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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social China Anthropologist | @snsf.ch Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital, global https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Dechun Zhang @dechunzhang.bsky.social Postdoc at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Managing Editor @jceajournal.bsky.social, Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint, @gpccomm.bsky.social, Sage Open & Social Media Editor @jvpcjournal.bsky.social. Web: http://dechunzhang.com
Larry Au @larryau.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at City College, CUNY Politics of expertise in science and medicine Learn more: http://larryau.com
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, China, geo-politics, climate; Founder of ChinaDialogue; contributing editor Prospect Magazine. Chair of Centre for Investigative Journalism; NED E3G; visiting professor Lau Institute, KCL, co-chair Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Simon Cox @s1moncox.bsky.social Journalist at The Economist. Interested in emerging economies, especially China and India. Based in Hong Kong. https://mediadirectory.economist.com/people/simon-cox/
James Miles @jarmiles.bsky.social China writer-at-large at The Economist
British Foreign Policy Group @bfpg.bsky.social https://bfpg.co.uk/
Edward Lawrence @edwardlawrence.bsky.social Freelance producer and camera operator-editor in news and documentaries. Mostly Channel 4 News, but many others too. Formerly with the BBC in Beijing & Shanghai
George Magnus @george17.bsky.social China watcher, ex Chief Economist UBS, now at China Centre, Oxford and at SOAS, London. Rock&Indie music lover. Also golden retriever owner and fan.
Kristin Shi-Kupfer @gusiting.bsky.social China: society-digital-media / Christianity & Poetry & Piano / Professor for Contemporary China Studies at Trier University Senior Associate Fellow at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
Yiqin Fu @yiqinfu.bsky.social
Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social Cover tech and geopolitics for the New York Times. Email pmozur at nytimes.com. Check out my past work at https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur
Viola Zhou @violazhou.bsky.social Reporter at @restofworld.org Covering tech, AI, and manufacturing 📍Hong Kong to New York 📧viola@restofworld.org
Joanna Chiu @joannachiu.bsky.social Managing Partner at Nüora Global Advisors — a strategic intelligence and advisory firm focused on technology, geopolitics, and business in Asia. Powered by a global network of investigative specialists and analysts. https://www.nuoraglobal.com/
Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
Rebecca Bailey @beijia-b.bsky.social Shanghai Bureau Chief for AFP. Asia Matters Podcast founding producer. Reposts are not endorsements.
Andrew Peaple @andypeaps.bsky.social News editor at The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social. Host and founder of Asia Matters podcast. Views expressed here are my own.
Christian Petersen-Clausen @memostothefuture.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker, based in China. 25+ year Expat. I won't die on a couch. 坚持就是胜利。
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca. he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social ex WSJ, Protocol, CNN.
Eliot Chen @eliotchen.bsky.social covering Chinese business and politics @thewirechina.bsky.social | 🇭🇰 | say hi: eliot@thewire.media
David Bandurski @dbandurski.bsky.social Executive Director of the China Media Project, a think tank promoting freedom of expression through research and journalism capacity building. chinamediaproject.org https://tianjiancmp.substack.com/ https://linguasinica.substack.com/
Caiwei Chen @caiwei.bsky.social Reporter @MIT Tech Review Signal: @caiwei.14
Yaling Jiang @yaling.bsky.social Covering Chinese consumers on Following the Yuan & research-focused consultancy ApertureChina; ex-journalist & translator, Cantonese learner 📍London/Shanghai https://www.chineseconsumers.news
Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social Eye on Digital China 🇨🇳💬📱 Chinese social trends, online media & digital culture. See @manyapan on X for my most recent updates 🙏
T Tania Branigan @taniabranigan.bsky.social Foreign editorials writer at the Guardian. Author: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, winner of the Cundill History Prize. UK paperback: 1 February https://linktr.ee/redmemory and US: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324051961
Rachel Cheung @rachelcheung.bsky.social Hong Kong-based staff writer with The Wire China. Formerly at VICE World News and SCMP.
Muyi Xiao @muyixiao.bsky.social Reporter at The New York Times Visual Investigations team. Mostly covering China. Previously with ChinaFile, Tencent, Reuters.
WenHao @wenhao.bsky.social Freelance journalist Wenhao.substack.com
Isabelle Qian @izzypas.bsky.social Reporter on China for the New York Times. 📧 : isabelle.qian@nytimes.com DM for Signal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/isabelle-qian
Tom Hancock @tomhancock.bsky.social China/economics etc, fmr Bloomberg/FT etc. still posting charts on LinkedIn
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue Executive Editor, Hong Kong Free Press | Former Managing Editor of the China Media Project | Before that: TaiwanPlus, The Washington Post, TIME, dpa 📍 Hong Kong
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
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
Kevin Schoenmakers @kevinschoenmakers.bsky.social Reporter at ANP in the Netherlands // Via Shanghai and New York // kevin.schoenmakers@anp.nl // 宋楷文
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
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 🇮🇹🇺🇲
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火. https://chenchenzhang.net/book
Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
David Tobin @drdavidtobin.bsky.social Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Author of 'Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang' (Cambridge University Press) https://sheffield.ac.uk/las/people/east-asian-studies-staff/david-tobin
Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own.
H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social Associate Prof @sinovienna, previously CUHK, NUS. Sinophone societies, protests, information, social trust, moral engineering, identities, governance. PI of @ERC_Research project ENGINEERING.
The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social The leading scholarly journal in its field, covering all aspects of contemporary China, including Taiwan
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.
Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, host of Civic Forum with Rory Truex. https://linktr.ee/civicforumpod
Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown (lizhiliu.com); Political Economy, Tech & China; Author of From Click to Boom (https://t.co/UL6RIfmdTm)
Ash in China @ashinchina.bsky.social That guy who worked at Geely Unofficial Hangzhou tourism board Accidental outdoor content creator 国内平台就是阿什Ride
New China Books 📚 @newchinabooks.bsky.social All the books you could ever read about China. Formerly on Twitter, please follow me here and spread the word!
Professor Anne-Marie Brady FRSNZ @anne-mariebrady.bsky.social Watching and researching the politics of China, NZ domestic and foreign policy, Arctic, Antarctic, and Pacific politics
Mareike Ohlberg @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
Martin Thorley @methorley.bsky.social Book on UK-China shadow international relations: http://tinyurl.com/3ny5c5ee Senior Analyst at GI-TOC: developing concept of geocriminality. PhD on shadow international relations. Previously academia. Views my own. Erstwhile 北漂儿
Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social Reporter on the investigations team at the NYT. I always have a China-focused story in the works. Co-author of bestselling “When McKinsey Comes to Town”. Navy veteran. Send tips to Michael.forsythe@nytimes.com. DM for Signal.
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. "Softhanded scribe". Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X. Website: http://donaldclarke.net Twitter: @donaldcclarke
Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social Probably somewhere in an archive near berlin. phd-ing @ MIT Political Science on Chinese politics, technology policy, bureaucracy & GDR computing. Also at mstdn.social/@ktai
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent.
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social Senior correspondent for WSJ covering collisions of geopolitics, tech, and power. 15+ yrs in Asia, mostly China. Co-author of SURVEILLANCE STATE: https://www.josh-chin.com/books Signal: joshchin.86. Also: josh.l.chin@protonmail.com
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
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
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics at University of Glasgow focusing on China; Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Law and Government; sleep deprived mum
Iza Ding @izading.bsky.social Political science professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer izading.substack.com
𝙉𝙋𝘾 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 @npcobserver.com Independent coverage of China's National People's Congress and its Standing Committee | “[I]nvaluable,” per 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵: http://bit.ly/4csmiTK | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/npcobserver
Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹 www.decodingchina.eu www.deconspirator.eu Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
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
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post. Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics. All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Mikko Huotari @mikkohuotari.bsky.social Executive Director, Mercator Institute for China Studies MERICS | RTs ≠ endorsements | All opinions = my own
Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social 金玉米, 君子不器, like nothing else in Tennessee. rhymingchaos.com thechinaweek.com Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
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
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net Basics: gwbstr.com Also: #filmphotography
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com
Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project. Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo More at https://andreaghiselli.com/ 无巧不成书
Chenggang Xu 许成钢 @chenggang-xu.bsky.social political economist; Senior Research Scholar @ SCCEI, Stanford U, was Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics @ HKU, Special-Term Professor at THU, Reader@LSE……personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/cgxu/chenggang-xu
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
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.
Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social Ian Johnson is a fellow at the @wiko-berlin.bsky.social He lived and worked in China for 20 years as a correspondent, teacher, and writer. He currently lives in Berlin. More at www.ian-johnson.com
利大英 @gblee.bsky.social Writer and photographer. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644. http://www.burninghou.se
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social
Ed Sander @edsander.bsky.social China Digital Retail Analyst for chinadigitalretailreport.substack.com Speaker for ChinaTalk.nl | edsander.com Study tour leader for ChinaRetailTrip.com
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Kecheng @fangkc.bsky.social Teaching and Researching Journalism @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/ #GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
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
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
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
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com. A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).