Bin Xu. Emory University
@binxu013.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity)
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
Excited to see the Turkish edition of my book The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Polity 2022) just came out with Lejand.
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Demokrasi Kültürü | LejandKitap
Demokrasi Kültürü Bugünün dünyası derin krizlerle boğuşuyor. Ancak bu kasvetli manzaraya rağmen, sivil toplumlar canlılığını sürdürüyor. Çünkü insanlar hâlâ daha iyi bir toplumun mümkün olduğuna ve bu...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Excited to see the Turkish edition of my book The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Polity 2022) just came out with Lejand.
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Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."
400 entertainers co-sign ACLU letter supporting Jimmy Kimmel
Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."
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September 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."
Mark your calendar: Sept 23, I'll give a talk at U Michigan (zoom and in-person) on "Meanings of Zero: the Performative Logic of China's Zero-COVID Policy." This study is part of my ongoing book on disaster politics in China & a stand-alone article. Looking forward!
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Meanings of Zero: The Performative Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy | Happening @ Michigan
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September 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mark your calendar: Sept 23, I'll give a talk at U Michigan (zoom and in-person) on "Meanings of Zero: the Performative Logic of China's Zero-COVID Policy." This study is part of my ongoing book on disaster politics in China & a stand-alone article. Looking forward!
events.umich.edu/event/137321...
events.umich.edu/event/137321...
Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon - American Journal of Cultural Sociology
Iconic figures are social and cultural constructions that are usually believed to represent the sacred and/or the extraordinary, but scholars have paid less attention to “ordinary icons,” those figure...
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August 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Deadline in a week! Let me know if you have any questions.
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Deadline in a week! Let me know if you have any questions.
Reposting this call for contributions. Abstract by September 1, 2025!
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
August 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Reposting this call for contributions. Abstract by September 1, 2025!
Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
May 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
Pleased to share my new article in Social Problems (w/ two stellar graduate students Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang):
"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
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"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
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How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement
ABSTRACT. How are social movements that address democratic states’ wrongdoings and violence perceived and discussed by the publics under authoritarian regi
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May 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pleased to share my new article in Social Problems (w/ two stellar graduate students Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang):
"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
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You must be kidding me, a grant reviewer at Emory: "qualitative work is important only if it helps contextualize quantitative evidence. Absent this, it’s just stories."
a monster from the movie monsters inc asks is that a joke
ALT: a monster from the movie monsters inc asks is that a joke
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April 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You must be kidding me, a grant reviewer at Emory: "qualitative work is important only if it helps contextualize quantitative evidence. Absent this, it’s just stories."
economic downturn+unemployed, uneduated, & hateful mob+scapegoating a certain group-->a war to divert attention. that was not just Germany in the 1930s
April 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
economic downturn+unemployed, uneduated, & hateful mob+scapegoating a certain group-->a war to divert attention. that was not just Germany in the 1930s
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In a world of increasing frequency, magnitude & impact of disasters, we do well to remember:
“individuals & groups are not born vulnerable: they are rendered vulnerable through processes of social marginalization & exclusion.”
Kathleen Tierney’s indispensable new edition is OUT NOW ↓
“individuals & groups are not born vulnerable: they are rendered vulnerable through processes of social marginalization & exclusion.”
Kathleen Tierney’s indispensable new edition is OUT NOW ↓
April 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In a world of increasing frequency, magnitude & impact of disasters, we do well to remember:
“individuals & groups are not born vulnerable: they are rendered vulnerable through processes of social marginalization & exclusion.”
Kathleen Tierney’s indispensable new edition is OUT NOW ↓
“individuals & groups are not born vulnerable: they are rendered vulnerable through processes of social marginalization & exclusion.”
Kathleen Tierney’s indispensable new edition is OUT NOW ↓
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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The end goal is to make education a privilege for children born into wealth while destroying the meritocracy that is at the center of the American dream.
Donald Trump’s order dismantling the Dept. of Education is yet another attack on our children’s future. This isn’t about empowering states—it’s about gutting protections for students, slashing resources for public schools, + abandoning families who rely on federal support as a pathway to prosperity.
March 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The end goal is to make education a privilege for children born into wealth while destroying the meritocracy that is at the center of the American dream.
The first large-scale, permanent COVID memorial in US. There have been a smaller one in Frankfort, KY, some statues & sculptures, & memorials in other forms (installations, virtual, etc.). This will be a significant addition to my list of almost 300 cases of COVID memorialization around the world.
Chicago Monument to Honor Pandemic Frontline Workers, People Who Died of COVID-19
According to the World Health Organization, more than 7 million people across the globe have died from COVID-19 since the virus was first declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The first large-scale, permanent COVID memorial in US. There have been a smaller one in Frankfort, KY, some statues & sculptures, & memorials in other forms (installations, virtual, etc.). This will be a significant addition to my list of almost 300 cases of COVID memorialization around the world.
Those who attend the AAS, please mark your calendar: our roundtable on "Multifaceted and Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Memories", Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Clark (2nd Floor, Hyatt). Please join us for a great discussion! #aas2025
March 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Those who attend the AAS, please mark your calendar: our roundtable on "Multifaceted and Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Memories", Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Clark (2nd Floor, Hyatt). Please join us for a great discussion! #aas2025
Congratulations, Liu Jiakun, on Pritzker Prize! I interviewed him in 09 for my dissertation on the Sichuan earthquake. Liu built a profoundly moving memorial for Hu Huishan a child whose death was likely caused by the substandard construction of the school building.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Congratulations, Liu Jiakun, on Pritzker Prize! I interviewed him in 09 for my dissertation on the Sichuan earthquake. Liu built a profoundly moving memorial for Hu Huishan a child whose death was likely caused by the substandard construction of the school building.
www.archdaily.com/1027571/chin...
www.archdaily.com/1027571/chin...
"I want the US to stand more firmly on our side. This is not just a war between our two countries; Russia brought this war on to our territory and into our homes. They are wrong because they disrespected our territorial integrity."
Zelenskyy says ‘crucial’ for Ukraine to have Trump’s support in lengthy statement following Oval Office argument – live
Ukrainian president has landed in the UK and will hold talks with PM Keir Starmer later
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March 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"I want the US to stand more firmly on our side. This is not just a war between our two countries; Russia brought this war on to our territory and into our homes. They are wrong because they disrespected our territorial integrity."
Those who voted for Trump should feel ashamed since you are on the wrong side of history
European leaders rush to back Zelenskyy after fiery meeting with Trump at White House – live
Press conference between US and Ukraine leaders cancelled and no minerals deal signed after angry scenes in White House; European leaders stand behind Zelenskyy
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February 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Those who voted for Trump should feel ashamed since you are on the wrong side of history