A lack of knowledge drives positive international opinion towards the CCP.

Alex Dukalskis@alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Surveys like this one ⬇️ underscore how little information many people draw upon when they answer questions like “what do you think about country X”.

"The case of Turkey demonstrates that China’s repertoire of transnational repression operates in interaction with the host state’s administrative and ideological apparatus, and that this repressive architecture progressively erodes the diaspora’s security" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The politics of debilitation: host state authoritarianism and China’s transnational repression in Turkey

Authoritarian regimes increasingly rely on transnational repression to silence exiled dissidents, yet we know far less about how host state authoritarianization shapes these practices and restructu...

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Withdrawal of formal support for language and cultural education is already risks turning minority languages into “kitchen languages” something @geraldroche.bsky.social has written eloquently about (link below). The new law would potentially go further www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... /8

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet by Gerald Roche | Paperback | Cornell University Press

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century. Roche....

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#China: Nine years after Liu Xiaobo’s death in state custody, we join the Independent Chinese PEN Centre and PEN America in calling for the release of writers imprisoned for free expression. Read the joint statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/china-n...

China: nine years after Liu Xiaobo’s death in custody, risks for writers persist  — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide

‘Liu Xiaobo embodied nonviolent resistance with a lifetime of hardship, sacrificing his own liberty to unveil the grim reality of a populace deprived of freedom. In his final journey toward death, wha...

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"我没有敌人" youtu.be/2VUfQ9LfN5Y

No Enemies - Liu Xiaobo

YouTube video by Front Line Defenders

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Sophie Richardson@sophiedrich.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nine years ago today #China Nobel laureate #LiuXiaobo died after being denied adequate medical care in detention. No one has been held accountable. www.nchrd.org/2017/07/hold...

New review article now available in @govandopp.bsky.social open access: @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and I analyse the vast and diverse scholarly literature on authoritarian regimes extending their influence abroad.

The Party's Working Group meetings after the events of July 5th and 7th 2009 were the key turning point in China's ethnic policy shift towards violent assimilation. xinjiang.sppga.ubc.ca/chinese-sour...

50 Whys - Xinjiang Documentation Project

‘The 50 Whys: Protecting National Unification, Opposing Ethnic Separatism, Strengthening Ethnic Unity Study Book’ For Original Materials, find here 50个’为什么’ Introduction Following violent clashes betw...

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Sorry but debates between different London-centric perspectives is really not what will help people in Belfast right now.

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sorry but hate presenting this as “ooh this is the scary future under reform” like this isn’t the Scary Present under Labour. This is not Reform’s Britain, this is Labour’s Britain. Its here its now and laying responsibility explicitly outside of the Actual Current Gov is a major mistake

"I will not translate your emotions" is quite the metaphor. Political filtering processes on Chinese perspectives help keep debates on China in the UK superficial and fantastical.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Chinese dissident says he was berated by ‘pro-regime’ interpreter for UK police

Tomorrow!

David Tobin@drdavidtobin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

INCCS is hosting an online seminar on May 13th regarding "Academic Freedom and China". I hope to see some of you there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-f...

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

INCCS is hosting an online seminar on May 13th regarding "Academic Freedom and China". I hope to see some of you there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-f...

Academic Freedom and China

Experts will reflect on recent developments in Chinese universities considering implications for research, teaching, and collaboration.

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This will happen again and again if the left and right continue to project their ethnocentric geopolitical fantasies on an ignored people who ask for recognition on their own terms.

Brian Hioe@brianhioe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There has been a lot of criticisms of that this piece had AI-hallucinated citations already. Prashad has apologized--and yet it's very telling that he feels more accountable to academic integrity than the 12 million lives whose erasure he and Chak contribute to the erasure of

I think many scholars in this area have been quiet because the ethnic unity law is primarily a culmination of existing practices that have already been documented.

China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum@chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Strongly recommend @npcobserver.com 's discussion on the importance and content of this law. npcobserver.com/2026/03/05/c...

NEW PUBLICATION *Just out!* Vanessa Frangville and Sonya Imin explore visual art in the Uyghur diaspora and how artists respond to China's cultural engineering in the Uyghur region. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decolonizing Uyghur visual art: Uyghur diasporic responses to China’s cultural engineering

Visual art has become a prominent form of artistic expression in the Uyghur diasporic communities since the Chinese state has intensified its campaign of intrusive surveillance and mass internment ...

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when you thought you'd seen the wildest racial discourse online and there's always something more. saw this on X and FB today. so it's saying - racism depends on perceived attractiveness or lack thereof - physiognomy of imaginary subgroups of Han Chinese,

Excited for the launch of @drdavidtobin.bsky.social’s International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS)! Now more than ever there’s a need for rigorous, reflective, critically-informed research on China. INCCS’s mission to avoid clunky, knee-jerk commentary is refreshing & desperately needed

David Tobin@drdavidtobin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Policymakers and the media need rigorous research by independently minded scholars to make sense of Chinese politics and society. INCCS will tackle the big and difficult questions about "China's rise".

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New website launched for the International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS)

The International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS), led by Dr David Tobin, has launched its website, bringing together researchers from around the world to share critical, policy-relevant wo...

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Policymakers and the media need rigorous research by independently minded scholars to make sense of Chinese politics and society. INCCS will tackle the big and difficult questions about "China's rise".

Sheffield Arts & Humanities@uos-artshumanities.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS) has launched, bringing together researchers from around the world to share critical, policy-relevant work on China’s politics, society and global impact. Discover more about the network here: 🔗 sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

张海洋 (2006) 简论中国化与和谐社会 Zhang Haiyang (2006) 'On Sinicisation and Harmonious Society' 但由于旧的发展观对多元民族文化采用双重标准：一方面提倡和推广个别民族（西方发达国家）的文化价值，说那是人类的必由之路和必然归宿；一方面又期待另一些民族（往往是国内少数民族）的文化（特别是其语言，宗教和认同意识）谈化或消亡，说那都是发展的拦路虎，绊脚石或紧箍咒，要尽早摆脱才能实现发展。

The status and rights of Uyghur communities in Turkiye are deeply precarious, and overlooked by researchers and civil society organisations since 2017. It's now being more fully documented. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Protected No More

The 51-page report, “Protected No More: Uyghurs in Türkiye,” finds that Uyghurs’ previous access to international protection status, and indeed preferential treatment under the Turkish immigration sys...

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Joe Fewsmith RIP For me, this was one of his most significant contributions:

Are nations ancient or modern? "从80年代初开始，在中国古代文献中搜检“民族”一词的努力一直在进行..." "Since the early 1980s, efforts to search for the term "nation" in ancient Chinese texts have been ongoing..." Hao Shiyuan (2004) 中文“民族“一词源流考辨 ('An Examination of the Origin of the Chinese Term, minzu')

This is not a party political issue. No government has adequately addressed the intent or methods in play here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories

Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term

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Amazing news! "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" was just selected by Little Venice Film Festival (London 22-28 October) via FilmFreeway.com!

Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I was asked to write an essay on Russia's relations with China. I did and I argued that this would happen. The essay was subsequently withdrawn by the publisher on the grounds that it was "off topic". edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/c...

Xi and Putin stand shoulder to shoulder as China casts itself as an alternative global leader | CNN

Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized “bullying practices” and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Do...

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Obviously British universities are underfunded but political interference by China's party-state is also very real. www.scmp.com/opinion/worl...

🚨 New research report 🚨 “Preventing Transnational Repression: the case of the Uyghur diaspora” By David Tobin and @nyrolaelima.bsky.social sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

21 years later and this reads almost like prophecy.

David Tobin@drdavidtobin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

2004. "The dynamics of penetration and resistance between the centre and what still remains an indigenous periphery can be expected to generate at the same time both increased sinicization and increased ethno-national unrest." www.jstor.org/stable/20192...

2004. "The dynamics of penetration and resistance between the centre and what still remains an indigenous periphery can be expected to generate at the same time both increased sinicization and increased ethno-national unrest." www.jstor.org/stable/20192...