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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 28/09/2026

Fieldwork in #Tibet is all but closed to outsiders. @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's The Quiet State asks what research looks like now: open-source reading of the state's own paperwork, & a frank account of what that method can't show. Just published, #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excited to be part of this panel at the #AAS2027. I will be chairing. Pat Giersch is discussant. Tsering Llamo, Konchok Gelek, Alice Millington, and Drolma Gadou are presenting their exciting and insightful research.

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

happy to see that the review essay written by @maqianyu.bsky.social and myself for LARB has been published. It discusses two important recent books about Chinese Muslims (Hui) by @rianthum.bsky.social and Hale Eroglu.Thanks go out to @bspivey.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yckc5bbd

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The Fate of China’s Muslims | Los Angeles Review of Books

Two recent books track the history of China’s Muslim minority during a period of suspicion and suppression.

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The National Bureau of Asian Research @nbr.org · 25/06/2026

PODCAST "A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies": How the notions of borderlands, nation-building, and ethnic policies have been intertwined throughout 100 years of #CCP existence with @rollandnadege.bsky.social, @bennoweiner.bsky.social, Robert Barnett, @jleibold.bsky.social: bit.ly/3QzsUdL

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thrilled that my essay, "Fear and Writing in Xinjiang," was chosen by the editors of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social to be included in their 15th Anniversary Anthology! Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and @bspivey.bsky.social for commissioning the piece and for their editorial work!

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LARB Quarterly #48: 15th Anniversary Issue | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Happy to be quoted by Joe Leahy of @financialtimes.com for this article about the new law in China that would further erode the language (and other) rights of non-Han people. Probably paywalled but happy to share. www.ft.com/content/94be...

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China prepares landmark law curtailing minority language rights

Bill to ‘promote ethnic unity’ by mandating Mandarin use would hasten decline of other cultures, critics say

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Important (but not surprising) research from a Bowdoin college that AI has different responses to questions on #HongKong, #Xinjiang, #Taiwan, and #Tibet based on whether you input 简体字 or 繁體字 petsymposium.org/popets/2025/...

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps

Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Don't skip this Rhyming Chaos podcast, hosted by @goldkorn.bsky.social, in which journalist Soyonbo Borjgin discusses his life in Inner Mongolia, protests against CCP ethnic minority policies, and going through re-education.

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The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper

From wolf hearts to Xi Jinping thought: Journalist Soyonbo Borjgin talks about growing up in Hohhot and his “re-education” after protests against the suppression of Mongolian language.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 07/11/2025

Sheffield Hallam Apologizes to American Scholar Over Publication Ban Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference... Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/43fUPCK

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 04/11/2025

Drawing on one month of residence in a retirement community outside Beijing, Brian DeMare examines the Chinese silver-hair market, tracing everyday experiences of retirees and highlighting the interplay between personal memories of PRC history and the commodification of elder care in today's China.

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A Grey Beard in the Silver-Hair Market: One Month in China’s Retirement City

Laoye left Louisiana like an outlaw cowboy, abandoning all his earthly possessions, and hitting the road. The flat-screen TVs, the piles of clothes, the closet full of USB cords? No longer needed. Jus...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 22/10/2025

Opening next month at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and on view through our #AAS2026 dates, "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" will surely be a must-visit for conference attendees!

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Entangled Territoriesདཀའ་རྙོག་ནང་གི་ཡུལ་སྡེ། - Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Closed Mondays October 15 – May 15

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia: Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and @bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629

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Project MUSE - Twentieth-Century China-Volume 50, Number 3, October 2025

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social. "100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... Then go read the book!

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Remote Xuar @remotexuar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 05/09/2025

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

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Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The Red Wind Howls, states @bennoweiner.bsky.social in this magnificent new review, "is a monumental literary achievement, an act of defiance that helps pierce a regime of forced forgetting." Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it! chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

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Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com (then read the book!) Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 04/09/2025

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion. Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow! @remotexuar.bsky.social

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Remote Xuar @remotexuar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇 We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week! www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w

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Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham, 1905–1961

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica Deadline: October 15 Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/

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Announcements

Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We're thrilled to see @bennoweiner.bsky.social's review of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China" by Edward Wong has been nominated for a 2025 Kukula Award! Read his review here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

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Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

👇Note to those working on China, one of the two short lists includes @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social (for his @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social essay on the biography of Liu Xiaobo) and the other includes @bennoweiner.bsky.social (for his @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social essay on @ewong.bsky.social 's book)

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Read the Review 👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

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Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is." Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:

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Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence

I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine. The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor. Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs apply.interfolio.com/170040

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

For Zohran,
You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail!
It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being.
—Lu Hsun, “Hometown”

From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020

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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...

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Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

As part of our efforts to include the erased histories of all ethnic groups in China, @minjianarchives.bsky.social newsletter today discusses a key work of Uyghur resistance: A Land Drenched in Tears. This is also our first trilingual newsletter! chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/a30?utm_ca...

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《被眼泪浸湿的土地》：一部维吾尔族“右派”的苦难史

The Land Drenched in Tears: A History of Uyghur “Rightists”

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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Thank you to all the participants of the 5th International Amdo Research Network workshop at the University of Leeds. Looking forward to continuing our conversations at IATS next summer in Kathmandu!

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

🪖 I dunno man. Just, like, suddenly wanted to share photos of the time I covered Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang military parade from 2010. Enjoy!

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Every chapter is a gem"! Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories." @aaronwmoore.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-...

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Two Maoisms | Los Angeles Review of Books

Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'

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Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

First day of the #AASinAsia2025 @bennoweiner.bsky.social Levering the Margins #kathmandu

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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

REMINDER: join us Tomorrow May 29 @4pm for the first ARN New Books on Amdo talk w/ authors Shannon Ward, Tim Thurston and moderator Huatse Gyal! Details 👇

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands. Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This should be a great discussion on language and the politics of language in Amdo

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Appearing on the Sinica podcast was a bucket list sort of thing. Thanks to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social for having me on to talk about ethnopolitics in China. There's more I wish I had said, and some things I wish I had said differently, but give it a listen! www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...

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Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy

This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, I speak with Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, about how China's policy toward its mi...

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