Ting
@tingguowrites.bsky.social
Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca. @shichapodcast.bsky.social cohost. JAAR book review editor. @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee rep. She/her/伊/佢
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Ting
@tingguowrites.bsky.social
· Jun 18
Can love hold a nation together—or hold it down? In her new book, @tingguowrites.bsky.social uncovers how Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Xi Jinping have harnessed the language of love—universal, ardent, paternal—to stir hearts, shape ideology, and legitimise power across a century.
Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: A Conversation with Ting Guo | Made in China Journal
Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) examines how the language of love (愛 ai) has been appropriated and politicised by Chinese pol...
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On (post) #secularism, #nationalism, #gender politics under Xi vs Mao, love for #authoritarianism and intersectional love in minor transnationalism:
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Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.
Decolonizing the Chinese narrative on Uyghurs: The mission of sociologist Dilnur Reyhan
Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.
globalvoices.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.
Thinking of #zohranmandani ‘s father #MahmoodMamdani ‘s quote on the May Fourth writer Lu Xun. Hope is perhaps one of the best examples of #cogencytheory; it’s a thing with feathers, it’s an intellectual passion, the youthful spirit that animates how we envision a new world
“Imagine an iron house, with absolutely no windows, indestructible, with many people asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation…Would you think you are doing them a good turn [by waking them before they perish]?”
“But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.”
Lu Xun
“But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.”
Lu Xun
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thinking of #zohranmandani ‘s father #MahmoodMamdani ‘s quote on the May Fourth writer Lu Xun. Hope is perhaps one of the best examples of #cogencytheory; it’s a thing with feathers, it’s an intellectual passion, the youthful spirit that animates how we envision a new world
American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting #Religious #Nationalism:
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting #Religious #Nationalism:
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Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...
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Professor Jennifer A. Selby presents Secular Sensibilities, a critical ethnography of how secular regimes in France and Québec shape bodies, emotions, and belonging through the surveillance of racialized couples. politicsrights.com/secular-sens... @jselby.bsky.social #Secularism #Ethnography.
Secular Sensibilities amidst French and Québécois Politics
Political leaders have stressed the importance of buttressing “secularism,” framed as a separation of undesirable religion from a public sphere.
politicsrights.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Professor Jennifer A. Selby presents Secular Sensibilities, a critical ethnography of how secular regimes in France and Québec shape bodies, emotions, and belonging through the surveillance of racialized couples. politicsrights.com/secular-sens... @jselby.bsky.social #Secularism #Ethnography.
In 2024 we published a special forum on #religion & social movements in #HongKong. It received a lot of positive responses 🙏 The topic remains critical and we’d like to transform it into an edited volume. Grateful for any information on potential publishers! Thank you! t.co/ETkaJITTmq
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In 2024 we published a special forum on #religion & social movements in #HongKong. It received a lot of positive responses 🙏 The topic remains critical and we’d like to transform it into an edited volume. Grateful for any information on potential publishers! Thank you! t.co/ETkaJITTmq
The into to the original roundtable Why ‘Decolonizing Chinese History?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The into to the original roundtable Why ‘Decolonizing Chinese History?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!
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"We are the leaders we've been waiting for."
-Grace Lee Boggs
-Grace Lee Boggs
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for."
-Grace Lee Boggs
-Grace Lee Boggs
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🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social!
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social!
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM
💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads)
For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...
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Hong Kong Film Festival UK amplifies the work of women filmmakers from the city’s New Wave cinema movement, which evocatively captures the region’s recent transformations. Read editor Jessie Lau’s interview with festival curator Ching Wong:
Britain’s Diaspora-Led Hong Kong Film Festival Shines a Spotlight on the City’s Women Directors
From a delicate rendering of a young mother’s heartbreaking struggle with postpartum depression to a dreamy, experimental film that follows the nocturnal journeys of Hongkongers grappling with echoes of the region’s past political upheavals – the diverse selection of films at this year’s Hong Kong Film Festival UK beautifully captured the nuanced and quiet subversiveness of the city’s dazzling cinematic repertoire, with a focus on spotlighting the work of the city’s women directors.
nuvoices.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hong Kong Film Festival UK amplifies the work of women filmmakers from the city’s New Wave cinema movement, which evocatively captures the region’s recent transformations. Read editor Jessie Lau’s interview with festival curator Ching Wong:
Chungjae Lee, The Tempos of #Decolonization: Violence, Temporality, and Colonial #Korea: “To what extent does #revolutionary #violence delay or accelerate the process of decolonization?”
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November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Chungjae Lee, The Tempos of #Decolonization: Violence, Temporality, and Colonial #Korea: “To what extent does #revolutionary #violence delay or accelerate the process of decolonization?”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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:
I remember this feeling of hope & enthusiasm. It was the 2019 district council election in #HongKong, with unprecedented turnout - before the disqualification, resignation, and arrest of many of those took part.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I remember this feeling of hope & enthusiasm. It was the 2019 district council election in #HongKong, with unprecedented turnout - before the disqualification, resignation, and arrest of many of those took part.
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Zohran Mamdani has won, & will be the next mayor of NYC.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Zohran Mamdani has won, & will be the next mayor of NYC.
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Singapore friends! It’ll be a flying visit but it’d be wonderful to see you 💛
Wed, 12 November 2025
2:00–4:00 pm
FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42
Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt
Wed, 12 November 2025
2:00–4:00 pm
FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42
Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Singapore friends! It’ll be a flying visit but it’d be wonderful to see you 💛
Wed, 12 November 2025
2:00–4:00 pm
FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42
Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt
Wed, 12 November 2025
2:00–4:00 pm
FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42
Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt
twinning Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison: www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
twinning Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison: www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
Looking forward to Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission 平等機會委員會 founder Fanny Cheung 張妙清's memoir that hints a different feminist trajectory: not in terms of early 20th c May Fourth intellectuals/activists (as in China), but postwar- #ColdWar (student) movements & the emergence of civil society
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Looking forward to Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission 平等機會委員會 founder Fanny Cheung 張妙清's memoir that hints a different feminist trajectory: not in terms of early 20th c May Fourth intellectuals/activists (as in China), but postwar- #ColdWar (student) movements & the emergence of civil society
Figures of #Buddhist #Diplomacy in Modern Asia (edited by Jack Meng-Tat Chia), @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, forthcoming in 2026 with open access:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/figures-o...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/figures-o...
Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia
Redefining how we understand diplomacy, Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia reveals Buddhism as a dynamic force in shaping international relations. Thi…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Figures of #Buddhist #Diplomacy in Modern Asia (edited by Jack Meng-Tat Chia), @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, forthcoming in 2026 with open access:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/figures-o...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/figures-o...
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The Death of Remembrance: A Review of May 35th (Gengzi Edition Global)《5月35日(庚子版)》by Curllous Longtemps (pseudonym) in @asiancha.bsky.social:
hkprotesting.com/2020/07/25/r...
hkprotesting.com/2020/07/25/r...
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The Death of Remembrance: A Review of May 35th (Gengzi Edition Global)《5月35日(庚子版)》by Curllous Longtemps (pseudonym) in @asiancha.bsky.social:
hkprotesting.com/2020/07/25/r...
hkprotesting.com/2020/07/25/r...
Transnational/ multiple/ inter-imperialism today
Chinese companies are colluding with Myanmar's junta to repress unions. Ten worker activists have been imprisoned
缅甸｜中资企业勾结军方，多名工会组织者被捕
2025年7月下旬，缅甸团结工会（Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar, STUM）多名组织者被指 “非法结社”，遭被缅甸军政府逮捕，工会办公室也遭查封，多人迄今仍在狱中，外界难以知晓详细处境。此次大规模抓捕背后，牵涉中资企业“万信达”箱包厂与军方的勾结，旨在打压工人维权行动。
cnlaborsolidarity.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Transnational/ multiple/ inter-imperialism today
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Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
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Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty. In full: buff.ly/xZl50ee
66% HK domestic workers struggle to afford menstrual products, NGO finds
Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty.
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty. In full: buff.ly/xZl50ee
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Poems appearing in the 𝔸ℙ𝕆ℂ𝔸𝕃𝕐ℙ𝕊𝔼 special feature of Hong Kong’s Voice & Verse. The magazine is accepting submissions of unpublished poems & poems newly translated into English until Monday, 10 November 2025. Contributors will receive a copy of the magazine by post. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Poems appearing in the 𝔸ℙ𝕆ℂ𝔸𝕃𝕐ℙ𝕊𝔼 special feature of Hong Kong’s Voice & Verse. The magazine is accepting submissions of unpublished poems & poems newly translated into English until Monday, 10 November 2025. Contributors will receive a copy of the magazine by post. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
“Han maps the sites and routes of #leftist & #queer political movements, highlighting challenges posed by #Christian conservatives in both South #Korea & the United States”: Ju Hui Judy Han,
Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, UofMichigan Press 2025:
Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, UofMichigan Press 2025:
Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora (Global Queer Asias)
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November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Han maps the sites and routes of #leftist & #queer political movements, highlighting challenges posed by #Christian conservatives in both South #Korea & the United States”: Ju Hui Judy Han,
Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, UofMichigan Press 2025:
Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, UofMichigan Press 2025: