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Finally... Chongqing and Henan are sending funeral services aid teams to Wuhan. There're videos where funeral service workers in Wuhan have emotional meltdown & shout they only sleep 2 or 3 hours a day.

An increasingly isolated Iran tries to control coronavirus crisis sc.mp/7vccg

U.S. grants sanctions waiver to ease humanitarian aid to Iran reut.rs/2VyAxlT

Many public service workers (excl medics) died from overwork since the outbreak (56 people as of 9 Feb), and the compensation standard for local community workers is tricky, often depending on whether they have 编制 or not. A friend told me that in her community, the cadre said

To safeguard the continuity of trade, commerce, health and food security for all Canadians, we will be updating exemptions to travel restrictions to include foreign nationals who have already committed to working, studying or making Canada their home. THREAD

Wearing a mask serves to protect others, as much as it does to protect the wearer. Public policy solution is to produce more masks, but not to ask people not to wear it.

Always fascinated by the creative mechanisms to bypass sanction... p.dw.com/p/3LJBm?maca=e… EU mechanism for trade with Iran 'now operational'

A very interesting episode on race and food culture Bon Appetit, race and food culture cbc.ca/radio/frontbur…

Very honored to be featured by Current Sociology as the #sociologistOftheMonth! Please check out my latest publication on the coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis at buff.ly/35UE9lB.:

Glad to share my latest op-ed on Sixth Tone on the cosmopolitan Chinese traders in Yiwu-a city nicknamed "the world's supermarket".I learned so much from these traders in my fieldwork last winter and this piece tells a small part of their rich live stories

Very excited to start a new year with Harney! @SocResearchUT HARNEY @munkschool

Just had good news from Chiang Ching Kuo foundation that I received the doctoral fellowship for my dissertation research! U of T Sociology

What an insightful essay from Peter Hessler about the paradox of political life in today's China. A Teacher in China Learns the Limits of Free Expression newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via The New Yorker

A late celebration of the publication of my chapter "diasporic before the move: China’s Hui Muslims’ trade and ties with Iran and Muslimness" in @Routledgebooks ! Many thanks to @AbdelhadyDalia! U of T Sociology taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

Check out the latest episode of our podcast - a review of the film Toni Erdmann, where me and Danny Hutton Ferris talk about alienation in contemporary work, humor and existential anxiety: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/h5400jOExIb

We did a podcast!: the political theory and sociology of ⚔️Civil War ⚔️ (the film, not the thing). I argue it’s about Rawls and Habermas, somehow. With Angela Xu, who has more plausible interpretations. On Spotify: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/VLJsY5X6LJb. And Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epi…