Zhaorui Lü
@zhaoruilu.bsky.social
"JAW-ray," she/her | History PhD candidate at UC Irvine | Wesleyan U’22 | Gender, labor, and state-building in 20th century China
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What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless?
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless?
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Rockies in the playoff vs the academic job market
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Rockies in the playoff vs the academic job market
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This upcoming issue of ‘Made in China Journal’ dives deep into how a generation is navigating constraint, competition and creativity, from digital platforms to poetry and from co-living to basketball courts.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This upcoming issue of ‘Made in China Journal’ dives deep into how a generation is navigating constraint, competition and creativity, from digital platforms to poetry and from co-living to basketball courts.
Register your interest to learn more doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
Register your interest to learn more doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
can a history student survive academia nowadays without doing sts???
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
can a history student survive academia nowadays without doing sts???
Done with Hoover, now onto Beijing 🫡
September 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Done with Hoover, now onto Beijing 🫡
First day of my fieldwork year: spent six hours in the Hoover archive, watched the Dodgers lose to the Pirates, and jogged 5k around the Stanford campus at sunset. Life is fun :)
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
First day of my fieldwork year: spent six hours in the Hoover archive, watched the Dodgers lose to the Pirates, and jogged 5k around the Stanford campus at sunset. Life is fun :)
if a book's arguments can be found in the comment sections of Xiaohongshu/Zhihu, is it really worth being published?
July 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
if a book's arguments can be found in the comment sections of Xiaohongshu/Zhihu, is it really worth being published?
the dodgers have been on a six-game losing streak ever since i became a fan over the weekend...
a woman says it 's me hi and i 'm the problem it 's me
ALT: a woman says it 's me hi and i 'm the problem it 's me
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July 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
the dodgers have been on a six-game losing streak ever since i became a fan over the weekend...
the best part about studying aunties is chatting with aunties
July 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
the best part about studying aunties is chatting with aunties
The fun continues: we were discussing Lu Xun’s what happens after Nora walks out and I asked what other options Nora had. A group of students proposed that she could kill her husband 😂 not endorsing murder but these students are fun
taught the first session of my online class on women and gender in modern china. as an icebreaker, i asked students to find a "gendered" object in their room. one student held up a copy of Mao's biography 😂 teaching is so fun
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The fun continues: we were discussing Lu Xun’s what happens after Nora walks out and I asked what other options Nora had. A group of students proposed that she could kill her husband 😂 not endorsing murder but these students are fun
taught the first session of my online class on women and gender in modern china. as an icebreaker, i asked students to find a "gendered" object in their room. one student held up a copy of Mao's biography 😂 teaching is so fun
June 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
taught the first session of my online class on women and gender in modern china. as an icebreaker, i asked students to find a "gendered" object in their room. one student held up a copy of Mao's biography 😂 teaching is so fun
hate the fact that a whole page of my syllabus is now devoted to academic integrity/AI use...
June 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
hate the fact that a whole page of my syllabus is now devoted to academic integrity/AI use...
It happened!! Had to reschedule from yesterday because somehow there was a thunderstorm in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Anyway here is a selfie of five happy ABDs enjoying In-N-Out while the ship of academia is sinking 😇😋
Anyway here is a selfie of five happy ABDs enjoying In-N-Out while the ship of academia is sinking 😇😋
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It happened!! Had to reschedule from yesterday because somehow there was a thunderstorm in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Anyway here is a selfie of five happy ABDs enjoying In-N-Out while the ship of academia is sinking 😇😋
Anyway here is a selfie of five happy ABDs enjoying In-N-Out while the ship of academia is sinking 😇😋
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Check out the newsletter to catch up on new scholarship and announcements from the blog and journal—including a round-up of recent posts and a CFP for the upcoming, seventh annual Grad Student Symposium.
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JHI Blog Newsletter: Spring 2025
Catch up on new scholarship from the Blog & the Journal
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May 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Check out the newsletter to catch up on new scholarship and announcements from the blog and journal—including a round-up of recent posts and a CFP for the upcoming, seventh annual Grad Student Symposium.
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this #WCWS has convinced me that college softball is the best sport in the world. these video reviews/7th inning game-tying HRs had me more stressed than waiting for my committee's deliberation during orals lmao
June 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
this #WCWS has convinced me that college softball is the best sport in the world. these video reviews/7th inning game-tying HRs had me more stressed than waiting for my committee's deliberation during orals lmao
A friend in my cohort just approached me, dead serious: "I need to talk to you." We are the only two international students in our cohort and were just talking about the new visa situation last night. So naturally I thought she wanted to chat about that. #gradschool
May 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A friend in my cohort just approached me, dead serious: "I need to talk to you." We are the only two international students in our cohort and were just talking about the new visa situation last night. So naturally I thought she wanted to chat about that. #gradschool
Always fun to attend our annual undergrad history conference! Surprised to see how many undergrads are much better presenters — so lively, passionate, all while off scripts! — than professional academic presentations.
May 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Always fun to attend our annual undergrad history conference! Surprised to see how many undergrads are much better presenters — so lively, passionate, all while off scripts! — than professional academic presentations.
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A message to grad students struggling to conduct archival research in light of travel issues/censorship/everything:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
April 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A message to grad students struggling to conduct archival research in light of travel issues/censorship/everything:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
Before the advent of swiping right on Tinder/探探 and 相亲角, China in the 1980s had trade union cadres sit in the factory's matchmaking offices and sift through young women's profiles to find a match for their single male workers. Many thanks to @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social for the edits!
In the early 1980s, love, marriage, and state power collided in China as the Party-State panicked over a new 'problem': too many single young people. Their fix? A national matchmaking campaign with mass dating events, personal matchmakers, and collective weddings, writes @zhaoruilu.bsky.social.
Navigating the Market for Love: The Chinese Party-State as Matchmaker in the Early Reform Era | Made in China Journal
The People’s Daily (人民日报) publishes important announcements on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It covers high-level politics, economic achievements, diplomatic breakthroughs, and other se...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Before the advent of swiping right on Tinder/探探 and 相亲角, China in the 1980s had trade union cadres sit in the factory's matchmaking offices and sift through young women's profiles to find a match for their single male workers. Many thanks to @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social for the edits!
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I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.
March 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.
been thinking about a potential research project, but it will have to engage with lots of marxist theory... which makes it an impossible project for my dumb ass
March 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
been thinking about a potential research project, but it will have to engage with lots of marxist theory... which makes it an impossible project for my dumb ass
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have to edit a piece I wrote in December and unfortunately I no longer have any recollection of either said piece or indeed the person I was back in December, anything put to paper more than a week ago is as foreign and distant to me as the writings of ancient Greece
February 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
have to edit a piece I wrote in December and unfortunately I no longer have any recollection of either said piece or indeed the person I was back in December, anything put to paper more than a week ago is as foreign and distant to me as the writings of ancient Greece
For every 100 bland book reviews, you get a gem like this:
February 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
For every 100 bland book reviews, you get a gem like this:
Beating all my writing deadlines by more than a month while being one month behind on my reading at the same time #productiveprocrastination
February 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Beating all my writing deadlines by more than a month while being one month behind on my reading at the same time #productiveprocrastination