Michela Duranti @micheladu.bsky.social Historian of Modern China
Prof. Gregory S. Gordon @profgsgordon.bsky.social Peking University STL, international criminal law (ICL) expert, biographer of Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, leading authority on atrocity speech/incitement law, consultant on ICL speech-related crimes arising from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social 🏔️🏃♂️🏋️♂️📚🐈. NoCo🔁TO. 🚫Authoritarianism. 🚫Dehumanization. China+ at U of T. Rainbow mafioso. He/they.
Morning Post 早报 @morningpost.bsky.social Morsels from CCP media.
Joseph W. Ho @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social Historian of East Asia, visual culture | Associate Professor, Albion College | Photographer | Author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell, 2022) bit.ly/DevelopingMission
josephweiho.com
Mark E. Frank @markernstmeyer.bsky.social Historian of Modern China based in Ho Chi Minh City.
Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations @Uni of Edinburgh. History and literature: 'Writing War' (Harvard UP, 2013), 'Bombing the City' (Cambridge UP, 2018), 'How Maoism Was Made' (Oxford UP, 2024), 'The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader' (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Gregor Kneussel @kneussel.bsky.social
Claire Edington @clairemakeshistory.bsky.social UCSD professor, historian of medicine and southeast asia, obnoxious boston sports fan, dreaming of paris always. Author of “Beyond the Asylum” (Cornell UP) and forthcoming crossover trade book “Epidemics: A Global History” with Cindy Ermus (UC press)
Juliet Lu (she/her/hers) @profjulietlu.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Environmental Governance & Business
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
julietlu.com- A Christine Vidal @av46.bsky.social https://pro.univ-lille.fr/christine-vidal/
Yajun Mo @yajunmo.bsky.social QTPOC, immigrant, educator, cinephile
Yu Wang @ywang1024.bsky.social Assistant Professor@sts Cornell
Sound Studies, China, STS
Honghong Tinn @honghongtinn.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine & Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
https://amazon.com/author/honghongtinn
Zhaorui Lü @zhaoruilu.bsky.social "JAW-ray," she/her | History PhD candidate at UC Irvine | Wesleyan U’22 | Gender, labor, and state-building in 20th century China
Geoff Martin @geoffmartin.bsky.social Geoff Martin is an activist, academic, and built heritage advocate, married with two adult children. Still masking.
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Left's DO IT ~ Left Coalition Building @leftsdoit.bsky.social Discovering, sharing, and pondering #progressive and #leftist policy actions, wins, and critical thought. LEfTS write policy.
#HumansOverProfit #LeftNotLiberal #WorkingClassSolidarity #HealthcareForAll #EnvironmentalJustice #BillionairesShouldntExist
Workers Party Of America 🌹 ⚙️ @socialism-now.bsky.social Political Party | The New Left
New Ideas For A New America 🌹🇺🇸
Puck Engman @puckengman.bsky.social Teaches and writes about Chinese socialism
https://history.berkeley.edu/puck-engman
Mary Augusta Brazelton @brazelton.bsky.social Historian of sci/tech/med in modern China, Cambridge HPS. All views my own.
Paul Stubbs @paul-stubbs.bsky.social Gramscian Sociologist Working on the New International Economic Order and Non Alignment Cricket umpire Liverpool fan Shy and Retiring
Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social Nineteenth-century British literature; literature and economic history; currently thinking about capitalist farming and abstraction in relation to literary form. I live in Ankara and travel to the Aegean.
Cornelia Lambert @drcclambert.bsky.social historian of sci / med in the ATL
acquisitions editor @NursingClio.bsky.social = please reach out to write for us!
Hatice Yıldız @hyildizhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in gender history at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in nineteenth century labour and modern empires. Ottoman & South Asian history. #FeministSky
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.
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
Erik @egveitikkje.bsky.social English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social historian of early modern things, Home News remembrancer, biggie lyric, personherd, board certified vin diesel lookalike
Matt Knight @mattknight.bsky.social
@beagal.bsky.social @beagal.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Ca’foscari uni in Venice, researcher at IAI. Interested in Chinese politics, political discourse, State-society relations in China, and often jumping in China-UE relations.
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog Stratification, inequality, population, China, history
https://camerondcampbell.blog
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-1941
Photos https://CamerondCampbell.smugmug.com
https://www.instagram.com/cameron_d_campbell/
Shuang Chen @shuangchen.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @ Univ. of Iowa. Chinese history, social and economic history, law and society, demography. Author of State-Sponsored Inequality (SUP 2017). President, International Society for Chinese Law and History (2024- ).
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
Wayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
高罗佩 @gaoluopei.bsky.social 字笑忘,号芝台、吟月庵主
previously https://x.com/gaoluopei
Matthew W. Mosca @matthewmosca.bsky.social Historian of early modern China and the world.
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
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
Alexander Sjöberg @alexsjoeberg.bsky.social Asia correspondent at the Danish daily Berlingske. Taipei.
alex@berlingske.dk / +4561696931 (FaceTime/Signal/Whatsapp) / +886(0)910978169
https://www.berlingske.dk/redaktionen/alexander-sjoeberg
Tony Torres @boisehokie.bsky.social Nonprofit worker in the housing sector and public servant. I primarily post about Roman history, urbanism, and sports. Virginia Tech Hokie and Boise State Bronco.
Optima vindicta est non similem fieri.
Ut Prosim
#KeepBoiseKind
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
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.
David G Atwill @dgatwill.bsky.social Historian of China and Tibet
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
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
Mark Sidel @marksidel.bsky.social UW-Madison | Chair, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) | Liverpool School of Law + Social Justice | Chair, Myriad/Give2Asia | China Medical Board | Latitude Global | https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/mark.sidel
Florent Villard @fvillard.bsky.social Chinese studies (Sciences Po Rennes), contemporary history, postcolonial studies, social imaginary, identity politics, nationalism, Castoriadis, Qu Qiubai 瞿秋白, Zhu Kezhen 竺可桢, Gao Brothers 高氏兄弟, weather junkie, tennis, 花椒, 心不在焉, ❤️are bookmark.
Ceceboike @ceceboike.bsky.social Sinologist, former educator, currently working with migrants, aspiring project manager.
Rubén Almendros 嘉樹 @rubenalmendros.bsky.social PhD candidate at INALCO / IFRAE (Paris), working on late imperial Chinese xiaoshuo.
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
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Paul Tattam @paultattam.bsky.social Taught Modern Languages in UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong. Environment, sustainable transport, politics, guitar, books and learning Japanese. From Shipley, Yorkshire.
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.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.
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
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).
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.
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social Gen X spinster aunt. Idaho to Louisville. Corporate drone from 8-5; devastatingly quiet from 5-8. Learning Mandarin. Going for a hike.
Let's take better care of each other, okay?
Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social Globe and Mail reporter in Ottawa bureau
stevenchase.ca
@stevenchase on Twitter
Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人 @webwight.bsky.social Once an erudite nine-year-old, always an erudite nine-year-old. Early China, translation, kids' books, politics (2026), whimsy. Gen Z wannabe
https://quoteofthedayforthesetimes.substack.com/ [Quotations relevant to current events. FREE]
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social Haven't tactically withdrawn from X (FKA Twitter) to use Russian parlance, but I am rebalancing...
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
Margaret Mih Tillman @margaretmihtillman.bsky.social
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Kit Cyr @poppersghost.bsky.social Imperfect Daoist.
每个故事都有三个版本,你的,我的,真相。
Damian M @damiandamiani.bsky.social Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in #ChinaComx working on politics in/of Chinese comics | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, and everyday life | book project: collective reading practices after 1949 | damianmandzunowski.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
James Farley @laodongmofan.bsky.social Researcher at the University of Hamburg. Historian of Film and Poster Propaganda.
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
Sean @seancosgrove.bsky.social Historian, Cultural Theorist, Writer, and Writing Teacher. Thinking about bodies, cities, and space.
In LA, but from Sydney.
Trying to treat this place differently than I did the other.
He/Him
Dr. Jen Andrella @jenandrella.bsky.social Assistant Prof of History and Digital Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi | Historian of the US West, Native American history, and Reconstruction jenniferandrella.com | mappingtheuppermissouri.com
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus @apjjf.bsky.social In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/.
John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social Prof African History MSU
White Gold: https://tinyurl.com/ymt64kfz
Dreams for Lesotho: http://undpress.nd.edu/9780
Publications here: https://tinyurl.com/ynvwp6c5
MSU FS Chair 2026-27
Lesotho, development, borders, running, Michigan
Views my own
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
Kristoffer Rønneberg @ronneberg.bsky.social Journalist at Aftenposten, author, podcaster, procrastinator. Just published a book about Taiwan.
Tom Hancock @tomhancock.bsky.social China/economics etc, fmr Bloomberg/FT etc. still posting charts on LinkedIn
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/- 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
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
Ivan Franceschini @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social Founder and chief editor of the Made in China Journal, The People's Map of Global China, and Global China Pulse. Researching ethnic Chinese transnational crime, especially in the online scam industry.
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