Breaking News: Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, marking the highest-level visit by a U.S. official in 25 years amid strong warnings from Beijing. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3zqZfXF

Our delegation’s visit to Taiwan honors America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant Democracy. Our discussions with Taiwan leadership reaffirm our support for our partner & promote our shared interests, including advancing a free & open Indo-Pacific region.

China just announced live-fire exercises surrounding Taiwan between Thursday and Sunday, requesting ships and flights avoid these areas:

Roger Waters八月十三日纽约音乐会售票情况。

近日，微博话题#广州疫情防控#下，有不少广东网友用粤语表达了对广州要求24小时核酸等种种过度防疫措施的不满。或许由于微博审查机制不能精准识别粤语内容，很多用词辛辣的贴文存活至今，这也引发了一场关于反审查的讨论。 dlvr.it/SXkcsL

Professor Helen Siu, our founding director, was recently interviewed in a Mingpao story about her new book, Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey (踏跡尋中：四十年華南田野之旅) news.mingpao.com/pns/%e5%89%af%…

My current project, the audio program Utopia in Practice that introduces the communitarian experiments in different countries since 19th Century, went live on December 29, 2022. It is produced and launched by Vistopia, including 10 episodes, will be updated every Tuesday.

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

The reading recommendation of my audio program Utopia in Practice next Tuesday: I read it for the first time in 2019, and then reread it constantly, leaving many notes and marks on it.

Tomorrow at 4:30PM, ouning––a multi-disciplinary writer, curator, and filmmaker––will present "The Socially Engaged Practices: From Filmmaking to Placemaking" for our third installment of the 2023 Franke Lectures in the Humanities: World Cinema. 🗓️April 11, 4:30 PM 📍HQ 136

Awakening Battersea, a sound art project in 2006, released a 4CD collection by Psychic Records: zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/622076753

Join us on 5/11 for an exhibition preview and conversation with photographer Zhang Xiao and artist/curator/writer Ou Ning focused on Shehuo: Zhang Xiao’s #Photography of Rural China. Free / registration required: bit.ly/ShehuoPreview #ArtsThursdays Fairbank Center, Harvard University

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In memory of James C. Scott (11.2.1936-7.19.2024).

纽约新书发布会：mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-xn9pozippdU…

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Ou Ning, The Agritopianists - Program - e-flux e-flux.com/events/655573/…