Thanks, Philip!!!

Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan, whose book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

What Is We? Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of “who we are”, leaving its basic conceptual…

In this episode of The Philosopher, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan discusses WHAT IS WE ( @agendapub.bsky.social ) — examining how the idea of “we” shapes the humanities & social sciences, and why we rarely question how “we” actually works. buff.ly/VJ5ZaJ6 #ThePhilosopher #Philosophy

See you later this week! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/...

Congratulations to Christopher Fan, whose book ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY was shortlisted for the Biennial Book Prize from MELUS. tinyurl.com/4nkhu8sh @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Protect the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) INDIVIDUAL SIGN-ON LETTER UC System Provost Katherine Newman has called for the elimination of the PPFP Faculty Hiring Incentive. We say NO! We are unified in our support of PPFP, a 41-year old nation...

PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.

Join us for a screening of the documentary A CHIP ODYSSEY 造山者 and Q&A with director Chu-Chen Hsiao 蕭菊貞 and producers. Fri, 11/7, 3:30PM, McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine. Tickets are free, please register here: bit.ly/AChipOdyssey...

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Very exciting to see two @columbiaup.bsky.social books shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize! Congratulations to Chris Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) author of ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 and Sarah Dimick, author of UNSEASONABLE.

Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP) Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP) Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press) Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP) Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP) Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility Christopher Lee; Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility, American Literary History, Volume 37,

Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

A promotional flier for DISCO's event "Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks." The title is prominently displayed, accompanied by details like the date, time, and location: "Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 Pm EST, Weiser Hall 10th Floor & Zoom." The design highlights three speakers: Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu, each with their headshots in circular frames. Descriptions of each are provided with their names in bold uppercase text. The background features a circuit board design in shades of deep blue and teal.

Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month!

We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST!

Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg

Verge 11.2 cover with the journal's title on a peach- and navy blue-colored background, featuring a photo collage of Wuhan, China.

New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2
-Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media
-Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
-With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social
-OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Amazing!!!

This dataset rules.
@chrisfan.bsky.social 👀

👇 @myetcetera.bsky.social @chinaheritage.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social

Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”

Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on

Thanks again for your support, Jeff!!

Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”

Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net

“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/

Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”

My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).

Fascism bad. New books good. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...

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RIP Joshua Clover
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👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social

Certainly seems like it. What monsters.

"My strongest guess is that it is because I have been reasonably outspoken in my critiques of the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza."

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”
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"A must-read for anyone who studies or teaches contemporary Asian American literature."

ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social