Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
@mauracunningham.bsky.social
She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
https://mauracunningham.org/
I read Sons and Lovers at 16 for a British lit class and found it so boring and depressing—now I suspect it's one of those books I read way too young to appreciate.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I read Sons and Lovers at 16 for a British lit class and found it so boring and depressing—now I suspect it's one of those books I read way too young to appreciate.
At Afra Wang's Concurrent Substack, Wang talks with Liu Xiaopai, “the world’s most prolific Claude user,” who quit a big tech firm and its bureaucracy to become a prosperous independent AI vibe coder.
Story of A Chinese Vibe Coder
From burning through $50,000 in Claude Code tokens per month to building global software products from Beijing apartments—how resource scarcity is creating a new breed of super-individuals in China
afraw.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
At Afra Wang's Concurrent Substack, Wang talks with Liu Xiaopai, “the world’s most prolific Claude user,” who quit a big tech firm and its bureaucracy to become a prosperous independent AI vibe coder.
Murphy speaks with @eliotchen.bsky.social at @thewirechina.bsky.social about how Party-state political pressure and concerns about access to Chinese students threaten academic freedom overseas.
Laura Murphy on How China Forced Her University to Halt Her Xinjiang Research - The Wire China
The academic says the state of college funding is pressuring institutions to pit scholarly freedom against access to the market for Chinese students.
www.thewirechina.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Murphy speaks with @eliotchen.bsky.social at @thewirechina.bsky.social about how Party-state political pressure and concerns about access to Chinese students threaten academic freedom overseas.
Damian Grammaticas at the BBC also has a detailed report on the Chinese government's pressure campaign and Sheffield Hallam University's acquiescence to it. After Murphy brought legal action against SHU, the university relented.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Damian Grammaticas at the BBC also has a detailed report on the Chinese government's pressure campaign and Sheffield Hallam University's acquiescence to it. After Murphy brought legal action against SHU, the university relented.