VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
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Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
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Anthony Tao @anthonytao.bsky.social Book: We Met in Beijing | Poetry from Beijing: anthonytao.substack.com | poetryxmusic.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.'
Consineo @consineo.bsky.social Living the life in #Beijing
"I've been blastin' and laughin' so long, that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone"
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
@giel-louws.bsky.social @giel-louws.bsky.social 
Peking Hotel: An Oral History Project @pekinghotel.substack.com 📼 Talking China under Blue Sky
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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. 
Beijing Boyce ~ Jim Boyce in China @beijingboyce.bsky.social Beijing-based alcohol industry observer. Founder of World Baijiu Day and wine site Grape Wall of China.
Fan of Chinese wine, street food, happy hour and gin cocktails. Butter tart aficionado.
Wild Beijing @wild-beijing.bsky.social Celebrating the wildlife of China's capital city and beyond | Wildlife Conservationist | TEDx Speaker
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
Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social Chinese AI researcher @ChinaMediaProject. Some words ft. @Economist, @FT, @thewirechina, @thechinaproject(RIP). Still recovering from zero-Covid.
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
Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/jin-xu
Curt Hansman @achinatiger.bsky.social art historian, Sinologist, teaches at DePaul, distance runner, voracious omnivorous reader, potter
Viacheslav Zaytsev @cosmicore.bsky.social Researcher | Oriental Studies | Languages, Scripts, & Texts | Philology & History | #Tangut #Khitan #Jurchen- H Helen Wang @helenwanglondon.bsky.social UK-based researcher, translator, editor (silk roads, textiles, money, collections, Chinese children’s books). Previously at the British Museum, currently at Zhejiang University, and University of Leeds
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
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Visualising China @vischina.bsky.social Updates on Historical Photographs of China: explore 25,000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 & 1950. A University of Bristol project https://hpcbristol.net
We blog at https://visualisingchina.net/blog/
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.
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
The Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social China's soft-power vanguard, rectifying your thought since 2010. Claiming this handle as an inalienable part of China.
China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com A digital magazine on all things China and bookish, publishing reviews, essays, excerpts, lists and more. Organizer of the Baifang Schell China Books Prize
https://chinabooksreview.com/
Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social Associate Editor at China Books Review // Peace Corps China Clique // ex-China Digital Times //
personal blog: www.ramble.media
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
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
James M Zimmerman @jmzbeijing.bsky.social Beijing-based author, lawyer, and political commentator; and former four term chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
http://ThePekingExpress.com
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
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
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job. Find out more via my staff profile: http://tinyurl.com/rbickers, & blog: http://robertbickers.net I also run http://hpcbristol.net
MOFBA • Advertising History in China (dormant) @mofbacn.bsky.social The MOFBA or Museum Of Foreign Brand Advertising In The R.O.C.《民國中外廣告博物館》, is a private & non-profit collection located in Shanghai, China: Vintage Ads, Art, Design, History. http://www.mofba.org. Follow us on X - not enough engagement here.
Royal Asiatic Society @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social The Royal Asiatic Society provides a forum for those who are interested in the history, languages, cultures and religions of Asia to meet and exchange ideas. 14 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HD.
https://royalasiaticsociety.org/
SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social News and events from the History Department in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies @SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk and the SOAS History Blog blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog/
Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
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
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.
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
Jonathan Chatwin @jmchatwin.bsky.social Non-fiction writer.
Writes about travel, China, sometimes both simultaneously.
‘The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future’ (2024).
‘Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China’ (2019)
‘Anywhere Out of the World’ (2012)
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
Jonathan Henshaw @henshaw.bsky.social Historian of Modern China • War • Occupation • Commemoration • Translation • 🍁
https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation
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.
利大英 @gblee.bsky.social Writer and photographer.
Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
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.
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
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/
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).
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.
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/
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
Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social Author of Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Murders of Old China, Peking Noir, The Defectors, Her Lotus Year. The Last Emperor of China is out now. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City now on BBCSounds. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
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