The Miseducation of Xi Jinping
How a father’s struggle revealed the price of power.
Huge thanks to @asiasociety.org Orville Schell and @foreignaffairs.com for this long and wonderful new review of my book The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/mise...
20.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Great cover! I’m really delighted to be a part of this, much thanks to @mmuscolino.bsky.social
07.11.2025 05:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Check out the UWP website for more info: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
07.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Can Tragedies Transcend Borders? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Amy R. Wong explores Nan Z. Da’s “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-... "WE NEED King Lear to understand Chinese history, and we need Chinese history to understand King Lear. This is the bold, opening premise of literary scholar Nan Z. Da’s extraordinary new Princeton University Press book, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear."
26.10.2025 23:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
First time I’ve had a book reviewed in @foreignaffairs.com so especially pleased by having this short take on The Milk Tea Alliance www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/milk... to go with earlier ones in Cha, The Inside Story, & @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
21.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Yes, please join! Discord could be really useful for the community
05.10.2025 03:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books
Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.
I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Palantir, the chip industry, US-China competition, and what tech firms mean when they talk about "defending Western civilization."
Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and the LARB team for the edits!
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
28.09.2025 16:46 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Australian Centre on China in the World
Maoist Environmental Protection in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Here's my recent talk at CIW about how a Maoist approach to "environmental protection" emerged during the Cultural Revolution--an important period wherein many leaders and people began to seriously think about and grapple with the externalities of industrialization.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfpC...
28.09.2025 09:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine
Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.
So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?
08.09.2025 20:04 — 👍 133 🔁 68 💬 3 📌 6
The Technopolitics of China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project and the Paradox of Hydropower | Made in China Journal
Three years after announcing their intent to construct a mega-dam along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River as part of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, Chinese officials gave their approval to proce...
From Sanmenxia and Three Gorges to the Yarlung Tsangpo Dam, China has long relied on monumental hydropower to prove state capacity. @zenel25.bsky.social and @pguer.bsky.social show how such projects, while promising development and security, often deepen the very insecurities they claim to resolve.
04.09.2025 11:42 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
“August Journalism” Studies: Lessons in World War II Reporting from Japan’s Season of Remembrance - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August.
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
02.09.2025 16:40 — 👍 34 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
The Art of the Interview and the Craft of the Profile: A UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public Book Launch
An in-person event, open to the public, no rsvp needed
I've given talks about my new @columbiagr.bsky.social book at various places (including in Culver City at @wendemuseum.bsky.social), but this October 20 dual book launch with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow at @ucirvine.bsky.social will be my first in Orange County www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i...
02.09.2025 21:38 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🥹 Can't ask for a better review by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: "A stunning tale of government violence, organized protest, and radical hope... In its depiction of commitment, cowardice, and change, You Must Take Part in Revolution proves both heartbreaking and heartening." 🔗 bit.ly/larb-revolution
29.08.2025 07:02 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see this, well deserved!
12.08.2025 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
12.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Love the look of the @cwclub.bsky.social Bookstore, my talk here begins in 20 minutes
31.07.2025 00:11 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
On the contingency of history - writing in LA Review of Books.
07.07.2025 10:28 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
There Isn’t Going to Be Any Trouble | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jane Hayward reads two recent books on China’s post-Mao reform period.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther... @drjanehayward.bsky.social "Finally, at a time when China’s rise must seem, to many, to have been inevitable, both books serve well to remind us of the contingency of history and the opaqueness of the future when viewed from the present."
07.07.2025 00:57 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The Pacific Circuit, The Milk Tea Alliance, Fake Work
What I got ✨
24.06.2025 18:26 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against A…
Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma wil…
Very excited that I just saw a 50% leap after Saturday’s West Coast launch in the number of people the Good Reads site lists reading The Milk Tea Alliance www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... /okay, it went from 2 on Saturday to 3 on Monday but phrasing it in terms of percentages sounds more impressive
01.07.2025 01:30 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
Assoc. Prof of History at Montana State, modern Chinese historian, XIV-er, pit bull lover, author of Resisting Spirits (UMich Press '19) http://bit.ly/2AqdYaQ , currently working on mountaineering & the PRC
Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
PhD in progress on modern China, Sinophone studies, global Asias at NYU. Hoya Saxa, go Ephs. 「生命是一襲華美的袍，爬滿了蚤子。」
History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/.
Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Correspondent at the @nytimes covering Chinese foreign affairs. Previously at the @latimes. Hong Kong native. Long suffering Mets fan. david.pierson@nytimes.com
✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Freelance culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) fosters international communication among environmental history organizations and #EnvHist scholars.
Website: https://iceho.org
Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
Author of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 (2019) & 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖 (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc.
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753027/chinese-characters-across-asia/
Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
Historian of China and Tibet
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Zijiang Young Scholar at East China Normal University
Historian of Modern China at Trinity University (focus on language, identity, gender, protest, Hong Kong); author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960; NCUSCR PIPVII 2021-2023; Wilson Fellow 2022-2023. 4th-gen Italian-American
Former academic now working in the antique map trade, based in San Francisco
Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
