Life update: I've moved to Ireland to start a fully-funded PhD @ucdpolitics. I'm stoked to be working w @AlexDukalskis to study authoritarianism, media control, & nationalism - themes central to my time as a China corro. I'll also be helping out at @AsiaUcd - do follow us there!

sharing this podcast to celebrate the novelist Chiung Yao, who - through the tv adaptation of 还珠格格 - transformed an entire generation brought up to not talk about feelings, to not question authority, and to operate driven by duty rather than passion

RT @benmauk: In 2017, this man — an undocumented Uyghur refugee named Hasan Imam — planned and executed a daring escape from a Thai detenti…

RT @CarnegieEndow: Despite shared stakes, Southeast & Northeast Asia diverge on security strategy. Northeast Asia & the Philippines focus…

Thanks @s_furstenberg & ToRS colleagues @uni_copenhagen for organising the panel 'Journalism and Media in Exile'. Happy to have been able to present some findings from my recent fieldwork & learnt from the other panellists @mmichae1sen, @gorokhovskaia, @neginsh, and @m_medhaat

RT @chenchenzh: Shanghai highly securitized to prevent Halloween activities why? because last year it was a street party of playful resist…

RT @ChannelNewsAsia: Singapore blocks 10 websites set up by foreign actors over potential hostile information threat

It was a pleasure to be part of this IJPP panel (Threats and Challenges to Journalistic Work) with @000ricardo, @roeid, Oren, @Russ_Research, & @sanababich9 as chair. I'm grateful for all the feedback. & yes, I am still not giving up on X, as it has given me a lot over the years

I have never experienced water and power outages until I moved here... Baffling given the per capita GDP and personal income tax rates in Ireland. This must be the fourth or fifth power outage in the past month or so. Powering on with work with the help of candles!

RT @paulg: 65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being…

"Speaking at a concert ahead of Taiwan's national day celebrations on Oct. 10, Lai noted that the People's Republic had celebrated its 75th anniversary on Oct. 1, and in a few days it would be the Republic of China's 113th birthday."

RT @AsiaUcd: Delighted to welcome Joseph Torigian (Stanford University / American University) on Tuesday, 1 October, 15:30-17:00, Newman Bu…

RT @EleanorOlcott: @wenfeixiang I find it strange that I checked these details carefully with It Juzi before and sent the chart before pub.…

RT @RightsPractice: The Rights Practice & Chinese Human Rights Defenders sent a communiqué to @UN_SPExperts alleging arbitrary detention of…

RT @shanghailit: A new essay by Yan Lianke on the Chan practice of knowing without speaking, and speaking without communicating, in contemp…

RT @LauraHarth: “Prosecutors said Sun, at request of Chinese officials, blocked Taiwan Gov representatives from access to high-level offici…

RT @chris__pc: I often hear Westerners claiming nobody in China gets in trouble for using a VPN. Now, once again, authorities are proudly…

RT @GabrielCor54922: Two foreigners detained by police in Gansu and given a warning because they dared to hitchhike through China. Their "c…

Its gratifying to see a character I loved as a child, transcend borders & gain universal fandom. Representation matters. I hope it drives people everywhere to read up on Buddhism, & ideas of personal freedom (for which Wukong is a great symbol) in Chinese philosophy & literature

RT @isaacstonefish: Major scandal in the Philippines: a former mayor accused of spying for China fled the country undetected. President Fer…

RT @OCCRP: Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested in France this weekend. Among the possible reasons: The app has become a rec…