CCP Purge Monitor @ccptracker.bsky.social This an automated account reposting reports of Central and Provincial Commissions for Discipline Inspection investigations into CCP members.
This project is still very much in testing, and any errors you draw to my attention will be appreciated.
Darius Longarino 龙大瑞 @dariuslongarino.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School / Chinese law and civil society. he/him
James Mayger @jdmayger.bsky.social Bloomberg’s only reporter in Canberra. Previously in Beijing and Tokyo, reporting on trade, trade wars, policy and other stuff.
彭博新闻社驻堪培拉的记者。以前驻北京和东京。
ブルームバーグの在キャンベラ記者。以前北京と東京で経済と貿易、貿易摩擦等を見てた。- D Dali L. Yang @daliyang.bsky.social Univ of Chicago Professor and the author of Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control (Oxford Univ Press, 2024).
Sixth Tone @sixthtone.bsky.social Fresh voices from today's China — news, features & commentary from a human perspective. Also on Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, & YouTube.
Website: www.sixthtone.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
Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social Taoiseach and Uachtarán Fhianna Fáil. TD for Cork South Central.
Phil Entwistle @82hou.bsky.social Analysing policy for the House of Commons International Affairs Unit. 英国特色小镇做题家. Views and rants my own.
Anna L. Ahlers @annalahlers.bsky.social Head of LMEP research group “China in the Global System of Science”, MPIWG & professor II, University of Oslo | sociology of science + authoritarianism & democracy + China’s (local) governance | https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/LMRG-china-science
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social @cfmeyskens.bsky.social
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova @unaaleksandra.bsky.social China scholar. Running RSU China Studies Centre and LIIA Asia programme, King’s College London and MERICS affiliate, plus all things FIMI @DE-CONSPIRATOR
Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Berlin Battle Damage @berlin-1945.bsky.social Companion page to Berlin Battle Damage on Facebook. All about Berlin in WW2.
Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social Research fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University |
Non-resident fellow, John Curtin Research Centre
The People's Map of Global China @globalchinamap.bsky.social The People's Map of Global China is an open platform for discussions about the social, environmental, and political implications of Global China from a grounded perspective. We also publish the Global China Pulse journal.
https://thepeoplesmap.net
China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
Rodrigo Almeida @rodrigo-gtiff.bsky.social 🛰️ 🌍 🤖 Climate and Weather AI researcher @aifraunhoferhhi.bsky.social
🌈 he/him
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.
The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social Independent, non-partisan coverage of China in Africa & the Global South: www.chinaglobalsouth.com
FR: https://projetafriquechine.com/
ES: https://chinalasamericas.com/
Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org @asiasociety.org's think tank. Tackling key policy challenges confronting the Asia-Pacific.
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
eric @ericcarlschwartz.com 📍berlin, he/er, your shining autumn ocean crashing
Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social ☘️A podcast for people who believe that Freedom and Democracy are worth defending. #podcast #democracy
📕Blog at 👉 www.pwneilo.com
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social
Jinyuan Li (Yize) @jyuanli011.bsky.social Photographer (Cr. YizeSpace Photography), PhD Researcher at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, Doctoral Fellow at LU China Centre, focusing on Chinese Politics, Political Morality, (Anti)Corruption, and Ideology
Kai von Carnap @kavocabo.bsky.social Politics | Sinology | Internet Governance
Thinking about "China + Cybersovereignty" atm; PhD Candidate @University of Trier, Associate Fellow @DGAP; BLOCS Fellow @ Aletheia Research Institution
#EU-China #DSA #GeoEconomics #DigitalSilkRoad #GlobalOrder
Laura Luehrmann @lauraluehrmann.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Chair, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Wright State University (Dayton, OH). Modern Chinese politics and foreign policy, social movements, political ideologies.
Ph.D., Ohio State University
#FirstGen
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social 🔎 Non-profit investigating multinationals.
🎯 Critical, independent, and factual.
🌍 Mission: a world where people & planet > profit!
💻 More info at https://www.somo.nl/
Ceren 吉兰 Ergenc @cerenjilan.bsky.social PhD in China's (local) politics. Research on China's policy process domestically and internationally.
CEPS. CERAO/UAB. Evrensel Gazetesi
Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social Award-winning author 🇨🇳🇬🇧 :queer and geeky, writes non-fiction about Chinese cultures, curates and translates genre fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia). snowpavilion.co.uk
Mark Witzke @mkwitzke.bsky.social China analyst fmr at Rhodium Group, UC San Diego GPS grad, film watcher, 前深圳人,nak muay etc
Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng PhD student in history of science at Harvard. Researcher of technology and culture. Previously Chaoyang Trap
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com 🎙️ Producing/founded, Ghost Island Media podcast network based in Taiwan. 16 shows in English, Mandarin, French: https://ghostisland.media
📺 Producer/host of "Cover to Cover" and "Game Changers" on TaiwanPlus.
Twitter @ emilyywu
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social 中文名:姜大翼|AP Journalist in Beijing | 美联社北京分社的一位伟大时代的记录者|你可以用微信联系我(dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: dakekang@protonmail.com
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
Michael Anti @mranti.bsky.social 安替, Globus, AI-driven Globalization Research. A tech guy and veteran journalist on International Affairs, Harvard Nieman Fellow '08, TEDGlobal Speaker.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social 🖊 Writing about China.
💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
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?
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com
Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国(及び日ソ・露)近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
Iza Ding @izading.bsky.social Political science professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
izading.substack.com
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
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
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.
New Bloom @newbloommag.net New Bloom is an online magazine covering youth culture and politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific.
https://newbloommag.net
https://linktr.ee/admin/links
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas
www.lausancollective.com
Jonas Lindner @jonaslindner.bsky.social China specialist working in international relations. Former academic. China‘s economy & sustainable development.
Joel Atkinson @joelatkinson.bsky.social Researching and teaching Northeast Asian international politics in Seoul. Opinions my own. joel.p.atkinson@gmail.com
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
James Gethyn Evans @jagevans.bsky.social China's foreign policy, Global Maoism, radicalism, (Post-)Cold War history, PhDing @ Harvard, visiting instructor @ GWU 🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 jagevans.com
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.
Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social Historian at the University of Hong Kong | History of Business, Finance and Electricity in Modern China | Book: http://bit.ly/3u8PgDr
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
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
Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen.bsky.social Taipei-based journalist. Author of Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025).
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。
Sabine Mokry @drmokry.bsky.social IR & China | Researcher at IFSH, previously Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program | PhD from Leiden University | passionate about teaching IR and foreign policy | academic mom of 2
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
Steven W. Lewis 劉瓊毅 @liuqiongyi.bsky.social C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
利大英 @gblee.bsky.social Writer and photographer.
Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
Janka Oertel @jankaoertel.bsky.social ECFR Asia Director. Personal views only.
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
@rusi.bsky.social
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
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
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
Laurent Van Cutsem 方洛杭 @vancutseml.bsky.social BOF Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent Univ. | Premodern Chan/Zen Buddhism (ca. 750-1050), Dunhuang manuscripts, DH (TEI editions and HSNA). http://laurentvancutsem.com | Tea, Nature, and Landscape Photography.
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
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.
Bianca Chui @bmychui.bsky.social 📚 MA grad @ UBC Asian Studies. BA History. 💕 bad jokes + dim sum 🫖 🎲 research on sugoroku/print culture/travel/food/games/meibutsu/kuzushiji 🎲
David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social Qing historian, résidant à Montréal
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @historianzhang.bsky.social Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
Chris Elford @siegeweather.bsky.social I work on medieval Chinese literature, calligraphy, book history, and material culture. PhD in Chinese, UC Berkeley. Professor. Translator. Teacher of Mandarin and Classical Chinese. Go/围棋/바둑 try-hard.
simon loves books📚活字中毒の左衛門 @kant.bsky.social 在野研究者. Philosopher at heart, historian by trade. Did the research for Gambling Man (Penguin, 2024. 日本語版『勝負師』日経BP). Next book: Tokyo’s Private Railway Empires (ORO, 2028). 元자이니치. 京都生まれ東京下町在住. Simonは芸名です.
https://salonseance.com
Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk Independent researcher of Tangut, Khitan, and Jurchen. Developer of BabelPad and BabelMap. Maintainer of BabelStone Han font. Responsible for adding over 10,000 characters to the Unicode Standard.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2063-7389
Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JASPA (formerly JAOS) editor. Father of 2. From NE Ohio.
https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social Beijinger roaming in Massachusetts; librarian-archivist
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social AP @ HKBU
Yuan-Ming military and social history and Eurasian empires
Founder and host of The Chinese History Podcast
Book review editor for Ming Studies
Rachel McVeigh 魏瑞秀 @remcveigh.bsky.social Medieval Chinese poetry and poetics: genre, form, animals | currently working on cranes, sometimes filmic dogs | PhD candidate at Harvard | formerly Oxford/PKU | she/her
Mariana Zorkina @mzorki.bsky.social PhD in Chinese studies | Premodern China and Digital Humanities
Doro|河文 @faeydoro.bsky.social She/them|
Nerd for a variety of things, such (East Asian) History, K-&J-pop, and Ships (the water kind)
Currently Studying my BAs in Sinology and History at the University of Vienna
Student Union Person
NOT AMERICAN
DE|EN|一点中文
Tina Lu @tinalu888.bsky.social Hermeneut to my bones. Prisoner of hope.
Adam Smith @adsmit.bsky.social Assoc. Curator, Penn Museum
Views are mine, not my employer's
UK (1970-1993)
PRC (1993-2001)
US (2001-)
http://upenn.academia.edu/AdamSmith
https://twitter.com/AdamDSmith1970