Nick Admussen
@nadmussen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
Wrote a history of twentieth-century Chinese poetry for the Oxford Research Library (doi.org/10.1093/acre...). It's sadly subscription-only, but feel free to DM/reply/email if you want access. Also serves as a "what's in the Anglophone field" narrative bibliography, good to populate reading lists.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wrote a history of twentieth-century Chinese poetry for the Oxford Research Library (doi.org/10.1093/acre...). It's sadly subscription-only, but feel free to DM/reply/email if you want access. Also serves as a "what's in the Anglophone field" narrative bibliography, good to populate reading lists.
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Terrance Hayes, born on this day in 1971
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Terrance Hayes, born on this day in 1971
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'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
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Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.
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Reportage in the Chinese Speaking World can now be pre-ordered from University of Michigan Press: press.umich.edu/Books/R/Repo...
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reportage in the Chinese Speaking World can now be pre-ordered from University of Michigan Press: press.umich.edu/Books/R/Repo...
One political party, made up of people with lots of different ideologies, who share a commitment to elite impunity. Trump is its leader; Epstein is its spiritual guide.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
One political party, made up of people with lots of different ideologies, who share a commitment to elite impunity. Trump is its leader; Epstein is its spiritual guide.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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“No matter what job I did, I didn’t achieve anything and I couldn’t do it for long. Then I kept covering up the pain, which made me worry about my own self-worth.” Rebecca Liu profiles gig worker Hu Anyan, whose memoir has been translated into English by Jack Hargreaves.
The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels – and became a bestseller
Like so many others, his days have been spent in the gig economy, moving from one precarious job to another, often tied to a gruelling 996 shift pattern. He discusses the harsh realities of modern…
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“No matter what job I did, I didn’t achieve anything and I couldn’t do it for long. Then I kept covering up the pain, which made me worry about my own self-worth.” Rebecca Liu profiles gig worker Hu Anyan, whose memoir has been translated into English by Jack Hargreaves.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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“When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.”
Richard Siken
#poetry #booksky @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Richard Siken
#poetry #booksky @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.”
Richard Siken
#poetry #booksky @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Richard Siken
#poetry #booksky @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
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Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi
Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to t...
www.routledge.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
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always thinking of this Louise Glück poem
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
always thinking of this Louise Glück poem
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If your Thursday needs a boost, can I recommend the delightful Jin Shengtan's 金聖嘆 "Thirty-three Nice Things", translated by @bokane.org?
www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
— if that’s not nice, what is?
www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
— if that’s not nice, what is?
What's Good? A Collection of Small Nice Things
Everything is awful, the dynasty is collapsing, and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite things to distract you.
www.burninghou.se
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If your Thursday needs a boost, can I recommend the delightful Jin Shengtan's 金聖嘆 "Thirty-three Nice Things", translated by @bokane.org?
www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
— if that’s not nice, what is?
www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
— if that’s not nice, what is?
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Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang.
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang.
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
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𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to László Krasznahorkai, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity.
www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...
While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity.
www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to László Krasznahorkai, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity.
www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...
While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity.
www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...
The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Taken as Strictly True: Neuroscience and Sinology in Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens
Cha is a Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing quality poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, and reviews written in English, as well as photography an...
www.asiancha.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke
October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”
www.theparisreview.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
Heard this song played live behind a sandwich shop in Danby, it's been running through my head ever since: sarahnoell.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont...
"In my dreams I'm sleeping
on a train to Brooklyn
miss my stop on purpose
join you at the circus
I want to have your baby
haven't called you lately..."
"In my dreams I'm sleeping
on a train to Brooklyn
miss my stop on purpose
join you at the circus
I want to have your baby
haven't called you lately..."
I Don't Worry, by Sarah Noell
from the album Good Dog
sarahnoell.bandcamp.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Heard this song played live behind a sandwich shop in Danby, it's been running through my head ever since: sarahnoell.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont...
"In my dreams I'm sleeping
on a train to Brooklyn
miss my stop on purpose
join you at the circus
I want to have your baby
haven't called you lately..."
"In my dreams I'm sleeping
on a train to Brooklyn
miss my stop on purpose
join you at the circus
I want to have your baby
haven't called you lately..."
This comic strip by Rivi Handler-Spitz v. much captures the situation and feelings of a lot of Chinese students in the U.S. right now, and ends in a hope I share, that the rest of us will value their contributions and fight for their right to be educated. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Visa Chaos: A Graphic Narrative (opinion)
A graphic narrative written and drawn by Rivi Handler-Spitz.
www.insidehighered.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This comic strip by Rivi Handler-Spitz v. much captures the situation and feelings of a lot of Chinese students in the U.S. right now, and ends in a hope I share, that the rest of us will value their contributions and fight for their right to be educated. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today
GUEST ROOM | AAUP Letter to Kotlikoff on "Fighting Antisemitism"
The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors Cornell Chapter writes to President Kotlikoff in response to his office's recent statement, "Fighting Antisemitism and Prot...
www.cornellsun.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today
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Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom
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In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
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"Here," the writing teacher said. "Try reading this story by Ling Ma instead of thinking about law school right now." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
Office Hours
A short story
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Here," the writing teacher said. "Try reading this story by Ling Ma instead of thinking about law school right now." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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If the makers of Tylenol bought enough Trumpcoin, they’d be telling us that it prevents autism.
September 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If the makers of Tylenol bought enough Trumpcoin, they’d be telling us that it prevents autism.