William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 9hwww.cvc.cam.ac.uk/events/tradi...cvc.cam.ac.ukTrading Beauty: From Europe to China, from Canton to the World — Qing Dynasty Canton Enamels - CVCA Cambridge Visual Culture event Monday 19 October 2026, 3.30pm Pembroke College Auditorium, Cambridge Trading Beauty: From Europe to China, from Canton to the World — Qing Dynasty Canton Enamels Dr J... 000
Reposted by William Hurstgarjives.bsky.social @garjives.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This could be interesting 🧐 143
Reposted by William HurstMaura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New post by @wjhurst.bsky.social, in which he further develops previous work (written with Christian Sorace in 2016) to dig into the term "ghost cities" and consider their various permutations in the Chinese context.cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for GeopoliticsAnalysis Wednesday 23rd September, 2026 043
Reposted by William HurstReuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026Taiwan pushes back after Xi seeks to win over Trump on World War Two narrative reut.rs/4ynf4f8reut.rsTaiwan pushes back after Xi seeks to win over Trump on World War Two narrativeTaiwan is pushing back against what it sees as Beijing's efforts to rewrite the history of World War Two after Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump highlighted the wartime alliance between their countries at a summit last week. 23727
Reposted by William HurstReuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026Wife of Malaysia's longest-serving PM Mahathir dies at 100 reut.rs/4y8sbQBreut.rsWife of Malaysia's longest-serving PM Mahathir dies at 100Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, the wife of Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, died on Monday, the veteran leader's office said. 1146
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Differentiated Desolation in #China's ghost cities: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 010
Reposted by William HurstWilliam Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Coming before too long: global.oup.com/academic/pro...global.oup.com 022
Reposted by William HurstMichael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Cambridge's William Hurst argues that not all empty urban projects in China are the same, and that the differences among them imply a different distribution of political and economic costs. 0174
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/0...insidehighered.com 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016...news.northwestern.eduEnd the Extracurricular Arms RaceStudents are so busy that they're being robbed of their education 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Internal economic weakness, debt, & inefficient investment limit #China’s foreign policy leverage, but not always in the same ways. But even “ghost cities” are not all the same: brownfield boondoggles are different from formalist facades: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki... #trump #summitcfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 011
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Four kinds of empty: thinking about different categories of ghost cities in #China: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Time to think again about ghost cities in China: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for GeopoliticsAnalysis Wednesday 23rd September, 2026 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some new thoughts about ghost cities in China: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/four-ki...cfg.cam.ac.ukFour Kinds of Empty: Rethinking China’s Ghost Cities and their Implications - Centre for Geopolitics 020
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Coming before too long: global.oup.com/academic/pro...global.oup.com 022
Reposted by William HurstThe Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 17/09/2026AUKUS Pillar II’s progress has proven difficult to judge – not due to a lack of activity, but because there’s no agreed metric for what success should look like. buff.ly/Ni8uWunbuff.lyWhat Has AUKUS Pillar II Achieved Over 5 Years?Pillar II’s progress has proven difficult to judge – not due to a lack of activity, but because there’s no agreed metric for what success should look like. 011
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/20262014 article on how social control is contracted out to social groups (including old people’s associations and crime syndicates) in rural China: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comReassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional VariationBased on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we a 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026First article (2014) to explain local Chinese governments’ reliance on gangsters and/or old people’s associations to keep the peace and make social control possible: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comReassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional VariationBased on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we a 020
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comReassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional VariationBased on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we a 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Two patterns of #governance in rural #China: A) relying on civic mediators like old people's associations; B) relying on coercive enforcers like gangsters and crime syndicates; Pattern A in Fujian, Pattern B in many other places. Massive survey & 100+ qual interviews 1/2 140
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/202612 years ago: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comReassessing Collective Petitioning in Rural China: Civic Engagement, Extra-State Violence, and Regional VariationBased on our analysis of a survey of over 100 villages across six provinces, in which we collected both quantitative data and in-depth interview responses, we a 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/20262014 article on governance in rural #China: researchgate.net/profile/Willia…researchgate.net25+ million researchers on ResearchGateBrowse through the biggest community of researchers available online on ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is important: edition.cnn.com/2026/09/08/u...edition.cnn.comNYC Mayor Mamdani releases 9/11 records showing officials misled New Yorkers about air quality around Ground Zero | CNNNew York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the September 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions aro... 011
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026madeinchinajournal.com/2017/09/24/t...madeinchinajournal.comTreating What Ails the Study of Chinese Politics | Made in China JournalFor almost as long as political science has existed as a discipline, the study of Chinese politics has been afflicted with a chronic disease. Depending on one’s perspective, this malady’s manifestatio... 000
Reposted by William HurstThe Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 21/08/2026Instead of losing their hold over the country, Cambodia’s ruling families have turned the scam crackdown to their advantage. thediplomat.com/2026/08/camb...thediplomat.comCambodia: From Scam Empire to Security StateWar with Thailand pushed Cambodia to enact a sweeping scam crackdown. Now the ruling elite is leveraging the same crackdown to consolidate its political control. 011
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026x.com/wjhurst/stat... If you liked the last thread about the decline of fieldwork in the China field, check out this one about the Southeast Asia field!x.comWilliam Hurst (@wjhurst) on XAs my earlier🛢️on fieldwork in China garnered so many reactions, here are some thoughts on why fieldwork is in decline specifically in the Southeast Asia field: 1/11 #SoutheastAsia #Politics #Pol... 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026youtu.be/t6VZZ-nHef0?...youtu.beIPR26 Keynote - Maelstrom without a Map: Multi-Polarity, De-globalisation, and Disruptive TechnologyYouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026x.com/wjhurst/stat...x.comWilliam Hurst (@wjhurst) on XIt’s worth reflecting upon *why* fieldwork is in precipitous decline, resulting in a serious erosion of comparative politics as a field. There are at least several reasons, detailed below specifically... 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Definitely worth listening to (even if you’ve never spent time at UT or in Austin): kutkutx.studio/texas-standa...kutkutx.studioRevisiting 'Out of the Blue,' 60 years after the UT Tower shooting - KUT & KUTX Studios - PodcastsColumbine. Sandy Hook. Santa Fe High School. Robb Elementary: Touchstones for a sense of shared tragedy. School shootings have become a part of modern life, but what do we remember of the event that o... 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 25/07/2026On Geopolitics, Explorations on War –Episode 15 youtu.be/moowQBLD7Hg?... via @YouTubeyoutu.beOn Geopolitics, Explorations on War –Episode 15YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics 120
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Parochial de-globalisation. What are they so afraid of? There's a long running conversation in Chinese politics about the difficulties of ascertaining accurate information when system insiders are all yes-men and all outsiders are barred or repressed... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump administration drastically limits length of foreign journalist visasVisas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 days 020
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 09/07/2026youtu.be/moowQBLD7Hg?...youtu.beOn Geopolitics, Explorations on War –Episode 15YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 09/07/2026youtu.be/SGxIrQZ4Zyo?...youtu.beExplorations on War - Episode 13, with Tang ShipingYouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics 000
Reposted by William HurstCentre for Geopolitics @camgeopolitics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The final episode of the 'Explorations on War' podcast is now live! Prof William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social returns to the question he began with –What is war?– and reviews the themes discussed with guests throughout the series. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: bit.ly/4uenjZ6 021
Reposted by William HurstFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/06/2026Pakistan says US-Iran deal to be signed within 24 hours ft.trib.al/w9cpGg9ft.trib.alPakistan says US-Iran deal to be signed within 24 hoursStrait of Hormuz will be reopened as part of ceasefire extension, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says 83412
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 10/06/2026 open.spotify.com/episode/0uD3...open.spotify.comSeeing Like a State: How Tops-Down Management Styles Create Disaster in Complex Systems | William HurstWork For Humans · Episode 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Scatalogical humour always gets attention, even in the form of bad (and potentially dangerous) practical jokes... 010
Reposted by William HurstWilliam Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Available now! youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comIndo-Pacific Roundtable 2026 - YouTube 001
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Available now! youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comIndo-Pacific Roundtable 2026 - YouTube 001
Reposted by William HurstFons Tuinstra @fonstuinstra.bsky.social · 05/06/2026China to tighten oversight of private investment funds - Reuters www.msn.com/en-us/money/... 011
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Full videos of the entire conference available at the bottom of the page: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/indo-...cfg.cam.ac.ukIndo-Pacific Roundtable 2026 - Centre for Geopolitics 021
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This is actually at least potentially quite important (likely much more consequential than trump's Beijing visit): www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/c...cnn.comChina’s Xi Jinping to make rare trip to North Korea next week | CNNXi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week for a rare visit just weeks after the Chinese leader hosted US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin for separate, nearly back-to-bac... 020
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Interesting: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAukus: US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drone technologyThe technology, developed under the Aukus military pact, is aimed at protecting undersea cables and boosting naval defence. 000