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Chris Fan 范致忠

@chrisfan.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of English, UC Irvine. Director @uciglobalasias.bsky.social. ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 (Columbia UP, 2024), TECHNO-ORIENTALISM 2.0 (Rutgers UP, 2025). Hyphen magazine co-founder. 🇹🇼 American. faculty.sites.uci.edu/chrisfan

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UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster @uciglobalasias.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The inaugural UC Irvine Global Asias Research Prizes in Taiwanese American Studies are now open for 2027! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/...
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UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster @uciglobalasias.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
CFP: sites.uci.edu/globalasias/... Proposal Form: bit.ly/ga27cfp
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Flashback to my review of Taiwan Travelogue, the very worthy recipient of the 2026 International Booker Prize. @thebookerprizes.com @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New at PB: An encomium to Sandra Boynton by Christopher T. Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social).
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Sandra Boynton’s Death Drive: “The Going to Bed Book” - Public Books
"We do not need to work harder when reading Boynton. Her work, especially when taken as a whole, rewards pause."
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
TBH it was written for an audience of one. But all are invited to read. ^_^ Thanks to John Plotz for inviting me to contribute and then for *trusting me* to pull off this silly but very earnest idea.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan, whose book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In this episode of The Philosopher, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan discusses WHAT IS WE ( @agendapub.bsky.social ) — examining how the idea of “we” shapes the humanities & social sciences, and why we rarely question how “we” actually works. buff.ly/VJ5ZaJ6 #ThePhilosopher #Philosophy
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What Is We? Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham
The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of “who we are”, leaving its basic conceptual…
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UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster @uciglobalasias.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
See you later this week! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/...
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Congratulations to Christopher Fan, whose book ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY was shortlisted for the Biennial Book Prize from MELUS. tinyurl.com/4nkhu8sh @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Protect the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP)
INDIVIDUAL SIGN-ON LETTER UC System Provost Katherine Newman has called for the elimination of the PPFP Faculty Hiring Incentive. We say NO! We are unified in our support of PPFP, a 41-year old nation...
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UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster @uciglobalasias.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.
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UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster @uciglobalasias.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Join us for a screening of the documentary A CHIP ODYSSEY 造山者 and Q&A with director Chu-Chen Hsiao 蕭菊貞 and producers. Fri, 11/7, 3:30PM, McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine. Tickets are free, please register here: bit.ly/AChipOdyssey...
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Very exciting to see two @columbiaup.bsky.social books shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize! Congratulations to Chris Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) author of ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 and Sarah Dimick, author of UNSEASONABLE.
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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize! Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information. 1/4
Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility
Christopher Lee; Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility, American Literary History, Volume 37,
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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month! We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST! Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg
A promotional flier for DISCO's event "Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks." The title is prominently displayed, accompanied by details like the date, time, and location: "Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 Pm EST, Weiser Hall 10th Floor & Zoom." The design highlights three speakers: Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu, each with their headshots in circular frames. Descriptions of each are provided with their names in bold uppercase text. The background features a circuit board design in shades of deep blue and teal.
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2 -Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media -Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan -With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social -OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Verge 11.2 cover with the journal's title on a peach- and navy blue-colored background, featuring a photo collage of Wuhan, China.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This dataset rules. @chrisfan.bsky.social 👀
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
👇 @myetcetera.bsky.social @chinaheritage.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on
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Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net
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Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. lareviewofbooks.org/article/movemen…
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).
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Movement Injuries | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christopher T. Fan explores two new novels, Brian Hioe’s “Taipei at Daybreak” and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s “Taiwan Travelogue.”
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Fascism bad. New books good. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...
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UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster @uciglobalasias.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
RIP Joshua Clover critinq.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/t...
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"My strongest guess is that it is because I have been reasonably outspoken in my critiques of the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza."
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"A must-read for anyone who studies or teaches contemporary Asian American literature." ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Many thanks to Bonnie Yonbom Chung for her lovely review in MELUS of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965. academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
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Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan
Christopher T. Fan’s Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility is a meticulously researched work that offers a thoroug
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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Cover revealed for Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions... release date July 15, 2025... Edited by David S, Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. Fan: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...
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Techno-Orientalism 2.0 - Rutgers University Press
Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, ...
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Talking to The Prisoner Firefighters California Uses to Fight Wildfires
YouTube video by HasanAbi
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Today’s finally the day–Taipei at Daybreak is out from @RepeaterBooks. It’s available anywhere books are sold online (www.amazon.com/Taipei-at-Da...) A few days ago after a New Bloom event, I burned a copy of Taipei at Daybreak along with some ghost money for the success of the book
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Congrats to @brianhioe.bsky.social on the publication of his novel TAIPEI AT DAYBREAK, the first novel in English about the Sunflower movement & generation. It's a sober depiction of revolutionary desire in our conjuncture, by someone who was there. A key document for our times -- and a page turner!
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Coming up Feb 7-8, another robustly interdisciplinary discussion driven public facing conference at @ucirvine.bsky.social put on by The Forum for Academy & the Public that @amywilentz.bsky.social & I co-direct, this year’s theme “Facts Under Fire” sites.uci.edu/factsunderfi...
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Forum for the Academy and the Public 2025 – @ The University of California, Irvine
@ The University of California, Irvine
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, an engaging essay on two novels, Shanghailanders and Tiananmen Square, reviewed astutely by @rfkuang.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...
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From the Pudong Airport to Tiananmen Square | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rebecca F. Kuang reviews Lai Wen’s “Tiananmen Square” and Juli Min’s “Shanghailanders.”
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
👇 @chrisfan.bsky.social
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Honghong Tinn @honghongtinn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My book will be available for purchase on January 7, 2025. For readers with a US mailing address, below is a discount code for 30% off on publication day via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo) PUBDAY30 Please save the date! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh @mitpress.bsky.social
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Island Tinkerers by Honghong Tinn: 9780262549387 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world’s leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024
Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Excellent thread on the S. Korea situation
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Less than two months until my book is out...God, that makes me nervous
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Taipei at Daybreak|Paperback
An Asian American coming-of-age novel set amongst social protests of the early 2010s in East Asia.In 2014, a veteran of Occupy Wall Street, QQ arrives in Taiwan and finally finds what he’s ...
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James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It's alive! My book now has a webpage on the University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... Will be available open access in April 2025!
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In the Global Vanguard by James Lin - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
First time plugging the book here: it's on pre-order now and is out July 2025. Ghost Nation is the culmination of 10 years of reporting on Taiwan, a vitally important yet poorly understood country of 23 million. Please consider pre-ordering + help spread the word🙏🙏🙏 www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Nation...
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Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival
Buy Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival Main Market by Horton, Chris (ISBN: 9781035034024) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Starting up a list of upcoming books on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. There are so many books by many talented folks! Will update this list periodically
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Chris Fan 范致忠 @chrisfan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What a week in self-owns. First Drake, then Biden, now Yoon.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.
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