Lily Kuo @lilkuo.bsky.social China correspondent for @nytimes. Former Washington Post China bureau chief. Previously @theguardian @quartz
Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science.
Tomasz Koper @tkoper.bsky.social Media producer, sometimes other things
Francesca Chiu @francescachiu.bsky.social Researcher & lecturer at CityU Hong Kong. PhD from Copenhagen & UEA. I study urban planning, property, citizenship, migration and social mobility in Southeast Asia.
Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Host of the podcast\radio show Canadian History Ehx. Author of "Canada's Main Street: The Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway" Sharing Canada's history daily!
Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social Canadian in Hong Kong.
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social Historian, former Chair of Oz Kiwi, and student of Hokkien/Taiwanese.
A Melbournian living in Wellington.
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.
Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social Librarian for pre-modern Chinese Books @KULeuven. Ph.D. in Chinese studies. Gongyang Confucianism, revenge (復讎), Kang Youwei, and video games. First gen, they/them.
Toni Frissell @tonifrissell.mastodon.ozioso.online.ap.brid.gy Tony Frissell (1907–1988) was a photographer renowned for her innovative fashion photography and compelling wartime imagery. Starting her career at […]
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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.
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
Newsletter: newsletter.thexylom.com
Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social Researcher, naturalist, educator, cook, father, explorer, traveler. University Professor and Canada Research Chair in geoscience. 🇺🇸🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 https://jedokaplan.github.io/
Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social
HK Hemlock @hkbiglychee.bsky.social
Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org Taiwan enthusiast. Philosophy professor. Intellectual omnivore. Humean supertaster. https://liao.shen-yi.org/
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.'
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Brett F. Campbell @brettfcampbell.bsky.social Discernment, imagination, creativity and the pursuit of truth. Sinophile. US House Select Committee on the CCP. Oh yeah, and the drumset.
www.drummersinsight.com
https://www.brettfcampbell.com
Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social PhD @york.ac.uk on the influence of Hong Kong people upon the handover • Studentship from WRoCAH • Graduate: @ox.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk
Anika Patel @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org China Section Editor at Carbon Brief
Bob’s Your Uncle @bobsyouruncle.bsky.social HK/NYC/Vancouver He/Him
Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!
As of May 31, 2023 there 1,498 political prisoners in HK.
我真係好撚鍾意香港!
Never forgive, never forget.
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social Human. Taiwanese. Writer/Creator. Designing lasting impact for science, environment, and society.
🧠 @cr8xt.bsky.social
🐟 @betterknowafish.bsky.social
🧋 @yangjundah.bsky.social
📍 TAIWAN 台灣
Kevin Schoenmakers @kevinschoenmakers.bsky.social Reporter at ANP in the Netherlands // Via Shanghai and New York // kevin.schoenmakers@anp.nl // 宋楷文
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Ben @benjaminqiu.bsky.social Lawyer, author; co-chair, Asian Affairs Comm, NYC Bar; former board member, Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club; youth basketball and track coach
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
Drake Long @drmlong.bsky.social Senior Associate, China Warfighting Initiative, Marine Corps War College.
Focuses: China’s territorial disputes, Taiwan, ASEAN. Writing a book on the seabed! Opinions my own.
Dr Calida Chu @calidachu.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @UniOfStAndrews.bsky.social.
Editor @PracticalTheology.bsky.social. PhD in @CSWCEdinburgh.bsky.social. Researching #PublicTheology, Digitality, and #Decoloniality.
https://linktr.ee/calidachu
昨天 @yesterdaynews.bsky.social 中国集体抗争事件记录网:https://yesterdayprotests.com
投稿邮箱:bigorangecat2023@gmail.com
YouTube:YesterdayBigcat
Twitter:YesterdayBigcat
Ins:yesterdaybigorangecat
TikTok:yesterdaybigcat
bluesky:@yesterdaynews.bsky.social
Hong Kong Accountability Archive @hkaccountability.bsky.social The Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable and secure database of videos that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. https://hkaccountability.org/
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
o.cultmag @o-cultmag.bsky.social An urban culture and art magazine championing the creatives and visionaries of Hong Kong and Asia - https://ocultmag.com/
Sean Tierney @seantierney.bsky.social These are weird, ugly times, but we'll get through it.
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social asiancha.com
chajournal.com
hkprotesting.com
Tingting Zhong @ttzhong.bsky.social PhD in Chinese at the University of St Andrews🏴. Interested in Contemporary #Chinese Minority Literature (Hui 回回文學)and Diasporic Literature.
Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher
President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association
https://www.hughdavies.au/
Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social crime novelist interested in Chinese law, both dynastic and modern, and possibly retired investigator
www.laurencewestwood.com
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.
你法我笑的Dictator Yang📄🏳️🌈🌻🍉🐚 #pray4jade @y-wenli.bsky.social S.I.N.O.(Socialist.In.Name.Only)-phobic 中特社掘墓人,「馬鹿主義接班人」,anti-支黑,anti-大中華膠,World’s #1 Luol-Dengist🏀🐐(dengoids dni)
战无不胜的罗尔·邓思想万岁!!!
(he/him/他)
Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social Author of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 (2019) & 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖 (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc.
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753027/chinese-characters-across-asia/
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
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 this August. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City now on BBCSounds. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
Elis @ancientspeak.bsky.social she/her/佢. Episcopal churchlady. Hongkonger.
Thor 雷神 @thorweb.dev DX at Google DeepMind | GitHub ⭐️ | @hackerhousetaiwan.fyi | Formerly ElevenLabs, Supabase, Stripe, Google, SAP • my views
Robert Falconer @robertfalconer.ca Public Policy & Migration. SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, LSE Social Policy; Research Fellow, UCalgary School of Public Policy.
Running experiments on social cohesion, generosity, and resettlement programmes.
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca
Tracey Payne @traceypayneasi.bsky.social -Observer on East Asia
-Armchair expert on chairs
-差不多
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.
Kelvin Chan @thekelvinchan.bsky.social Associated Press business writer 美聯社財經記者 in London covering global technology. Formerly in Hong Kong, forever 加拿大人.
Chubblenauts and Other Examples of Arctic Excellence @chubblenauts.bsky.social NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A BLOB FOR ME SO EVERYBODY JUST FOLLOW ME FOR SOME CREATURES FROM THE SEA
William Martindale (馬凱威) @wijama.bsky.social Taiwanese-American MCEPA graduate from UC San Diego. I research cross-strait relations, conspiracy theories and politics in the Chinese-speaking world. Follow me for bad jokes, stats nerd stuff, and updates on whatever I'm reading.
Connor @connorfletcher.bsky.social Was one of the posters on that account you maybe followed on the other platform.
Nithin Coca @nithincoca.com Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & Tibet) award winning global journalist covering environment, climate, Human Rights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑
📍Japan, sometimes California or Indonesia
Mastodon: https://social.coop/@ncoca
Contact: nithincoca.com
Chris B aka bbchris @bbchris.bsky.social I serve the live music community in Hong Kong! 香港人 Rockbabe,Live Music Promoter, A 'do-er' Founder/boss: The Underground (organised 600+ shows in 20+yrs) founded charity: Musicians Foundation and also lead singer for The Ferals (HK)
Webb-site @webb-site.com This account tracks Webb-site.com updates
Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social Interdisciplinary PhD candidate. Hopefully not a permanent condition.
I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats.
https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/
無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
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
Air-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social China and the world in data and graphs
一点浩然气 千里快哉风
airmovingdevice@gmail.com
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
Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social ‘sinologist’ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic
Jeremy Page 裴杰 @jnbpage.bsky.social The Economist’s Chief China Correspondent & Drum Tower podcast co-host. Previously, the Wall Street Journal’s chief political & diplomatic reporter in Beijing 2010-21. Also posted in Moscow & Delhi. 12 int'l journalism awards. www.linkedin.com/in/jnbpage
JRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social Trains are like dragons: massive, majestic, mystical and capable of quickly taking you on an exotic adventure.
https://linktr.ee/jrurbanenetwork
Frances Zhu Hisgen 朱潇逸 @franceshisgen.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇭🇰 foreign policy & s+t policy researcher @ Stanford. Out in National Security New Voice + Foreign Policy for America NextGen.📍old gold mountain. 混血, 🏳️🌈 menace, new yorker.
Alice Su @aliceysu.bsky.social Covering China and Taiwan & co-hosting Drum Tower pod @TheEconomist. Former Beijing bureau chief @latimes, previously in the Middle East. alicesu@economist.com
Vickie Wang 王宇平 @vickiefromtaiwan.bsky.social Taiwanese writer, interpreter, and stand-up comedian. Cat lady. 10 years in Shanghai.
📍New York
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/
Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong.
Fuck GovHK!
Fuck the CCP!
Fuck billionaires!
Fuck MAGAs!
RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social Photographer, Fixer, Translator & Independent Journalist.
Donation link in pinned post.
René Hà @reneshaf.bsky.social daily grievances and other shenanigans
they/he | https://linktr.ee/reneshaf
lando kardashian @adamsideas.bsky.social 👨🏻 (he/him)
keeping the mots bon and the scallions rapt
Chloe Cheung 張晞晴 @chloecheung.bsky.social Public Affairs and Advocacy Junior Manager at @thecfhk | Hong Kong Activist. Based in London
✉️chloe.cheung@thecfhk.org
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。
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Emma Martin @emmamartin89.bsky.social Research Associate @ Cardiff University working on foreign disinformation.
American based in UK
Let’s talk OSINT,Chinese food and true crime!
elizabeth lacouture 藍雲博士 @elacouture.bsky.social she/her/她/佢, feminist historian. sinophone, hong kong, east asia. 性别研究. retweets and likes are not endorsements
Ling Ling @linglingtai.com Ph.D Candidate @ Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
social psychology ~ psychological & sociocultural adaptation ~ forced displacement ~ refugees ~ #phdlife ~ travels ~ vipassana ~ vegan
Lived in 🇲🇾🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇬🇷🇸🇵🇹🇩🇪
www.linglingtai.com
Canice Leung @canice.bsky.social i make silly things for @stuntingoods but i used to be a photo editor @reuters @torontostar
Kolas Yotaka @kolas-yotaka.bsky.social CEO and Co-Founder of Solutions for Energy Security (SENSEC), Former Taiwan Presidential Office Spokesperson. Cabinet Spokesperson, legislator, journalist.
Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social Opticore CFO / Energy things with ANU
syncretica.substack.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Vg7PNIAAAAJ&hl=en
James Pomfret @jamespomfret.bsky.social Special Correspondent, Reuters, mostly covering China, HK and Taiwan. X handle @jamespomfret
Todd in China @toddinchina1.bsky.social Lived in BeiJing Mar 2019 - Mar 2020. Now writing a book as I’m the only foreigner who really gets “China.”
Carmen Lau 劉珈汶 @carmenlau.bsky.social A Changemaker from Hong Kong | Exiled Elected Councillor | @hkdc_us | Founder @v4hk_uk @HongKongMarch
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
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.
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
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.
Evelyn Shih @amethystjazz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher.
中文/上海话/ENG/FR
Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social Former Mui Wo Pirate & Water Buffalo Wrangler. Music Head. History Buff. Bookworm. Wino. Wannabe Stoic. 香港人加油. COYS!
“We’re feeding strawberries to pigs”.
Oiwan @oiwan.bsky.social Editor, Global Voices. Care about human rights, freedom of expression, Hong Kong and China.
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
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
James Morton @jamesmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Researches law, religion, and manuscripts in the medieval Byzantine Empire. Author, Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy (http://bit.ly/3h3Huph) #ByzantineLaw
🏴🇭🇰🇬🇷🇮🇹
香港人鐵血. @teithiut.tk08.ca There are two types of people in the world, and being a trombone player is better than both of them. | 香港人,🇨🇦 | He/him | ENG/中文
Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
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.