Everyday Elegance: Daily Lives of Women in Late Qing China This exhibition at Durham University's Oriental Museum explores the daily lives of women who lived in urban communities in Late Qing China—what they wore, what they ate, what they did for work and for fun. www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...

In 'Easting the West', @chenchenzhang.net stares into the abyss of digital reactionary discourse in China, showing how the Chinese right appropriates the language of postcoloniality to reproduce racial and civilisational hierarchies and justify exclusion. A conversation with @clydewang.bsky.social.

Easting the West: A Conversation with Chenchen Zhang | Made in China Journal

At a time when right-wing populism appears to be rampaging through global politics, studies about its discourses and strategies remain thin and even marginal in the field of international relations. T...

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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.

Happy to share this article by Xin Fan, funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social on rural Peidu mothers' intersectional experiences in #China Big Congrats! proud supervisor moment. #VikkiBoliver @bjse.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A choice of no choice: depleted capital and the intersectional burdens of rural Peidu mothers

This article examines the experiences of rural Chinese Peidu mothers - women who migrate temporarily to cities to accompany their children’s schooling - through Bourdieu’s concept of capital and th...

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we look forward to hosting a guest talk by @carwynmorris.bsky.social on wanghong and speculative investment cycles! 🗓️Tuesday 5 May ⏱️2-3:30pm 📍TLC039

🚨new open-access paper!🚨 How does meritocratic discourse contribute to the construction of ethnic majority male victimhood, legitimizing misogyny and narratives of 'reverse racism'? we use a relatively niche case here but elaborate on broader patterns www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to win a @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE Involve & Engage award for my project titled 'Time Inheritance: Mapping Inequalities, Co-Creating Futures' @durhameducation.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @durhamchina.bsky.social. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... Stay tuned for updates!

many congratulations to our member @coralinglingxu.bsky.social on winning the best book award!

SUNY Press@sunypress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congrats to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Best Book Award from the Higher Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society for THE TIME INHERITORS! A powerful study on time inheritance & inequality #HigherEd. #WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc7k864x

I am truly honoured by this award! @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @dulib.bsky.social @bc-cihe.bsky.social @gesigcies.bsky.social

SUNY Press@sunypress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congrats to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Best Book Award from the Higher Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society for THE TIME INHERITORS! A powerful study on time inheritance & inequality #HigherEd. #WinnerWednesday #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc7k864x

in this interview for TNI's State of Power report, I take a look at China and/in the global politics of the far right, convergence and mismatch, civilizationism and digital culture, and visions for transnational solidarity. www.tni.org/en/article/m... @tninstitute.bsky.social

Mirror and Mismatch | Transnational Institute

The far-right label is not easily applied in China, but nevertheless there is a rising tide of xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, anti-feminism, and social conservatism in Chinese online di...

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We are delighted to be hosting a talk by Dr Jingyu Mao on the emotional politics of inequality in contemporary China: 📅 Thursday 19 February 2026 🕔 14:00 - 15:30 📍 CB-0020 (Confluence Building)

For our Odd China Out blog, Jocelyn Xu traces the shifting of the "comfort women" issue from silence to visibility, showing how public commemorations, documentary cinema, and renewed academic methods have reshaped understanding. oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/f...

From Silence to Visibility: A Chinese Perspective on the Suffering and Survival of Comfort Women

By Jocelyn Xu For decades, the stories of “comfort women”—women that across Asia-Pacific Theatre forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese military between 1932 and 1945—remained largely …

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My piece in @uk.theconversation.com has just been published! Enjoy! 😊 @sunypress.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @rilleraaper.bsky.social @solgamsu.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net theconversation.com/another-kind...

Another kind of student debt is entrenching inequality

Having more time allows some students to explore their interests.

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We were on 從河至海 to talk about Palestine/Israel in Chinese discourse and "China" in international discourse on Palestine/Israel, and a bunch of other things (such as the end of the myth of the liberal international order that everyone is on about now). open.spotify.com/episode/0HEV...

8 — 中國輿論場中的巴以 ft. 時差夥伴 晨晨&Yao

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for our student blog, Boyang Liang, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds @sspatleeds.bsky.social, writes about the cultural imagination of ren (endurance) in neoliberal China oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/r...

Reframing the Politics and Ethics of Ren (Endurance) in Neoliberal China

By Boyang Liang The written form of the Chinese character “ren (endurance)” is composed of the radicals for “blade” and “heart,” evoking the image of a knife pressing against the heart and symbolis…

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for our student blog, Weiyu Yuan, a PhD candidate in Chinese Studies at the School of modern Languages and Culture, writes about the "decline" of the family and changing perceptions of parent-child relationship oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...

The Decline of “Family”: How Should We Perceive The “Parent-Child” Relations in Contemporary Chinese Society?“家”的衰落：我们应怎样看待当代中国社会中的亲子关系？

By Weiyu Yuan [The author offers this piece in both languages, with the simplified Chinese version after the English.] [本文作者提供了双语版本，简体中文版本位于英文版本之后。] Family (jia 家), the primary source of self-…

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In this piece originally published in @initiummedia.bsky.social and translated by Yiwen Liu, Lee Wai Kwan describes how, in the wake of the HK fire, strangers came together through grassroots relief efforts to contribute their time and talents, before the authorities imposed their own bureaucracy.

The Fire of the Century | Made in China Journal

Editors’ introduction: The following piece, written by Lee Wai Kwan and translated by Yiwen Liu, originally appeared in Initium Media on 28 November 2025. In republishing it here in the Made in China ...

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Ferran Perez Mena, our assistant professor in international relations of East Asia, joins BRI dialogue to discuss transnational elite connections between Chinese and Western non-state actors and their impact on world politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Np...

BRI D#56 w/Dr.Ferran Perez The Transatlantic Decay & The Dragon's 🇨🇳Ascent: Are They the Same Story?

YouTube video by BRI Dialogues

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Join us for our next research seminar! The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China presented by @coralinglingxu.bsky.social 🗓 03 December | 🕐 1:00–2:00 PM

Join us for a guest lecture by @kevinyangmx.bsky.social on the grassroots Marxists in the 1978-81 Chinese democracy movement! 📅 Thursday 11 December 2025 🕔 11:00 - 12:30 📍 TLC039 (Teaching and Learning Centre)

🚨new open-access article!🚨 what do drastically different representations of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony on Chinese social media tell us about competing narratives of civilization & transversal alignment in digital reactionary politics? academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

In this new paper, Renu Singh, an assistant professor in comparative politics at SGIA, and co-authors Pengyu Zhu, Zining Wang, and Xinying Tan investigate how China's multi-level EV policies enabled "technology leapfrogging" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

China's model of technology leapfrog: A case study of electric vehicle policies and the development of green technology

The development of green technology is vital for driving economic growth and building low-carbon economies. In this era of technological advancement, …

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Our Chinese-language sister publication Tian Jian (田間), specializing in reporting on issues related to global Chinese-language media, just went live with their website. Check it out here: tian-jian.org

📝New blog post! Helene Bode writes about the rise of divorce parties, drawing on her Master's research on discursive re/production of female subjectivities on Chinese social media. oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/f...

From Shame to Celebration: Why Chinese Women Are Throwing Divorce Parties

On Xiaohongshu (a popular Chinese social media platform), a woman in a black dress poses with her female friends, a banner in the background spelling out “This fucking marriage ends here!”. The roo…

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📝New blog post! Soumya Ranjan Gahir writes about square dancing 广场舞 as an everyday practice that reclaims urban space, asserts gendered visibility in a society that often sidelines older women, and adapts creatively to the rhythms of digital culture. oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

The Quiet Power of China’s Dancing Women

One summer evening in Chengdu, a video went viral: hundreds of women in sequined tops and trainers filled a shopping-mall plaza, dancing in synchrony to a remixed pop anthem. The clip was shared mi…

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"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation." For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

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Did you know that a new exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Palace Museum in Beijing is now free to visit at Durham's Oriental museum? jointly organised by the Palace Museum & the Oriental Museum @durham-university.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do...

How do Dongbei crime dramas draw on Dongbei’s marginality to envisage alternative femininities? check out our new blog post by Min Xu: Sister in furs: female gangsters in northeastern Chinese crime dramas 穿貂皮的姐：东北悬疑剧里的女性黑帮形象 oddchinaout.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/h...

Sister in furs: female gangsters in northeastern Chinese crime dramas 穿貂皮的姐：东北悬疑剧里的女性黑帮形象

[The author offers this piece in both languages, with the simplified Chinese version after the English.] [本文作者提供了双语版本，简体中文版本位于英文版本之后。] English version While researching TV crime dramas in China, I …

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we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome! oddchinaout.wordpress.com

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A Chinese Studies research blog. Let's exchange ideas, tell stories, and keep asking better questions!

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Huge congratulations to Dr Qiandong Zhou who passed her viva with flying colours on 29 Aug 2025! Dr Zhou was supervised by Prof Julie Rattray & Dr @coralinglingxu.bsky.social ! We express our deep gratitude to examiners Drs @chengyongtan.bsky.social & Jasper Roe for an engaging viva!