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Teaching at @cornellilr | The Urbanization of People: https://t.co/d1u8V9GZSz | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Madrid, Spain
Joined June 2009
We wrote this book to introduce how China's integration into capitalism transformed its society while catalyzing a destructive imperial rivalry with the US. Lots of reasons for pessimism, but as we show, resistance springs eternal! . Available in June.
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As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ever. From trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting...
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RT @jamestwotree: This took a lot of hard work. We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA program at the Univ….
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There's a whole restaurant in Madrid just to troll Xi
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Don't miss this one.
My new book (Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China) drops! Wanna know how China gained capacities dealing with COVID-19? Why gay rights can be illiberal? Etc. check it out!
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Coming in January, if I was in the US I would be absolutely be there!
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January 18th-19th, 2025 Event Address: Haymarket House, Chicago 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL 60613 The event is free. Registration is required to secure your seating. Featuring Sessions On: Roots of...
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NYU has a long track record of accepting censorship in its Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses, now it's boomeranging with a vengeance on the NYC campus.
🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨.NYU Faculty Arrested for Supporting Students in Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protests. Faculty Also Declared Personae Non Grata and Banned from Campus .NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024 .🧵
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RT @kimchimarx: Korean Confederation of Trade Unions just announced they would go on an indefinite general strike until President Yoon Suk-….
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First they call the NYPD on students, now this
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RT @brianhioe: There’s another rally against the KMT’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today outside the legislature tonight. Th….
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Workers facing unpaid wages murder their manager in Zhengzhou. The stress is literally killing people.
11月26日(发布) 河南郑州。东赵合村并城安置区二期工地���一名班组长被讨薪工人持刀杀害。. 死者李鑫今年39岁，于19年承接了惠济区一处安置房建筑工地的钢筋制作等工程。. 因郑州一建拖欠工资，班组6名工人找钢筋班负责人李鑫讨要工资，李鑫无力支付，最终一工人持刀直接杀死了班组长李鑫。
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RT @brianhioe: Would be a large shift if nurses is opened up as a category to international labor, particularly at a time of large departur….
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Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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They already snatched her husband, but she hasn't given up 🫡. Good snapshot of one of the many ways HK has targeted progressive activism.
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For Chan Po-ying, a labor rights leader, life is one of constant police surveillance, even on hikes. But she finds solace from tiny gestures of support.
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My co-author Ashley interviewed about our book, includes a post-publication update on Gaza
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Thomas Hummel interviews Ashley Smith about his new book, "Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry."
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“We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.”. New theory just dropped, Ideas Capitalism with Florida Characteristics .
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Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.
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RT @HKLabourRights: Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and Workers Against CCP Rally with UK Trade Unionists.🔥Join our demonstration to "Free….
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Among 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. Via @HKLabourRights
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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...
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RT @promise__li: Another with one of the longest jail terms is the city’s most visible leftist, ‘Long Hair’—organized since the 1970s in Ho….
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PRC seems to be getting comfortable with doing a little imperialism
Chinese authorities have reportedly detained Peng Daxun, the leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), in an apparent bid to halt the group’s offensives against the Myanmar military.
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