NEW: Chinese authorities have launched a campaign to change the term that people use to refer to Mongolian culture, in a move aimed at eroding Mongolian identity and sense of homeland. My latest, with brilliant colleagues Daria Impiombato and Nathan Attrill: aspistrategist.org.au/northern-front…

BREAKING: Prosecutors are searching Ko Wen-je’s home in connection with a corruption case during his time as Taipei mayor. Ko will be questioned later today.

‘Northern frontier culture’: How China is erasing ‘Mongolia’ from Mongolian culture | The Strategist aspistrategist.org.au/northern-front…

Absurd this is allowed to continue. I cant wait to see the headlines and spin zone by Chinese how this is still them being victims in this entire situation

And there it is, like clockwork. The low-level caring/audacity to literally post a video of the Chinese vessel crashing into the Philippines one and say “we’re the victim, why are they hitting us”. Never change Chinese propaganda

Office space for the day to write job applications in the beautiful #tea hills of #maokong #taiwan

"By centering the women, Kate Merkel-Hess's 'Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China', revisits the history and memory of a dynamic era and highlights the political valences of intimate relationships"

I don’t get who this helps in US? Is it just the shallowest level of optics that “foreign country investor = bad”? B/c Japan is a close ally, would invest in keeping and expanding jobs to stay in U.S. what’s the hold up?

Always awesome to see your friends and peers getting the recognition you know they’ve earned with their quality work! Congrats Kyle Marini

There are few people I know who work harder than Micaela Wiehe Congrats and well deserved! Enjoy your time in Spain and Mexico

Final presentation prep finished. Time to relax before the panel #academiclife

I’m excited (although I’ll be virtual) to see all the great presentations at this weekend’s Society for Twentieth-Century China Conference. If you’re there come check our panel on Sino-Tibetan History with Benno Weiner Tashi Namgyal (བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ།) Scott Relyea

This past week a collective of experts have pointed out how musuems in 🇫🇷 in particular 2 being named, are working towards the erasure of culture and distortion of history by replacing ‘Tibet’ with ‘Xizang’ in english. Dr. Thupten Jinpa la, the translator to His Holiness the

First job application submitted on this auspicious #MidAutumnFestival2024 Prayers to 嫦娥 for support🙏 Let the 2024 Academic Job Market Hunger Games begin #academictwitter

Happy #MidAutumnFestival #中秋節 to all. As is tradition in #Taiwan , we bbq until we’re stuffed (and then eat 月餅🥮)

My book, THE ADOPTION PLAN: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism, is out early 2025 with Columbia Univ Press And it's now available for preorder: bit.ly/4e3jkX6 I'll post more about the book - the stories it tells and the arguments it makes - in the coming months!

The slow and deliberate erasure of Tibetan culture by the PRC,and western institutions hand in that process over the decades is just sad.These museums pushed back against obvious PRC prop. with Mongol imp. identity erasure years ago, why not do the same with Tibetan history now?

If the name “Tibet” is good enough for The Metropolitan Museum of Art why isn’t it good enough for Musée Guimet ? Why is the Guimet helping the CCP erase Tibet’s history, memory, identity & sinicizing Tibetan art & culture by using the colonizing name “Xizang”? Is this colonialism 2.0?

A comprehensive piece on the despairing state of information blockage in Tibet and how researchers try to break it. Images, videos and personal voices are so important for human rights stories to attract global attention but we don't have those for Tibet. thewirechina.com/2024/09/15/rem…

NEW: A senior executive at one of Taiwan’s top industrial conglomerates has been barred from leaving China. It’ll spark alarm in the Taiwanese business world, which had been less affected by Beijing’s crackdown on those who defend Taiwan’s sovereignty. 1/2 asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…