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@zclark92
PhD candidate @Penn_State @PSUHistory Historian of 20th century China and Tibet: Religion, Warlords, and Borderlands
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30-11-2013 19:37:39
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NEW: Chinese authorities have launched a campaign to change the term that people use to refer to Mongolian culture, in a move aimed at eroding Mongolian identity and sense of homeland. My latest, with brilliant colleagues Daria Impiombato and Nathan Attrill: aspistrategist.org.au/northern-front…
Always awesome to see your friends and peers getting the recognition you know they’ve earned with their quality work! Congrats Kyle Marini
There are few people I know who work harder than Micaela Wiehe Congrats and well deserved! Enjoy your time in Spain and Mexico
I’m excited (although I’ll be virtual) to see all the great presentations at this weekend’s Society for Twentieth-Century China Conference. If you’re there come check our panel on Sino-Tibetan History with Benno Weiner Tashi Namgyal (བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ།) Scott Relyea
My book, THE ADOPTION PLAN: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism, is out early 2025 with Columbia Univ Press And it's now available for preorder: bit.ly/4e3jkX6 I'll post more about the book - the stories it tells and the arguments it makes - in the coming months!
If the name “Tibet” is good enough for The Metropolitan Museum of Art why isn’t it good enough for Musée Guimet ? Why is the Guimet helping the CCP erase Tibet’s history, memory, identity & sinicizing Tibetan art & culture by using the colonizing name “Xizang”? Is this colonialism 2.0?
A comprehensive piece on the despairing state of information blockage in Tibet and how researchers try to break it. Images, videos and personal voices are so important for human rights stories to attract global attention but we don't have those for Tibet. thewirechina.com/2024/09/15/rem…
NEW: A senior executive at one of Taiwan’s top industrial conglomerates has been barred from leaving China. It’ll spark alarm in the Taiwanese business world, which had been less affected by Beijing’s crackdown on those who defend Taiwan’s sovereignty. 1/2 asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…