Jessica @jessharada.bsky.social Writer, historian, and post-doctoral fellow of Mexico, Japan and Asia Latin America 🌎 Writing a book on transpacific histories of war, race and mestizaje 🇲🇽🇯🇵 Interested in 1930s-1940s Mexico; WWII; archives, historical methods and family histories 📚
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Ke Ren 任可 @ke-ren.bsky.social Associate Professor of History,
College of the Holy Cross
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Susan Fernsebner @sfernsebner.bsky.social Professor of History, currently working on childhood, psychology, and play. Writes, draws, drinks a good bit of tea. susanfernsebner.org
Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine
🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna
🌈 🌏🥘🍱🥍🏹🎾🎳🎹🎻 🎮📖
norayitongqiu.com
Aoife Cantrill @acantrill.bsky.social Laming Junior Research Fellow, Queen's College Oxford || Translation, gender & imperialism in 20th c China & Taiwan || @queenscollegeox.bsky.social @oxfordcct.bsky.social || https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-aoife-cantrill/
Or Porath @orporath.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion, Tel Aviv University
Martin Zubko @martinzubko.bsky.social Scholar (seeking a PhD supervisor) | Energy Geopolitics • Critical Infrastructure & Cyberspace • Global Governance • Small States Foreign Policy • IR Theory
(Reposts≠Endorsement)
https://martinzubko.com/
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Emily Matson @emilymatson.bsky.social Historian of 20th century China, 东北 (Manchuria), WWII. Georgetown University and GWU. Penn-US China fellow. CFR term member. Speaks/writes español, 中文, 少し日本語, немного по-русски.
Chris Harding @drchrisharding.bsky.social Historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh
Mainly now here 👉 http://www.japan-and-the-world.com/
Writings/podcast/video 👉 https://linkin.bio/chrisharding
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
@hanzhidai.bsky.social @hanzhidai.bsky.social 
Second World War Studies Edinburgh @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social Second World War Studies is based at the University of Edinburgh. We host the Second World War Network (Scotland), funded by the RSE (2021-23), & set up by Profs Wendy Ugolini & Toby Kelly
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/swwnetworkscotland/
CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies @ceias-eu.bsky.social #CEIAS is an #IR and #AsianStudies #ThinkTank dedicated to spreading knowledge about #Asia. Branches in Bratislava, Prague, and Vienna.
Dr. Straton Papagianneas @stratonp.bsky.social Independent China Researcher - Law, Policy, Governance, Technology - DM for inquiries
PhD Chinese Law from Leiden University
- Caveats
Akiko Yamagata 山形亜紀子 @graphiteediting.bsky.social Freelance editor, humanities & soc sci, esp. E Asian studies. Bilingual EN JP (+ bungo). UCSD copyediting instructor. I help scholars make their mark.
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Historian of China and the U.S., specializing in global historical and digital methods.
Jeremy Garlick @jeremy-garlick.bsky.social Director, Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University of Economics and Business. China's international relations, Belt & Road Initiative, IR theory. Participant in EuroHub4Sino - Horizon Europe project researching China.
Gregor Kneussel @kneussel.bsky.social 
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
William Huber @whuber.bsky.social Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.
@abigail-b.bsky.social @abigail-b.bsky.social Confirmed medievalist. Retired Marine & instructor of U.S. history, military strategy, & tactics. Focused on Britain & Europe, 1066–1603. Liberal-minded, historically grounded, and deeply uneasy about America’s path. I don’t posture. I remember.
Justin R. Ritzinger 芮哲 @justinritzinger.bsky.social Scholar of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China and Taiwan. Author of Anarchy in the Pure Land (Oxford 2017).
Nina Farizova @ninafarizova.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow, Nichibunken
Kyoto, Japan
Ian Rapley @irapley.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan, part time shepherd, clueless beekeeper, forensic cricket scorer.
Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher, museum crawler
@jimdorseynh.bsky.social @jimdorseynh.bsky.social North American academic researching modern Japanese literature, culture of the 1960s, martial arts. I love aikido and Triumph motorcycles. 北米の大学教員。研究テーマ: 日本の近代・現代文学、60年代の文化、武道。合気道、命。バイクはトライアンフに限る。
David Sorfa @davidsorfa.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-sorfa
David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social Qing historian, résidant à Montréal
@abohnet.bsky.social @abohnet.bsky.social 
@pcoble.bsky.social @pcoble.bsky.social 
Andres Rodriguez @laoanguo.bsky.social Modern China historian based in the Blue Mountains, Land of the Darug and Gundungurra Peoples. Working on borders, frontiers, and roads. Author of Frontier Fieldwork (UBC 2022)
Rebecca Bailey @beijia-b.bsky.social Shanghai Bureau Chief for AFP. Asia Matters Podcast founding producer. Reposts are not endorsements.
Professor Astrid Nordin @astridnordin.bsky.social Lau Chair of Chinese international relations at King’s College London.
Elizabeth Plantan @eplantan.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Stetson University, views own. Research interests: civil society and social movements, authoritarianism, environmental politics, China, Russia. elizabethplantan.com
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Michael C. Brose @michaelcbrose.bsky.social Historian of Mongol conquest China, Islam in China, Yunnan
Ziang Liu @ziangliu.bsky.social Economic historian: China | Labour & Living Standard | State & Quantification.
Peidong Sun @peidongsun.bsky.social History Professor at Cornell University. ps786@cornell.edu
https://history.cornell.edu/peidong-sun
Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
Robert Barnett @robbiebarnett.bsky.social Professor & Senior Research Associate, SOAS University of London; Affiliate Lecturer, Kings College London; Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia 1998-2018
Neysun Mahboubi @neysunm.bsky.social Administrative law/Chinese law. Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Host, China Studies podcast.
https://global.upenn.edu/global-initiatives/person/neysun-mahboubi
William A. Callahan 柯嵐安 @billcallahan.bsky.social China curious
filmmaker and writer
for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/
Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
Fei-Hsien Wang @feihsienwang.bsky.social Historian of modern China and Taiwan @ IUBloomington | knowledge making, historical imagination, home cooking,law & economic life
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
Nicholas Loubere @ndloubere.bsky.social Associate Professor, Lund University. Chinese rural development, migration, resource extraction. Co-editor @madeinchinajournal.com. Views my own. @ndloubere@toot.community
Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹 @sfujihira.bsky.social President, Showa Boston Institute. Political science, Asia/Europe, theory/practice, international higher education. #JPOSS co-organizer.
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Gillian Wong @wonggillian.bsky.social Deputy Asia Editor, The New York Times.
Tim Cheek @cheekytim.bsky.social China historian at UBC, Vancouver.
Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History at the University of York.
Research and teaching website: jonhowlett.com
Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/jin-xu
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Dan Knorr @dknorr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).
David G Atwill @dgatwill.bsky.social Historian of China and Tibet
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social Historian, Teacher, and Traveler; Author of "World History and National Identity in China" (CambridgeUP, 2021) & "Global history in China" (Palgrave 2024).
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Stephen R. Platt @stephenplatt.bsky.social Historian. Books include Imperial Twilight (Knopf, 2018) and Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Knopf, 2012). New book: The Raider (Knopf, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618088/the-raider-by-stephen-r-platt/
Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego
New book: _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/
#EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
Emily Baum @emilybaum.bsky.social Professor at UC Irvine (China, medicine, health humanities)
Runner/BQer/RRCA run coach
Author, Needled: How Acupuncture Became Alternative (forthcoming, Viking)
Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social Historian of Modern China at Trinity University. Author of Dialect and Nationalism in China; Current 📕 project: Grassroots Feminism: Women Activists and the Fight for Hong Kong's Future, 1967-1997. Former NCUSCR PIPVII, Wilson China Fellow. 4th-gen 🇮🇹🇺🇲
Tong Lam @tonglam.bsky.social History prof, visual artist, book author w/ projects on infrastructure, colonialism, Cold War mobilization, and (mis)information. <http://tonglam.com>
Rebecca Nedostup @rnedostup.bsky.social historian of sorts
Aminda Smith @amindarella.bsky.social Modern China historian. Co-Director, PRC History Group. Tap dancer. Idahoan.
Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social ‘sinologist’ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Pete Millwood @petemillwood.bsky.social Historian of US-China relations. Author of Improbable Diplomats (CUP, 2022). Lecturer in East Asian History, Melbourne Uni; currently Kluge Fellow at LoC- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one
My Triptych newsletter:
https://triptych.oxus.net/
Xiao-bin Ji @xiaobinji.bsky.social Historian, husband, dad. Deeply impacted by Covid.
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Xiaobo Lü | 吕晓波 @xiaobolu.bsky.social Comparative Political economy, Authoritarian Parties, Chinese Politics
Associate Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley. Very infrequent social media user.
Jessica Chen Weiss @jessicacweiss.bsky.social David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies SAIS Johns Hopkins, senior fellow Asia Society Center for China Analysis, previously Cornell, State Dept, Yale
Anne Gerritsen @annegerritsen.bsky.social historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
Manfred Elfstrom @manfrede.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at University of British Columbia. Researching China, social movements, labor, authoritarianism. Author of "Workers and Change in China." He/him. Website: https://manfredelfstrom.com
Eric Schluessel @ericschluessel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ.
Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
Wen-Yi Huang @wenyihuangtw.bsky.social Historian of China & Taiwan | Migration & environmental history | An Wang Postdoc at Harvard, 2018-2019. McGill Uni Ph.D.
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Matthew W. Mosca @matthewmosca.bsky.social Historian of early modern China and the world.
Mary Augusta Brazelton @brazelton.bsky.social Historian of sci/tech/med in modern China, Cambridge HPS. All views my own.
Chad R. Diehl @nobigdiehl.bsky.social Hi.
Brian Spivey @bspivey.bsky.social Historian of modern China, postdoc at CIW @ Australian National University. Writing a book about Maoist environmentalism during the Cultural Revolution. Also ئۇيغۇر and Xinjiang.
UC Irvine History PhD, editor at large at LAReviewofBooks.
ZLarchives.com