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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I sympathize! I was so allergic to “being influenced” when I first read her that I never honestly sat down and thought about how she chose/found her world of influence. I’d read that if you did it!

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No literature professor reaction to the Nobel this time, I just really really like Anne Carson. One of those “I want to write like that” authors.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

因为《背诵与辞演》最近被香港中文大学出版社出版了译本，我集中了所有的汉语研究，开了网站的新板块： www.nickadmussen.com/2001325991.h... 欢迎来临！新书： cup.cuhk.edu.hk/ReciteandRef...

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TODAY ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very strongly recognizing the narratives and feelings in this. Why do our best students get punished for speaking truth to power while those who loathe and abuse women get the benefit of the doubt? 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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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really hope people read this. It needs a header image, though. Suggestion:

McGruff, the crime-fighting dog. He spent forty-five minutes obsessively documenting that you didn't read any of the things you claimed to.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I strongly believe this in my own field, from the bottom to the top. "The AI invented this citation" is neither a relevant defense nor true. You put it in the essay without reading, checking, or engaging with it. It only became a citation when you made the claim yourself in research under your name.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 25/09/2026

been a while since I saw a mutant character that really delighted me

new to me: one 或 on top of another 或 that's been turned upside-down. It is apparently writing the homophonous 惑, "confusing."

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Craig @craigpearson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Death at the Console: The Fiscal Impact of Exploding Screen Technology and Replacement Bridge Crews.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Translating Wookie Prosody: Three Experiments

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The one where you can destroy your ship and your self to avoid infecting the rest of the galaxy with an unstoppable alien virus. And you turn the page half-expecting a deus ex machina to reward your virtuous sacrifice and save you, but no, you fly into the sun and die, the end.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolutely will be scrutinizing the shelves for this at my next trip to the market.

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Cheburashka @leshij.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Having consumed actual Chinese army rations before, this could not be further from the truth (though maybe they’ve upgraded in the years since)

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ah, right, machismo! I forgot it existed. :D

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Review: low-quality, small protein (“pink tube” style, iykyk), great variety of fibrous veg, very very spicy. I wonder if they tone down the army version for Dongbei soldiers

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Picked this up at the Chinese supermarket out of curiosity and just realized it comes packaged with its own heating unit. Very convinced this is the consumer version of a PRC MRE ration

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently not intended a joke, Cornell University has set up an Expressive Activity Area just in front of the police station

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely came up in my lecture yesterday on semicolonial China and opium. The average drug dealer can't trick/force your boss into scoring on your behalf...

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

新書 📢《背誦與辭演：當代中國散文詩》 ——比散文更凝練，比詩歌更自由歷經五四啟蒙、社會主義與先鋒文學的洗禮，散文詩可謂 20 世紀中國最難以定義、卻又始終生機勃勃的文學類型。中大出版社 9 月新書《背誦與辭演：當代中國散文詩》，由學者兼詩人安敏軒（Nick Admussen）撰寫、麥熙雯翻譯。作者提出顛覆性的理論視角，主張散文詩的本質不在於固定形式，而在於「背誦」（重複與彰顯前人）與「辭演」（拒絕完全相同並重組創作）之間的張力。本書從毛時代郭風、柯藍的實踐，談到劉再復的告別，再到歐陽江河與西川的先鋒語言實驗，細緻重繪當代中國散文詩的歷史版圖，深刻揭示文學脈絡與政治語境的複雜互動。

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes, had this Monday. Was very brief!

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also CU has a subscription, and sometimes stuff falls off the back of the truck

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wrote a full on narrative bibliography for twentieth century Anglophone studies of Chinese poetry, took me almost three weeks, been out for a year, nineteen views, at least five of which are me. The field is small but not that small.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Don’t let folks tell you Gen Z students can’t read. Kicked-off my Duke first-year class with this favorite Lydia Davis story - projected text onto a whiteboard so we could annotate by hand. So many smart and insightful readings, by a group of 18 year-olds in their first week of university life.

If you ask her what is a favorite story she has written, she will hesitate for a long time and then say it may be this story that she read in a book once: an English-language teacher in China asked his Chinese student to say what was the happiest moment in his life. The student hesitated for a long time. At last he smiled with embarrassment and said that his wife had once gone to Beijing and eaten duck there, and she often told him about it, and he would have to say the happiest moment of his life was her trip, and the eating of the duck.

-Lydia Davis, Happiest Moment

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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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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh, sorry, I thought they were free access but probably I was auto-logged in. Google my name + send me an email, it's on the uni website profile.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Very rich and affecting selection of poems by the factory poet Xiao Hai in brand-new translations by @myetcetera.bsky.social -- my favorite is "nonfiction," most of which feels like he is literally spitting the words: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A great essay whether or not you live in DC -- a case study in what migration means for ideas and communities. Also recommended: the JF Books youtube, where you can see the events they run: www.youtube.com/@JFBooks%E5%...

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In related news, professor David Hull (@hushuo) is known for his excellent translation of Mao Dun and other Republican-era Chinese literature, and also for preaxial polydactyly, as he has an additional thumb on each hand.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New wrinkle in the Google AI update: it is scraping Bluesky, which means you absolutely can, trivially, plant false information into it, all you have to do is account for its propensity to garbage up the false information you feed it.

The google AI notes correctly that I have been making fun of it for hallucinating me incorrect spouses, but continues to hallucinate me incorrect spouses, and also confuses me with someone else who has been making fun of it for hallucinating incorrect spouses.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“A Man in a Rush” by Wang Jibing 趕時間的人王計兵 Rushing wind from air Rushing knives from wind Rushing fire from my bones Rushing water from flames Seasons don’t exist for a man rushing for time #everynightapoem trans. EC

Photo of Wang Jibing in delivery man uniform

Rushing wind from air
Rushing knives from wind
Rushing fire from my bones
Rushing water from flames
Seasons don't exist for a man rushing for time
Only one stop and then the next stop
The world is but an address
As is Wang zhuang Village
Every day I run into delivery men flying here, flying there
Striking the earth with their feet Setting off endless sparks

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

you cannot even afford to live in your own poem Johannes Göransson

From the book SUMMER

When I read the lilacked message from my mother of pearl father to my daughters of pearl döttrar they are in the painting they invented the painting I invented döttrarna you didn't invent us you cannot even afford to live in your own poem when you wake up gravitysick with images of children by the border pöbeln you wake up with a toxic virginity yes I wake up with treasonous
lilacs 1 want summer to go on forever I can't
pay for it there are two girls in the painting that failed to become a master
piece I don't own it I don't own a gun I don't even own this poem summer does

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Glad to announce that the Cornell University department of Asian Studies is hiring -- the position is a three-year visiting assistantship in contemporary Taiwanese humanities: asianstudies.cornell.edu/visiting-ass.... 2/2, assistant professor salary and benefits, many disciplines welcomed!

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Visiting Assistant Professor in Contemporary Taiwanese Humanities

Position announcement

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

omg, not 为, 未. I do this for a living, I swear.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Things I learned from the online Tiananmen Massacre museum, #15: Wang Fei performed a protest duet with the guitarist from Beyond in 1989, called "An Unsettled Heart" 为平复的心： www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-Q.... Source (the whole museum is terrific) here: 8964museum.com/art/en/a-c01....

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王菲《王靖雯》專輯_未平復的心 [動態歌詞]

YouTube video by milly music

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Claude has been consistently the best AI I've used: I have some kind of bad cookie in my cache, so every time I visit the site the page simply refuses to load, and then I think twice about whether it's worth manually clearing my cache in order to use the bot. Chef's kiss.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Later it said, "there's a good chance we can produce what is effectively the first comprehensive bibliography of [poet]'s poetry publications. As a fellow scholar of modern Chinese literature, I'd enjoy helping with that project." I wouldn't have picked "bored, self-important" as an AI affect.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ChatGPT is getting weird: I got frustrated looking for bibliographical information this week, and asked it, and in the (useless) answer, it generated a header saying "I would actually enjoy doing this," under which it said "This is exactly the sort of bibliography I like reconstructing."

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Little AI update. First, Google AI mode is still bringing the heat. Definitely the absolute best at being absolutely, unrepentantly shit at almost everything it does, while simultaneously being the least avoidable chatbot in the world. They are absolutely gonna get sued over this stuff eventually.

A Google AI answer to the question "who is Nick Admussen married to" which says "Nick Admussen is married to a man, though his specific spouse's full name is kept private outside of mentions regarding his husband and family life." Every piece of this is wrong, and the false information actually answers questions that nobody asked.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This will mark one of the first translation journal publications (he's been in books, I believe) for my co-translator Kevin Dong, and it couldn't be a better debut. Thanks very much to the editors and supporters of the journal, and to Tang Juan for sharing his work with us!

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you like translations in general, or if you're bilingual and are curious, Asymptote has the broadest geographical coverage, the most assiduous editing, and the deepest archive in the game right now, _and_ it's free, _and_ it's un-enshitified. www.asymptotejournal.com; you can browse for daaaays.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Very proud to present two translations of the Taiwanese poet Tang Juan in the brand-new sixtieth issue of the translation journal Asymptote: www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/two-p.... They are good ones! And Tang Juan recorded audio, so you can hear him read them! A moment on Asymptote, too: 🧵

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Two Poems - Asymptote

Autumn Rain                        My essays are dust—where should they go?

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 12/07/2026

Literary Chinese for When You're Glad:

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My translation of Xiao Hai's poem "Made in China" appears in an extended profile / interview with him in @observeruk.bsky.social! Read the interview here: observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Underappreciated difficulty of parenting: are you freaking out about the venal (go to your room), the existential (let's have a hug), or -- here's the tough one -- the horror of existence as it is manifested in the meaningless humiliations of daily life? Because I got nothing for that last one.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oh, yeah. I've had editors strip it from my citations. But that doesn't mean they're right. :D I lived across the street from one of his habitual coffee shops in Swarthmore PA for a year and he was always, always kind to me.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 30/06/2026

Victor had a ton of material on Dungan 東干 (and probably a lot of other things!) in his home that he had planned to do something with someday. Not sure who will/can take it, but when his basement flooded 10+ years ago he saved that before he saved his childhood photos.

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