William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...globecollegetown.substack.comCollege campuses need to be liberated from their administratorsHigher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students? 010
Reposted by William HurstWilliam 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 011
Reposted by William HurstWilliam 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 1/2 141
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/2027-in...cfg.cam.ac.uk2027 Indo-Pacific Roundtable – Call for participation – Deadline 1st December - Centre for Geopolitics 000
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/2027-in...cfg.cam.ac.uk2027 Indo-Pacific Roundtable – Call for participation – Deadline 1st December - Centre for Geopolitics 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The past four and a half months have further validated everything in this speech: youtu.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 · 02/10/2026Apply today: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/2027-in...cfg.cam.ac.uk2027 Indo-Pacific Roundtable – Call for participation – Deadline 1st December - Centre for Geopolitics 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/2027-in...cfg.cam.ac.uk2027 Indo-Pacific Roundtable – Call for participation – Deadline 1st December - Centre for Geopolitics 010
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.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 · 30/09/2026www.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. 13628
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 · 26/09/2026www.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 · 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 011
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 · 24/09/2026www.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 · 24/09/2026Four 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 · 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 · 24/09/2026www.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 · 24/09/2026www.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 · 23/09/2026www.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 001
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 · 23/09/2026www.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 · 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 · 23/09/2026www.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 · 16/09/2026papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Article in Comparative Politics, July 2014 2/2papers.ssrn.comPage Cannot be Found 010
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 1/2 141
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