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Chris Fan 范致忠
@chrisfan.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English, UC Irvine. Director @uciglobalasias.bsky.social. ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 (Columbia UP, 2024), TECHNO-ORIENTALISM 2.0 (Rutgers UP, 2025). Hyphen magazine co-founder. 🇹🇼 American. https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/chrisfan
Flashback to my review of Taiwan Travelogue, the very worthy recipient of the 2026 International Booker Prize. @thebookerprizes.com @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr.“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/
New at PB: An encomium to Sandra Boynton by Christopher T. Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social).
Sandra Boynton’s Death Drive: “The Going to Bed Book” - Public Books
"We do not need to work harder when reading Boynton. Her work, especially when taken as a whole, rewards pause."
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TBH it was written for an audience of one. But all are invited to read. ^_^ Thanks to John Plotz for inviting me to contribute and then for *trusting me* to pull off this silly but very earnest idea.
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew at PB: In the latest installment of B-Sides, Christopher T. Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) revisits “The Going to Bed Book” by Sandra Boynton. The board book's final lines, Fan writes, evoke “the state of zero stimulus that, for Freud, is the aim of all life.”
Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan, whose book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
In this episode of The Philosopher, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan discusses WHAT IS WE ( @agendapub.bsky.social ) — examining how the idea of “we” shapes the humanities & social sciences, and why we rarely question how “we” actually works. buff.ly/VJ5ZaJ6 #ThePhilosopher #Philosophy
What Is We? Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham
The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of “who we are”, leaving its basic conceptual…
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Congratulations to Christopher Fan, whose book ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY was shortlisted for the Biennial Book Prize from MELUS. tinyurl.com/4nkhu8sh @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Join us for a screening of the documentary A CHIP ODYSSEY 造山者 and Q&A with director Chu-Chen Hsiao 蕭菊貞 and producers. Fri, 11/7, 3:30PM, McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine. Tickets are free, please register here: bit.ly/AChipOdyssey...
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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present@asapartsnow.bsky.social · 10mo agoSixth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Christopher T. Fan’s ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY from @columbiaup.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!
Very exciting to see two @columbiaup.bsky.social books shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize! Congratulations to Chris Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) author of ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 and Sarah Dimick, author of UNSEASONABLE.
We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize! Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information. 1/4
Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility
Christopher Lee; Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility, American Literary History, Volume 37,
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Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month! We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST! Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg
New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2 -Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media -Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan -With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social -OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on
Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
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Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net
Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
lareviewofbooks.org
“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/
My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).
Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
lareviewofbooks.org
👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
China Books Review@chinabooksreview.com · last yr.Thread: see the shortlisted books for the $10k Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature from Chinese Language. Winner and honorable mentions announced in May! Follow our newsletter for updates buff.ly/zFeSMII
"My strongest guess is that it is because I have been reasonably outspoken in my critiques of the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza."
Melek Ortabasi@mortabasi.bsky.social · last yr.So, this is fun: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
