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
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
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
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).
Jonathan Henshaw @henshaw.bsky.social Historian of Modern China • War • Occupation • Commemoration • Translation • 🍁
https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation
Giorgio Strafella @gstrafella.bsky.social Associate Professor and dog dad at the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc
https://gstrafella.wordpress.com/
Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social Peasant Anthropologist @ LSE | China, Wa, Argentina | co-editor Social Analysis
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University 
Cherie Wong 王卓妍 @chercywong.bsky.social PhD Student in Sociology, @carleton.ca 🏳️🌈🏴
dissident scholar x policy wonk x politico
📍 settler on turtle island 🇨🇦🇭🇰
👧🏻 https://konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/
🌲 https://linktr.ee/chercywong
Personal Account 💛 she/elle/佢/她
Helen Jin Kim @helenjinkim.bsky.social Associate professor of American religious history at Emory | Author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (OUP 2022) | Book interview: https://youtu.be/uDcAF3oJtTg?si=LiVT_sRwf74xOU-W
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
Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account
I talk about pens. 🖋️
RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social Photographer, Fixer, Translator & Independent Journalist.
Donation link in pinned post.
Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social 🇭🇰🇲🇾🇨🇦 | Information Operations and Transnational Repression Research | formerly at Alliance Canada Hong Kong and Doublethink Lab | she/elle | views are my fault
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue Executive Editor, Hong Kong Free Press | Former Managing Editor of the China Media Project | Before that: TaiwanPlus, The Washington Post, TIME, dpa
📍 Hong Kong
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
Ian Liujia Tian @ianliujiatian.bsky.social Queer marxism and other historical materialism tendencies. X survivor, Assistant pro of WGS, Mount Saint Vincent University, Mi'kmaq Nation.
Desmond Sham @desmondsham.bsky.social ✤Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
✤Cultural Studies | #PostcolonialStudies | #CulturalHeritage | #Memory | Urban Culture | Cultural Identity | #Sinophone | E&SE Asia
✤Views are my own
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
Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social Accidental military historian
UBC Asian Studies @asia.ubc.ca UBC’s Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada and is widely acknowledged as one of the finest in North America.
https://asia.ubc.ca/
Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament • Yale Divinity School • biblical texts in immigration, borders, apocalypse, textuality, biological metaphors
• 她/she • not always here • http://yiijanlin.com
Megan Bryson @meganbryson.bsky.social Chinese religions, University of Tennessee
Reading Religion @readingreligion.bsky.social An open book review site published by the American Academy of Religion (AARWeb). We provide up-to-date coverage of scholarly publishing in religious studies.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
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.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Professor, probably thinking about emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
North American Association for the Study of Religion @naasr.bsky.social NAASR exists to encourage historical, comparative, structural, theoretical, and cognitive approaches to the study of religion.
https://linktr.ee/NAASReligion
David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
Associate editor for Nationalities Papers.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
Samuel Chan @samuelchan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Politics at Occidental College. Researching on the right to self-determination of entangled peoples.
Personal Website: samuelcky.com
aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his. 
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.
NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social https://nuvoices.com/ | http://patreon.com/nuvoices
catielila @catielila.bsky.social Co-author of "Revolutionary Taiwan" (Cambria Press, 2024) and author of "Parliament in the British Political Imagination, 1550-1600" (forthcoming, Manchester University Press). Early modern Britainist by training; now living and teaching in Taipei
The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social Covering women's issues and empowerment from more than 50 countries. 🐦: theasianfmnst 🐘: theasianfeminist@mas.to 🐳: theasianfmnst
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester. 
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
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
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.
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
@nyrolaelima.bsky.social @nyrolaelima.bsky.social https://nyrola.se
Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social writer, translator, cat
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
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social Our mission is to foster excellence in the academic study of religion and enhance the public understanding of religion.
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.
International Feminist Journal of Politics @ifjpglobal.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of IFJP | Posts by Digital Media Editors.
https://www.ifjpglobal.org/
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Toronto Star @thestar.com Canada's biggest daily newspaper thestar.com
Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social losing faith in social media and not here very much
📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
💻 https://www.rahulrao.net/
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social Historian of Modern China at Trinity University. Author of Dialect and Nationalism in China; Current 📕 project: Grassroots Feminism: Women Activists and the Fight for Hong Kong's Future, 1967-1997. Former NCUSCR PIPVII, Wilson China Fellow. 4th-gen 🇮🇹🇺🇲
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
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com Hong Kong's impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper: https://hongkongfp.com/about/ 100% independent, backed by an Ethics code and reader-funded: https://support.hongkongfp.com/
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social asiancha.com
chajournal.com
hkprotesting.com
Neil Munro @nmimunro.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics at U. Glasgow in Scotland. Like=interesting, but not necessarily endorse. Repost=endorse.
Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social Academic, Asia-China-Australia
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Chris Song @chrissonghk.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Associate Chair @UTSCLanguage @UTSC East Asian Studies @UofT; Editor @Babel_FIT @vvpoetryhk; Poet; Translator.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
Dr. Flora x. Tang @missfloratang.bsky.social theologian @krocinstitute @notredame | big #liturgay energy | 📚🤔: queer ecological futurities, trauma theology; diaspora-indigeneity-ethnonationalism; land justice | she/her
I was funnier on twitter but then a f*cist bought the website
Politics and Rights Review @polrightsrev.bsky.social A trilingual, open-access journal making recent research in human and social sciences accessible to a global audience. Visit us at: https://politicsrights.com
James Gethyn Evans @jagevans.bsky.social China's foreign policy, Global Maoism, radicalism, (Post-)Cold War history, PhDing @ Harvard, visiting instructor @ GWU 🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 jagevans.com
利大英 @gblee.bsky.social Writer and photographer.
Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
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
Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 @joshuaeisenman.bsky.social Professor of Politics @NotreDame.bsky.social; Senior China Fellow @AFPC Au: #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica & Red China’s Green Revolution @cup.columbia.edu; 中国与非洲 @CUHKPress 练咏春 #lgm
Views my own
Professor Anne-Marie Brady FRSNZ @anne-mariebrady.bsky.social Watching and researching the politics of China, NZ domestic and foreign policy, Arctic, Antarctic, and Pacific politics
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent. 
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social Senior correspondent for WSJ covering collisions of geopolitics, tech, and power. 15+ yrs in Asia, mostly China. Co-author of SURVEILLANCE STATE: https://www.josh-chin.com/books
Signal: joshchin.86. Also: josh.l.chin@protonmail.com
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies @fairbankcenter.bsky.social A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
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/
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
Yige Dong @yige-dong.bsky.social Sociologist@SUNY Buffalo | labor, gender, political economy, China
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
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
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
Sharon Yam @sharonyamsy.bsky.social Diasporic HongKonger. Rhetoric professor at the University of Kentucky
Teacher, writer, and book author on feminism, repro justice, and social movements
Bylines in NYT, Foreign Policy, and more
Books: Inconvenient Strangers; Doing Gender Justice
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).
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social I teach Philosophy at York Uni in Toronto. I also write the 'Morals of the Story' column for the Times Literary Supplement. Work on norms, disagreement, and the role of tech in society.
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
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.
Professor Astrid Nordin @astridnordin.bsky.social Lau Chair of Chinese international relations at King’s College London.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
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)
Clyde Yicheng Wang @clydewang.bsky.social Political scientist, but more political than scientific. China, ideology, propaganda. Assistant professor at Washington and Lee University.
https://sites.google.com/view/clyde-yicheng-wang
Yimin Zhao @yiminzhao.bsky.social Assistant Professor @geogdurham.bsky.social | Editor @city-journal.bsky.social | Trustee @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Personal website: readcities.com
微信公众号：城识 UrbanSense
David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social Qing historian, résidant à Montréal
Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social Philosophy. Political Theory. Comparative Politics. Law. https://philpeople.org/profiles/yao-lin-1/publications
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi