Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️
@chenchenzhang.net
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net
https://chenchenzhang.net
gosh why is every LinkedIn post feels AI written
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
gosh why is every LinkedIn post feels AI written
apropos of nothing I'm thinking about different structures of the naming system... I think in most cultures/systems, you choose from a pre-existing naming poll: George, Freya, Kavita, Fatima etc. In the sinophone system, however, you construct each name one-by-one. you can choose any characters and
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
apropos of nothing I'm thinking about different structures of the naming system... I think in most cultures/systems, you choose from a pre-existing naming poll: George, Freya, Kavita, Fatima etc. In the sinophone system, however, you construct each name one-by-one. you can choose any characters and
here in the north it's the time of the year again when it's mandatory to say: why is it so dark it's only 3pm 😞
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
here in the north it's the time of the year again when it's mandatory to say: why is it so dark it's only 3pm 😞
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Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
intuitively, I think one can find the biggest number of China experts in China.
Check out PS's latest article by @fbkeller.bsky.social and @expertsurvey.bsky.social which highlights that while there is a diverse & global community of experts on Chinese politics, it is still dominated by US-based Academics.
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
#polisky #academisky
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
#polisky #academisky
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
intuitively, I think one can find the biggest number of China experts in China.
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When folks like him talk about winning the tech war against China, it apparently means seeing who can build a more terrifying surveillance state
Ooh look. Now they're trying to sell you Thiel's electronic collar because "China bad".
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
He also had strong opinions about people's
gizmodo.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When folks like him talk about winning the tech war against China, it apparently means seeing who can build a more terrifying surveillance state
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Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
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November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
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Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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My former employer, the University of Nottingham, has axed its undergrad music and languages programs—but don't worry, there are still five separate degrees you can get in AI.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My former employer, the University of Nottingham, has axed its undergrad music and languages programs—but don't worry, there are still five separate degrees you can get in AI.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
This is what happens when you corporatize education. What a joke.
"Technology is the active human interface with the material world".
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
The folks over at the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation are awesome. They made a new website and as a result, some content was removed. I sent an email to see if they could restore Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology’” — and they did!
Go read it: www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Go read it: www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Technology is the active human interface with the material world".
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
by the way, I've written a couple of things on the "western civilization is killed by suicidal empathy" line of reactionary thought. start with the Three Body Problem fans.
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
by the way, I've written a couple of things on the "western civilization is killed by suicidal empathy" line of reactionary thought. start with the Three Body Problem fans.
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
clarifying essay on why Latin American decolonial theory may not be that helpful for analysing problems in Africa (and, I would say, Asia as well)
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
The Problem of Colonialism | Critical Times | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
clarifying essay on why Latin American decolonial theory may not be that helpful for analysing problems in Africa (and, I would say, Asia as well)
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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#NewPubAlert Happy to share a new piece coauthored with Dr Nicole Talmacs @nicoletalmacs.bsky.social and Dr Yun Pan, discussing anti-feminist currents in China organised under the #jiaoqi banner and its dynamics with #TradwifeAesthetics and #ChineseNationalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Waging war on feminism through jiaoqi discourse: Chinese tradwife influencers on Douyin - Altman Yuzhu Peng, Yun Pan, Nicole Talmacs, 2025
Today, the ‘tradwife’ (traditional wife) aesthetic, often embodied by female influencers who celebrate returning to the domestic sphere, has gained popularity a...
journals.sagepub.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#NewPubAlert Happy to share a new piece coauthored with Dr Nicole Talmacs @nicoletalmacs.bsky.social and Dr Yun Pan, discussing anti-feminist currents in China organised under the #jiaoqi banner and its dynamics with #TradwifeAesthetics and #ChineseNationalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work
Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
International Relations Lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Keele University Collaborative Programme) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI923/i...
International Relations Lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Keele University Collaborative Programme)
An opportunity for an academic position as a International Relations Lecturer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
International Relations Lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Keele University Collaborative Programme) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI923/i...
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the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
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🔉We have kicked off todays event with our new Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social!
🎊Todays event gives an opportunity to learn the aims of the group as well as introduction to the convener team @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net and Leah de Haan.
🎊Todays event gives an opportunity to learn the aims of the group as well as introduction to the convener team @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net and Leah de Haan.
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🔉We have kicked off todays event with our new Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social!
🎊Todays event gives an opportunity to learn the aims of the group as well as introduction to the convener team @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net and Leah de Haan.
🎊Todays event gives an opportunity to learn the aims of the group as well as introduction to the convener team @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net and Leah de Haan.
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This is today! Come say hi! If you've not yet registered, we can probably sort out a link for you
Our virtual launch event is on the 6th of November, 2 pm BST! We will introduce our aims, the co-convenors, and together with you discuss new directions for the working group. 🙏🙏 Sign up here:
bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
Meet the conveners of the new Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group- Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) | BISA
- Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group
bisa.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is today! Come say hi! If you've not yet registered, we can probably sort out a link for you
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Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
there's something special and endearing about the retro-esque aesthetics in Mamdani's videos no? whoever came up with that is a genius.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
there's something special and endearing about the retro-esque aesthetics in Mamdani's videos no? whoever came up with that is a genius.
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The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
he's so good at this. terrific campaign!
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
he's so good at this. terrific campaign!
just UnHerd readers thinking von der Leyen is left wing under yet another UnHerd article on why the EU has lost to US & China
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
just UnHerd readers thinking von der Leyen is left wing under yet another UnHerd article on why the EU has lost to US & China