SNJ
@snj.bsky.social
He/Him
Degrowth Enjoyer
PhDing on decolonial STS; Settler Colonial Political Economy, US-China Inter-imperiality in Asian American and Non-Han "Chinese" Lit/Media/Culture
反党 反资 反政府
Degrowth Enjoyer
PhDing on decolonial STS; Settler Colonial Political Economy, US-China Inter-imperiality in Asian American and Non-Han "Chinese" Lit/Media/Culture
反党 反资 反政府
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the US at least played one "positive" role in this... in the early 2010s, the US embassy's monitoring and publicizing of Beijing air quality created a legitimacy crisis of some kind and made PM2.5 a household term in China. ironic enough, this project ended in 2025 due to funding cut.
This is a great article. #China is smashing #Trump’s #US on this front: economically
and geo-strategically. When people look back at this time they may well wonder how the #USA could’ve so spectacularly dropped the ball. Click on link to read…
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
and geo-strategically. When people look back at this time they may well wonder how the #USA could’ve so spectacularly dropped the ball. Click on link to read…
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the US at least played one "positive" role in this... in the early 2010s, the US embassy's monitoring and publicizing of Beijing air quality created a legitimacy crisis of some kind and made PM2.5 a household term in China. ironic enough, this project ended in 2025 due to funding cut.
wait I realized that ur Hickel and co. are basically the American vision of 公知 (pro-dem pro western public intellectuals) of PRC of the late 2000s early 2010s in reverse and it all make so much sense
on the other hand how Hickel went from the degrowth guy to Qiao-level China simp is honestly kinda sad
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
wait I realized that ur Hickel and co. are basically the American vision of 公知 (pro-dem pro western public intellectuals) of PRC of the late 2000s early 2010s in reverse and it all make so much sense
dude stop simping China ain't gonna save ur white succdem ass lmao
For Building the Future, a research collection on contemporary socialist construction, Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel look at the concept of “whole-process people’s democracy” in China.
Building Whole-Process People's Democracy in China
For Building the Future, a research collection on contemporary socialist construction, Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel look at the concept of “whole-process people’s democracy” in China, a complex…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
dude stop simping China ain't gonna save ur white succdem ass lmao
not to be a conspiracy theorist but part of this sudden mainstream awareness of Chinese infrastructure (and tech achievements) absolutely has to do with all the AI-pilled billionaire class trying to get the US to build more data centers as fast as possible.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
not to be a conspiracy theorist but part of this sudden mainstream awareness of Chinese infrastructure (and tech achievements) absolutely has to do with all the AI-pilled billionaire class trying to get the US to build more data centers as fast as possible.
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Chris Jingchao Ma & Heng Simone Wang: Chinese Trans-Antagonistic Feminism and the Transnational Circulation of Transmisogyny on Social Media:
Cyber Trans Panic - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Trans-antagonism and transmisogyny have gained increasing visibility
on social media globally. In this article, we explore how
trans-antagonism and transmisogyny have developed among Chinese feminist
...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Chris Jingchao Ma & Heng Simone Wang: Chinese Trans-Antagonistic Feminism and the Transnational Circulation of Transmisogyny on Social Media:
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There's a correlation/causation trap a lot of people fall into when it comes to thinking about the PRC because their aggressive censorship of social media is because it *isn't* fully under their control and they are very aware of how quickly local protests can spread from province to province
China routinely has protests where the government reverses itself, being an authoritarian state does not mean that the public is completely powerless
Tbh it’s interesting that people think that since China is authoritarian, its government can do whatever it wants no matter how unpopular. Like you see people saying they’ll be able to cut pensions because they’re authoritarian, but let’s remember how Covid Zero went for them lol
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
There's a correlation/causation trap a lot of people fall into when it comes to thinking about the PRC because their aggressive censorship of social media is because it *isn't* fully under their control and they are very aware of how quickly local protests can spread from province to province
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this is a complete fiction and the sooner that foreign policy people recognize american imperial history is real the better
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this is a complete fiction and the sooner that foreign policy people recognize american imperial history is real the better
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Frequent labor movements in China contradict Wang’s claim. It's not the lack of “development,” but the state machinery - in "constant adjustment" - that suppresses. The New Left evades and alienates the very subject of leftist critique: the working people and their lived experiences & voices
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Frequent labor movements in China contradict Wang’s claim. It's not the lack of “development,” but the state machinery - in "constant adjustment" - that suppresses. The New Left evades and alienates the very subject of leftist critique: the working people and their lived experiences & voices
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The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?
October 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?
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i cannot comprehend what this means
September 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
i cannot comprehend what this means
We are speedrunning China huh
JUST IN: All job sectors except healthcare are down. We are in a “no hire” economy. And unemployment for young people just hit 10%. - Bureau of Labor Statistics
September 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We are speedrunning China huh
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they're cooking
A scathing editorial in Hankyoreh on "imperial tyranny" and racism in the United States. A view from the left but close to the government and likely to the views of many Koreans.
www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
제국의 횡포, 한국의 굴욕 [박현 칼럼]
박현 | 논설위원 미국 이민당국의 한국인 노동자 300여명에 대한 체포·구금 사태는 이들의 ‘자진 출국’ 형식의 귀국으로 봉합되는 것 같지만 결코 그렇지 않다. 우리 국민들은 미국의 투자 요구로 일하러 간 우리 노동자들의 몸과 손을 쇠사슬로 묶고 심지어 발에
www.hani.co.kr
September 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
they're cooking
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puzzling they may be, the Soviet and Chinese liberals who only saw good things about the US were not so different from the American leftists who only see good things about China. for either direction they are more puzzling today than say the 1980s because the internet...
September 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
puzzling they may be, the Soviet and Chinese liberals who only saw good things about the US were not so different from the American leftists who only see good things about China. for either direction they are more puzzling today than say the 1980s because the internet...
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We're in another prole wave right now but the anglophone media learned its lesson from 2011-14 and the extreme anglo-centrism of this app means we're not getting nearly the movement/news crossover of Twitter but the discourse on here is genuinely kept almost entirely within a yt liberal frame
September 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We're in another prole wave right now but the anglophone media learned its lesson from 2011-14 and the extreme anglo-centrism of this app means we're not getting nearly the movement/news crossover of Twitter but the discourse on here is genuinely kept almost entirely within a yt liberal frame
Having my monthly twitter logins and I'm increasingly convinced that the next generation of the GOP is going to be straight-up groypers.
September 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Having my monthly twitter logins and I'm increasingly convinced that the next generation of the GOP is going to be straight-up groypers.
As a FLAS alum this is absolutely abhorrent.
Here we go. of all IFLE funding. No FLAS fellowships or NRC area studies centers nationwide.
Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students.
democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students.
democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
September 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
As a FLAS alum this is absolutely abhorrent.
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So they decided to throw themselves a year long $21 billion military parade on the sea while the pension system is collapsing
Taiwan estimates China spent 40% more on military exercises in the Pacific last year, reaching $21 billion
China spent $21 billion on military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, the East and South China Sea and the Western Pacific last year, nearly 40% higher than 2023.
www.cnbc.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So they decided to throw themselves a year long $21 billion military parade on the sea while the pension system is collapsing
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.
Episode 3 | Typing Chinese | Made in China Journal
In 1947, the acclaimed Chinese writer and linguist Lin Yutang stunned the world with an invention: the first Chinese-language typewriter with a keyboard. Lin poured years of effort and his life’s savi...
madeinchinajournal.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.
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And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:
August 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:
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Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams
August 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams
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Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
August 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen
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"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature."
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...
The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature."
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...
Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...