It’s a privilege to be recognized alongside two incredible scholars. 👍👍

Kicking off the first day of classes by giving the students in my Contemporary Chinese Society seminar red envelopes 💸💸
🧧 from the funniest Ronny Chieng

White Christmas 🎄❄️

The entire December issue of our flagship journal is quantitative. And among the seven articles, six are solely about the United States.

It’s grading season, and this poem hits close to home for many of us 😅

This new book, Authoritarian Absorption, by @yanlong-soc.bsky.social is my most anticipated read of the year! It’s a must-read for anyone interested in transnational institutions, public health (HIV/AIDS policy in China), and authoritarianism. 📚👍

Forthcoming in ASR: “The Culture of Censorship.”

In it, I develop a micro-sociological model of censorship and coin the term “complicit creativity” that captures the censor-creator symbiosis. 🎬