Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026uyghurpost.com/joshua-friym...uyghurpost.comجوشۇا فرىيمېن «كېچىدە تۇتقۇن قىلىنىشنى كۈتۈش» ناملىق ئەسەرنىڭ تەرجىمىسى ئۈچۈن 2026-يىللىق پەترىك د. ھەنىن مۇكاپاتىغا ئېرىشتى | ئۇيغۇر پوچتىسىۋاشىنگتون – ئامېرىكا ئاسىيا تەتقىقات جەمئىيىتى (AAS) 2026-يىللىق تەرجىمە ۋە ئەدەبىيات مۇكاپاتلىرىنىڭ نەتىجىسىنى ئېلان قىلدى. بروۋىن ئۇنىۋېرسىتېتىنىڭ دوتسېنتى، 010
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanDavid Porter @dcporter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Congratulations to all the winners, especially my 師弟 @jlfreeman.bsky.social for his fantastic Hanan-Prize winning translation of Tahir Hamut Izgil's Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, a really essential read for anyone who wants to understand what Uyghurs have experienced in recent years 151
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanDavid Porter @dcporter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Really thrilled that Slaves of the Emperor has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies (pre-1900) by @asianstudies.org! www.asianstudies.org/aas-2026-pri...asianstudies.orgAAS 2026 Prizes - Association for Asian StudiesThe AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. Please join us at the Awards Ceremony during the AAS 2026 Annual Conference in V... 1184
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanNick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Little tiny me in that grid down there, also very excited to find @jlfreeman.bsky.social! 131
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This week, we’re debuting a new issue of multilingual writing from the US. This poem by Uyghur writer Tahir Hamut Izgil (tr. @jlfreeman.bsky.social ) takes a close look at the intersection of environmental extraction and human exploitation. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... 035
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025"While the firms that rejected a deal and fought back have now notched a string of decisive wins in court, others that sought to appease Mr. Trump have seen high-profile resignations and internal discord." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...nytimes.comTrump Loses Another Battle in His War Against Elite Law Firms 010
Reposted by Joshua L. Freemaneileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025A generation before me, my parents also came to the U.S. for higher ed (they went back to Taiwan after getting their doctorates). We are among legions who came and continue to come to the U.S. for its stellar higher education. Excruciating as a new American watching this country self-destruct. 17918
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Proud of the stand @harvard.edu is making. Proud of the way @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been reporting it. Alum of both, giving money to both. These famously privileged institutions are leading the fight for all of us. Respect. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comJudge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin From Revoking Harvard’s Ability To Enroll International Students | News | The Harvard CrimsonA federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to Harvard in its suit to block the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke its authorization to enroll international students. 13760106
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanBruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 15/05/2025Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.youtu.beLand of Hope and DreamsYouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 50838731314
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Admiration to @anntelnaes.bsky.social Beyond her artistic and intellectual talent, she has moral and civic courage. One of the very first to Stand Up. (Resigning from WaPo after ed-page editor, himself later fired by Bezos, censored one of her cartoons. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui... )anntelnaes.substack.comWhy I'm quitting the Washington PostDemocracy can't function without a free press 336093
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature. 05843
Reposted by Joshua L. Freeman"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/05/2025media.tenor.coma man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind himAlt: a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him 192249280
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanEmily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Only one member of the broadcaster’s vaunted Uyghur language service remains. 03717
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081 5865979220443
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanEric Schluessel @ericschluessel.bsky.social · 22/04/2025This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comIntroduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ... 03827
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Very proud of Harvard in this moment. Well done, President Garber. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...harvard.eduThe Promise of American Higher EducationNo government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue 020
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comWhy Catullus Continues to Seduce UsImbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record of a divided and fascinating self. 010
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanRory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social · 11/04/2025In Xu Zhiyong's writing, there is a notion that citizenship is a two way street. It entails the rights of democracy and the responsibility to protect it. I did some thinking this week on being a citizen in this moment. Please share if you find useful. rorytruex.substack.com/p/what-do-i-... 0135
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanAdam Dalva @adamdalva.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I am very moved that the board of the National Book Critics Circle has chosen me to serve as our next President. It’s an incredible group at @bookcritics.bsky.social and I can't wait to get to work with them. 10472
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanEmily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 08/04/2025One of the best jobs in the world is up for grabs: @npr.org is hiring for a China correspondent job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...job-boards.greenhouse.ioChina CorrespondentInternational - Remote 08431
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025After Trump and Vance's disgraceful performance today, I think we could use a reminder of what true leadership looks like. Zelensky's defiant, eloquent speech on the eve of the war remains a remarkable example. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...theguardian.com'We will defend ourselves' from Russia, says Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in speech– video'When you attack us, you will see our faces, not our backs', says Ukrainian leader to Russia leadership 021
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanHannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Utterly appalled by this. Non-refoulement is at the heart of international refugee standards. My heart goes out to those deported, their families, and the Uyghur diaspora. Such a blatant transgression of a core humanitarian principle is a chilling precedent for refugee communities worldwide. 063
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025If Bezos is so worried @washingtonpost.com coverage will cause Trump to harm his interests, why not donate WaPo to a trust? WaPo's financial value is a tiny fraction of Bezos's $$$ but its value to our society is huge & this would salvage a bit of Bezos's dignity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comJeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell | Margaret Sullivan‘I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted,’ says former top editor Martin Baron 010
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Government does important work — but not if DOGE can prevent it paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-govern...paulkrugman.substack.comOur Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled DisassemblyMusk is moving fast and breaking important things 751610441
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanXin Wen @xinwen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Thrilled to learn that my book The King's Road had been awarded this year's Levenson Prize (pre-1900 category)! I am very happy and extremely humbled by this recognition. 3205
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org 7434573010788
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13/02/2025For Vichy/Quisling Repubs in House + Sen, no humiliation is too deep, if threat is losing the job See: L Graham, S Collins, J Ernst, etc I've been fired. Most people have been fired. Losing a job is NOT THAT BAD. Especially for people who'll still be rich www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n... Contrast:nytimes.comDanielle Sassoon, Manhattan Federal Prosecutor, Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered DroppedDanielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. 1228958
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Probably the best summary I've seen of the dangers American democracy now faces, and of the tasks and challenges awaiting those who want to prevent authoritarian entrenchment. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comThe Path to American AuthoritarianismWhat comes after democratic breakdown. 000
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you're in district w/ GOP rep, *call or write*—202-224-3121 main Capitol #, but just go to individ web site—and say you want your elected rep to stand up for *Congress* as co-equal branch, to determine spending, etc They take this seriously. (For each person who calls, 10x are thinking that.) 23726336
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 10/02/2025"I ought to take a nap and leave the many meanings of a single word lying on my table" If you love this poem, you can read a memoir excerpt from this same writer/translator pair on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...wordswithoutborders.org"The Radio" by Tahir Hamut Izgil - Words Without BordersUyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir, Waiting to be Arrested at Night, is out now from Penguin Press. In this excerpt, the author recalls his childhood introduction to the Chinese government's ban o... 062
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanJan Steyn @jsteyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Do you know who should be the next Translator in Residence at the U of Iowa? Tell them to apply! 1136
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanDavid Porter @dcporter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The first review of Slaves of the Emperor has come out in JAS. Thanks to Yan Hon Michael Chung for the generous review of what he calls "a conceptual revolution of understanding the Eight Banners and the Qing rulership." read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...?read.dukeupress.eduSlaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners 1187
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 06/02/2025“Fine Furs, Sleek Horses” (輕肥), Bai Juyi 白居易 (772-846) 26022
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Of all the destructive and cruel things the Trump-Musk administration has done so far, this must be near the top of the list. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...nytimes.comDozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID OrderThe stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care. 000
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The 2/28 deadline for submissions is coming up, so make sure to get your applications in, early-career translators! 1168
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025The Trump administration has tapped Darren Beattie to handle public diplomacy at the State Department. This is an appalling choice for many reasons. One is that Beattie has spent the last few years alternately denying and cheering on China's repression of its #Uyghur community. 1/3 164
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Ekhmetjan Osman is one of the most influential figures in modern #Uyghur poetry. In this unforgettable poem, he pays tribute to those who influenced him. Thanks to @grantamag.bsky.social for publishing my translation! granta.com/ancestors/granta.comAncestors | Ekhmetjan Osman | Granta‘A cold star breeze, you pass through my eyelashes.’ A poem by Ekhmetjan Osman translated by Joshua L. Freeman. 032
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanTom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Shao-yun Yang's critique of historians' habit of applying the label "cosmopolitan" to the first half of the Tang dynasty. Excellent reminder to all of us that you can't ignore the rest of the world even if you're only telling the history of one region or linguistic sphere. doi.org/10.1017/S002...doi.orgTang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge CoreTang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach 33912
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanNick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025V. lucky to have been able to translate Zhang Zao poems with fellow Cornellian Yanting-Leah Li, because they are absolute. bangers. "In the Mirror" and "Drifting," from the brand-new _A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry_. The book is here: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... 061
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanDavid Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Very true. When I taught a course entitled “The Politics of Authoritarian States” (back when I was an ABD at OU) our first lecture was centered on this piece from @tompepinsky.com. As he notes “everyday authoritarianism is boring and tolerable.” tompepinsky.com/2017/01/06/e...tompepinsky.comEveryday Authoritarianism is Boring and TolerableMalaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for fifteen years. It is also a country whose political liberalization I have long awaited. Malaysia has a … 275
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanCenter for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 23/01/2025Emerging translators, this grant opportunity is for you! Applications due 2/28. 0107
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Congrats to everyone on this shortlist—among them WWB contributors Elias Khoury, Humphrey Davies, László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, Judith Kiros, Kira Josefsson, Iman Mersal, and Robin Moger! 083
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Just published in @grantamag.bsky.social: "The Translator," a brief and striking poem by Tahir Hamut Izgil, in my English translation. To my knowledge, of all the exciting work Granta has published from many languages over many years, this is the first #Uyghur poem. granta.com/the-translat...granta.comThe Translator | Tahir Hamut Izgil | Granta‘I might walk endlessly’ A poem by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman. 21611
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanMartha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Grants for literary translators @wwborders.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...wordswithoutborders.orgWords Without Borders Announces Third Annual Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without BordersThis grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace. 01311
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanMoore Prize for Human Rights Writing @mooreprize.bsky.social · 08/01/2025We are delighted to announce the winner of the #2024MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing: Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil (translated by Joshua L Freeman. Congratulations to Tahir and Joshua! #nonfiction #literaryprize #books #China #Uyghurs 11110
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanYiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, is recruiting a researcher specializing in Ming-Qing history! Application instructors in the link below #🀄️📚 #sinology #sinologists #history #chinesehistorywww1.ihp.sinica.edu.twFull-Time Research Fellow Position in Ming-Qing History1. Rank: Assistant Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow or Research Fellow (positions roughly correspond to assistant professor, associate professor and professor at the university level in t... 01114
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanEmily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 31/12/2024So thrilling to see advance copies of my book out in the wild!! Launch date is this coming March www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947... 39016
Reposted by Joshua L. FreemanDavid Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social · 31/12/2024There are so many things to say here: 1) It is unconscionable to deport asylum seekers— especially those who will face severe punishment if they are remanded back to countries they fled. This is also true of so so many cases beyond just the Hui people in NYC profiled here. 1224