The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Yangyang Cheng
@yangyangcheng.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
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Open access research on how student survivors navigate institutional betrayal and barriers. I expect #AcademicSky will find this useful as we continue to try to support our students & work on institutional accountability. (Not sure if authors Wilf, et. al. are here...please chime in if so!)
The Survivors’ Calculus: How University Survivors Navigate Healing Amid Institutional Betrayal - Sara Wilf, Kalani Phillips, Laura Knittig, Leila Chiddick, Rachel LaPointe, Rina Rossi, Stephanie Katha...
Student survivors of sexual violence face barriers to accessing healing resources. This community-driven study analyzed open-ended responses from 387 survivors ...
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How do digital platforms from Alibaba to Didi navigate shifting politics in China, and is the promise of agency and freedom in e-commerce a marketing myth? I learned so much talking to @lizhiliu.bsky.social and Jack Linzhou Xing for the latest Gateway to Global China @madeinchinajournal.com. Listen⏬
Episode 12 | Entrapped by E-Commerce | Made in China Journal
Life before e-commerce can feel like a foreign country. For the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd, fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep almost instantly, at astonishingly low prices, are among ...
madeinchinajournal.com
How do digital platforms from Alibaba to Didi navigate shifting politics in China, and is the promise of agency and freedom in e-commerce a marketing myth? I learned so much talking to @lizhiliu.bsky.social and Jack Linzhou Xing for the latest Gateway to Global China @madeinchinajournal.com. Listen⏬
Episode 12 | Entrapped by E-Commerce | Made in China Journal
Life before e-commerce can feel like a foreign country. For the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd, fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep almost instantly, at astonishingly low prices, are among ...
madeinchinajournal.com
Fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep instantly, at rock-bottom prices, are among China's top draws. But at what cost? For our podcast, Lizhi Liu and Jack Linzhou Xing join @yangyangcheng.bsky.social to unpack the rise of China's e-commerce giants and the politics behind them.
Episode 12 | Entrapped by E-Commerce | Made in China Journal
Life before e-commerce can feel like a foreign country. For the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd, fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep almost instantly, at astonishingly low prices, are among ...
madeinchinajournal.com
I'm honored to lead an @asiasociety.org project to visit the American heartland and learn how the region connects to China in (un)expected ways. Our 1st stop was Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where we visited, among many things, a soybean farm on the eve of the Trump-Xi summit. Hear about it @npr.org⏬
Soybean farmers hopeful for Xi's White House visit
As China's president visits the White House, the Asia Society is visiting South Dakota to get grassroots views on agriculture trade issues.
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Drexel University is choosing to shut down the country’s oldest natural history museum, The Academy of Natural Sciences, for “funding” reasons (even though it costs .6% of their annual budget and they spent WAY more on ai nobody wants this year!) Go to save-the-academy.org to help.
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
Please take a moment to read this important piece that grapples with some urgent and complex issues for anyone who cares about US-China academic exchange and the transnational flow of people and ideas, co-authored by Penny Edwards and Christina Fink. www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/gues...
Hi all, only a few days left to pitch ideas for the upcoming issues of Made in China Journal (on Hong Kong) and Global China Pulse (on the new geopolitics of knowledge production). Short pitches are due September 30. 1/
Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
texastribune.org
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.
Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.The ongoing 429 errors are due to a variety of infrastructure issues and repairs being done on Wayback. Sorry, folks
Grateful to be part of this BBC audio documentary about China's rise as a scientific superpower, presented by @peaseroland.bsky.social and produced by Alex Mansfield. I appreciate the historical lens and attention to basic research and social dimensions. Listen below or on your favorite podcast app.
BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, China: The rise of a science superpower
The future of science is Chinese.
bbc.co.uk
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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"The rise, demise, and rebirth of the legendary bookstore embody decades of political and economic developments in China, and its transpacific journey lays bare the unruly contours of language and identity." @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes for @chinafile.bsky.social about JF (Jifeng) Books.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news…
chinafile.com
A Shanghai bookstore was shut down by the Chinese state in 2018. Six years later, it reopened in Washington, D.C. Yangyang Cheng spent months reporting the full, complicated story of Jifeng —
A World out of Words | ChinaFile
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news was covered around the world, from The Washington Post and The Economist, to Der Spiegel in Germany and The Straits Times in Singapore. The stories spoke of repression and rebirth:
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How did Jifeng Books, once the pride of Shanghai, run afoul of the authorities? Is its reincarnation in D.C. a replica of the store in China? How is the immigrant venture navigating deteriorating politics in its new abode, while nurturing aspirations for the homeland? I write @chinafile.bsky.social:
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news w...
chinafile.com
"The nature of the book as both a commodity and a carrier of ideas makes bookstores one of the few places in China where public discussions can take place without seeking prior approval. Consumer activities provide cover for civic discourse." I write about Jifeng Books and its transpacific remaking.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news w...
chinafile.com
A great essay whether or not you live in DC -- a case study in what migration means for ideas and communities. Also recommended: the JF Books youtube, where you can see the events they run: www.youtube.com/@JFBooks%E5%...
Yangyang Cheng@yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.
On the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news w...
chinafile.com
Great piece about a world gone by. #Shanghai #Jifeng #books
Yangyang Cheng@yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.
On the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news w...
chinafile.com
The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! Over the past decade, we have watched hopes for a more pluralist China fade, with activists describing growing feelings of dejection and powerlessness. There is a term for it: political depression. In this issue, we explore this condition.
In the Woods | Made in China Journal
In recent years, political depression has emerged not only as a psychological condition but also as a culturally embedded affective response shaped by broader socio-political forces. Clinically, it re...
madeinchinajournal.com
Are you a student scientist facing unique challenges trying to navigate the next stage of your career amid Trump's policy changes? I'm working on a story for @nytimes.com & want to hear from you -- contact info in my bio.
An absolute must read, especially for those at institutions proposing versions of ‘computational humanities’ or ‘tech humanities,’ which are often framed on industry terms rather than humanistic ones
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2mo ago"But there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...