Drew Smith
@drewsmithxian.bsky.social
Professor of Foreign Languages at Northwest University of China (西北大学). Interests: Translation of Marxist Texts, Mao-Era China, CPC History, General Chinese History. Current translation project: "Ecological History of Qin and Han Dynasties." Marxist
Something's cookin' in my kitchen....
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Something's cookin' in my kitchen....
Happy International Workers Day!
劳动节快乐！
ལཱ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་སྤྲོ་སེམས་ཆེ་!
خەزمەتچىلەر بايرىمىڭىزغا مۇبارەك بولسۇن!
Хөдөлмөрийн баярын мэнд хүргэе!
C Днем международной солидарности трудящихся!
劳动节快乐！
ལཱ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་སྤྲོ་སེམས་ཆེ་!
خەزمەتچىلەر بايرىمىڭىزغا مۇبارەك بولسۇن!
Хөдөлмөрийн баярын мэнд хүргэе!
C Днем международной солидарности трудящихся!
May 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Happy International Workers Day!
劳动节快乐！
ལཱ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་སྤྲོ་སེམས་ཆེ་!
خەزمەتچىلەر بايرىمىڭىزغا مۇبارەك بولسۇن!
Хөдөлмөрийн баярын мэнд хүргэе!
C Днем международной солидарности трудящихся!
劳动节快乐！
ལཱ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་སྤྲོ་སེམས་ཆེ་!
خەزمەتچىلەر بايرىمىڭىزغا مۇبارەك بولسۇن!
Хөдөлмөрийн баярын мэнд хүргэе!
C Днем международной солидарности трудящихся!
My vintage RCPUSA "Mao More Than Ever" shirt that I inexplicably found on Taobao of all places came in the mail. Feels like college all over again....
April 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My vintage RCPUSA "Mao More Than Ever" shirt that I inexplicably found on Taobao of all places came in the mail. Feels like college all over again....
同志们周末快乐！！！上课～～～
Have a great weekend comrades.
Have a great weekend comrades.
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
同志们周末快乐！！！上课～～～
Have a great weekend comrades.
Have a great weekend comrades.
Having a Friday night outing at Qiulin food court to enjoy some Shaanxi and Beijing cuisine!
March 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Having a Friday night outing at Qiulin food court to enjoy some Shaanxi and Beijing cuisine!
To quote Chuck Tingle: "We all know this classic Way"
March 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
To quote Chuck Tingle: "We all know this classic Way"
Liberal academics: "Trump is acting just like Mao Zedong or Kim il-Sung or Pol Pot!"
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Liberal academics: "Trump is acting just like Mao Zedong or Kim il-Sung or Pol Pot!"
Victory to the Palestinian People! (1974)
March 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Victory to the Palestinian People! (1974)
I can't stand either of these editions. This is the only English edition I will abide in my Little Red Book collection.
Red vinyl cover, name of the book, and a little gold star in the middle. Like they intended it to be.
Red vinyl cover, name of the book, and a little gold star in the middle. Like they intended it to be.
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I can't stand either of these editions. This is the only English edition I will abide in my Little Red Book collection.
Red vinyl cover, name of the book, and a little gold star in the middle. Like they intended it to be.
Red vinyl cover, name of the book, and a little gold star in the middle. Like they intended it to be.
OMG the strawberry harvest here in Shaanxi just dropped and they are DIVINE right now- these are like candy!!! And they're being sold in droves on every street corner so it was an obvious bumper crop. GETCHA SOME, XI'AN!!!!
March 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
OMG the strawberry harvest here in Shaanxi just dropped and they are DIVINE right now- these are like candy!!! And they're being sold in droves on every street corner so it was an obvious bumper crop. GETCHA SOME, XI'AN!!!!
Bedtime Poem:
After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone
by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修)(1007- 1072)
After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good.
Tattered scraps of remnant red,
Mist of cotton catkins flying,
Weeping willow by the railing in the wind and sun.
晚安，同志们💤🌜❤️
After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone
by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修)(1007- 1072)
After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good.
Tattered scraps of remnant red,
Mist of cotton catkins flying,
Weeping willow by the railing in the wind and sun.
晚安，同志们💤🌜❤️
March 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Bedtime Poem:
After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone
by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修)(1007- 1072)
After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good.
Tattered scraps of remnant red,
Mist of cotton catkins flying,
Weeping willow by the railing in the wind and sun.
晚安，同志们💤🌜❤️
After the Fresh Blossoms Have Gone
by Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修)(1007- 1072)
After the fresh blossoms have gone- West Lake is good.
Tattered scraps of remnant red,
Mist of cotton catkins flying,
Weeping willow by the railing in the wind and sun.
晚安，同志们💤🌜❤️
My Huawei Nova 7SE finally bit the dust yesterday after a tumble down a stairwell. Ran over to the local electronics market and bought a Huawei Nova 13 and I'm very impressed with the new HarmonyOS. China may not be perfect, but its phones sure are... (The battery on it is a BEAST!!!)
March 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
My Huawei Nova 7SE finally bit the dust yesterday after a tumble down a stairwell. Ran over to the local electronics market and bought a Huawei Nova 13 and I'm very impressed with the new HarmonyOS. China may not be perfect, but its phones sure are... (The battery on it is a BEAST!!!)
This is something I'm begging each and every one of you to understand about the Cultural Revolution. 90% of narratives about the GPCR, whether a college freshman World History textbook or a Maoist collective's agitprop pamphlet, get this terribly wrong. (from Jin Qiu's "The Culture of Power")
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is something I'm begging each and every one of you to understand about the Cultural Revolution. 90% of narratives about the GPCR, whether a college freshman World History textbook or a Maoist collective's agitprop pamphlet, get this terribly wrong. (from Jin Qiu's "The Culture of Power")
Spring has arrived at Northwest University of China.
March 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Spring has arrived at Northwest University of China.
Bedtime poem:
"Peach Blossom at Dalin Temple"
by Bai Juyi (772-842CE)
"Across the world this June, the petals all have fallen,
But the mountain temple's peach blossom has just begun to bloom.
I regretted so much that spring had gone without a trace,
I didn't know that it had only moved up here."
"Peach Blossom at Dalin Temple"
by Bai Juyi (772-842CE)
"Across the world this June, the petals all have fallen,
But the mountain temple's peach blossom has just begun to bloom.
I regretted so much that spring had gone without a trace,
I didn't know that it had only moved up here."
March 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bedtime poem:
"Peach Blossom at Dalin Temple"
by Bai Juyi (772-842CE)
"Across the world this June, the petals all have fallen,
But the mountain temple's peach blossom has just begun to bloom.
I regretted so much that spring had gone without a trace,
I didn't know that it had only moved up here."
"Peach Blossom at Dalin Temple"
by Bai Juyi (772-842CE)
"Across the world this June, the petals all have fallen,
But the mountain temple's peach blossom has just begun to bloom.
I regretted so much that spring had gone without a trace,
I didn't know that it had only moved up here."
The new Hui halal dumpling shop outside my apartment complex is DELICIOUS. I was so stuffed.
Shaanxi hot-and-sour lamb jiaozi soup is the best for a night like this!
Shaanxi hot-and-sour lamb jiaozi soup is the best for a night like this!
March 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The new Hui halal dumpling shop outside my apartment complex is DELICIOUS. I was so stuffed.
Shaanxi hot-and-sour lamb jiaozi soup is the best for a night like this!
Shaanxi hot-and-sour lamb jiaozi soup is the best for a night like this!
Local market in Xi'an.
March 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Local market in Xi'an.
"Go and Learn from the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers!"
1967
1967
March 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Go and Learn from the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers!"
1967
1967
Bedtime poem:
"Hearing A Flute in Spring"
by Li Bai (701-762CE)
"From whose home secretly flies the sound of a jade flute?
It's lost amid the spring wind which fills Luoyang city.
In the middle of this nocturne I remember the snapped willow,
What person would not start to think of home!"
晚安，同志们~~~
"Hearing A Flute in Spring"
by Li Bai (701-762CE)
"From whose home secretly flies the sound of a jade flute?
It's lost amid the spring wind which fills Luoyang city.
In the middle of this nocturne I remember the snapped willow,
What person would not start to think of home!"
晚安，同志们~~~
March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Bedtime poem:
"Hearing A Flute in Spring"
by Li Bai (701-762CE)
"From whose home secretly flies the sound of a jade flute?
It's lost amid the spring wind which fills Luoyang city.
In the middle of this nocturne I remember the snapped willow,
What person would not start to think of home!"
晚安，同志们~~~
"Hearing A Flute in Spring"
by Li Bai (701-762CE)
"From whose home secretly flies the sound of a jade flute?
It's lost amid the spring wind which fills Luoyang city.
In the middle of this nocturne I remember the snapped willow,
What person would not start to think of home!"
晚安，同志们~~~
For those who are new to following me, this is my son Xiaotudou (aka "Billy"). He is the floofiest floofy floof.
March 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
For those who are new to following me, this is my son Xiaotudou (aka "Billy"). He is the floofiest floofy floof.