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
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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
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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
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http://www.burninghou.se
Joel Atkinson @joelatkinson.bsky.social Researching and teaching Northeast Asian international politics in Seoul. Opinions my own. joel.p.atkinson@gmail.com
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
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