Indie Producer Ted Hope Sells to Abramorama (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2024/film/news…

There is a perfect Chinese idiom for this level of BS: 睁着眼说瞎话. Speaking 'blind' (nonsense) with eyes open, aka, lying through your teeth.

Not to be polyannaish here but it might be worth saying that Trump really is a weaker candidate than he was in 2020. His charm has diminished—he’s myopic and weird.He can’t campaign because of all his trials, and he’s running out of money. Abortion is a millstone around his neck.

🇹🇼🧋💛 Taiwanese American drag queen Nymphia Wind performing as a giant boba drink and winning Season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race — plus having President Tsai congratulate her on social — is the kind of authentic soft power win that propaganda can never manufacture.

Ten Thousand Men of Harvard just sitting there staring as a Taiwanese woman activist is manhandled out of event with the PRC ambassador. 😞😞

I had the pleasure of reviewing Lev Nachman & Jonathan Sullivan's book 'Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat' for Los Angeles Review of Books. It's the latest in a wave of academically-researched general-interest books on Taiwan, unthinkable just 5 years ago 1/lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-demo…

Lev Nachman Los Angeles Review of Books Nachman & Sullivan show how democratization in Taiwan helped produce the status quo: w/the need to appeal to pragmatic voters who cherish their freedom but are wary of the PRC, no major party can seem to stray too much from de facto independence under the framework of the ROC 2/

Lev Nachman Los Angeles Review of Books One of the strengths of Nachman & Sullivan's book is to clearly lay out how Taiwanese identity & self-determination developed through democratization - & why the PRC remains closed off to this fundamental, empirical insight about a territory & people it claims through violence 3/

Lev Nachman Los Angeles Review of Books This new mini-wave of work about Taiwan that centers Taiwanese voices includes Clarissa Wei's cookbook 'Made in Taiwan', which opens with an essay on Taiwanese history written in consultation w/James Lin jamestwotree.bsky.social + Vanessa Hope 葛靜文's documentary 'Invisible Nation' 4/ variety.com/2024/film/asia…

Lev Nachman Los Angeles Review of Books Clarissa Wei James Lin jamestwotree.bsky.social Vanessa Hope 葛靜文 Forthcoming books on Taiwan deeply informed by years in Taiwan include Chris Horton 何貴森's 'Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival' and Michael Meyer's 'biography of Taiwan', billed as combining archival research & immersive reportage' 5/ x.com/heguisen/statu…

Full disclosure that @mhar4 & I have a book 'Revolutionary Taiwan' out w/Cambria Press in June 🙂 'In TW, the outcome of democratization was nothing less than revolutionary, producing a new, de facto nation & people that can be justly called Taiwanese' 6/ cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=11…

@mhar4 Cambria Press Thanks so much to Jeff Wasserstrom, who is always so supportive of junior scholars, for commissioning the review, to Brian Spivey for edits in the midst of a busy semester, + the team at Los Angeles Review of Books for the chance to publish in one of my favorite outlets 7/

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I would be remiss if I forgot to mention the new, eminently readable 'Taiwan Lives' by Prof Niki Alsford 🐋🌿🏝️💦✊️🇺🇦: 24 mini-biographies of key or illustrative figures from Taiwan's past and present. It's out through the new 'Taiwan and the World' series at University of Washington Press 8/

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Wow. My book was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books and by none other than Catie Lilly. I am beyond honored, both by the outlet, and by such a meaningful voice writing such kind words about our book. My sincerest gratitude!

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mycelium - notes on imperialism

in online leftist spaces the overlap between solidarity for victims of western imperialism and solidarity for victims of non-western imperialism appears diminishingly small. the same is true of activist spaces i'm involved with in real life. 1/

My book, Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression, is out with Illinois Press ! My argument for the book is simple: Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population but it's made so through the psychological technologies of racecraft.🧵

I saw ‘Invisible Nation’ tonight, and would highly recommend it as a beautiful, moving, and informative film on the resilience of Taiwan’s democracy and tough geopolitical dilemma.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s Washington summit on April 11 comes at a time of deepening security cooperation as well as some challenges to economic ties, writes Sheila A. Smith. on.cfr.org/3xqCtSa