Andrew Grant

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. 😇🚀🪐

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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

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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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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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Записки из Алатау Адамдар, достар! Сегодня мне позвонили из полиции и сообщили, что некая гражданка из Талгара подала на меня заявление в связи с тем, что я якобы «выложил в соцсеть оскорбительную речь про главу госуд...

Seems like every week there's more harassment towards journalists in Kazakhstan. Timur Nusimbekov, a journalist and documentary filmmaker who also happens to be a good friend of mine, has been denounced by a pro-Russia online troll for "offensive speech towards the president" t.me/nusimbekov/349

For an urban geography class next semester I am thinking about doing a (English language) primary source based activity on Karakorum. Any suggestions for materials and/or themes? I have a copy of Dawson’s “The Mongol Mission” but would like more perspectives…

Why It’s Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US American companies that make everything from keychains to mattresses say Chinese manufacturing is superior, and tariffs won’t be enough to shift production to the United States.

WIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.

The logo of the 2025 AAS-in-Asia conference, "Reframing Global Asias: Margins, Modernities, Mobilities," June 1-4, 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The online program for #AASInAsia2025 is available now—log in to save sessions and create your personal schedule!

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So good. 🤡

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My department is hiring a VAP in Asian history, please share this job ad widely with anyone you think might be interested:
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Handsome man accepts photography award.

Happy to accept sweet swag from the Eurasia Geography Speciality Group for their Photography award at #aag2025.

Geography at the #DIA #aag2025
“Standing in front of her students, Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom in Greek mythology, teaches them how to read a map of the world. … based on a print published in The Lady's Magazine; or Entertaining Companion of the Fair Sex from London, England, in 1799.”

The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for ....

Corridors promise seamless development—but often conceal violence, exclusion & inequality. In a new article, David Bachrach and I theorize the dialectics of 'corridorisation,' tracing how it reshapes lives & land in SEAsia.
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