Eric Hundman @ehundman.bsky.social China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通(非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
http://www.erichundman.com/
Chicago is home.
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @realsexycyborg.bsky.social China's #1 Tech & DIY YouTuber
Open Source, 3D Printing & Digital Fabrication, Automation, Infosec
1/18th synthetic
'It's all about merit until merit has tits'
Shenzhen, China
youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg
Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng PhD student in history of science at Harvard. Researcher of technology and culture. Previously Chaoyang Trap
Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social Wordcel, aspiring prompt engineer & China analyst.
📨 Tips & anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/fergus-ryan
🧧 Read my newsletter: http://redpacket.substack.com
📱 Signal: fergus.99
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
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account
I talk about pens. 🖋️
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/
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
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
@samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de Tracking and translating content on censorship and other human rights issues in China. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is. Will stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.
Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social Political scientist. Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. My new book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is available here: https://shorturl.at/BlEJE
https://www.lnachman.com
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
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
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
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
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
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
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
China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
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
Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com history and bureaucracy in the sinosphere |
mthompsonbrusstar.com
Clarissa Wei @dearclarissa.bsky.social Freelance writer. Author of MADE IN TAIWAN. www.clarissawei.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.
Andrew Ryan 阮安祖 @andrewryan.bsky.social Taiwan-based journalist + sound collector • TaiwanPlus Deputy News Director • Fulbright • buttered toast enthusiast • 🌈 • he/him
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
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
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?
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/
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Xianfeng [咸豐] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights. Head of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social (opinions my own, obvs.)
Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u
Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social & editorial board @cpcs.bsky.social
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
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
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
https://sensehofstede.nl/
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.
Nadège Rolland @rollandnadege.bsky.social Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research
| China’s grand strategy |
Current research project: https://strategicspace.nbr.org
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)
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
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly & NYC. Weekly words https://www.sinicapodcast.com/s/this-week-in-chinas-history Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin
Kharis Templeman @kharist.bsky.social Political scientist w/ Hoover Project on Taiwan in Indo-Pacific @Stanford. Formerly @UMich @UofR. Oregon-born and raised.
Craig Kafura @ckafura.bsky.social Director, foreign policy and public opinion @Chicago Council; Fellow @Truman National Security Project; old Young Leader @Pacific Forum. Dad, husband, and hockey player. Via Columbia, Yale, and Appalachia.
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
Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social Environmental journalism that lifts up local voices & fosters constructive global conversations.
Find us at: https://dialogue.earth
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com Associate Professor at Hopkins/SAIS. Former White House industrial strategy economist. Industrial policy, trade, climate, economic security. Views my own. DC | HNL. 🏳️🌈
ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol WSJ caption 🏆 | Space | Clean Energy | US-China | USC | RT/Like ≠ endorsement | Formerly @raykwong.bsky.social | Bad posts still written by my intern. #ENDALZ #NASASocial #resist #nodrama 💙 https://x.com/raykwong
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
Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social Chinalawtranslate.com is a cooperative website for translations and commentary on Chinese Law.
Jeremy Daum is a Sr. Researcher at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, focussing on criminal justice and policing.
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Taiwan Trails and Tales @taiwantrailsandtales.com I’m a British woman living and working in Taiwan, my partner’s homeland, and I’m here to spam your feed with all things mountains, trails, #hiking and #Taiwan.
www.taiwantrailsandtales.com
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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
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).
Mareike Ohlberg @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
Doublethink Lab @doublethinklab.bsky.social A Taipei-based CSO investigating disinformation and information operations in order to safeguard democracy globally. Follow us for our latest reports!
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
Dr. Orchid @ohwellokay.bsky.social stately, plump Buck Mulligan
Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social Un Français à Taipei.
Mon blog sur les livres de/sur Taiwan: www.lettresdetaiwan.com
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
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 🇮🇹🇺🇲
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Klaus Bardenhagen @taiwanreporter.bsky.social Journalist in Taipei: taiwanreporter.de Blog & Podcast: intaiwan.net Since 2009: facebook.com/taiwanreporter
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
Christian Straube @cstraube.bsky.social Director (interim) Europe in the World @stiftungmercator.bsky.social | Alumnus Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, Tsinghua University & @daadworldwide.bsky.social | AFS #Malaysia '01 | #fieldwork in #Zambia '15-16
@thechinaproject.bsky.social @thechinaproject.bsky.social
Ketian Vivian Zhang @vivianchang36.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Security @GMU Schar School. Faculty director of IRTF. Coercion, security & IPE, Chinese foreign policy & domestic politics.
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).
David on Formosa @davidonformosa.bsky.social Interested in Taiwan, democracy and human rights.
https://davidonformosa.wordpress.com/
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.
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
Xianyang City Bureaucrat @xianyangcb.bsky.social The Stratagems of the Warring States and other open access Classical Chinese translations. Pronouns: 臣/臣之. MQGA.
Iza Ding @izading.bsky.social Political science professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
izading.substack.com
Peter Lorentzen @lorentzen.bsky.social Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。
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!
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
Sam Vortherms @svortherms.bsky.social Poli Sci Asst. Prof UCI | Comparative Politics | China | Migration | Development
Hermann Aubié 寒濤 @hermannaubie.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Global China, Taiwan, Human Rights, Climate Emergency.
Cam MacMurchy @cammacmurchy.com Former journalist, radio / TV host, and scribbler on 9to5Mac. Now handling communications for a global tech company. Media, travel, tech, Canucks. @ Hong Kong | Bangkok.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
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
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer.
Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
Simon Lester @simonlester.com Founded WorldTradeLaw.net & ChinaTradeMonitor.com Non-Resident Fellow @bakerinstitute.bsky.social
Trade Policy feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xqzu2eazvxb5fohoc4nap33y/feed/aaab5ctu4u4fc
kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.