Jay Carter
@jayjamescarter.bsky.social
Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly & NYC. Weekly words https://www.sinicapodcast.com/s/this-week-in-chinas-history Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin
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This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start.
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start.
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
Nice dawn in central jersey!
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Nice dawn in central jersey!
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Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies fosters interdisciplinary research and public engagement on the Middle East and North Africa, promoting academic events, language training, and educational pro...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...
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Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
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“How did American democracy become so dysfunctional, even as it became more participatory?” Read Julia Azari’s 2019 essay on the forces fueling the United States’ political crisis:
It’s the Institutions, Stupid
The real cause of America's dysfunctional politics lies in the mismatch between the United States’ political institutions and its political realities.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“How did American democracy become so dysfunctional, even as it became more participatory?” Read Julia Azari’s 2019 essay on the forces fueling the United States’ political crisis:
It's not just the Rapture! Millenarian movements seeking to bring about the end of days: This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City
October 9, 1813
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October 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It's not just the Rapture! Millenarian movements seeking to bring about the end of days: This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
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Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways
The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial
Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways
I didn’t know what to expect from One Battle After Another…but i didn’t expect so burst into tears in the last scene….
October 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I didn’t know what to expect from One Battle After Another…but i didn’t expect so burst into tears in the last scene….
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Two big new essays for fans of @yangyangcheng.bsky.social this week! At @chinabooksreview.com, she writes about new @bairuiwen.bsky.social translations of two novels by Fang Fang ...
No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression…
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October 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Two big new essays for fans of @yangyangcheng.bsky.social this week! At @chinabooksreview.com, she writes about new @bairuiwen.bsky.social translations of two novels by Fang Fang ...
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The New Yorker reviews my new book, The Second Emancipation (about Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism), along with Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison (about Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities
Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The New Yorker reviews my new book, The Second Emancipation (about Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism), along with Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison (about Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I always stand up for Bluesky against critics who say it’s full of people who are afraid that somewhere someone is having a good time.
And then Bluesky decided to self-parody itself and ridicule folks for being excited about a new Taylor swift album.
Srsly?
And then Bluesky decided to self-parody itself and ridicule folks for being excited about a new Taylor swift album.
Srsly?
October 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I always stand up for Bluesky against critics who say it’s full of people who are afraid that somewhere someone is having a good time.
And then Bluesky decided to self-parody itself and ridicule folks for being excited about a new Taylor swift album.
Srsly?
And then Bluesky decided to self-parody itself and ridicule folks for being excited about a new Taylor swift album.
Srsly?
Tyrant? Revolutionary? Los dos? This Week in China’s History looks at the brief reign and gruesome end of Wang Mang, 2000 years ago
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This Week in China's History: Wang Mang Dismembered, Remembered
October 6, 23 CE
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October 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Tyrant? Revolutionary? Los dos? This Week in China’s History looks at the brief reign and gruesome end of Wang Mang, 2000 years ago
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
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% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
www.pewresearch.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
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#ICYMI, I joined @kateshaw.bsky.social and @williambaude.bsky.social for (another) @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable on #SCOTUS — as the Roberts Court marks its twentieth anniversary and with a momentous new term set to begin next Monday.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court
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September 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#ICYMI, I joined @kateshaw.bsky.social and @williambaude.bsky.social for (another) @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable on #SCOTUS — as the Roberts Court marks its twentieth anniversary and with a momentous new term set to begin next Monday.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
I am old, but I don’t think you take pitchers out when they given up 0 runs and no one is on base
September 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I am old, but I don’t think you take pitchers out when they given up 0 runs and no one is on base
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Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.
In a new graphic narrative, Rivi Handler-Spitz (author of a chapter in our Global Anti-Asian Racism volume) shares comments from Chinese students about the uncertainty they feel regarding their position in the U.S.
Visa Chaos: A Graphic Narrative (opinion)
A graphic narrative written and drawn by Rivi Handler-Spitz.
buff.ly
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.
The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-symbol...
Looking forward to this! As a primer, I broached this topic in This Week last year www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-symbol...
Looking forward to this! As a primer, I broached this topic in This Week last year www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages
This week on Sinica, I chat with Peking University’s Professor Wang Dong (王栋), an international relations scholar at the School of International Studies at Peking University, where he also serves as D...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-symbol...
Looking forward to this! As a primer, I broached this topic in This Week last year www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-symbol...
Looking forward to this! As a primer, I broached this topic in This Week last year www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...
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Life, uh, finds a way. “The CIA used to try and learn about China in the early 1960s by getting fishermen in HK to import fish and other products wrapped in local newspapers. They would unwrap the fish, sell the newspaper to the CIA, and the CIA would learn about some case in some little town.”
Mr. China - The Wire China
Jerome A. Cohen pioneered the study of Chinese law in the United States. He met with Zhou Enlai, trained Chinese officials and helped American firms set up in China. Now, even at 90, he presses Beijin...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Life, uh, finds a way. “The CIA used to try and learn about China in the early 1960s by getting fishermen in HK to import fish and other products wrapped in local newspapers. They would unwrap the fish, sell the newspaper to the CIA, and the CIA would learn about some case in some little town.”
Just saw the news of Jerry Cohen's passing. Unmatched expertise & also humanity & humility--he made a difference in the world. I had the privilege to meet him in grad school, and his generosity with students of all levels is a model of how to mentor and pay it forward. RIP. usali.org/institute-ne...
Remembering Jerome A. Cohen: Field Builder, Rights Advocate, and Mentor — U.S.-Asia Law Institute
Jerome A. Cohen, professor emeritus of law at New York University and founding director of the law school’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, who passed away on September 22, 2025, introduced the study of Chin...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Just saw the news of Jerry Cohen's passing. Unmatched expertise & also humanity & humility--he made a difference in the world. I had the privilege to meet him in grad school, and his generosity with students of all levels is a model of how to mentor and pay it forward. RIP. usali.org/institute-ne...
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Speaking about my new book, The Second Emancipation, at Yale this afternoon at 4:30. whc.yale.edu/second-emanc...
September 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Speaking about my new book, The Second Emancipation, at Yale this afternoon at 4:30. whc.yale.edu/second-emanc...
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Doctors deserve better.
September 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Doctors deserve better.
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One thing to understand about most “Disney Adults” is that the parks have only gotten more expensive and crowded while offering less ever since they reopened in 2020 so it doesn’t take that much more to make people stop going. And the theme park forums are rightfully pissed about Kimmel
September 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One thing to understand about most “Disney Adults” is that the parks have only gotten more expensive and crowded while offering less ever since they reopened in 2020 so it doesn’t take that much more to make people stop going. And the theme park forums are rightfully pissed about Kimmel
This is silly. The play was illegal since the start of football a hundred years ago because it was illegal to push the ball carrier. The rule for changed and it got exploited as an unintended consequence. Just put the rules back to how they had been
There’s a simple way to stop the Tush Push:
Get in the gym and lift bigger weights
Get in the gym and lift bigger weights
Influential voices inside 345 Park Avenue still believe that the tush push doesn’t belong in football.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie may need something bigger than a passionate speech from Jason Kelce to save the play this time.
More: www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie may need something bigger than a passionate speech from Jason Kelce to save the play this time.
More: www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is silly. The play was illegal since the start of football a hundred years ago because it was illegal to push the ball carrier. The rule for changed and it got exploited as an unintended consequence. Just put the rules back to how they had been
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There’s a simple way to stop the Tush Push:
Get in the gym and lift bigger weights
Get in the gym and lift bigger weights
Influential voices inside 345 Park Avenue still believe that the tush push doesn’t belong in football.
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie may need something bigger than a passionate speech from Jason Kelce to save the play this time.
More: www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie may need something bigger than a passionate speech from Jason Kelce to save the play this time.
More: www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...
September 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There’s a simple way to stop the Tush Push:
Get in the gym and lift bigger weights
Get in the gym and lift bigger weights