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Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca| @shichapodcast.bsky.social 時差 cohost |🐻JAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |🐻 AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. ting902.com

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
原住民 vs 原居民 & the political creation of indigeneity: the changing meaning of #indigeneity of Hong Kong’s “indigenous inhabitants” 原居民 from “an ethnic group peripheral to colonial culture” to “Chinese awaiting this reunion with China and being part of the mainstream of Chinese culture.”
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Writing about 2019, feeling emotional all over again. Hong Kong artist Ah To reimagined two shy students trying to avoid touching each other's hands when forming a human chain in the style of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam: they were CREATING their own vision of the city & a future of freedom
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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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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“I’m a bookseller.” Her T-shirt says. The defiance when she was cuffed & taken away by the police. Another bookstore in #hongkong: 留下書舍 Have a Nice Stay.
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
WOW, thanks to open access and everyone's support, it's currently the most-read article in the journal...
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Immigration Bodhisattva. By Toronto-based artists for @loudnqueer_openmic. . . . . . #diffusedreligion #immigration #toronto #canada #queer
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Filling out #Canada census for the 1st time. They’ve clearly done some homework for the #religion question…
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This. The frustration of working on (women and) Christianity in #HongKong is that most studies simply praise the church for “liberating” Chinese women. The church in early colonial days preached conservative Victorian values that were just as patriarchal as the “Chinese customs” it condemned.
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The paperback edition of my 1st book, #Religion, #Secularism, and #Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China, is coming out this June! Many thanks to everyone who supported me along this journey. The intro, "Not Exactly a Love Story": shorturl.at/sI4sq TOC: shorturl.at/ak0hJ
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The point of diff Chinese translations is indeed interesting; the PRC one is the most #secular, to avoid religion in popular imagination & discourse (& for “religion” to serve the official, implicit political religion)
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
If in #Vancouver/ going to #AAS2026 ! Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 2:00-2:45pm, Auditorium, Asian Center, UBC To register: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event...
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The most inspiring aspect of Anderson’s Imagined Communities: how colonialism engenders anti-colonial nationalisms (& its relationship to the paradox of Marxist nationalism).
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Noticing smth new each time in Village Life in #HongKong: #Politics, #Gender,& #Ritual in the New Territories: it was written during the Cultural Revolution/right after the “67 riot” in HK; the Watsons contextualised the political-economic making of Chinese patrilineage (“ #Confucianism”❌)
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Happy new year! 1st book talk in 2026 & first time on UTSC campus! RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon... #toronto #love #booksky #utsc
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Researching on women & #Buddhism in #HongKong; history indeed looks entirely different if we centre women instead. The earliest Buddhist community, school, hospital, chaplaincy… were all founded by women, monastic or lay, during the war, the Cold War, social upheavals, famines, pandemics, and more.
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Speaking of mourning; if in #Vancouver, a memorial gathering for #hongkong:
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
#hongkong 🥹 local NGO (that usually facilitates food waste reduction) opening up for those in need to stay, w/ two meals a day, all FREE OF CHARGE up to three months:
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@hongkongggag.bsky.social on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRl5yG6EYj... #hongkong #hongkongfire
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
From “Mission for Migrant Workers”: www.instagram.com/missionformi... #hongkong #hongkongfire
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I wrote a book how #religious #nationalism works in the contemporary world, even in a #secular ( #socialist) context: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So glad that #Indigenous Knowledge in #Taiwan and Beyond (eds Shu-mei Shih, Lin-chin Tsai) now has a Chinese edition: #booksky
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Last day #aarsbl25. Edited amazing reviews on incredible books b4 heading to the airport. Doing editorial work during a mega conference was ☠️👻 But reading such engaging, empathetic words can be magically therapeutic & empowering. This is what makes the job meaningful. Thank U all for ur part in it
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
More books from #aarsbl25 #aarsbl2025 incl Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making #Buddhist Families in Modern #Taiwan, Countless Sands: #Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments, #Islamic China: An #Asian History @protass.bsky.social
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Taking a moment from #aarsbl25 to celebrate this recently award-winning #hongkong film #Queerpanorama 眾生相. #Queer and #Buddhist at the same time (each trans-boundary encounter contributes to the making of the protagonist’s sense of identity). #goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In the same panel, Myung-Sahm Suh on the #transpacific connections to “make Korea great again”
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
And we have #billygraham (& his role in creating anti #communist #ColdWar #postcolonial #Christian #nationalism in #Korea)
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#aarsbl25 Sandra Park on #Christian #nationalism in #Korea as an enemy-making product of the violent conditions of the (religious) #ColdWar ( #Religion, #Resistance, and Reform: #Political Polarization in the Wake of South Korea’s 2024 Martial Law Decree panel)
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#aarsbl25 So-Yi Chung, on #Joseon #Confucian #women ‘s writings on “resenting heaven”: from passive #emotions to reflexive transformation #koreanreligions #kreligion
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Beyond grateful to everyone at my book panel 🥹🫶 it’s a book about top-down language & politics of #love (its #religious & #socialist affects), and such solidarity is precisely what subverts, disrupts, & transforms. #aarsbl25 #aarsbl @aarweb.bsky.social
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
And quick exhibition hall tour before I collapse from jet lag: #aarsbl25 #aarsbl #aarsbl2025
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Full house for Sharon Suh’s edited volume Emergent Dharma: #Asian American #Feminist #Buddhists on Practice, #Identity, and #Resistance #aarsbl25 #aarsbl #sblaar
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Esmond Soh on Institutional and #Ritual Reproductions of Male Authority in the Nine Emperor Gods Festival of #Postcolonial #SoutheastAsia
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
#aarsbl2025 #sblaar Masculinities in #Chinese #Religions: Beyond Wen and Wu; Kin Cheung on “The #Masculinity of a Chinese Religious #Healer [in #newyork; aka his father] beyond Wen-Wu: Attending to Wounds, Physical Contact, and #Intimacy in the Healer-Patient Relationship”
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Relevant to all the “(re)civilisational” discourses; from yours truly: Reinventing #Confucianism: Authoritarian Traditionalism & Parental Governance
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Not many universities are willing to purchase physical copies nowadays. Extra grateful to friends at Seoul National University!!
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
And on Saturday, I’ll have the pleasure of joining @naasr.bsky.social ‘s “Contextualizing Crisis w/o Universalism” roundtable! #aarsbl #aarsbl2025
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
#aarsbl folks! Slightly embarrassing but plz join my book panel on Sunday 5pm; My brilliant friends & colleagues will discuss the book from the perspectives of #religion & #politics in modern #Asia, #transpacific studies, #decolonial biblical studies, and of course #affecttheory: #aarsbl2025
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Got this “Hong Kong add oil” pin from a frd (genius design from the 2019 movement). Wore it for the 1st time for a workshop on Hong Kong
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
#canadiano, just like Americano ☕️ but Canadian…
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
In 2024 we published a special forum on #religion & social movements in #HongKong. It received a lot of positive responses 🙏 The topic remains critical and we’d like to transform it into an edited volume. Grateful for any information on potential publishers! Thank you! t.co/ETkaJITTmq
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Looking forward to Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission 平等機會委員會 founder Fanny Cheung 張妙清's memoir that hints a different feminist trajectory: not in terms of early 20th c May Fourth intellectuals/activists (as in China), but postwar- #ColdWar (student) movements & the emergence of civil society
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Father’s Day, John…
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Singapore friends! It’ll be a flying visit but it’d be wonderful to see you 💛 Wed, 12 November 2025 2:00–4:00 pm FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42 Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If in Seoul/ Korea: I’ll have the pleasure of discussing my book at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Sogang University on Oct 20 (Monday), 4 pm. Fun fact: Sogang is director #parkchanwook’s Alma mater
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Wang Hui: "But...this expected “revolution” [Occupy Wall Street] has not yet appeared in China...Why?...China is vast and regions are unevenly developed has ironically acted as a buffer in the context of the financial crisis... Second, China has actually been in a constant process of adjustment..."
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
In her Facebook statement, the playwright Candace Chong Mui Ngam 莊梅岩 cautioned against private attacks, purges, & eliminations of dissidents under the name of National Security Law. A very Cultural Revolution moment in Hong Kong:
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Memories of Hui Muslims during the Great Leap Forward: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3GpOPnOw-8...
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
💔 if in London:
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Shi Yongxin 释永信, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, vp of the Buddhist Association of China, 3-time member of the National People’s Congress, is finally under investigation for alleged “illicit relationships w several women” & having “illegitimate child.” He was 1st exposed on the internet in 2015 but
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