Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
历史的垃圾🐼 @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
icchantika @pad.bsky.social scholar, wizard, ascetic 🇵🇸🔻☭☸️🪷🍚🚲
家後: @orcs.bsky.social
Yihui Xie @yihui.org https://yihui.org
Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine
🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna
🌈 🌏🥘🍱🥍🏹🎾🎳🎹🎻 🎮📖
norayitongqiu.com
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.
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Thomas Kampen @ziyoudaxue.bsky.social https://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/heibibprofil.cgi?gnd=1020891386&sprache=ENG&all=1
https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/ThomasKampen
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/suchergebnisse.html?cx=012470595696271899362%3Ayxzzifukyqq&c
David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social Qing historian, résidant à Montréal
The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social
Fredrik Fällman 杨富雷 @yangfulei.bsky.social #Swedish #Sinologist with many interests, e.g. #religion, #Xinjiang & #electronicmusic. Lives in Stockholm, works at University of Gothenburg, vice chairperson @pensweden.bsky.social
Lenore Beadsman @lenorebeadsman.bsky.social tutti sono identici
nella segreta tacita convinzione
di essere, in fondo, diversi dagli altri
(David Foster Wallace)
Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social Research Fellow researching finance from a critical perspective. Financialisation in post-socialist contexts - China and Eastern Europe. Climate, Impact Finance, Longevity Finance.
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.
Stefan Messingschlager @messingschlager.bsky.social Historian and Political Scientist on Modern China | Research on China-Expertise
Marco Lazzarotti 李克 @marcolazzarotti.bsky.social Padre, Marito, Antropologo. Come quando ero piccolo,continuo ad innamorarmi di tutto.
Anthropology of China, Taiwan, Greater China, Chinese Religions.
仁者人也
Visit my webpage: https://marcolazzarotti.altervista.org/
Guan Yang @guan.dk ontology recapitulates philology
fax: +1 9173001256
John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.
Ted @tedzu.bsky.social
Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca| @shichapodcast.bsky.social 時差 cohost |🐻JAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |🐻 AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. https://ting902.com/
Thomas Y. Jones @teawhynot.bsky.social Teacher of EAP & business English, Buddhist (Gelugpa), amateur translator (Tibetan>English), lover of nature, believer in social equity. Green Party 💚. Preference for music that goes bleep/grrr/toot. (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧 Currently in 🇹🇼. Have also lived in 🇰🇷🇮🇳🇳🇵🇴🇲.
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China
Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. Managing Director Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey. Docent (Assoc. Prof.) of and pontificator on international relations. Opinionated. Painter.
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
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.
French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) @cefc-fr.bsky.social Created in 1991, the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, based in Hong Kong and Taipei, is devoted to the study of contemporary China, in the field of social sciences and humanities. It publishes the scientific journal China Perspectives.
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
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/
Libération @liberation.fr ▪️ Le compte Bluesky de Libération, avec une sélection de nos articles, enquêtes, billets et chroniques
▪️ Pour suivre les journalistes de Libé : kit de démarrage
▪️ Abonnez-vous à Libération pour tout lire : https://libe.fr/bsky/
cyborgChris @cyborgchris.bsky.social I used to work as an embedded software engineer, now I work as a PhD candidate @ dep Technology and Society, Lund University. Marxist perspectives on freight transport.
Latest work:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2025.2598124
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social
Nora Van den Bosch @nvdb.bsky.social PhD student @ EAST, ULB (2026-2029) | Sinologist interested in digital humanities | curator Modern China Biographical Database (2019-2025)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-5801
Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Researching (social) learning and cultural evolution at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
C. Chevaleyre @cchevale.bsky.social Researcher at CNRS (early modern Chinese social history; bondage and labour)
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
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Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College.
利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所.
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/ricci.html
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social @cfmeyskens.bsky.social
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
Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social 📊 #DataViz specialist.
💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3.
🎨 Generative artist.
🏃♀️ Runner.
Website: https://nrennie.rbind.io/
She/her. Views my own.
The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social Bringing you China from beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Louisa Lim and Graeme Smith with support from the Australian Centre on China in the World at the ANU.
Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University School of International Service. Senior Fellow @cfr.org. Studies Chinese and Russian politics and foreign policy. 唐志学
Albert Galvany @albertgalvany.bsky.social Prof. of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. My research interests are focused on early Chinese intellectual history, classical Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
https://ehu.academia.edu/AlbertGalvany
Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social Australian journo in Hong Kong; podcast editor/producer; Aus news correspondent RTHK3; journalism lecturer HKBU; ex SCMP, ABC, PBSFM, RRR; reformed music journo and bartender - https://jarrodwatt.com/
H. Montgomery @halfflat.bsky.social PhD Ethnomusicologist. Writes about sound, urban change, and experimental music in Austin.
Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science.
Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social Sinologist at LMU Munich, interested in premodern Chinese (intellectual) history and written culture.
https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/MarcoPouget
Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social Sinologist working on medieval (200–1000) China・Reception of the European Middle Ages in China・Posts a selection of classical Chinese literature each day・中古・中世紀
Taig Dara 🌹 泰格·達熱 @taigdara.bsky.social Phd-ing history at the University of Hawaiʻi: "The China Democratic League at the first People's Political Consultative Conference"
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social Academic, poet, translator, & editor of CHA, Voice & Verse, HK Studies, & The Shanghai Literary Review. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @ IWP Fall 2023. Email: t@asiancha.com | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
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?
De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Asian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social I teach Anthropology & Asian studies @ Cornell University. Formerly Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy in Beijing; 2nd secretary Swedish embassy in Tokyo. Views my own.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Kelsey Granger @kelseygranger.bsky.social Historian of China and the Silk Roads, esp. animal history, manuscripts, labour, and pet-keeping
Research Fellow @ IHR London | Co-founder of Chinese Animal Studies Network | Book Review Editor @ Animal History
Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social Ball and chain. Packers shareholder. Duller than you can possibly imagine. Personally wrecked Brooklyn. "A quality follow" -- Peter Kafka
Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social Journalist&researcher on Central Europe, Central Asia, China, Taiwan. Literary translator&reporter. Cosmopolitan found between Taipei, Tashkent and Prague. Drinks tea only. GlobalVoices CapsUnlock Asymptote Journal. All views my own. All about context- 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
Ettore Costa @ettorrecos.bsky.social Historian, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli. Social Democracy, Western Communism, Socialism and science, Socialist International, Human Rights, Cold War
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social Traditional China Chair, U. Zurich, Switzerland
https://aoi.uzh.ch/en/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html
Messages represent my personal opinion and are not necessarily endorsements
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Yajun Mo @yajunmo.bsky.social QTPOC, immigrant, educator, cinephile
Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social European security & defence, global order, EU in US-China competition.
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. PhD Defence Studies, King’s College London. Into running, matcha, 中文. Views my own.
geopoliticaleurope.substack.com
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.
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
David Tobin @drdavidtobin.bsky.social Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Author of 'Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang' (Cambridge University Press) https://sheffield.ac.uk/las/people/east-asian-studies-staff/david-tobin
Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social The AI-powered platform for unlocking history.
www.transkribus.org
ECFR @ecfr.eu European Council on Foreign Relations: the only pan-European think-tank. We foster coalitions for change and promote debate on Europe's global role.
Society for the Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies @ssycds.bsky.social International, scholarly, non-political, and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in the study of Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol history. https://songyuan.org
Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social Director of the Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program at CSIS. Podcasts EuroFile and Russian Roulette. Fmr State Department official. DC sports, Tottenham
aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
@uuao.bsky.social @uuao.bsky.social @uuao on Twitter. Shanghai expat, 17 years behind the GFW. Now experiencing 歷史的垃圾時間...!
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
@disorientamenti.bsky.social @disorientamenti.bsky.social
Jessica Imbach @imbach.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Chinese Studies @unifreiburg new media, speculative fiction, 现当代文学研究, PI of the ERC funded SINOFANTASY research project
Sofia Jeppsson @jeppsson.bsky.social Mad philosopher, doting dog parent, techno-fantasy author. she/they.
Personal website: https://www.sofiajeppsson.com/
Debut novel Kugghjulssjälar is doing great in Swedish - currently searching for a new home for the English version.
Mark E. Frank @markernstmeyer.bsky.social Historian of Modern China based in Ho Chi Minh City.
Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social Historian of Modern China, Italian, food obsessed.
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh(アイルランドのイアン) @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流(アイルランド文化)イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使(元岩手県国際交流員)、松江親善大使(ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者)。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social Head of Chinese Section, under Research Collections Directorate at Cambridge University Library. Senior member of Robinson College. Views my own.
Breaking Impossible @breakingimpossible.bsky.social Chris & Michael, life long friends attempting Hong Kong 4 Trails Ultra Challenge. So: running, outdoors, Hung Gar, Hung Kuen, kung Fu, photography, travel.
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/
Chang Che @changche.bsky.social writer covering China | ex @nytimes, words in @newyorker |🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸| join my mailing list for updates on my writing: https://changche.substack.com/about
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.
波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social Mostly posting in 変体英文. || Kulturelles Rāmenprogramm. || Inter indoctos, qui semidoctus est, doctissimus habetur.
Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
Eugenio Benincasa @euben.bsky.social Cyber Defense Researcher @ethz.ch. Former Italian govt, Pacific Forum and NYPD. LUISS & Columbia University Alum.
Álvaro Ramírez @xenodium.bsky.social Blogs about #emacs and other stuff at xenodium.com.
Authored plainorg.com and flathabits.com for iOS.
Living in an Emacs buffer somewhere in London.
Also at https://twitter.com/xenodium and https://indieweb.social/@xenodium
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social asiancha.com
chajournal.com
hkprotesting.com
邓自闲 @dengzixian.bsky.social Data scientist, media analyst
Anna Gustafsson Chen @anguche.bsky.social Translator, librarian, et.c. 半是痴呆半是狂 From Öjebyn, Sweden
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