Lain Kaplan, Mouthy Jewess 🏳️🌈💗🏳️⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social Dire Elder trans woman. Linguist. She/her. Interests: Judaism, human rights, LGBTQ joy, MTG, comics, language, fashion, feminism. Getting back into racing shape. Fash begone.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🪬🇵🇸
Black Trans Lives Matter.
Yufei Zhou @yufeizhou.bsky.social 周雨霏 Faye བདེ་སྐྱིད་འཚོ། Anthropology, animals, environment, ethics, ethnicity, consumption, pastoralism, affect, gender, cognition, Tibet, China. PhD student @ LSE.
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Linette Lim @linettelim.bsky.social PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Interested in authoritarianism, media control, & nationalism. Former journalist with a stint as a 互联网打工人
https://linettelim.com/
Michal Bogusz @boguszmichal.bsky.social http://ZaWielkimMurem.net 👤 皓翔 China Research Fellow ➡️ Centre For Eastern Studies @osweng.bsky.social (Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich, OSW) ⛔️ Here express only private opinions ⚠️ RTs ≠ endorsements
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
William A. Callahan 柯嵐安 @billcallahan.bsky.social China curious
filmmaker and writer
for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/
Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social #China #Asia #International Relations, Political Science, (Geo)Politics of Technology, Infrastructure, CASSIS, University of Bonn
#CovidIsNotOver #wehrhafteDemokratie
Hier privat
Weirong Guo @weirongguo.bsky.social Sociologist of culture, politics, migration & global China. Assistant professor of teaching at UC Riverside. Former postdocs at Harvard University & UPenn. PhD from Emory.
Website: www.weirongguo.com
Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech
https://linzhangweb.org/
Licheng Qian @lichengqian.bsky.social Lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK | PhD from University of Virginia | Cultural/Historical/Political/Global Sociology, Memory, China, East Asia
Zhifan Luo @zhifan-luo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @McMaster University | Media, power, and computational social science.
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social Promoting critical scholarship on digital culture, technology, and society from Annenberg School for Communication and SAS Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/center-on-digital-culture-and-society
Dandan Chen陈丹丹 @dandanchen.bsky.social SUNY Prof; Founder, Global Studies Forum; Founder, Intl Association for Law & Interdisciplinary Studies; Editor, Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in Global Historical Perspective; Associate, Fairbank Center, Harvard; global/Asian/Chinese history/culture
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
Vivian Wu 吳薇 @vivianwu.bsky.social 大聲姐和朋友們 https://youtube.com/@dashengmedia?si=o-283lNKBq5zCUya
CEO & Founder Dasheng Media 大聲創始人
Was BBC Hong Kong Bureau Head BBC香港分社社長, BBC Chinese News Editor BBC中文總編，｜Initium Media China Chief端傳媒中國主編 ｜South China Morning Post Politics Reporter 南華早報時政記者
Rose Luqiu @roseluqiu.bsky.social 🌍 Journalist Extraordinaire | 🎓 Journalism Professor | ✍️ Wordsmith | 🍽️ Foodie Adventurer | ✈️ Globe Trotter | Sharing stories from around the world, one bite and one journey at a time!
https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/en/persons/ROSELUQIU
Jun (Philip) Fang @philipjfang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto | Culture, creativity, globalization, censorship, ethnography | Book on China & Hollywood in progress | philipjunfang.com
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
Daria Impiombato @dariimpio.bsky.social China, tech, media, human rights, grassroots movements | Analyst @ASPI_ICPC | Calabrese ☀️ | Proud feminist 🌈 | she/her | Views my own
Newsletter: Aussie China News https://dariimpio.substack.com/
Kecheng @fangkc.bsky.social Teaching and Researching Journalism @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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
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).
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.
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
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
Christian Petersen-Clausen @memostothefuture.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker, based in China.
25+ year Expat. I won't die on a couch.
坚持就是胜利。
Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Steven W. Lewis 劉瓊毅 @liuqiongyi.bsky.social C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social Professor at Emory. Co-editor Sociological Theory 27-29. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity)
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
Zoe Zhao @zoezhao.bsky.social Research and teach tech, labor and social movements at 🍌𓆑. Neurodiverse 🌶️ and politically depressed organizer/gamer.
https://www.zoezhao.me/
Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social 2023 Guggenheim Fellow; UCLA Prof of Chinese Lit & Film. Director, Center for Chinese Studies. Author and translator.
https://michael-berry.com
www.alc.ucla.edu/person/michael-berry/
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
Franck Billé @fbille.bsky.social Geographer / Anthropologist
www.dukeupress.edu/somatic-states
www.franckbille.com
english | français | русский | عربية | türkçe | norsk
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social ✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies
https://www.zizili.net
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).
Yukun Zeng @humayun.bsky.social Postdoc, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Anthropologist Studying China
Education, Religion, Gender, Language
Knowledge Production and Grassroots Movement
Tying Knots
Urgent Ethnography
yf.l @yifannnnn.bsky.social PhD candidate @OISE_University of Toronto
🌏Trilingual (Chinese/English/French)
📖Sociology of education & youth | diaspora & transnationalism | Bourdieu & beyond
🔍Educational mobilities, migration, home & belonging
💫Co-founder, UofT China Education Forum
Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social 🏔️🏃♂️🏋️♂️📚🐈. NoCo🔁TO. 🚫Authoritarianism. 🚫Dehumanization. China+ at U of T. Rainbow mafioso. He/they.
Tying Knots结绳志 @tyingknots.bsky.social an independent group committed to introducing anthropological perspectives, studies, and engagements to the Chinese-speaking public
https://tyingknots.net/
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social Promoting and elevating the standards of journalism since 1938. Home of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports, and Nieman Storyboard.
https://nieman.harvard.edu/
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters
Find our WIRED journalists here: https://go.bsky.app/Boj9b5E
Yunhan Wen @yunhanwen.bsky.social PhD Candidate at @Princeton Sociology. Studying rural collectives, space, and political economy in Chinese cities. Always wondering what urbanism means. www.yunhanwen.com
Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to critical perspectives in communication theory, media production, and the study of popular culture | https://www.democraticcomm.org/
Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social Accidental military historian
Jan Birkmann @jbirkmann.bsky.social German 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 Gen Z, Studying Sociology, fights MAGA fascism
Dorine Booij @dbooij.bsky.social Dutch journalist @NRC
Beats: US elections, social media & democracy and Sino-Dutch relations
https://journa.com/dorine-booij
(Still a history geek at heart)
Blue Miaoran Dong @bluemiaoran.bsky.social Contract Instructor for Global Internet Policy and Governance; Data management @ https://gmicp.org/; RA for Ghost Management
📚PEC | STS | platform economy | public policy | telecom history | ghost management | Online News Act, ICA Law &Policy,PhD candidate
Karl Hui 許家耀 @karlvh.bsky.social #StandwithHongKong 's democrats, Uyghurs, Tibetans, victims of #709Crackdown & Taiwan.
Fight the #CCP, Putin & Trump.
#LetUkraineStrikeBack #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦
Shengchun Huang @sarahuang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UTJShool, studying AI-curated news environment and politics with computational methods and experiments
More: shengchunhuang.com
Linjie Dai @linjiedai.bsky.social PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yan Long @yanlong-soc.bsky.social Sociologists, UC Berkeley, studying authoritarian politics, health, digital technology, civic action, gender, sexuality & global China.
Author of Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford)
The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social The leading scholarly journal in its field, covering all aspects of contemporary China, including Taiwan
Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social PhD Candidate in #CulturalStudies at CUHK | Feminist & Queer Digital Activism| Manosphere| Platform & Creator Cultures| Hong Kong 🇭🇰 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/ceciliawongkh
S the Researcher @stheresearcher.bsky.social observer of geopolitics in East Asia
researcher for an embassy somewhere
UC Berkeley (B.A)
University of Tokyo (M.A)
Ming-Yeh Rawnsley @mytrawnsley.bsky.social I am interested in all things Taiwan, especially cinema, media and culture. Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/ijts-overview.xml). I also enjoy reading and practising Tai Chi. 
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
Chamee Yang @chamee22.bsky.social I write about media/urban history, environment, and technology in Asia. Associate Professor of Communication at Seoul National University.
✨Author: City in a Future Tense (UCPress, 2026) https://www.ucpress.edu/books/city-in-a-future-tense/paper
Hsuan-Ying Huang @wozzeckhuang.bsky.social medical anthropologist interested in psychotherapy and digital mental health 
Liwei Shen @liweishen.bsky.social PhD Candidate in communication science @UW-Madison
Misinformation | identity politics | social justice | quantitative research methods
Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士 @coralinglingxu.bsky.social Author: The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social
Asso Prof @durham-university.bsky.social Exec Editor @bjse.bsky.social; Director @chiedmobilities.bsky.social; Soc of time, Bourdieu, China; https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Time-Inheritors
Fuk Ying Tse @fytse.bsky.social Lecturer in work and employment
Satvik Pendyala @satvik.bsky.social Analyst.
History of Sino-Indian Relations. Defence, Tech, Strategic Policy
@satvik_pen
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)
Tiago Nabais @tiagonabais.bsky.social Chinese contemporary literature researcher at Coimbra University and translator (Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, Can Xue 等) . Back in Lisbon after ten years in China / Beijing - Xi'an - Shijiazhuang - Shaoxing / Flamenco aficionado
Pengfei Zhao @pengfei-zhao.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate @CornellUCOMM | @Meta PhD Fellow | Online Harm and Toxicity | Behavioral Interventions | AI and Morality | Social Media
The China Week @thechinaweek.com The China Week is the essential weekly summary of China news you need to know.
TheChinaWeek.com
Rebecca Nedostup @rnedostup.bsky.social historian of sorts
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist
Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net
Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/
#GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
Jane Duckett @j-duckett.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Chinese politics, local government, social and health policy.
Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social ✨ NYC Scientist, Educator, & #SciCommer
🧠 Public Engagement at Columbia
🦑 Ph.D. in squids from Stanford
🐦⬛ Always lookin for birbs
🦉 Let’s rock
😤 Opinions my own
(she/her/hers)
https://www.dianahli.com
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
mrg @mrg.name Just some guy with a camera.
Also, I've got a {Chinese, classical Chinese, Italian, Japanese} dictionary and I'm not afraid to use it.
Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social 🖊 Writing about China.
💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
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
nande says read wu zhe novels @nandemonksloth.bsky.social 🇲🇾 any pronoun. FUB-free. Wuzhe fan (follow the feed!)
#translations #blreviews #danmeisky #nande's_spreadsheets mixed with general life stuff. lately into #haikyuu #bkak, mute if you don't want to see it
nande.carrd.co
Andrew Speke @andrewspeke.bsky.social 
时差Podcast @shichapodcast.bsky.social a Mandarin Chinese podcast ft. early(ish) career researchers.
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/%E6%97%B6%E5%B7%AE-in-betweenness/id1519667412
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Y0GxhvuhPeQ2uRwSBOGsi
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
Wendy Zhou @wwwendyz502.bsky.social East Asia Postdoc@U of Virginia. China, Global Comm, Diaspora Media, and Political discourse. Open to jobs. https://eastasiacenter.as.virginia.edu/wendy-weile-zhou
夏巢川 Rei Xia @reixia.bsky.social Proud Chinese communism survivor | Proud Feminist | Proud Queer (she/they) | May all the justice live in peace, love in peace and rest in peace.
大声 @dashengmedia.bsky.social 
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://knguyen.org
@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.