The China Week @thechinaweek.com The China Week is the essential weekly summary of China news you need to know.
TheChinaWeek.com
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
Chhiū-ông-kong 樹王公 @shuwanggong.bsky.social 鴨子聽雷
https://linktr.ee/shu_wang_gong
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
David Bandurski @dbandurski.bsky.social Executive Director of the China Media Project, a think tank promoting freedom of expression through research and journalism capacity building.
chinamediaproject.org
https://tianjiancmp.substack.com/
https://linguasinica.substack.com/
Anthony Tao @anthonytao.bsky.social Book: We Met in Beijing | Poetry from Beijing: anthonytao.substack.com | poetryxmusic.com
Phelim Kine @phelimkine.bsky.social D.C.-based China correspondent @politico ; Past @hrw.org ; Dow Jones Newswires, Phnom Penh Post; China News (Taiwan).
New/old administration peeps: DMs open! Tips to pkine AT politico.com SIGNAL +1 212 810 0469
Erin Hale @erin-hale.bsky.social A journalist and noted cat person based in Taiwan.
Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国（及び日ソ・露）近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
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
Jeremiah Jenne @jeremiahjenne.com China-based PhD historian and global storyteller. 20+ years making history come alive through teaching, tours, & writing. Co-host: Barbarians at the Gate & By Their Own Compass.
Short Bio: Birth. School. Work. More School. 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- T Tania Branigan @taniabranigan.bsky.social Foreign editorials writer at the Guardian. Author: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution, winner of the Cundill History Prize. UK paperback: 1 February https://linktr.ee/redmemory and US: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324051961
Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social Eye on Digital China 🇨🇳💬📱 Chinese social trends, online media & digital culture. See @manyapan on X for my most recent updates 🙏
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.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
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
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Denise Wu @denisewu.bsky.social Pro-democracy, Taiwanese-American not Chinese.
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.
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
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/
@schneiderfa.bsky.social @schneiderfa.bsky.social 
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
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 🇮🇹🇺🇲
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
jacob 🍋 @nilsjacob.bsky.social Grävande reporter på Dagens ETC. Tipsa mig: jacob.lundberg@etc.se
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.
Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social Swede by birth, European by choice.
Ukraine will be victorious!
https://reppa.tools/
Eva Jung @evajung.bsky.social Investigative journalist @ newspaper Berlingske in Copenhagen, Denmark. Member of ICIJ. Danish/Swedish. 
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Donny @kidonny.bsky.social Still the biggest fan of Takuya Yamashiro here too. @Donny_Seven on twitter
He/Him
Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se Cultural critic and reluctant public intellectual. Hyperfixations include meme culture, anti-fascism, and esoteric internet lore.
Ceci n’est pas du content → doomscroll.se
Mostly 🇸🇪, occasionally unhinged.
Andreas Braw @andreasbraw.bsky.social Kompanichef i Armén. Driver sajten Militär Debatt. https://militardebatt.com
HK Movie Locations @hkmovielocations.bsky.social Movie locations buff with emphasis on HK because I've lived here since 2006. Proud member of the "AI Haters" List (thanks to whoever added me).
https://hkmacaufilmtvlocations.blogspot.com/
Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social Bassist, musician, creator ™️
Joel Atkinson @joelatkinson.bsky.social Researching and teaching Northeast Asian international politics in Seoul. Opinions my own. joel.p.atkinson@gmail.com
Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Dankook University. Research interests: Korean modern history, US-Korea relations, democracy and human rights
Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social International relations-diplomacy-international security.
🐿️ watcher striving to be a whisperer
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social Author of John Dies at the End, formerly David Wong of Cracked.com fame 
@mikechinoy.bsky.social @mikechinoy.bsky.social 
@carlminzner.bsky.social @carlminzner.bsky.social 
Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social American freelance journalist based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Burma and Vietnam for more than 30 years. Vietnam Army Veteran, USMCR
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.
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
Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social 中文名：姜大翼｜AP Journalist in Beijing | 美联社北京分社的一位伟大时代的记录者｜你可以用微信联系我（dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: dakekang@protonmail.com
Hannah Beech @hkbeech.bsky.social Asia reporter at The New York Times. Noodles, pickles, spice. 
Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
Clarissa Wei @dearclarissa.bsky.social Freelance writer. Author of MADE IN TAIWAN. www.clarissawei.com
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Xianfeng [咸豐] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
老雷 🐈 @laolei.bsky.social 哈喽，我司老雷 ✌🏼 ｜ 英文账号 Christoph Rehage｜徒步旅行博客： thelongestway.com ｜你要是爱看书的话可以看《徒步中国》或者《跟着陆客游欧洲》
Edward Lawrence @edwardlawrence.bsky.social Freelance producer and camera operator-editor in news and documentaries. Mostly Channel 4 News, but many others too. Formerly with the BBC in Beijing & Shanghai
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Christine Lu🧋 @christinelu.com Taiwanese American founder & investor in a number of things at the early stage.
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
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
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social Co-ED, Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) @chrdnet.bsky.social. Visiting Scholar at Stanford CDDRL 2024, HRW China director 2006-2023. Still think music makes everything better (see https://youtu.be/k9avKq94DGY?si=I7xvXwRcgovRnF1v).
Alexander Sjöberg @alexsjoeberg.bsky.social Asia correspondent at the Danish daily Berlingske. Taipei.
alex@berlingske.dk / +4561696931 (FaceTime/Signal/Whatsapp) / +886(0)910978169
https://www.berlingske.dk/redaktionen/alexander-sjoeberg
@ciainchina.bsky.social @ciainchina.bsky.social Not that I’ve been very active here anyway, but I’m taking some time away from all social media to use my time more effectively on some educational and career goals. I finally deleted my X account so I’m not even tempted to go there and peek.
Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social Fighting Disinformation since 2022.
All soups: https://vatniksoup.com/
Debunk of the Day: https://vatniksoup.com/en/topics/debunk-of-the-day/
Why we soup: https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/vs2/
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phil @philjamesson.com funny things for cool stuff (Dropout, Adult Swim, Raw Fury, Devolver) | mgmt: allen.mcrae@authenticm.com
Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. Amateur photographer of a certain age. Shitamachi supremacist. Sober 19yrs. Survivor. I write stuff sometimes, but don’t tell anyone. 日本語👌
Profile: @nakimushiart.bsky.social
William Farris @wafarris.bsky.social Translator "State Prosecutions of Speech in the PRC." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4168412. Former Google Legal Director managing CN/HK/TW. Alum: Grinnell, Stanford Law, Latham & Watkins, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Javier Altayó @altayo.eurosky.social Traductor literario.
在台灣定居的西班牙人。
Tulletilsynet @tulletilsynet.bsky.social Follower of diverse, opinionated individuals
Yokocho explorer
Ego is who ego says (Benveniste)
Never get the app (Tulletilsynet)
Holmlia - Inwood - Minamiazabu - Old Stone Fort
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Trey Menefee (🇭🇰 🇹🇭 🇺🇸) @comparativist.bsky.social Founder of Synthetic Intelligence Group
🏝️ Escaped Florida Man | South China (20 yrs)
🇭🇰 Hong Konger | 🇹🇭 In Thailand |
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.
Pleco Software @pleco.com Makers of the world's best Chinese dictionary apps since 2001.
Goofrider @goofrider.bsky.social Let that sink out
Tech, devops, film 🏳️🌈🇭🇰
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly & NYC. Weekly words https://www.sinicapodcast.com/s/this-week-in-chinas-history Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin
James M Zimmerman @jmzbeijing.bsky.social Beijing-based author, lawyer, and political commentator; and former four term chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
http://ThePekingExpress.com
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Whipling @seanhaines.bsky.social Ex China state media commentary writer. Interests: disinfo, comms, and cronuts.
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
Christoph Rehage @christoph.bsky.social 👣 did a thing #TheLongestWay 🖥️ agonizing over a video I'm making 📘 books available 🀄️ 中文账号 老雷 ☕️ just ordered an expresso 👊🏼 #fuckputin
Han Yang 杨涵 @hanyangsydney.bsky.social Tsinghua/UNSW alumni. Formerly in MFA China/architecture. “Chinese speaking bad-faith actor” according to Global Times. Calling Down Under home.
https://www.youtube.com/@DevilsAdvocate-Aus
https://hanyangsydney.substack.com/
ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol WSJ caption 🏆 | Space | Clean Energy | US-China | USC | RT/Like ≠ endorsement | Formerly @raykwong.bsky.social | Bad posts still written by my intern. #ENDALZ #NASASocial #resist #nodrama 💙 https://x.com/raykwong
Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social Political scientist. Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. My new book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is available here: https://shorturl.at/BlEJE
https://www.lnachman.com
Old China Bland (香港) @takingthepith.bsky.social Hong Kong. Camping in the hills because the Murray Barracks were full