Edward Painter
@painteredward.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UCLA
Fulbright Hays Visiting Scholar at NTU's GARC
Studying Soccer, Migration, and Guest Worker Programs
Fulbright Hays Visiting Scholar at NTU's GARC
Studying Soccer, Migration, and Guest Worker Programs
Im not sure what type of indicator this is but I saw my first ever 'Fuck Trump' shirt on canal street today
September 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Im not sure what type of indicator this is but I saw my first ever 'Fuck Trump' shirt on canal street today
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What does Americans read about China? Conspiracy theories.
All are really about America. But China, its agents and its sympathizers, is presented as the cause of the myriad social ills — addiction, violence, poverty and disease — that plague American society.
chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...
All are really about America. But China, its agents and its sympathizers, is presented as the cause of the myriad social ills — addiction, violence, poverty and disease — that plague American society.
chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...
August 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What does Americans read about China? Conspiracy theories.
All are really about America. But China, its agents and its sympathizers, is presented as the cause of the myriad social ills — addiction, violence, poverty and disease — that plague American society.
chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...
All are really about America. But China, its agents and its sympathizers, is presented as the cause of the myriad social ills — addiction, violence, poverty and disease — that plague American society.
chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...
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That's what I always tell American leftists: non-white/non-western people have agency too. Not everything is America/the West's fault, you are not that important.
I’m listening to a podcast about UAE-Turkey conflict in Sudan and thinking (again) about how silly it was to think that lack of Western intervention in conflicts around the world would mean they wouldn’t happen, or even would be less bloody
August 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
That's what I always tell American leftists: non-white/non-western people have agency too. Not everything is America/the West's fault, you are not that important.
Reposted by Edward Painter
Our species built Stonehenge, Machu PIchu, and Chartres without large language models, wrote The Divine Comedy and Pride and Prejudice and The Book of the Tao without them, but could they make tuna melts without them?
June 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Our species built Stonehenge, Machu PIchu, and Chartres without large language models, wrote The Divine Comedy and Pride and Prejudice and The Book of the Tao without them, but could they make tuna melts without them?
New Article In Transaction in Planning and Urban Research, thinking about bordering and hukou reform.
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reorganizing space: A critical bordering perspective on hukou reform - Edward Painter, 2025
Since the pre-reform era, China’s hukou system has perpetuated a socio-spatial divide between rural and urban Chinese. In recent years, the hukou system has bee...
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May 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New Article In Transaction in Planning and Urban Research, thinking about bordering and hukou reform.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Edward Painter
The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official:
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
February 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official:
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
Reposted by Edward Painter
The China policy score thus far:
China hawks: 0
Trump corruption: 1
China hawks: 0
Trump corruption: 1
January 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The China policy score thus far:
China hawks: 0
Trump corruption: 1
China hawks: 0
Trump corruption: 1
It's kinda strange that moments like Rednote and Clubroom don't occur more often. But the discourses taking place during the two border-crossing events couldn't be more different. There were serious and thoughtful conversations going on during the clubhouse thing.
January 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's kinda strange that moments like Rednote and Clubroom don't occur more often. But the discourses taking place during the two border-crossing events couldn't be more different. There were serious and thoughtful conversations going on during the clubhouse thing.
We need to fund left leaning dudes from blue states to go play disc golf at weeklys and tags in red states - program will be called the Disc Corps
November 15, 2024 at 6:38 AM
We need to fund left leaning dudes from blue states to go play disc golf at weeklys and tags in red states - program will be called the Disc Corps