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Gina Anne Tam

@dgtam86.bsky.social
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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 🇮🇹🇺🇲

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Still having a hard time believing they named a car after Han chauvinism
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BYD to launch Da Han sedan on October 13 with up to 1,008 km of EV range
BYD began pre-sales of the Da Han EV in China in late August, with prices ranging from 249,900 yuan ($37,030) to 299,900 yuan.
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: Peggy Wong Pik-kiu, the district councillor at the centre of the Wang Fuk Court disaster who served as an adviser to the owners' corporation during the promotion of the renovation plan, announced her resignation due to health reasons www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
The Government received today (September 26) a written notice from Tai Po District Council (DC) member, Ms Wong Pik-kiu, pursuant to the District Councils Ordinance (Cap. 547) (the Ordinance), to resign from office as a DC member due to health reasons. Ms Wong also resigned at the same time from her duties as member of the Tai Po South Area Committee and captain of the Tai Po Kwong Fuk and Plover Cove sub-district Care Team. The Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice Mak, said Ms Wong has served in the district for many years, and respects her decision.

     The Government will, in accordance with the Ordinance, publish in due course a notice in the Gazette to declare the relevant office of the DC member as vacant from September 26.
 (The Standard) Peggy Wong Pik-kiu
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 26/09/2026
Domestic workers called for an increase in their Minimum Allowable Wage from HK$5,100 to HK$6,172 at a rally outside the Labour Department on Friday. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/26/m... Photo: AMCB.
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Otalp, MBBS @otalp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
7 years ago, in Vancouver.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mid-Autumn Festival, 7 years ago
Source: Telegram (Sept 2019)Source: Telegram (Sept 2019)
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mid-Autumn Festival, 7 years ago
Source: Telegram (Sept 2019)Source: Telegram (Sept 2019)
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 24/09/2026
in a rule of law regime, judges rule once and the government abides by orders
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The policy was quickly revoked and waved off as a draft that got published before revision, but as someone who studied this for a decade, even I find this one bizarre since it banned Cantonese but not English?
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John dEFR0G does not pumpkin spice @defrog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The obvious question for me is WHY such a thing would be required in the first place. The most likely answer (and indeed the only one I can think of): someone in the production chain thought it would be more patriotic. Or would make the "patriots" happy.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's some funky-ass Cantonese she's spouting there.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Massive human suffering is acceptable if I like the outcome” is exactly why the last few centuries have had so much suffering in them.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 18/09/2026
Put another way, _people_ promoting the urgent use of “AI” in the military and offloading their responsibilities to a machine … could have started a war. Per reporting, a chatbot (predictably) produced false output. An analyst translated it into a claim, and some number of others didn’t check.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Israel literally uses surveillance technology in the West Bank that was originally developed by the PRC for racially profiling Uyghurs (they explicitly advertise this as a feature)
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How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank
Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gift link of this great article on English language learning in China (thanks Sakura)!
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gift link!
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In the Age of A.I., Some in China Wonder if Learning English Is Worth the Trouble (Gift Article)
A math teacher’s viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A first for me-- I was quoted in the NYTimes this morning! Thanks to Tiffany May for including me in this important story on English language learning in China in the age of AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/w...
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In the Age of A.I., Some in China Wonder if Learning English Is Worth the Trouble
A math teacher’s viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below.
A n i m a l s Across B o r d e r s
A Multidisciplinary Conference
L o c a t i o n
The Lehman Center
for American History
Columbia University
Ti m e
9 am - s pm EST
Thursday
September 24, 2026
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Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What can southern Chinese languages teach us about Chinese and global history? Join us in person at MIT or online for Laikwan Pang’s “A Short History of the Cantophone,” with Wing Chung Ng as discussant. Oct. 2, 2:30 PM ET Hybrid: MIT + Zoom mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And yet, we resist.
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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At least 3 activists have been detained by police outside Hong Kong's Prince Edward MTR station tonight on the anniversary of the "831 Incident", where police indiscriminately attacked passengers and activists returning from protesting on HK Island.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Also just an absolute goldmine for gender studies-minded TV watchers. An incredible portrayal of the complex, volatile fragility of American masculinity
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thinking a lot about my courageous college friend, Felicia Sonmez, today, who also lost her job as a national reporter at the Washington Post—for speaking out about the toxic sexism in the newsroom back in 2023.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am so sorry to have to tell you all this but Dolly Parton has passed away. A true queen has left. www.youtube.com/shorts/AOxsQ...
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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails
YouTube video by Happy Mag
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And if I ever get to heaven If I ever get to heaven If I ever get to heaven And Lord I hope I do I will walk the streets of glory I will walk the streets of glory I will tell my Lucy story And walk with her in red shoes
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Dolly Parton - Red Shoes (from the Dumplin' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Audio])
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Alys Brooks @alysbrooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Great day for research methods professors who need to fill up some slides with bad examples before classes start.
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just out: a special issue on decolonial thought and the implications of Soviet colonialism. Immense thanks to Nodira Kholmatova, Olga Burlyuk & Gulnaz Sibgatullina for bringing us together and special appreciation to Diana Kudaibergen and Selbi Durdiyeva for the synergies brill.com/view/journal...
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Asian Studies Folks: Delighted to announce I've just stepped in as Associate Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies. I'm so looking forward to reading all of your amazing research! read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
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Editorial Board | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press
Editorial Board | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press Editorial Board Editorial Office: Journal of Asian Studies University of Pittsburgh 4107 Wesley W. Posvar Hall 230 S. B...
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'll respond to this in good faith. I'm sure this person could find a new way for an AI subscription to improve my life. But its existence has already made my job and my teaching DEMONSTRABLY worse. I do not believe this hypothetical improvement will offset the way it has destroyed my pedagogy
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: #HongKong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/08/21/b... Photo: Jennifer Creery/HKFP and Peter Parks/AFP.
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amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...
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Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We've just published a varied collection of 96 photographs of early 1890s Hong Kong including this hpcbristol.net/visual/Do01-87
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
sideshows like this are bad because encourage readers to imagine that Good Scholars are being systematically replaced by worthless nobodies — when, in fact, they are being systematically replaced by overworked and underpaid versions of themselves, and shat on by personal essayists into the bargain
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I swear every time I log onto this site some AI hype person is excitedly pitching something that makes me want to crawl into a ball and scream
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I’m so moved that this story about Auckland’s Nowhere, a Chinese-language bookstore with Cantonese books, banned books, and others, features our book Decolonizing Chinese History www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/a-library-bo...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When China stepped up its crackdown on human rights activists in 2019, lawyer Wu Shaoping thought he found a safe haven for his family The United States Instead, it's America's ICE that's imprisoned this asylum seeker after a traffic stop My column on this outrage www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...
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Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will Bunch
The U.S.’s reputation as a safe haven for the world’s dissidents takes another hit with Pennsylvania’s arrest of a Chinese human rights lawyer.
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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I am quoted in @theguardian.com discussing Taiwan’s symbolic versus substantive support for Hong Kongers. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids
Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/07/2026
For the Nth time, this is precisely the stuff that rightly alarmed people when installed by Chinese authorities, now spreading in the US at precisely the time rule of law is eroding fast.
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Photo memories of another recently raided bookstore: Hunter 獵人書店. They used to sell bilingual postcards featuring quotes fr @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Tyranny & #Havel ‘s quote, “Living in Truth,” could be spotted at many indie #bookstores in #HongKong w incredible creativity, humour, courage
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 15/07/2026
Hong Kong police have raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people suspected of committing a sedition offence, local media has reported. Police were seen removing large boxes of materials from Have a Nice Stay, a 4th-floor bookstore in Prince Edward, at around 5.30pm on Wednesday.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 15/07/2026
you may as well propose an ethnic unity law, kemi
Kemi Badenoch: Britain is multiracial, but we must never become multicultural. We need to be proud to be British and understand what that means
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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 14/07/2026
"Hong Kong Diaspora Recreate New and Old Traditions to Keep Memories Alive" by @helenli.bsky.social
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Hong Kong Diaspora Recreate New and Old Traditions to Keep Memories Alive | New Bloom Magazine
In the rainy darkness of Taipei’s 228 Memorial Park’s amphitheatre, echoes of songs rang out…
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 10/07/2026
From earlier this week, @npr.org’s All Things Considered with a brief look at Hong Kong and how the city has been silenced 6 years after the enactment of the National Security Law. @dannydvincent.bsky.social reports www.npr.org/2026/07/05/n...
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Hong Kong's 'sound of silence': 6 years under the national security law
Six years after Beijing imposed its National Security Law, many of Hong Kong's opposition voices have gone silent. Danny Vincent looks at what's changed.
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 09/07/2026
|| NEW CALL FOR PAPERS || To mark 30 years since the Hong Kong handover, we welcome scholarly work and practitioners' recollections that revisit overlooked experiences, question established interpretations, or reflect on what lessons may be drawn from the city's history. Pitches due 30 September.
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Calls for Papers
Calls for Papers Here you can find the call for papers for the journal issues we are currently working on. The initial pitches should be no longer than 300 words and explain the key argument of your p...
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David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Now that funding is confirmed, Montrealers can look forward to a 7 part talk series I'm putting together for the upcoming (2026-2027) academic year on "Frontiers of Late Imperial China"
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