On May 8 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host its last Spring session featuring Hanyu Zhao’s project, “Varieties of Formalism: Deciphering Organizational Red Tape in the Chinese Bureaucracy” Join on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893

We are hosting a panel of some of my favorite political historical scholars!

Tsinghua Professor and THiS cofounder Nianshen Song’s book, Mapping Asia: A History on Maps, is released this week. Highly recommended for anyone interested in global history, historical geography, historical sociology, and critical Asian studies.

Please mark your calendar for Oct. 8, 8:30–10:00 p.m. ET, for Loïc Wacquant’s talk about his book “Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory.” Discussants: Marco Garrido, Eric Klinenberg, and Yue Zhang. Host: Fei Yan. Moderator: Yan Long. Zoom: berkeley.zoom.us/j/97836326646

Very excited about my talk on my new book on authoritarian politics of epidemics at York University. Zoom participation is available.

This Friday at 9 am EST, we'll host Jack Goldstone Jack Goldstone to offer a demographic view on the competition among the U.S., China, Russia, and India in the 21st century. It is followed by an interdisciplinary panel by Ho-fung Hung Taisu Zhang etc. Join us: american.zoom.us/j/8391626681

Please mark your calendar for Dec. 6, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET, for Yingyao Wang’s talk on her book “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State” (Columbia University Press, 2024).

THiS will hold its first Chinese Book Talk of 2025! On Apr. 22, 8:00–10:00 p.m. ET, Yan Long’ll talk on her book, Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford University Press, 2024). More info: thisoc.net/booktalk/bookt…

Our discussants include Huang Dongya, Dali L. Yang, Guobin Yang, and xueguang zhou. Host: Zhifan Luo. Zoom ID: 947 1885 0909 Passcode: 054950 Note that the working language will be Mandarin.