On the constraints and biases of archives, strongly recommend Paul Cohen's 'History in Three Keys' and Shahid Amin's 'Event, Metaphor, and Memory'

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There is such a huge disconnect between folks in Taiwan going on with their everyday lives and the war is going to happen tomorrow crowd so prominent in China and the US.

Paul Bairoch's 'Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes,' Immanuel Wallerstein's 'World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction,' Alexander Gerschenkron's 'Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective,' and Albert Hirschman's 'The Passions and the Interests'

As #Taiwan ’s two opposition parties, the KMT and TPP, continue to push forward the draft bill that would expand the parliament’s power to scrutinize the government, many people have gathered outside to protest and called on the legislative process to be stalled.

Pretty interesting video of a Chinese mercenary in Ukraine fighting on the Russian side describes the horror of war. He mentions a multinational force w Chinese, Nepalese, Indians, Cubans, and Africans employed by the Russian army

1/ After having had an opportunity to privately compare notes with counterparts on both sides of Taiwan Strait in recent days on President Lai's inaugural address, I am struck by the scale of the disconnect that exists between both sides. A few brief observations (🧵)...

Through their involvement with ecological science, Tibetans merge traditional insights with scientific methodologies, ensuring the protection of their cultural heritage while enhancing their political legitimacy and social recognition. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In China, county-level cyber offices have been rendered a 'toothless tiger' w/ insufficient tech, power, & labor. However, it has compensated by utilizing systems such as outsourced surveillance, organized mass reporting and personnel secondment. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Sociologist Lo Ming-Cheng explaining why protest erupts over TW parliament's move & why such move is perceived by many as democratic backsliding. taipeitimes.com/News/editorial…

China’s $10,000 EV Is Coming for Europe’s Carmakers / guess how EU car brands are responding? Cut costs and cut prices for consumers. Isn’t this what we want? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Inconvenient question: who is winning and who losing the war on the ground in Ukraine?

Sharing my review of Nick Bartlett’s 'Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-era China' in PRC History Review. Enjoyed reviewing the book and reading the response by the author.

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Rethinking the Significance of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions: A Dialogue between Wang Hui and faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison brill.com/view/journals/…

Very excited to share that DoD Minerva has sponsered Alvin Camba 孔安文 and I's project on Sino-American compeitition for influence in Southeast Asia. Really looking forward to working on this research project over the next two years! defense.gov/News/Releases/…

Very excited to share that DoD Minerva has sponsered Alvin Camba 孔安文 and I's project on Sino-American compeitition for influence in Southeast Asia. Really looking forward to working on this research project over the next two years! defense.gov/News/Releases/…

Blasts from the past: On this inauguration day in Taipei for 賴清德Lai Ching-te and Bi-khim Hsiao 蕭美琴, I somehow managed to dig out this 30-year old photo of a (very) young me with Lee Teng-hui. It has been an interesting few decades meeting his various successors - so much has changed in Taiwan.

A thoughtful thread on China's rise

Will 'the Global South' eventually go the way of 'the Third World' and in time be seen as politically incorrect?

Chinese policy towards the Philippines has reflected its determination to revise the regional security order, in which the US cooperates with local powers to promote its military presence on China’s maritime frontier to resist Chinese regional influence tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…