Axel Dessein

It’s a great day for Sinology - thanks to Brendan we have a feed that can help rebuild our community of nerds, I mean scholars. I’ve missed this.

A new era should be marked by celebrations and promotions, so I hereby memorialize that he be rewarded with the position of 🀄️📚令

Sinologists! Never mind the other post: here is a feed that actually works! Posts tagged with 🀄️📚 should show up automatically, for real this time. Thanks to @rawkitbawl.bsky.social and @852dude.bsky.social for their help!

Just How Revisionist is China? Or, what Is China's stake in the global economic order?

Not sure I really answered my own question, but my point is that China has limits on its revisionism. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/just-how-r...

🗃️ Welcome to the Editors Digest!
@mzorki.bsky.social is examining our #Sinology #research contributions, find out what you may have missed over the past few months! #digitalhumanities #history #linguistics #ResearchRoundup
Stay informed, Stay ahead! digitalorientalist.com?p=11874

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai set for landmark trial One of Chinese Communist party’s most outspoken critics faces prospect of life in prison

Farcical

Best China Books of 2023 | China Books Review Our round-up of recommended titles (and one anti-recommendation) from the past year, selected by our editors and various guests.

Absolutely thrilled that my book LEFTOVER WOMEN, 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION was named a China Books Review best book of 2023 alongside great new books by Tania Branigan, Tahir Izgil and more! chinabooksreview.com/2023/12/14/b...

‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory

ICYMI - this is definitely worth your time. On the use of #AI in the IDF’s operations in Gaza

‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza | Israel | The Guardian

Ha ha, yes that happened to me as well. I started carrying a second battery just in case, which pushed my photo count up tremendously…

Still remember keeping my friends waiting while I was trying to capture all the details in these!

@axeldessein.bsky.social – I like your Chinese eaves profile banner, so I thought I'd offer you this photo, which I took myself...

Thanks @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social. They’re fantastic, aren’t they?! I may even have a picture from that exact spot in my collection :’)

Taiwan Doubts China’s Xi Will Have the Ability to Invade by 2027 Chinese President Xi Jinping is unlikely to have the capability to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan by 2027, according to a top Taiwanese security official, casting doubts on the progress of Be...

Xi Jinping is unlikely to have the capability to conduct a successful amphibious invasion of Taiwan by 2027, top Taiwanese security official Wellington Koo says, casting doubts on China's military modernisation plans – Bloomberg

Ever wondered where the idea of #SocialCredit came from, and how it landed on the agenda of China's leaders? Pierre Sel has you covered in his forthcoming article in the China Review.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Congratulations! I'm looking forward to getting a copy :)

Scottish university returns tribal warrior skulls to Taiwanese Indigenous people University of Edinburgh repatriates ancestral remains of Paiwan fighters in ‘milestone of transitional justice for Indigenous peoples’

The skulls of four tribal warriors killed nearly 150 years ago have been returned by a Scottish university to a Taiwanese Indigenous community in a move hailed as a “milestone of transitional justice”.

🚨 New Publication 🚨
 
In the Journal of International Relations and Development, Jan Smolenski and I critique the trend of IR theorists with little expertise in regional politics making broad descriptive and prescriptive claims about the war in Ukraine.
 
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...

Not sure, fire-tube boiler maybe?

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As this account starts firing up you will be to find news on our team, colleagues and upcoming events!

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Before dianhua (< J. denwa) 電話 became the universal term for telephone in Sinitic languages, there was the loanword Teq-liq-fon 德律風 (Wu; > Mandarin Delüfeng)! 😁