David G Atwill

portrait of a Chinese Salar Muslim woman

New digital collection launched: "Muslims in China," features 1,000+ images documenting the lives of Muslims and Christian missionaries in Western China from 1920s-1930s. #Sinology #OpenAccess curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/claude-l-pic...

Prof. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is a poet & author of tremendous range, attentiveness, and power. I'm really excited for her new academic monograph with @columbiaup.bsky.social

Vietnam Wants U.S. Help at Sea and Chinese Help at Home Washington shouldn’t overestimate its influence in Hanoi.

New piece with @sheenagreitens.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com on Vietnam and US-China security competition. We argue that this rivalry doesn’t require countries to choose the US or China as sole security partner. That type of bipolarity is Cold War 1.0. (1/2)

foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/13/v...

Announcing the China Books Prize | China Books Review A new annual award to celebrate outstanding book-length works on or from China, with shortlists and winners to follow in both nonfiction and translated literature.

China Books Review has announced two new prizes, for non-fiction & for translated fiction, details here chinabooksreview.com/2025/01/09/p... --honored to be on the non-fiction prize committee along with Andrew Nathan, @isabelh.bsky.social @yangyangcheng.bsky.social & Barbara Demick

Best China Books of 2024 | China Books Review Party luminaries. TV chefs. Poetry. Scandal. Our annual round-up of notable titles on or from China, split across nonfiction and translated literature, nominated by a roster of experts.

Not to be a downer about that “best China books list” (there are some good things on it, for sure), but having a historical range from the late Qing to the 1990s is extremely short-sighted by Chinese standards. Nothing about the late Ming? The Song? The Han?

chinabooksreview.com/2024/12/19/b...

Finally someone wrote a story about the brains behind the demented (in a good way) Pizza Hut Taiwan offerings! Glad it was @dearclarissa.bsky.social 😅

Tibet Must Stand! - SOAS China Institute Tsering Shakya comments on cultural imperialism and China's push to rename Tibet and replace it with "Xizang".

Tsering Shakya on efforts to push the use of 'Xizang' instead of Tibet: "China’s demand that the international community adopt “Xizang” mirrors colonial practices of renaming territories to assert dominance."
blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit...

If you need another excuse to subscribe to the @MekongReview, @chinarhyming.bsky.social offers one more. Mekong Review remains one of the best and rarest jewel of scholarly and literary writing on Asia.

Great reporting, a heart-warming story, and a reminder of exiles in the modern world.

cartoon image of woman with four thought bubbles above her head. The four contain the Chinese characters 他, 佢, 伊, 其

There’s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them:

Mandarin: tā
Cantonese: keoi5
Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i
Southern Wu: gi, ji

#langsky 🀄️📚

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Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn Sinica is back, and on this first post-China Project show, Kaiser chats with TCP’s ex-editor-in-chief and Sinica’s co-founder and former co-host, Jeremy Goldkorn. They chat about the Beijing that was,...

As we approach the end of the year, here are some of the highlights from the Sinica Podcast over the last 10 months since rebooting the show in February, following the demise of The China Project about a year ago.

Here's the return episode featuring @goldkorn.bsky.social: art19.com/shows/sinica...

OMG 🤢

China’s Minority Fiction, by Sabina Knight Multiethnic fiction speaks volumes about Chinese attitudes toward minorities, as well as these peoples’ historical understandings, their search for roots, and longings for cultural survival.

One of my current projects explores #non-Han #fiction & #poetry.

On the former, I wrote an article for *World #Literature Today*.

I've given talks on the broader project. I'm open to giving more.
🀄📚 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january...

Always on the look out for a good read, and based on your review alone just ordered. Sounds truly enchanting.

Like an extended footnote on a point you vaguely already knew, @vicshih.bsky.social breaking it down into its component parts. Invaluable.

George Ernest Morrison symposium In partnership with the National Foundation for Australia–China Relations, this symposium will explore Morrison's personal archive.

Tomorrow in Sydney! And if interested pls read Tess Gardner on Morrison, Timperley and China via the link below.

"Across the two world wars two Australian former journalists produced propaganda for the Chinese government."

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/georg...

Totally agree having experienced a similar move and process. There is a strange deliberateness and pleasure.

Welcome to check out this valuable Chinese collection of interviews with leading scholars, mostly in different China fields.《学术之路：跨学科国际学者对谈集》（2023年商务印书馆) "Pathways of Scholarship: Reflective and Methodological Conversations with Int'l Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences" (2023).

A book cover. The top half of the cover is sky blue, with black text on bright yellow high-lighting. The text reads "The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet". The lower half shows a photograph of a tiled public square with a brightly lit building at the back of the square. People are walking on the square, and a child is sitting in a large model car. In the bottom right hand corner is the author's name, Gerald Roche, in bright yellow.

It's publication day! The Politics of Language Oppression sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century.

Use 09BCARD for a 30% discount from @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Every issue of Mekong Review covers a range of countries and subjects from across Asia, but sometimes motifs emerge. In our latest issue, writers returned time and again to thoughts of memory, fragments and identity.

Check out our August 2024 issue here: mekongreview.com/cat...

Such a treasure with some of the best writing, poetry, and reviews on all things “Greater SE Asia” and beyond — well worth at 50% off or full price! @mekongreview.bsky.social

Also: hello new followers! I love the growth of the Bluesky community.

If you're wondering what this is, every Sunday(ish) I post a collection of links & thoughts from the past week. I read pretty broadly and try my best not to make it too self-indulgent. I hope you find something in there for you.