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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

Despite my funny face in the video cover: honoured to be featured by @utscresearch.bsky.social @utsclibrary.bsky.social and to be a finalist in the category of Best Work in the Study of Practices, Communities, or Lived Contexts, AAR @aarweb.bsky.social book awards 2026!!

On the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.

"The rise, demise, and rebirth of the legendary bookstore embody decades of political and economic developments in China, and its transpacific journey lays bare the unruly contours of language and identity." @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes for @chinafile.bsky.social about JF (Jifeng) Books.

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.”

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

Get familiar with the academic job market in #AsianStudies at this AAS Digital Dialogue on August 19, led by Dr. Paula R. Curtis of the Diversity and Equity Committee. Get insight into how to set yourself up for success now! https://bit.ly/DEC-JobMarket

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

“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.

How has the rise of Asian popular culture in the twenty-first century expanded our understanding of global Asias? In what ways might media representations empower or disempower Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, as well as those belonging to other diasporic communities?

How does the framework of Asia contribute to Indigenous Studies, and what does or can Indigeneity mean within Asian contexts? What happens when the concept of Indigeneity travels beyond and does not map neatly onto well-known settler colonial paradigms developed around Western environments?

Two important panels for #AAS2027 by the Diversity and Equity Committee!: 1) Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present 2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation!

The @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee is pleased to announce our #AAS2027 sponsored panels! "Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present" and "Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation"! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pro...

CFP - Following the special forum in the JAS @asianstudies.org entitled ‘‘Religion and Social Movements in Hong Kong,” we are now looking for authors to join us in an edited volume #Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and #Religious Affects in #HongKong! Details below:

WOW, thanks to open access and everyone's support, it's currently the most-read article in the journal...

Guangtian's excellent review of Chiara Formichi's #Islam and #Asia: A History in the JAAR! //...historical contingencies... “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central to the understanding of Islam and Muslim histories as it perhaps ought to have been...//

Immigration Bodhisattva. By Toronto-based artists for @loudnqueer_openmic. . . . . . #diffusedreligion #immigration #toronto #canada #queer

🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️ We had a great conversation with Taomo Zhou about her fascinating research in the international history of the Cold War, Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, motherhood in the CW, and the transnational history of Shenzhen. shicha.buzzsprout.com/1171871/epis...

One more report on OMNI TV with @tingguowrites.bsky.social, Bernice Cheung, and a student about @utsc @utsclanguage’s first offering of an intensive Cantonese language course in this summer!

Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century:

The latest hk action blockbuster #coldwar1994 寒戰1994, while paying homage to classic hk cinema Infernal Affairs, A Moment of Romance & of course the Lion Rock, is a vivid example of the neo-colonial+ nationalistic interpretation of postcolonialism…

Honored to review Alvin's book Unruly Companion that inspires more marginalized conceptualizations of the queering of social and political orders transnationally; incl the lingering question: how the minoritized communities in #HongKong felt uneasy imagining themselves in that future:

Filling out #Canada census for the 1st time. They’ve clearly done some homework for the #religion question…

And more from the advanced articles, Ilyse R Morgenstein Fuerst's review of Chiara Formichi's Domestic #Nationalism: #Muslim Women, Health, and #Modernity in #Indonesia:

Beiyin's insightful review of The Oxford Handbook of Lived #Buddhism edited by Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck: //Building on the broader turn toward “ #livedreligion”... “lived Buddhism” offers an overarching framework through which Buddhism in the plural...can be more fully represented//

Iqbal's brilliant review of Kieko Obuse's #Buddhism and #Islam: Mutual Engagements in Southeast #Asia and #Japan: "In a field often dominated by narratives of conflict and civilizational clash...amplified in recent decades by media coverage of violence in Myanmar, southern Thailand, and elsewhere"

New PUB👀! This article traces #filialpiety from its origins in ancestor worship, its institutionalization in #legal codes, state examinations, & state-sponsored rewards, its religious dimensions in Daoism & Buddhism, to its incorporation in modern state #governance: Filial Piety in #EastAsia:

The new episode of our 开门见山 podcast is out! In the wake of the adoption of the new 'ethnic unity law', @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with @dbyler.bsky.social and @rianthum.bsky.social on centuries of Islamic life in China, the repression in Xinjiang, and how identities survive state violence.

No matter which institution you hail from, we'd love to hear about your experiences navigating these turbulent times across the globe. Read more and bookmark the event here! cdmcd.co/XKv9qq