Edward Painter
@painteredward.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UCLA Fulbright Hays Visiting Scholar at NTU's GARC Studying Soccer, Migration, and Guest Worker Programs
Na Zhong, Sally Rooney’s Chinese translator and our own “What China’s Reading” columnist, talks to us about Chinese tastes in literature and her own debut novella. Listen to the new podcast episode, hosted by Alexander Boyd: chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/06/3...
https://chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/06/38-na-zhong/
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Published today in Geopolitics, this article draws from my dissertation fieldwork in Taiwan. The paper balances structure and agency within a guest-worker program. Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Taking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker Programme
Taiwan’s guest-worker programme has provided Taiwanese employers with low-cost labour while preventing participating migrants from establishing permanent residence and citizenship since the 1990s. ...
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A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.
"If you don't want it, I know a guy in America who'll take it."
I went long on England's largest water utility failing, the history of global water privatization, and the late geographer Karen Bakker. Excited to see it now live in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: www.break-down.org/nothing-to-l...
Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of...
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Im not sure what type of indicator this is but I saw my first ever 'Fuck Trump' shirt on canal street today
Our species built Stonehenge, Machu PIchu, and Chartres without large language models, wrote The Divine Comedy and Pride and Prejudice and The Book of the Tao without them, but could they make tuna melts without them?
New Article In Transaction in Planning and Urban Research, thinking about bordering and hukou reform. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reorganizing space: A critical bordering perspective on hukou reform - Edward Painter, 2025
Since the pre-reform era, China’s hukou system has perpetuated a socio-spatial divide between rural and urban Chinese. In recent years, the hukou system has bee...
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It's kinda strange that moments like Rednote and Clubroom don't occur more often. But the discourses taking place during the two border-crossing events couldn't be more different. There were serious and thoughtful conversations going on during the clubhouse thing.
We need to fund left leaning dudes from blue states to go play disc golf at weeklys and tags in red states - program will be called the Disc Corps
