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New listening: Jessica Greenberg spoke about her new book Justice in the Balance on the Declarations podcast
Declarations
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January 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Exciting to see our book reach some readers!!! @stanfordpress.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Big thank you to @emilymatson.bsky.social for this very thoughtful review of "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" in Studies in Intelligence

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December 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Subodhana Wijeyeratne has saved me the trouble of writing a history of Japan's space program! And he's published his book with my favorite press @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/asian-...
The Islands and the Stars | Stanford University Press
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 b...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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📊 Think of talent development like an investment portfolio — diverse, dynamic, strategic.

📘 In THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS (@stanfordpress.bsky.social), Gi-Wook Shin shows how Japan, China, India, and Australia used this mindset to gain power and what others can learn from it. bit.ly/4TalentGiants
Sociologist Gi-Wook Shin Illuminates How Strategic Human Resource
In his new book, The Four Talent Giants, Shin offers a new framework for understanding the rise of economic powerhouses by examining the distinct human capital development strategies used by Japan,…
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January 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Thanks so much to DC's Jifeng Books for naming The Party's Interests Come First a top book of 2025.

On January 31, I'll be moderating a book talk there with Benjamin Nathans on his wonderful To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
January 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Great crowd yesterday for my hometown book talk in Clawson, Michigan. Thanks so much to @mauracunningham.bsky.social for doing such a terrific job moderating!
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Grateful to see Something Between Us make this 2025 book list from Spain’s El Diario newspaper.

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Nuestros libros del 2025
Nuestra fidelidad a la sociología, la ciencia política y la economía sigue ahí, aunque cada vez de forma más porosa. Este año la lista se abre también a la historia, la antropología y la teoría políti...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I spent a great few days in Tokyo and Akita University with some of Japan's leading experts on the Middle East and terrific students to talk about my new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Enduring Hostility.
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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To celebrate wrapping up the year we are taking today and tomorrow to spotlight some notable highpoints with an awards roundup

Visit our website for the full list:
Award Winners | Stanford University Press
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December 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The Essential China Reading List of 2025 by @semafor.com. With books by Patrick McGee, Dan Wang, Eva Dou, Emily Feng, me, and others

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December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
To celebrate wrapping up the year we are taking today and tomorrow to spotlight some notable highpoints with an awards roundup

Visit our website for the full list:
Award Winners | Stanford University Press
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December 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I’ve been talking about my book for a while, but this was a special experience: Faithful Politics, co-hosted by a liberal activist + a conservative pastor, both terrific listeners + conversationalists. We talked about fear + trust, otherness + vulnerability.

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PODCAST+ | Faithful Politics
Bipartisan conversations between a Democrat political junkie and a Republican Pastor discusses the news of the week. Join Josh and Will every week, on the Faithful Politics Podcast as they talk to som...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Joseph Torigian, author of “The Party’s Interests Come First” @stanfordpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
Podcast with Joseph Torigian, author of “The Party’s Interests Come First”
Xi Zhongxun’s career spanned the entirety of China’s modern history. Born just two years after the 1911revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, Xi was an early member of the Chinese Communist Pa…
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December 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Best China Books of 2025 @chinabooksreview.com: great list with @emilyzfeng.bsky.social Dan Wang @evadou.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social Barbara Demick and others. I just ordered the book by Minxin Pei. Huge thanks to @vicshih.bsky.social for including me

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Best China Books of 2025 | China Books Review
Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues. Our annual round-up of notable books on or from China, nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a pillar of the postwar order, & the world's leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the World Bank's pivotal role in the Cold War in Latin America
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December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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In Special Damage, Jessica Lake offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. #ReadUP

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December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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My courtesy copies arrived in the mail today. I'm hopeful that this book can contribute meaningfully to the conversation on this difficult, regrettable, and profoundly challenging subject. I would appreciate you sharing this with anyone who might be interested. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a pillar of the postwar order, & the world's leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the World Bank's pivotal role in the Cold War in Latin America
https://ow.ly/rYFf50XK2kj
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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What Hoover Thinks You Should Read in 2025. Me: "When it comes to the study of elite politics, in China, Frederick Teiwes and Warren Sun built their own mountain and put a flag on it."
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December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Delighted to share this interview about "Abiding Influence" for The Way of Improvement Leads Home website. Thank you
@johnfea1.bsky.social for the opportunity.

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The Author’s Corner with Giuseppe Paparella
Giuseppe Paparella is Lecturer in East Asian Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. This interview is based on his new book, Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Be…
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December 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In Special Damage, Jessica Lake offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. #ReadUP

https://www.sup.org/books/law/special-damage
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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For the first time in a decade I'm not attending the @jewishstudies.bsky.social annual conference. My book, Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity, is representing me instead, check it out at the @stanfordpress.bsky.social book stall!
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Why do bourgeois elites try to transform cities? What happens when their fantasies fail to materialize?

Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!

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Cities of Dust and Mud: Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
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December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM