Reposted by Shen LuChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Writer, chef, granddaughter @shen-lu.bsky.social on family meals and finding a way home. open.substack.com/pub/alltimeh...open.substack.comMy Dinner Table, My VillageHow China Lives in the World 012
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I’m writing again. This essay published on Hai reflects on leaving and becoming, and what’s lost along the way. Hope you will read along. open.substack.com/pub/alltimeh...open.substack.comMy Dinner Table, My VillageHow China Lives in the World 041
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025So very cool to work on my last front-page story @wsj.com with @chunhanwong.bsky.social! 041
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Yes it’s me :( If you know of cool opportunities, please be in touch! 0104
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025My latest about the controversy around the Harvard graduation ceremony speech delivered by a Chinese student and how that illustrates the problems Harvard and Chinese students in the U.S. are facing today: www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comChinese Student Trolled Over ‘Humanity’ Speech at HarvardThe graduate student drew wide applause at commencement ceremonies in late May. Then came the online attacks, from both Chinese nationalists and Beijing critics. 020
Reposted by Shen LuMichael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Tomorrow: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17... 093
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social · 30/05/2025We unpack how targeting Chinese student visas could hurt US universities' finances & American innovation in 5 charts. With Liyan Qi, Ming Li. So, 1 in every 4 international students comes from China. They make a larger share at some elite schools👇 t.co/zbxOCHiAsj 13520
Reposted by Shen LuJosh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Chinese scientists in the U.S. are bracing for a new wave of government scrutiny. Expect this to lead to a new wave of Chinese scientists in fields like AI leaving the U.S. Here's a telling chart, plus a gift link to the full story by my colleague @shen-lu.bsky.social www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... 195
Reposted by Shen LuKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...open.substack.comColumbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism. 9953691714
Reposted by Shen LuAir-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Thread: prevalence of post-approval changes in generic drugs and jicai (集采) drugs. I analyzed >160k supplemental filings and found widespread post-approval changes in generics and jicai drugs. Importantly, jicai drugs underwent more changes than non-jicai counterparts. bsky.app/profile/airm... 131
Reposted by Shen LuAir-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025一致性评价是确保仿制药有效、安全的关键监管措施。然而,若仿制药在通过一致性评价后,生产环节发生变化,是否依旧符合与参比试剂的一致性? 实际上,一款仿制药在通过一致性评价后,可对原材料供应商、生产工艺、生产厂址等多项生产环节进行变更,而无需重新进行一致性评价,多数情况只需在省级药监部门进行备案。 我分析了国家药监局公布的2019年至今的16万余条药物补充备案,发现通过一致性评价的仿制药、进入集采的药品中,广泛存在过评后生产环节的变更。 并且,进入集采的药品,相对于同成分但未进入集采的药品,进行了更多此类变更。 这些变更并非一定会影响药效、安全性,但仍需解决如何对此进行有效监管的问题。 2197
Reposted by Shen LuAir-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Thread: I found data fraud in multiple clinical trials for generic drugs in China. I've seen limited coverage outside China of the recent controversy over 集采 — centralized procurement of drugs, especially generics. It is a hugely important issue close to my heart. 613252
Reposted by Shen Lu小径残雪 @xiaojingcanxue.bsky.social · 05/01/2025李宇晖:How China's dictatorship evolved from personal to collective, and then b... youtu.be/CLCHWfshnE8?... via @YouTubeyoutu.beHow China's dictatorship evolved from personal to collective, and then back to personalYouTube video by Huey Li and the news 011
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Meet Alex Zhu, a former "little pink" whose journey from a staunch party supporter to an outspoken critic reflects what many young Chinese have experienced in recent years. www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comHow a Young Chinese Nationalist Turned Her Back on BeijingStudying overseas, a former “little pink” started questioning her patriotic education. 39432
Reposted by Shen LuThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/11/2024A former legal intern who was also a family babysitter says that Kennedy touched her inappropriately more than two decades ago and that she is willing to testify before the Senate. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-c…wsj.comSexual-Misconduct Allegations Sank One Trump Nominee and Loom Over KennedyFormer intern and family babysitter says Kennedy touched her inappropriately over two decades ago 1911544
Reposted by Shen LuDarius Longarino 龙大瑞 @dariuslongarino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Re-upping this piece on the mirror images of MAGA & PRC nationalist anti-LGBTQ rhetoric: "while purveyors of moral panic in the US have called LGBTQ History Month a 'left-wing social experiment' & pray to 'save America from homosexuality' keyboard warriors in China1/2 thediplomat.com/2022/12/dont...thediplomat.com‘Don’t Say Gay’ Is Happening in China Too. But It Can’t Turn Back the Clock.Despite the many differences between the United States and China, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in each follows a similar logic. 124
Reposted by Shen LuThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/11/2024Walmart, the world’s largest private employer, said it will roll back initiatives aimed at enhancing DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion, at the workplace, as such programs face growing legal scrutiny and conservative backlash.wapo.stWalmart rolls back DEI commitments amid conservative backlashDiversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in U.S. workplaces are under growing scrutiny. Activist Robby Starbuck had targeted Walmart’s policies in an online campaign. 95220105
Reposted by Shen LuAlice Su @aliceysu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...open.spotify.comClimbers (part one): A way out of ChinaDrum Tower · Episode 88429
Reposted by Shen LuSophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Thanks to #Stanford #SCCEI for great rsch, including: “firms in innovative industries, such as [AI] & nanotechnology, prioritized by the Chinese govt…are 2.7 percentage points more likely to penalize applicants supporting Western democracy compared to other firms.” open.substack.com/pub/scceichi...open.substack.comDoes Ideology Influence Hiring in China?How has the resurgence of ideology in recent years affected the economic opportunity of job seekers in China? 021
Reposted by Shen LuEli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months. HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low hklabourrights.org/research/win...hklabourrights.orgWinnie Yu Wai-Ming - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察She's been detained since March 2022. Winnie Yu is a registered nurse by profession and the former chairperson of the Hospital Authority Employee Alliance. Yu won the democracy camp’s primaries in the... 0156
Reposted by Shen LuAustin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Benny Tai, a scholar at the heart of Hong Kong’s biggest national security trial, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday. Other sentences in the case, which crushed the pro-democracy camp here, ranged from just over 4 to more than 7 years in prison. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/china/...wsj.comHong Kong Court Sentences Dozens in Case That Crushed Pro-Democracy CampDefendants include politicians and activists who had hoped to win control of legislature, a plan Beijing found subversive. 24324
Reposted by Shen LuDake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social · 18/11/20241/My colleague Fu Ting writes on a recent new, but unnoticed clampdown on independent bookstores in China - and how some are finding new homes overseas. At least a dozen have shuttered the past few months alone, with the owner of one arrested: apnews.com/article/chin...apnews.comAs China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseasIndependent bookstores have become a new battleground in China. They're getting swept up in the ruling Communist Party’s crackdown on dissent and free expression. 112061