Benno Weiner
@bennoweiner.bsky.social
History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
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Sheffield Hallam Apologizes to American Scholar Over Publication Ban
Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference...
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fUPCK
Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference...
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fUPCK
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Sheffield Hallam Apologizes to American Scholar Over Publication Ban
Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference...
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fUPCK
Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference...
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fUPCK
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Drawing on one month of residence in a retirement community outside Beijing, Brian DeMare examines the Chinese silver-hair market, tracing everyday experiences of retirees and highlighting the interplay between personal memories of PRC history and the commodification of elder care in today's China.
A Grey Beard in the Silver-Hair Market: One Month in China’s Retirement City
Laoye left Louisiana like an outlaw cowboy, abandoning all his earthly possessions, and hitting the road. The flat-screen TVs, the piles of clothes, the closet full of USB cords? No longer needed. Jus...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Drawing on one month of residence in a retirement community outside Beijing, Brian DeMare examines the Chinese silver-hair market, tracing everyday experiences of retirees and highlighting the interplay between personal memories of PRC history and the commodification of elder care in today's China.
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Opening next month at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and on view through our #AAS2026 dates, "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" will surely be a must-visit for conference attendees!
Entangled Territoriesདཀའ་རྙོག་ནང་གི་ཡུལ་སྡེ། - Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Closed Mondays October 15 – May 15
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October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Opening next month at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and on view through our #AAS2026 dates, "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" will surely be a must-visit for conference attendees!
New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia:
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Project MUSE - Twentieth-Century China-Volume 50, Number 3, October 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia:
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and
@bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629
Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social.
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social.
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
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1/3 I appear on Asia Insight (NBR) discussing “Documenting China’s Borderlands: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies.” Benno Weiner & Robert Barnett join. Listen (34m): podcasts.nbr.org/e/documentin...
@nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social
@nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social
Documenting China’s Borderlands – Episode 2: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies | Asia Insight
From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries exploring the geostrategic significance of China’s borderlands, led by Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow for China Studies at ...
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September 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
1/3 I appear on Asia Insight (NBR) discussing “Documenting China’s Borderlands: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies.” Benno Weiner & Robert Barnett join. Listen (34m): podcasts.nbr.org/e/documentin...
@nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social
@nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social
Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
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A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.
September 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.
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Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
September 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
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The Red Wind Howls, states @bennoweiner.bsky.social in this magnificent new review, "is a monumental literary achievement, an act of defiance that helps pierce a regime of forced forgetting."
Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it!
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it!
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Red Wind Howls, states @bennoweiner.bsky.social in this magnificent new review, "is a monumental literary achievement, an act of defiance that helps pierce a regime of forced forgetting."
Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it!
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it!
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
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A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social
Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.
chinabooksreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social
(then read the book!)
Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net
chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social
I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow!
@remotexuar.bsky.social
@remotexuar.bsky.social
Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇
We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!
www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!
www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
September 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow!
@remotexuar.bsky.social
@remotexuar.bsky.social
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Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇
We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!
www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!
www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
August 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇
We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!
www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!
www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...
Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w
Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham, 1905–1961
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September 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w
CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica
Deadline: October 15
Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury
All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/
Deadline: October 15
Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury
All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/
Announcements
Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…
hstcconline.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica
Deadline: October 15
Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury
All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/
Deadline: October 15
Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury
All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/
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We're thrilled to see @bennoweiner.bsky.social's review of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China" by Edward Wong has been nominated for a 2025 Kukula Award! Read his review here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
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August 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We're thrilled to see @bennoweiner.bsky.social's review of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China" by Edward Wong has been nominated for a 2025 Kukula Award! Read his review here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
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👇Note to those working on China, one of the two short lists includes @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social (for his @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social essay on the biography of Liu Xiaobo) and the other includes @bennoweiner.bsky.social (for his @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social essay on @ewong.bsky.social 's book)
The Washington Monthly proudly announces the finalists of the 2025 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing:
The Washington Monthly Announces Finalists for 2025 Kukula Award Book Review Prize | Washington Monthly
Kukula Award book review prize honors exemplary nonfiction book reviewing that elucidates key issues of our times.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
👇Note to those working on China, one of the two short lists includes @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social (for his @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social essay on the biography of Liu Xiaobo) and the other includes @bennoweiner.bsky.social (for his @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social essay on @ewong.bsky.social 's book)
Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Read the Review 👇
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Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
lareviewofbooks.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...
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"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is."
Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence
I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201
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July 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is."
Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine.
The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor.
Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs
apply.interfolio.com/170040
The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor.
Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs
apply.interfolio.com/170040
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July 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine.
The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor.
Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs
apply.interfolio.com/170040
The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor.
Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs
apply.interfolio.com/170040
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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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Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...