I’m so moved that this story about Auckland’s Nowhere, a Chinese-language bookstore with Cantonese books, banned books, and others, features our book Decolonizing Chinese History www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/a-library-bo...

When China stepped up its crackdown on human rights activists in 2019, lawyer Wu Shaoping thought he found a safe haven for his family The United States Instead, it's America's ICE that's imprisoned this asylum seeker after a traffic stop My column on this outrage www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...

Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will Bunch

The U.S.’s reputation as a safe haven for the world’s dissidents takes another hit with Pennsylvania’s arrest of a Chinese human rights lawyer.

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I am quoted in @theguardian.com discussing Taiwan’s symbolic versus substantive support for Hong Kongers. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids

Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months

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Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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For the Nth time, this is precisely the stuff that rightly alarmed people when installed by Chinese authorities, now spreading in the US at precisely the time rule of law is eroding fast.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Flock doesn't just search for cars, it searches for you. "'FreeForm' searches... allow cops to use Flock’s system as though they would use a search engine, with Flock’s AI and image recognition interpreting what footage and which people are relevant to a police officer’s search." @404media.co

Photo memories of another recently raided bookstore: Hunter 獵人書店. They used to sell bilingual postcards featuring quotes fr @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Tyranny & #Havel ‘s quote, “Living in Truth,” could be spotted at many indie #bookstores in #HongKong w incredible creativity, humour, courage

Hong Kong police have raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people suspected of committing a sedition offence, local media has reported. Police were seen removing large boxes of materials from Have a Nice Stay, a 4th-floor bookstore in Prince Edward, at around 5.30pm on Wednesday.

you may as well propose an ethnic unity law, kemi

"Hong Kong Diaspora Recreate New and Old Traditions to Keep Memories Alive" by @helenli.bsky.social

Hong Kong Diaspora Recreate New and Old Traditions to Keep Memories Alive | New Bloom Magazine

In the rainy darkness of Taipei’s 228 Memorial Park’s amphitheatre, echoes of songs rang out…

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From earlier this week, @npr.org’s All Things Considered with a brief look at Hong Kong and how the city has been silenced 6 years after the enactment of the National Security Law. @dannydvincent.bsky.social reports www.npr.org/2026/07/05/n...

Hong Kong's 'sound of silence': 6 years under the national security law

Six years after Beijing imposed its National Security Law, many of Hong Kong's opposition voices have gone silent. Danny Vincent looks at what's changed.

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|| NEW CALL FOR PAPERS || To mark 30 years since the Hong Kong handover, we welcome scholarly work and practitioners' recollections that revisit overlooked experiences, question established interpretations, or reflect on what lessons may be drawn from the city's history. Pitches due 30 September.

Calls for Papers

Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...

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Now that funding is confirmed, Montrealers can look forward to a 7 part talk series I'm putting together for the upcoming (2026-2027) academic year on "Frontiers of Late Imperial China"

"Travel with Hong Kong Characteristics: Tourism and Hong Kong History" Tourism reflects and influences culture, identity, and politics. What’s so “Hong Kong” about the history of Hong Kong tourism? Hong Kong History Day 2026 Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/hkhchistday2...

there are plenty of people taking potshots at this and i don’t really blame them, but we would be in a significantly better place, politically, if our pundits engaged in this kind of public accounting more often

Michelle Goldberg@michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 4w ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is probably shaking her head somewhere. I hope she eats a good dinner with her family and gets some decent sleep.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh its OVER OVER

Feel like I should make little post-its of this and give them to prospective majors at those student recruitment events

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

The Transformative Justice Collective was one of two organisations to be presented with the Documentation Award at the 9th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, for our work tracking capital punishment in Singapore. The other group was Iran Human Rights.

In recent days, I've had on t-shirts that w/could get me in trouble in Hong Kong on "sensitive days" -- and maybe even non/less "sensitive days" too. Wearing them outside Hong Kong, one is reminded that they are, really, just t-shirts. And that criminalising wearing them is truly pretty absurd.

John dEFR0G has never had 1 million likes@defrog.bsky.social · last mo.

Activist Lee Ying-chi was followed by police in Causeway Bay while wearing a t-shirt with Mao Zedong’s slogan “serve the people.” Lee said she did not necessarily feel scared, but that she thought police following her was absurd. “I am tiny and old. What could I possibly do?”

Activist Lee Ying-chi was followed by police in Causeway Bay while wearing a t-shirt with Mao Zedong’s slogan “serve the people.” Lee said she did not necessarily feel scared, but that she thought police following her was absurd. “I am tiny and old. What could I possibly do?”

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com · last mo.

Hong Kong police search 15 people on Handover anniversary, citing national security and public order 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/03/h...

Excited to share my first solo-authored article, now published in the Journal of Gender Studies. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0958... I examine how state-condoned sexual violence serve as a gendered state repression during protests, and how women mobilise fear as a form of resistance in the case of Hong Kong.

‘The fear was real’: how women mobilize fear to resist gendered state repression in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement

Many news have been reported on sexual violence against female protestors in the world, such as Tunisia, Yemen and Mexico. The Hong Kong anti-extradition movement is also no exception. However, sch...

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rest in peace, mister lam. grateful i was able to buy a few books from you the last time i visited your bookstore. we talked and you asked what my plans were. i mentioned maybe coming to taiwan and you gave me good and careful advice that i still keep in mind. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Lam Wing-kee, Hong Kong bookseller detained in mainland China, dies

Lam, who eventually moved his Causeway Bay Books to Taiwan, was one of five booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced across border.

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Not about slavery, but 1 great example is Brad Reed's book on clerks and runners, which came out 25 years ago and showed quite clearly how the standard dismissive/hostile portrayal of these people was wrong, and yet I feel like most mentions of them in later scholarship repeat the standard calumnies

I've been so busy I forgot (!?), but the slogan 沒有暴徒 只有暴政 was also born on 1 July, exactly one year before the NSL came into effect...

Niao Collective@niaocollective.bsky.social · 2y ago

C: 沒有暴徒 只有暴政 E: "No rioters, only tyranny"/ "There are no rioters, only a tyrannical regime" Slogan born from the HK govt first branding protestors on 12 June as 'rioters', and later popularised by 1 Jul Legco occupiers with their banner Source: TG (L: Jul 19, R: Oct 19)

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

Dear All, I just had to perform a mouse exorcism for Diane. She totally freaked out when one ran across the floor into her closet. Because Diane is responsible for seeing that all undergraduate grades for the Department are in by 5 this afternoon...

authors need to stop thinking this is the hunger games: not only one author needs to be left standing at the end. knowledge begets knowledge. expand. include. and for the love of god have some integrity, give credit where it's due. the fact that walden chose the exact same title is just egregious.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

It's in political effect a very minor addition to the cycle, but four members of the Court endorsing Wurman's position turns him into a superstar of the legal academy - he's the guy who turned an absurd racist conspiracy into a mainstream legal position held by four justices

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last mo.

The way the law works right now is that the insane, authoritarian president demands massive increases to his power, his simpering enablers in the legal academy manufacture arguments supporting him, and then the Supreme Court adopts them as law, claiming scholarly legal debate exists on the matter.