Got interviewed by The China Project on Kyle Anderson representing Team China 🏀 and the country's athlete naturalisation efforts: thechinaproject.com/2023/07/28/u-s…

Serbian 2nd tier side Graficar Belgrad have signed Su Yuliang. The 18 year old mixed-race leaves China and will be playing in Serbia. He made his debut at the age of 16 years old against Beijing Guoan.

New #OpenAccess in JCCA German Institute for Global and Area Studies Tobias Ross Tobias Ross, Jonathan Sullivan, Hongyi Lai, 2023 "Private Investment in Chinese Football Clubs: Political Capital and State–Business Exchanges" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/18…

🧑‍🎓Viva Voce ☑️ I passed my viva with minor corrections in sunny Nottingham last Thursday. Super happy and massively thankful to Nottingham Politics and my supervisors Jonathan Sullivan and Hongyi Lai who have guided me through this fun but exhausting journey for the last 4 years!

"Ultimately, China’s soccer ambitions were built on the same real estate bubble as four-fifths of its people’s wealth. It’s a big problem if the latter goes the same way." Geat article by Charlie Campbell about what is happening in China's real estate / football sector

After 3 years of almost no international ⚽ in 🇨🇳, great news for it's football industry and the country's engagement with foreign football entities, especially amid the current state of US-China relations

Congratulations to Nottingham Politics doctoral researcher Tobias Ross who recently passed his viva 🎉 Read more about Tobias' success here ➡️tinyurl.com/3asmenhm Researcher Academy PGR Careers Team - UoN

A thread on my very recent academic job market experience and thoughts: For context, I passed my viva in Jan 2023, I had 2 articles out and one under review at that time and I had teaching experience in lectures and seminars from 1st year up through to MA.

With the 🇨🇳CSL⚽ having concluded today, it is striking how state-owned clubs dominate the table #国进民退 1 Shanghai Port (⚓) 2 Shangdong Taishan (🏭/⛩️) 3 Zhejiang Pro (50% 🏭) 4 Chengdu Rongcheng (🏗️) 5 Shanghai Shenhua (🏟️) 6 Beijing Guan (100% private 🏗️)

The transfer.de published the complete ranking of the 2023 Chinese Football Season. In total 112 teams are in the professional/semi-professional league pyramid: 16 CSL teams, 16 CL1 teams, 16 CL2 teams, 48 CMCL teams.

Humbled to see our article on state-business exchanges in Chinese football rubbing shoulders with so many outstanding scholars, including our colleagues at Nottingham Politics Oana Burcu and Weixiang Wang 🤩👏

📚 PhD students at non-🇨🇳 universities doing research on China Great research fellowship opportunity (including tuition, living stipend, research grant) for 2024 chinese.cn/page/#/pcpage/…

From once 5 to now 2 naturalised players in China's NT squad for the 2023 Asian Cup: Tyas Browning (🇨🇳/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) - Shanghai Port FC Dai Wai Tsun (🇨🇳/🇭🇰) - Shanghai Shenhua

According to Chinese media, Ryan Raposo is closed to joining Shanghai Shenhua from Vancouver Whitecaps. Naturalization for China national team is the package of Shanghai Shenhua's offer for the Canadian winger who has Chinese blood.

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Rather unusual / straightforward approach to athlete naturalization in Chinese football 🇨🇳🇷🇸

Call for papers for this great academic conference on football 👀 Went in 2019 and enjoyed it a lot! #FC24 November 21/22 in Newcastle

Super excited to see my article about 30 (turbulent) years of #ChineseFootball online. "More than 100 clubs have folded in the country’s top three divisions, with more than 40 clubs dissolving after 2020."

My opinion piece in Sixth Tone highlighting 30 turbulent years of Chinese pro football