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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚

@harlanc.bsky.social
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Researcher of modern Chinese literature and culture. Feminist theory, political-economic thought, film and theater. Postdoc at the University of Göttingen. 不辣不革命 🍉🍉🍉

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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It has been a minute since I translated this Li Tuo interview ––glad that it made it to print! read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
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The Two Movements in the 1980s: Forces That Shaped Contemporary China
Abstract. In this interview, Li Tuo reflects on the complexity of the intellectual landscape of the 1980s. He observes that “Thought Liberation” (Jiefang sixiang) was not a uniform movement but rather...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
he's right and he's right to say it
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
why would I ever spend any of my academic life taking "ai" seriously (as subject). why should I. why should it be the focus of my work, my thinking, my artistic production? what are we doing here? turning from the entire world to a narrowest slice of simulacrum? are we serious?
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“ I need the shittiest take you have. No that’s too shitty”
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CeMEAS @cemeasunigoe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🎙️ Join us on June 3 for Dr. Harlan Chambers’ talk: Guerrilla Practice and the Cultural Conjury of Cooperation in Wartime China (1937–1945). @harlanc.bsky.social 📍 Göttingen | Info: www.cemeas.de/event/lectur... #CeMEAS #ChinaStudies #EastAsianStudies #GuerrillaHistory #PublicLecture
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
let’s go
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
today we all find out
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gateA close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil nowStudents holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Forget universities telling professors to keep quiet when their students are disappeared. Apparently, now universities will help disappear their own faculty…
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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tressie McMillan Cottom in '21: "We make a case for tenure that sounds like 'I need tenure to do my research.' I don’t think that’s a resounding case. All workers shd have those protections & if we’re not making that an explicit claim we’re pt of the problem." www.dissentmagazine.org/article/acad...
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Academia After the Pandemic - Dissent Magazine
A roundtable on how COVID-19 has changed American universities.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil. It cannot be business as usual. It’s time to strike.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
read Columbia university's response in this piece. unforgivable. faculty there better be organizing a mass work stoppage. that's the least they can do at this point against a leadership that is willing to sell out their Palestinian students like this.
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
One month later this thread hits even harder
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
Gov Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter college Palestine studies job posting calls for probe into ‘antisemitic theories’
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
My article on amateur culture and socialism now out in Modern China (open access). It's a study of amateur cultural practices and their importance for efforts to reform rural Hunan in the 1950s, as well as bigger implications for China's socialist project. doi.org/10.1177/0097... #Sinology #lit
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We all – workers, students, communities – must come together to defend our institutions and protect our local economies. Join us on Feb 13 for a National Strategy Call and Feb 19 for in-person actions across the country! More info: www.labor4highered.org
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Labor for Higher Education
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Shouting clown
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"i need to access your code"
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The show only just started, but somehow we’re already deep into the third act. A dozen characters are running around the stage all at once, slamming doors and leaping through windows wearing pink feather boas and huge sunglasses
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
People surprised that university admins are ready to throw people under the bus haven’t really been paying attention to how universities work Now is a good time to change that
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I have been invited to take part in PEN America's 2025 World Voices Festival, a tremendously exciting proposition for a relatively new and unconnected author. I am declining this invitation in solidarity with Palestine, and reaffirming the boycott put in place by Writers Against the War on Gaza.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy year of the snake!🧧🐍👊
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Dude this is so fucking bleak; I know I’m naive but I still genuinely cannot believe we have people in the humanities normalizing this stuff
Think of an LLM as a research assistant. An extremely knowledgeable, well-read, and over-caffeinated research assistant. They can accomplish quite remarkable things but they will also make mistakes - like mixing up “Selia” and “Delia”. Unlike most research assistants, LLMs will occasionally hallucinate (ie. make up) things that sound quite convincing. Don’t take their output at face value and always check their work.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 22/01/2025
Deport Elon Musk
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The "intentional destruction of educational institutions, libraries, universities, & archives" is apparently "outside the scope" of the mission to "promote historical studies," "preserve historical documents," & "disseminate historical records."
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Another hour, another call for another conference about teaching with AI. I am so supremely annoyed and bored and 💔 by this reactionary obsession: what a waste of opportunity to think about infinitely more constructive, convivial, empowering, life-affirming and existentially consequential things
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The resolution carries overwhelmingly and the opponents will have to carry the shame of speaking against it forever.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
the "officer down" star celebrating with balloons and party poppers
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Say his name: Mohamed Baalusha.This one really hurts. He discovered the massacred babies as Al Nasar hospital. Many months ago Mohamed was shot. Then, he was unable to move w an infection. He bravely returned to reporting , only to be killed today. He is abt the 200th journalist killed by US-Israel
Mohammee Baalusha
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine. Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...
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A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS
In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Del…
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Gentlemen of the Hàn (Three Kingdoms 1994 fansubs) @hanzhonglang.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Greetings new followers! If you are new, we are a fansubbing project for the 1994 Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, The definitive take on the Chinese historical story of Three Kingdoms, and one of the most influential period-dramas! Link: gentlemenofthehan.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/a...
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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A t-shirt for mid-career academics that says, “As I have argued elsewhere.”
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Even Yanayev knew that you had to get them to throw on Swan Lake
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墨花 @inkflowercarved.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today, as always 打倒法西斯主義 Smash fascism
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚 @harlanc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Wasn’t even on my radar…sorry?!?! SEZs???
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Pleased to announce that we've finished digitizing the 14 issues of the National Language Monthly 國語月刊 held by the Collègue de France (incl. the famous 1922 special issue on script reform) - now available in high res &open access for everyone to enjoy! salamandre.college-de-france.fr/archives-en-...
Cover of vol. 1 issue 3 of the National Language MonthlyCover of the special issue on the reform of Chinese characters of the National Language monthly, featuring soldiers brandishing phonetic-script looking swords charging upon a crowd of Chinese seal-script people under the gaze of passive alphabetical-letter bystanders
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