David Stroup
@davidstroup.bsky.social
Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
Friends in Manchester. Come and see the work that Jolynna Sinanan and I have been doing with Konger FC 曼城 as part of UoM’s Festival of Social Sciences. Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 17:30-19:00
在曼切斯特的朋友：我們請你來參加我們關於KongerFC足球隊的攝影展首映，11月1日（週六），17:30-19:00
在曼切斯特的朋友：我們請你來參加我們關於KongerFC足球隊的攝影展首映，11月1日（週六），17:30-19:00
September 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Friends in Manchester. Come and see the work that Jolynna Sinanan and I have been doing with Konger FC 曼城 as part of UoM’s Festival of Social Sciences. Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 17:30-19:00
在曼切斯特的朋友：我們請你來參加我們關於KongerFC足球隊的攝影展首映，11月1日（週六），17:30-19:00
在曼切斯特的朋友：我們請你來參加我們關於KongerFC足球隊的攝影展首映，11月1日（週六），17:30-19:00
Glad to get my hands on a copy of this excellent volume from David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Excellent comprehensive introduction to identity and politics in Xinjiang .
September 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Glad to get my hands on a copy of this excellent volume from David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Excellent comprehensive introduction to identity and politics in Xinjiang .
Really pleased to get my hands on this amazing retro shirt which arrived yesterday from Shandong Luneng Taishan FC (who I used to go see play when I lived in Jinan).
September 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Really pleased to get my hands on this amazing retro shirt which arrived yesterday from Shandong Luneng Taishan FC (who I used to go see play when I lived in Jinan).
A good indicator that you’re on the right side of an argument is that you’ve annoyed someone who calls themselves the “Chinese Carl Schmitt” and they respond with a fully racist tirade. 😬
June 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A good indicator that you’re on the right side of an argument is that you’ve annoyed someone who calls themselves the “Chinese Carl Schmitt” and they respond with a fully racist tirade. 😬
This directive also appears in “Document 10” of the “Xinjiang Papers” where cadres are directed to “strengthen positive propaganda” about the party-state’s relation to Islam and majority-Islamic minorities (e.g. Hui and Uyghurs) to “enhance” understanding of Islam.
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June 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This directive also appears in “Document 10” of the “Xinjiang Papers” where cadres are directed to “strengthen positive propaganda” about the party-state’s relation to Islam and majority-Islamic minorities (e.g. Hui and Uyghurs) to “enhance” understanding of Islam.
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We see this language used in key documents. For instance the China Islamic Association’s “Five Year Plan to Sinicize Islam 2017-2022” urges officials to “tell the China Story well” and describes how the Association can promote the story of sincization abroad www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/islamsini...
June 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We see this language used in key documents. For instance the China Islamic Association’s “Five Year Plan to Sinicize Islam 2017-2022” urges officials to “tell the China Story well” and describes how the Association can promote the story of sincization abroad www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/islamsini...
Recieved this in the mail today. Eager to jump in. #summerreading.
June 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Recieved this in the mail today. Eager to jump in. #summerreading.
And then there are other mystifying inclusions. What the hell did Bhutan do? Or Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan? Or Cambodia? What strategic purpose does preventing citizens from these places serve? What is the point of excluding citizens of these countries other than racism?
June 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
And then there are other mystifying inclusions. What the hell did Bhutan do? Or Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan? Or Cambodia? What strategic purpose does preventing citizens from these places serve? What is the point of excluding citizens of these countries other than racism?
Let’s be clear: this is not a “significant expansion.” This is a racist blanket ban. The proposal would effectively ban citizens from 55 different countries (including well over half of those in Africa!) from the US. What is the logic for inclusion on this list if not racism, pure and simple?
June 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Let’s be clear: this is not a “significant expansion.” This is a racist blanket ban. The proposal would effectively ban citizens from 55 different countries (including well over half of those in Africa!) from the US. What is the logic for inclusion on this list if not racism, pure and simple?
“RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT!”
June 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT!”
Really excited to join @jpaulgoode.bsky.social and Dr. Kanchan Chandra at @asn-org.bsky.social today at 12pm for a roundtable on what we can learn from 20 plus years of studying #everydaynationalism. If you’re at #ASN2025, drop in!
May 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Really excited to join @jpaulgoode.bsky.social and Dr. Kanchan Chandra at @asn-org.bsky.social today at 12pm for a roundtable on what we can learn from 20 plus years of studying #everydaynationalism. If you’re at #ASN2025, drop in!
Excited to be here at @asn-org.bsky.social discussing these papers on “ #Nation-Building Institutions and Civic participation”. Looking forward to some great discussions. If you’re here, stop by! #ASN2025
May 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Excited to be here at @asn-org.bsky.social discussing these papers on “ #Nation-Building Institutions and Civic participation”. Looking forward to some great discussions. If you’re here, stop by! #ASN2025
Great attendance in my 11am today 🙃
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Great attendance in my 11am today 🙃
And of course afterward enjoyed some of Beijing’s best 清真涮羊肉 with @dcporter.bsky.social. A really wonderful and memorable day that seems like it was a lifetime ago:
March 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
And of course afterward enjoyed some of Beijing’s best 清真涮羊肉 with @dcporter.bsky.social. A really wonderful and memorable day that seems like it was a lifetime ago:
Had a great time at #AAS2025 in Columbus this week. It was amazing to see so many friends and hear about such amazing research. Thanks to everyone who made this a memorable time.
March 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Had a great time at #AAS2025 in Columbus this week. It was amazing to see so many friends and hear about such amazing research. Thanks to everyone who made this a memorable time.
@htheaker.bsky.social and I have attempted to document and analyze this campaign comprehensively in our recent report. This is a reminder that there’s so much more that we need to know about this campaign. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
March 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@htheaker.bsky.social and I have attempted to document and analyze this campaign comprehensively in our recent report. This is a reminder that there’s so much more that we need to know about this campaign. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Enjoying a nice Saturday afternoon visit to the Whitworth Gallery to see the #Uyghur arts and culture display at Manchester’s #MACFest2025
February 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Enjoying a nice Saturday afternoon visit to the Whitworth Gallery to see the #Uyghur arts and culture display at Manchester’s #MACFest2025
Lunar New Year Greetings from
Manchester!
新年快乐！
万事如意！
恭喜发财！
蛇年大吉！
Manchester!
新年快乐！
万事如意！
恭喜发财！
蛇年大吉！
January 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Lunar New Year Greetings from
Manchester!
新年快乐！
万事如意！
恭喜发财！
蛇年大吉！
Manchester!
新年快乐！
万事如意！
恭喜发财！
蛇年大吉！
Am really pleased to have received this copy of the new edition of @jwassers.bsky.social’s Vigil (with a new forward from Amy Hawkins and afterword from @krislc.bsky.social) in advance of our chat in Manchester on Friday!
January 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Am really pleased to have received this copy of the new edition of @jwassers.bsky.social’s Vigil (with a new forward from Amy Hawkins and afterword from @krislc.bsky.social) in advance of our chat in Manchester on Friday!
Some really cool reading material in protest music in HK arrived in the mail today! Just flipping through, I already love all the illustrations and the inclusion of lyrics alongside the commentary. Really eager to jump right into them.
January 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Some really cool reading material in protest music in HK arrived in the mail today! Just flipping through, I already love all the illustrations and the inclusion of lyrics alongside the commentary. Really eager to jump right into them.
5) These stories also dispel the notion that the crackdown against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims are a state of exception. As the article suggests, Hui have long been treated as “good” Muslims (not least by foreign media). This has always been a skewed and unhelpful characterization.
December 31, 2024 at 12:46 PM
5) These stories also dispel the notion that the crackdown against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims are a state of exception. As the article suggests, Hui have long been treated as “good” Muslims (not least by foreign media). This has always been a skewed and unhelpful characterization.
4) The stories also show the pervasiveness and breadth of the Sinicization. Much of the international media coverage focuses on coercive mosque renovation, the campaign also targets other means of religious expression: using Arabic, donating to Islamic charity, privately studying the Qur’an, etc.
December 31, 2024 at 12:46 PM
4) The stories also show the pervasiveness and breadth of the Sinicization. Much of the international media coverage focuses on coercive mosque renovation, the campaign also targets other means of religious expression: using Arabic, donating to Islamic charity, privately studying the Qur’an, etc.
3) The stories detailed in the article belie narratives put out by the party-state about the suppression of Islam being necessary for countering “extremism.” The actions being criminalized here are ordinary Islamic practices which have been stigmatized as “extreme” by cartoonish state rhetoric.
December 31, 2024 at 12:46 PM
3) The stories detailed in the article belie narratives put out by the party-state about the suppression of Islam being necessary for countering “extremism.” The actions being criminalized here are ordinary Islamic practices which have been stigmatized as “extreme” by cartoonish state rhetoric.