As an editor in two international journals, I have learnt four things: 1) that scholars from academically strong countries tend to write as if they were always revolutionizing the field; scholars from peripheral countries, as if they had to ask permission to speak.

RuPaul's Drag Race winner Nymphia Wind will join other performers in representing Taiwan at the cultural program of this year's Olympic Games.

EXCLUSIVE: What wasn’t shown in this 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼 map was how PLA aircrafts flew around Matzu’s vicinity (both north and south) yesterday, confirmed by my sources w/n the military. In voice recordings intercepted by TaiwanADIZ, TW’s airforce warned PLA sternly…(1/2)

Are you early career researchers participating ACHS2024GALWAY. @achs_ecrn will hold an early career researchers meet-up session at Room AC-201 at 2:30pm IST on Tuesday 4 June. Please take this opportunity to meet your fellow ECRs. See you there! #ACHS2024GALWAY

#ACHS2024 ECR meet-up

We are releasing mini-talks by ESEA academics every month to spotlight specific issues faced by ESEA communities in Britain. This July, Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li is talking about - Hongkongers in the UK 🔗eseahub.co.uk/lecture-series…

Glad to take part at at Virtual Open Day of Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN and share the insights of studying cultural and creative industries at CLAS UoN nottingham.ac.uk/open-days/find…

I know many of my constituents will be deeply alarmed by the jailing of 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists. Today I spoke in Parliament about the need to better protect Hongkongers in the UK so they can exercise their civil liberties without fear of transnational repression.

I will be presenting at the symposium on 5 Dec at SOAS

I have opened my Bluesky account

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

The Fabian Society Finally, on the politics, the electorate do want to see net migration reduced from the historic high reached under the Tories. But views are nuanced. Polling by British Future shows that just 22% want fewer migrants for social care. 44% would like to see more 6/6

(1/11) I oppose any hasty government move to abandon bamboo scaffolding, a proven, resilient, and cost-effective engineering system that has served Hong Kong’s high-rise and complex urban environment for decades. #HongKongFire And here is why:

.Adam Withnall's piece does something deeply irresponsible: it takes a tragedy and uses it to push a simplistic conclusion--“the bamboo has to go” without evidence, without understanding HK’s construction practice, and with a clear cultural bias. It is Orientalism. Anyone who

"What really needs to be replaced is not the bamboo scaffolding"