Gina Anne Tam
@dgtam86.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China at Trinity University (focus on language, identity, gender, protest, Hong Kong); author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960; NCUSCR PIPVII 2021-2023; Wilson Fellow 2022-2023. 4th-gen Italian-American
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Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients...
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Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Under the Trump administration, many NEH programs have been ended, 2/3 of the staff along with the scholarly council fired, and most of the money that has been given out as noncompetitive awards given to handpicked recipients...
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
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This is academic censorship, full stop.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is academic censorship, full stop.
Delighted that our Decolonizing Chinese History Roundtable is now available in Chinese translation as a book! Thanks to the wonderful team at Uli books and for my brilliant co-authors @jimmillward.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social Taomo Zhou, and James Evans
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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Delighted that our Decolonizing Chinese History Roundtable is now available in Chinese translation as a book! Thanks to the wonderful team at Uli books and for my brilliant co-authors @jimmillward.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social Taomo Zhou, and James Evans
www.bookrep.com.tw?md=gwindex&c...
www.bookrep.com.tw?md=gwindex&c...
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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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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
It's impossible to know exactly how this decision was made right now, but this is both a sad loss for Texas students and another piece of evidence that critical gender and racial analysis at universities is precarious, dangerous, and becoming more so every day.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...
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TCU to close departments dedicated to women, gender and race studies
Two departments will be shuttered after this year. Courses that remain intact will move under the umbrella of the English department.
www.star-telegram.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's impossible to know exactly how this decision was made right now, but this is both a sad loss for Texas students and another piece of evidence that critical gender and racial analysis at universities is precarious, dangerous, and becoming more so every day.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...
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No Kings-San. Antonio, TX
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
No Kings-San. Antonio, TX
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Ideas for the @madeinchinajournal.com piece were partly spurred by an earlier conversation I had with @dgtam86.bsky.social and Abigail Coplin on gender and STEM in China, hosted by @ncuscr.bsky.social on the 30th anniversary of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in fall 1995:
Gender, Policy, and Progress: Women in China’s STEM Fields
VIDEO: Yangyang Cheng and Gina Tam trace how government policy, economic transitions, and social norms have shaped the evolving landscape for women in China, especially in STEM fields.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ideas for the @madeinchinajournal.com piece were partly spurred by an earlier conversation I had with @dgtam86.bsky.social and Abigail Coplin on gender and STEM in China, hosted by @ncuscr.bsky.social on the 30th anniversary of the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in fall 1995:
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Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...
Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin
On why re-examining our “dialects” is about resisting hierarchies, opposing discrimination, and pursuing linguistic justice, rather than cultural “orthodoxy”.
chenchenzhang.net
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...
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A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by deporting noncitizen student activists. nyti.ms/4mG1pck
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by deporting noncitizen student activists. nyti.ms/4mG1pck
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:
"Faculty are afraid to carry out their jobs faithfully in what they view to be your interest, and there is little evidence that the administration will shield them from outside pressures. Missing in this equation is you. What kind of education do you want?"
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Anonymous Texas A&M professor calls on students to be ‘agent of change’
Editor's note: The following is an open letter to the Texas A&M student body written by a tenured professor at A&M and provided to The Battalion. The pr
thebatt.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Faculty are afraid to carry out their jobs faithfully in what they view to be your interest, and there is little evidence that the administration will shield them from outside pressures. Missing in this equation is you. What kind of education do you want?"
thebatt.com/news/anonymo...
thebatt.com/news/anonymo...
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A mensch. I learned so much from him, and I feel honored too the three of us were able to have that conversation, and Jerry lives on in this as in countless projects, writings, students, cases.
RIP to Jerome Cohen, a truly inspiration and fascinating longtime China scholar. I'm genuinely honored I got the opportunity to chat with him once alongside @johndelury.bsky.social about American Sinology in the Cold War.
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Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China
John Delury and Jerome Cohen discuss with Gina Tam John T. Downey and the CIA in China during the early years of the PRC.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A mensch. I learned so much from him, and I feel honored too the three of us were able to have that conversation, and Jerry lives on in this as in countless projects, writings, students, cases.
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En route from Beijing, and I see the news that Professor Cohen has passed away. Still teach his enduring study History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, Myth -and thinking back on how much I learned from Paul over many informal chats and gatherings in Cambridge.
Safe travels, laoshi.
Safe travels, laoshi.
My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social
In Memoriam: Paul A. Cohen (1934-2025) - Association for Asian Studies
Paul A. Cohen, who died on September 15, 2025 at the age of 91, made significant contributions to both the interdisciplinary field of Chinese studies and the discipline of history. The most obvious wa...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
En route from Beijing, and I see the news that Professor Cohen has passed away. Still teach his enduring study History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, Myth -and thinking back on how much I learned from Paul over many informal chats and gatherings in Cambridge.
Safe travels, laoshi.
Safe travels, laoshi.
RIP to Jerome Cohen, a truly inspiration and fascinating longtime China scholar. I'm genuinely honored I got the opportunity to chat with him once alongside @johndelury.bsky.social about American Sinology in the Cold War.
www.ncuscr.org/event/agents...
www.ncuscr.org/event/agents...
Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China
John Delury and Jerome Cohen discuss with Gina Tam John T. Downey and the CIA in China during the early years of the PRC.
www.ncuscr.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
RIP to Jerome Cohen, a truly inspiration and fascinating longtime China scholar. I'm genuinely honored I got the opportunity to chat with him once alongside @johndelury.bsky.social about American Sinology in the Cold War.
www.ncuscr.org/event/agents...
www.ncuscr.org/event/agents...
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"the most important anticolonial intellectuals may not use the language of decolonization and may not be in unis, but on the streets, with social movements, and in prison" Alpa Shah. not the state-affiliated think tanks talking deco, not the deco big names talking multipolar civilizational order
22yo student Zhang Yadi, an activist with 华语青年挺藏会 ChineseYouthStand4Tibet who's supposed to begin her MA study at SOAS, has been detained while visiting family in China & charged with "inciting separation" www.instagram.com/p/DOy4rwViEk...
September 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"the most important anticolonial intellectuals may not use the language of decolonization and may not be in unis, but on the streets, with social movements, and in prison" Alpa Shah. not the state-affiliated think tanks talking deco, not the deco big names talking multipolar civilizational order
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this
September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My head is actually spinning at how many current and future colleagues, both in the China field and beyond it, we are about to lose because of this
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Now is the time to contact your employers and rally to protect vulnerable colleagues. The administration is demanding that any valid H1-B visa holders outside the U.S. (or their employers) pay $100,000 for them to reenter the country, as of Sunday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
September 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Now is the time to contact your employers and rally to protect vulnerable colleagues. The administration is demanding that any valid H1-B visa holders outside the U.S. (or their employers) pay $100,000 for them to reenter the country, as of Sunday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I often talk about DC being an oral rather than a literate culture and this also applies to punditry in general: they base their opinions largely on what they've *heard* and on the vibes among their peers, not on what they've read or thought about
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I often talk about DC being an oral rather than a literate culture and this also applies to punditry in general: they base their opinions largely on what they've *heard* and on the vibes among their peers, not on what they've read or thought about
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For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong.
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
For Americans who want a play-by-play of what an authoritarian transition looks like in the 2020s, I strongly recommend catching up on what’s been happening in national security-era Hong Kong.
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
One of the first shots fired in the ongoing crackdown was cancelling a comedy show for “insulting police.”
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I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.