Bin Xu. Emory University
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Bin Xu. Emory University
@binxu013.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity)
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
May 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
May 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Those who attend the AAS, please mark your calendar: our roundtable on "Multifaceted and Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Memories", Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Clark (2nd Floor, Hyatt). Please join us for a great discussion! #aas2025
March 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Congratulations, Liu Jiakun, on Pritzker Prize! I interviewed him in 09 for my dissertation on the Sichuan earthquake. Liu built a profoundly moving memorial for Hu Huishan a child whose death was likely caused by the substandard construction of the school building.
www.archdaily.com/1027571/chin...
March 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
👍This paper is more important for Lingxiao and Xueqia since it'll be their first English-language article. Keep an eye on these two rising stars🌟!
Here's the abstract (proofs will be available soon):
January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Received The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China, edited by Becky Yang Hsu. I'm honored and delighted to write an endorsement for this important volume:
January 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
LOL
November 24, 2024 at 4:01 PM
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
November 17, 2024 at 4:23 AM
The New Yorker. David Remnick. "Standing Up to Trump"
November 14, 2024 at 12:51 AM