If you're in Singapore on 3 Feb, please come see my film "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China". Here's the info and sign-up form:
www.smu.edu.sg/partnerships...

The Scottish idiom comes to mind: some people have “more money than sense”

People keep givin’ me the same old pitch:
“If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”

I’ve heard that all my life, and I know it by heart.
And to tell the truth, I wish I knew,
But, America, I’m askin’ you:
"If you’re so rich.... Why ain’t you smart?"

--Tom Lehrer, from Deep Doodoo, 1992

They have -- literally! -- been calling for stronger consumption for 2 decades. I'll wait and see...

The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution Join Jelena Subotić for her book launch

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of...

What’s to understand?
It’s really yummy

More than 400 New Yorkers are joining our Transition Committees—all driven by the urgency of tackling our affordability crisis.

Two full PhD scholarships in Hong Kong history at the University of Bristol:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/17/h...

New website launched for the International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS) The International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS), led by Dr David Tobin, has launched its website, bringing together researchers from around the world to share critical, policy-relevant wo...

Great to see the International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS) officially launch. I am proud to be part of it.
sheffield.ac.uk/las/news/new...

That's 22 film festivals and 6 awards, to date!

Amazing news! "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" (me and Kieran Hanson, co-directors) was just selected by two film festivals via FilmFreeway.com!:
1) International Burabay Short Film Festival, 30 Nov-2 Dec Kazakhstan
2) Jaipur International Film Festival, 13-15 Feb 2026, India

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

"Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory.

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Amazing news! "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" was just selected by Goa Short Film Festival (India, November 15 – 16, 2025) via FilmFreeway.com!

I got the dates wrong : it’s 22-28 April, so plenty of time to make plans to go

Taiwan’s KMT Has a New Chair Cheng Li-wun, a deep-blue figure, won despite allegations that the CCP was interfering to boost her candidacy.

Here's me on the KMT chair election in my latest for @thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/10/taiw...

"The Nose Knows" film poster shows a facial side-view with nose, on top of a collage about Chinese noses

Amazing news! "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" was just selected by Little Venice Film Festival (London 22-28 October) via FilmFreeway.com!

Audrey Tang - Right Livelihood

Congratulations to @audreyt.org for being one of the recipients of the 2025 Right Livelihood Awards

rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

@nhledbetter Thanks

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Any clues about this Chinese propaganda poster that seems to photoshop in Mao, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De?
It's from a family house in a market town in Hainan, 2016

The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line This article develops ‘the imperial gaze’ concept to explore how maps not only represent the world, but also do things in geopolitics, even provoking mass demonstrations. It examines China’s early-...

Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by Seoul Whistler Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

thanks

Entry level kids Mandarin books

@mikeygow.bsky.social
Wow! what is the source?

here he is at 2024 New Year Gala:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=onow...

It's a great pleasure to see this published, my translation of Second Skin, the Chinese novelette by emerging female writer Dan Shi, science fiction about feminism, technology and the female body. #scifi #China #sff www.easternwood.co/herstory-en-1/

We just launched the new 7th edition of Wilkinson, this time as a digital-only version but available through Kindle and Apple Books as well as through Pleco. $59.99, or $29.99 if you buy it in Pleco as an upgrade from 5/e or 6/e.

A level results 2025: Economics and Politics still popular with students, while other social sciences and humanities continue to decline New A level entry data reveals that Economics and Politics continue to grow in popularity with students – with entries up by +5.5% and +1.2% respectively compared to last year.

A level entry data revealed today shows that Economics and Politics continue to grow in popularity with students – while other social sciences, humanities and arts face declines. See the full story here:

This is an excellent article that deserves to be widely read and cited.
Congratulations Sara Wong!

It could have been better but was good enough that I’ll keep watching