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Fabio Lanza
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Historian of Modern China, Italian, food obsessed.
The PRC History Group is pleased to announce a new issue in the PRC History Review Research Paper series: Ning Wang, "The Politics of Persecution of American-trained Returnees in Mao’s China." networks.h-net.org/group/pages/...
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May 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Obviously, Kilmar Abrego García must come home now. But let's not forget that NOT ONE of the people whom the Trump administration sent there should be there. THAT is a violation of any basic right to due process. They all have to come back.
April 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
New on praxis in positions politics, BDS Korea, Manse to Intifada: A Report on March 1, 2025 from Palestine Peace Solidarity in South Korea
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BDS Korea, Manse to Intifada: A Report on March 1, 2025 from Palestine Peace Solidarity in South Korea - positions politics
Known as the March First Independence Movement, an unprecedented wave of mass protests with people shouting tongrip manse (long live independence) swept across Korea on March 1, 1919. On this day, rel...
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April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New on praxis in positions politics, Gao Xiaoxian: A Short Remembrance by Gail Hershatter
Gail Hershatter, Gao Xiaoxian: A Short Remembrance - positions politics
I first met Gao Xiaoxian in 1992 at a conference at Peking University, but even before that I had heard about her extraordinary work with the Women’s Federation and her deep knowledge of life in the S...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I hear a lot of liberals outraged for the Signal chat. Shouldn't we first and foremost be outraged that we are bombing Yemen? (Hint, we cannot be, because Biden did that too.)
March 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New on praxis in positions politics, Chris Chien reviews Florence Mok's Covert Colonialism.
Chris Chien reviews Florence Mok, Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97 - positions politics
Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97. Florence Mok. Manchester University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781526158192. Price: £85.00  | Reviewed by ...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New in praxis on positions politics, Fan Yang, Back to the Future: A Walk through Huaqiangbei in 2025
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Fan Yang, Back to the Future: A Walk through Huaqiangbei in 2025 - positions politics
As someone who grew up in Shenzhen in the 1980s-1990s and has lived in the US since 2000, I’ve come to see returning to the Special Economic Zone today as a journey “back to the future.” During my las...
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March 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New on praxis in positions politics, Seuty Sabur, This is not my Revolution: Aspiration, Erasure, and the Political Field in the Post-July Uprising Bangladesh
Seuty Sabur, This is not my Revolution: Aspiration, Erasure, and the Political Field in the Post-July Uprising Bangladesh - positions politics
On the morning of July 18, 2024, our phones were suddenly flooded with images of injured students – our campus was under attack. Students protesting the nationwide escalation of police brutality again...
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March 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New on episteme in positions politics, china and histories of the working class
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episteme issue 11: China and Histories of the Working Class
episteme issue 11 explores Chinese labor history through class consciousness, labor activism, and worker democracy from the late-Qing period to the post-Mao era. I would like to mark the recent passin...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Nick Zeller on the past and present of China Studies (and the National Security Apparatus)
China Studies and the NatSec Gamble
There's dwindling money for China research. University faculty can try to revive an ugly old bargain or build something new.
uscnpm.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Worth a read
The Higher Ed Frontline
What's now called for in every classroom.
slowcivilwar.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
January 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
New on praxis, in positions politics, Lilian Kong and Shiqi Lin, “Hello My Chinese Spy, Take My Data”: Welcome to the Playground of the Digital Cold War
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Lilian Kong and Shiqi Lin, “Hello My Chinese Spy, Take My Data”: Welcome to the Playground of the Digital Cold War
On January 12, 2025, just days before the short video platform TikTok was pressured to shut down in the U.S., a sensational “migration” began. Millions of American internet users flocked to the Chines...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Reposted by Fabio Lanza
A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/
November 11, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Fabio Lanza
Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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December 5, 2024 at 1:36 AM
November 1, 2023 at 11:24 PM
October 28, 2023 at 1:36 AM
Critical China Scholars Respond to New McCarthyism and New York Times

https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/
August 17, 2023 at 1:40 AM