Andrew Grant

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

Digitally visiting Centro SELISI in Venice on 10/23 to give this talk. Open to all who register: Unstable Bordering: Chinese Development at Two Nepalese Border Sites.
Zoom (registration required):
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Ohhh both sound very interesting!

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

Some of the readings and materials I am folding into my Silk Roads History class this semester. Really enjoying it!

My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this

When did promoting cancel culture become part of the DHS mandate?

Khorgos is a self-contained duty-free territorial unit that carves out territory from Kazakhstan and China. You need entry from either side, but then can't cross through the other country's migration: you have to go back home. How common are border sites like this around the world?

Anti-ICE Superman mural vandalized in Chicago, but artist came back and repainted it with Krypto pissing on ICE.
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My new essay for @nbr.org that explores the convergence of geopolitical space and propaganda in China's "external periphery." To learn what (and where) that is, read on...

Who Will Be the Next Dalai Lama? | China Books Review The Dalai Lama, who just turned 90, writes in his memoir that he will reincarnate in the “free world.” But will his political, religious and moral power transfer with him?

A real honor to work with @tshakya.bsky.social on this incredible piece on the Dalai Lama's book. Please read and share!

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Monsoonal rainfall contributed to the flooding of the Bhote Koshi River at the Rasuwagadhi border of Nepal and China, damaging the dry port and destroying a key bridge. Thankfully, Timure town is above the river. Here are two photos I took there last month.

Hanging out in the CU Boulder library this morning to access CNKI. Good memories of this campus!

I did my part.

It’s Nepali.

It’s this map

Follow up to my last post about maps on the sides of trucks at the Sino-Nepalese borders. This one is painted over. China is a bit sensitive about unauthorized cartography… Who knew?

These are all long-distance goods transport trucks

No trade cities to map perhaps?

I love the hand applied and painted maps on trucks at the Rasuwagadhi border. #rasuwa #cartography #sinonepalese #borderlands

Finally, the invitation I've been waiting my whole life to accept! Everything has been building up to this point. 😇🚀🪐

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Our panel on Global Asia at #aasinasia2025 in #kathmandu Thanks to Sanggay, Dorji, Sonika, and Yowei for being involved.

First day of the #AASinAsia2025 @bennoweiner.bsky.social Levering the Margins #kathmandu

World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent

World’s Cartographers Continue Living Secret Life Of Luxury On Idyllic, Never Disclosed 8th Continent theonion.com/world-s...

Don’t forget the Dutch!

Graphic showing how vehicle front design affects pedestrian deaths.

“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”

Deadly by design. And they know it.

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#booksky

Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China In recent decades, market reforms, inter-regional mobility, and urbanization have shaped Muslim groups’ social practices, simultaneously encouraging the development of Islamic places (and reinforci...

This article of mine was published online last fall, but has now been assigned to a 2025 issue of Asian Ethnicity. It's based on discussions with Muslims from a variety of ethnic groups and teaching living in Xining City. Question in a nutshell: How's China's urbanization project treating you?

Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.

Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
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