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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is one of the books I really want to be reviewed in my journal, @asiancha.bsky.social. I have read all the poems a couple of times. Find out more information: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can someone tell me why he's the Milk Mayor? And if he is...why he feels he needs to make this his nickname? I saw these signs everywhere in Taipei this summer and I have questions.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Shu-mei Shih First Book Prize of 3S is given biennially and honors the most outstanding author’s first book published in Sinophone studies during the two years preceding the year when the award is given. The book can focus on any time period and geographical context. 1/10

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Vijamsonic @jbmvijamsonic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Featuring the UofA!! 🤬 That university admin and leadership has absolutely hit a low.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I am not sure if I was the only modern China lit scholar not aware that apparently there's a book series where Lao She and Dee Ren Jie (who has served in the Chinese Labor Corps?!) team up to solve crimes, but in case you did not know about this, here you go.

The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan, book cover.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 26/11/2025

1/ Update: A resident surnamed Ho, 40, said the fire alarm did not go off when Wednesday's deadly blaze broke out at Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court. Ho, who was outside at the time, said he was only told by a friend about the fire and he immediately called his father, who was at home.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Little did anyone know, the gashadokuro would eventually be available for purchase at your local Home Depot, not to annihilate one's enemies, but to annoy one's suburban housing association at Halloween.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I developed my robot class about 6 years ago and have taught it intermittently. This is the first time the class has felt more or less close to the present day. We are reading "Goodbye, Melancholy" this week. clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_03_17/

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Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Re-reading Koji Ariyoshi (Kona born Hawai'ian JA communist and China expert)'s autobiography this morning. I found the end of his preface striking. It was written when Ariyoshi faced trial and jail time for organizing a communist party in Hawai'i. Words to think about in these times, I think.

The Salem witch hunt, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Palmer raids of 1919 were all defeated. America must return to its senses to play a constructive role in the community of nations. The hope lies in the people, here and on the Mainland. We have deep faith in them to struggle for progress. It is the duty of those who understand the situation, including those who have been silenced, to awaken the conscience of the whole populace.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Is the victim was that one person at a faculty meeting who says "Well, I just have one more thing to add..." as everyone is standing up to leave at the end of the meeting?

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The best spots in Koreatown are @metrolosangeles.bsky.social accessible 🫰 K-town organizer John Yi shares his favorite neighborhood gems along Metro’s D Line. 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This unfortunately reminds me that even with a pronunciation guide, the dean who read my name when I got my PhD butchered it so bad I didn't recognize it and afterward my dad was so mad I had to stop him from trying to go fight the dean after the ceremony.

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Paradise Systems 格物天下 @paradisesystems.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

SEEKING SUMMER ARCHIVAL INTERN We are looking for an assistant to archive and document the Paradise Systems Chinese comics library. Must be comfortable reading Chinese comics (simplified and traditional) and writing about them in English. A background in translation is a plus.

A photo of a wooden bookshelf full volumes from China. Two books by Wang XX are visible, as well as Mr Men by Anusman and books by Yan Cong and Zuo Ma.

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Our current situation is a complete provocation by the state - tearing families apart and throwing people into concentration camps is violence. They are kidnapping people and locking them in the LA federal detention center basement without food or water.” 1/

Intercept article

"King himself changed his views on violence, especially riots, as the Civil Rights Movement went on and the U.S. government resisted meaningful change. But any serious person knows that civil rights protesters fought the police in the streets in the 1960s, just as anti-ICE kidnapping protesters are willing to do today," he said.
People protesting in Los Angeles responded to an already violent situation, said Ricci Sergienko, an attorney and organizer in Los Angeles.

"Is our current situation 'peace'?
Why would anyone be shocked at this response by the people?"
"Our current situation is a complete provocation by the state - tearing families apart and throwing people into concentration camps is violence," Sergienko said. "They are kidnapping people and locking them in the LA federal detention center basement without food or water. This, on top of the violence already faced against every day Angelenos.
From seven unhoused people dying on the streets every day to rent and evictions to continuous police harassment. How do you expect people to act? Is our current situation 'peace"? Why would anyone be shocked at this response by the people?"
The protests in Los Angeles should come as no surprise given its history of mass action, Sergienko said. Riots broke out in 1992 after police brutally beat Rodney King. In 1965, the Watts Rebellion came in response to widespread racist police abuse.
Protests in 2020 against police brutality and in 2024 against Israel's genocide in Gaza are part of that same thread, he said.
"There is a long history of this kind of action in Los Angeles," he said. "Politicians don't dictate how people in this city are going to respond."

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We feed you. They hunt us.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Working hard to defend the rights, dignity, and well-being of immigrants, refugees, and the undocumented, they need our help more than ever right now. You can find this article and all resources to combat ICE on a special link we created. Lataco.com/ice Please share

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I feel a lot of ways about what is happening in my hometown, but one of them is that after today I really never want to have to hear anyone tell me that they don't really like LA and think SF is a lot nicer again.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2025

When LA *really* pops off, in the way that LA does, neither DHS nor LAPD will be able to contain it. It's not going to happen tonight, but I suspect it's going to happen before long this summer. And once LA gets going, there's really no stopping the crowds.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

So.... have I got some lovely HK protest er... art for you

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

DHS Officers near MDC coming out of the parking lot now in LA. At least one detention. Lots of stun grenades, pepper balls, chemical munitions. Rocks, chairs, water bottles in return. LAPD is blocking traffic to the area.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2025

Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.

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Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thanks to the very capable editorial team at @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for helping to push this through, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the Nakba and Asian Heritage Month.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I got the first two of these unsuccessfully trying to take a pic of what I think was the first Swainson's thrush of the year.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I still think about a fellow Asian in grad school who told me that she refused to sign a DREAMer petition when her student asked her to because "she came the right way" and when the student said he himself was a DREAMer, she said "I don't care. You should still come the right way."

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The Book of Kane and Margaret was the camp novel I never knew I needed until I read it. It remains a camp novel unlike any other and the absolute weirdest one I have ever read. I've been waiting to read more by Araki-Kawaguchi ever since.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"The average American has three friends"

Three medium sized blackbird looking birds. They all have midnight blue iridescent heads and their bodies are black but show a dull yellow sheen to them. Two on the right are crouched down, their heads pointed upward at an angle in that grackle like pose. The one on the left is shouting at the top of its little lungs and its whole body is ruffled out with effort.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For a while, I have found it kind of funny that the guy who was the featured speaker at the AmeriCorps conference was a US senator now and a very famous one at that, but it's beyond strange now that I was once in a very large room with a dude who would become this guy.

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Chris Song @chrissonghk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My new article “Hong Kong’s Leftist Poetry: Sinophone and/or Huawen?” is included in this stellar volume Justyna Jaguścik, Joanna Krenz, and Andrea Riemenschnitter put together: Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space, Bodies, and Things! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse

The 1919 May Fourth movement was the breeding ground for experiments by authors inspired by new world literary trends. Under Mao Zedong, folk songs accompanied political campaigns such as the Great Le...

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Pretty sure I saw my first Horned Grebe today. Unfortunately quite far away and not my best picture.

A waterfowl, more or less duck sized, rusty red lower body, dark back, rusty neck, big round black jowls, ruby red eyes, and golden "eyebrow" feathers on top.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When I taught Wei Yahua's Robot Wife Divorce story, the class was creeped out by the passage describing how a man could see a woman he thought was cute walking around, go to a robot wife store, and make a robot wife who looked just like her. I normally don't find that story prescient, but...

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Evan Nicoll-Johnson @evnj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Honored and grateful to be among those chosen for this grant!

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Notably absent: any UC campus that is not UC Riverside any CSU campus that is not CSU San Bernadino In comparison w the institutions singled out below: how many students overall do these uni systems serve? How many students likely to be affected do these uni systems serve?

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

One thing I really appreciate as a non-specialist in premodern Chinese lit is that there are historical figures who we all know are hot, even though we have no idea what they looked like. History has not recorded this, it informed us of the verdict of the court of public opinion.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Sameer Project needs your help. They are in urgent need of funds to continue to help supplying water to people in Gaza. Yesterday they supplied 85,000 liters of fresh drinking water to people who otherwise would receive none. Please donate and share.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

As good an excuse as any to share some of my favorite bee pics from the garden last year.

A rotund golden bumble bee with a black bottom feeds from a electric pink flower the shape of a jester's hat (or Sideshow Bob's hair). This is a queen bombus perplexus.

On the same flower a very tiny bee probably 1/50th of the size of the queen bumble feeds from the same flower.

A very tiny black and white striped bee dives upside down into the flower. It's lower belly covered in pollen.

A black and white striped bee rises from a yellow flower. It's bottom and back legs coated in golden pollen.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Here's the Bluesky post. This is incredible. Now the goal will be to get him home. And I want to hear what Senator Van Hollen learned from him. What this shows is that Bukele is very much susceptible to pressure. Now we can't forget about the other 237 people sent there on March 15.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I'm reminded in this moment of the language of JA removal in which issei were referred to as aliens and the native born as "non-aliens".

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“Julio Zambrano Perez exemplifies what America represents,” the director of his daughter’s preschool wrote, “working hard, planning for the future, raising the next generation of responsible citizens.”

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Her husband is trapped in a Salvadoran prison. She has no idea how to get him back.

Ripped apart by Trump, one Venezuelan family endures another hell: silence.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I would really like to see more mainsteam English news outlets covering stories like this rather than solely focusing on white detainees. The relentless trickle of only headlines focusing on a few white migrants suggests implicitly that it's ok if it is happening everyone else.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Not my normal lane, but I've been hearing a new bird call through my closed windows for weeks. Thanks to the @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social app Merlin, IDed it as an, er, Merlin. New one for me. I finally went out with a camera and got a photo and figured out where the pair is nesting.

A small pigeon sized raptor, a merlin, backlit perched in an elm tree.

Photo with the contrast turn all the way down of a merlin, a small pigeon sized raptor screaming its tiny head off.

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Clara Iwasaki @ciwasaki.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I've never been more proud to have married my husband there. JANM is not a major museum, unlike some of the others who seem to have not wanted to speak on record for this story. This decision does not come without risk and certainly not without cost.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 04/04/2025

J1851.1.4 Wool taken to pond for frogs and toads to weave.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I went to a good conference last week on translation and the Sinophone hosted by @chrissonghk.bsky.social, feat. @myetcetera.bsky.social, @ciwasaki.bsky.social and a lot of other folks. But I want to talk about one of the venues, the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬, short thread:

A modern library, with the circulation desk on the left and spaces for student study on the right. It's quite large; we had lunch in the back of the room (not pictured) while a storytelling performance went on in the open area in the right of the picture.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 31/03/2025

The national and local Conservatives have reportedly been at odds at times over candidate selection. But what is unique with this #CdnElxn2025 is the number of candidates who were seemingly chosen in spite, or because, of their proximity to controversy or extreme views. Christopher Holcroft writes.

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Extremist Candidates Welcomed on Poilievre’s Team | The Tyee

Radical views, including ties to JD Vance, seem to offer an edge instead of a barrier to being selected.

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