Clyde Yicheng Wang
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Aspiring political scientist, but more political than scientific. China, ideology, propaganda. Asst prof @wluwilliams . PhD from @BU_PoliSci . HKUST alum. He/him.
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Chinese government's obsession with "foreign forces" 境外势力 is not simply blame shifting. It's a continuation of the logic of their own propaganda. Unlike orthodox Marxism, Leninism does not believe the "masses" can have their own agency. CCP is not Marxist. It is Leninist. 1/
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New article🚨This article, coauthored by me and my brilliant partner Zifeng Chen, is freshly online
@n_nationalism
. We discuss the gender undertone of China's nationalist discourses. Link is here: 1/3
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My article on China's external propaganda is now online in Journal of Contemporary China! The article examines how the purpose of external propaganda has changed in the past decade, and how it is managed by the Propaganda Dept and the Foreign Ministry.
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It is important to remember to remember that the movement was about hope. Not fear, not hate, not hopelessness.
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They cannot fathom the fact that discontent people may gather spontaneously because they need to express themselves. They know nothing. 4/4
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And it is Lenin who famously said, "there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves." So if the masses ever have a collective consciousness,then there must be some propagandist behind. And it's not only "foreign forces." 2/
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At virtually every protest scene you will see the policeman asking the protestors, "who organized this?" They are asking everyone they can find to confirm 李老师 is the boss behind all the protests. They think there must be a conspiracy group somewhere leading the protests. 3/
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Congratulations to me for passing the dissertation defense! A huge thank you to all my committee members: Joe Fewsmith,
@TaylorBoas
,
@LidaMaxwell
, Liz Perry, and Tim Cheek! I’ve loved my PhD journey and look forward to more research and knowledge in the future!
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New article coming soon!!! My article titled "The Ideology is Blowing in the Wind: Managing Orthodoxy and Popularity in China’s Propaganda" is accepted by
@polcommjournal
. I know it's shameless to say😂, but this is a must-read piece if you want to understand China's propaganda.
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I was obviously joking when I said Zizek was the only true leftist. For what I know, Terry Eagleton, in his usual witty language, has published one of the best takes on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Take a look:
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New article🚨!!! Thanks
@polcommjournal
for making it online so fast! Shamelessly speaking, this is a must-read piece if you want to understand Chinese propaganda!
In the past ten years or so, state media have done a lot to promote its popularity... 1/
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Such convenience in “communist” China is built on harsh exploitation of cheap labor provided by this delivery guy and millions of folks like him, so that privileged ignorant Westerners can cheekily claim that “China is the future.”
This type of comments is obnoxious.
Only in Communist China can you order Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and have it arrive 25 minutes later by a guy riding a moped.
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Voted YES for having a union today!
@gradworkersofBU
Vote today or Wednesday at GSU second floor!
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I get the message, but this sounds as if scholars based in Chinese universities or institutions are not included in the “global community.”
“When were you last in China?” By the end of this year, almost the entire global community of China-focused academics/researchers, students, foreign policy specialists, business-people, etc. will not have set foot in the country in at least 3 years…
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这世界不是以中国为中心的。就算这些学生真的大多都是把中国当左翼灯塔的小傻瓜，在这件事上也是以色列的嘴脸更像CCP，为了反CP而反巴勒斯坦才是毫无道理。何况大多数左翼学生绝不是国内自由派想的那种反向灯塔主义蠢材，人家比中国自由派拎得清多了。
这就是我为什么说美国校园抗议虽然用心善良方式和平，但我难以支持其诉求。中国如果入侵台湾被炸惨了，这些人马上挥舞五星红旗抗议，因为从组织者身上就能看出那种吃腻了面包想换屎试试的那种无条件支持外国威权，反美反国际秩序的意识形态。尽管到时抗议的人可能不会有这么多吧，但会是同一拨人。
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I'll be talking on China's propaganda work this Saturday at
#AAS2023
with some wonderful colleagues. Join us if you happen to be a morning person! (I'm not, but what can I do?)
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interesting. 我有一篇working paper认为，汪晖为代表的新左派在学术圈内已经发生了含义上的变化，比以往的新左更加国家主义和民族主义了。这里受访者所理解的新左已经与学术领域的新左完全不是一回事了。
an interview worth reading. it is the new "new left," really. smell some influence of troyskyism. the abrupt ending is noteworthy
//记者：但是，比如汪晖、甘阳等人，至少在学术界被认为是新左派的代表人物，您对他们了解吗？
大火炬：不了解。//
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I'm not sure if tankies are the worst of these groups. I'm particularly triggered by them because they could have been better. I expect nothing else from Carlson or Mearsheimer. But Chomsky? if you brand yourself as "critical," you shouldn't so easily fall into Putin's trap.
There are five groups that are actively or tacitly supporting Russia, or at least tolerate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The first one, the most despicable and intellectually dishonest, is the tankie left, as Wang explained here
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Delighted to see my coauthored article published online first in
@GIGA_Institute
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
Link:
I want to thank my coauthor and life partner Zifeng. She’s amazing.
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In CCP history this is called 纠左 (correcting leftist mistakes). 纠左 usually takes a much longer time than what the center wants, because lower level cadres believe that making leftist mistakes are better than making rightist mistakes - and they are usually right in that.
Politburo standing committee/Xi top meeting discussing 20 measures w. goal of optimized/targeted measures.
The word “精准target” will be getting more emphasis. Guess: days of "contact of a contact quarantine次密接" likely be adjusted down. /1
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Great thread to read. I think the fundamental problem of Mearsheimer's view is that he doesn't think "small countries" like Ukraine can be actors with their own agency in international politics. It's always about great powers. 1/2
I'm a
@UChicago
international relations professor and I strongly disagree with John Mearsheimer's views on the War in Ukraine.
Here's why.
[Short THREAD]
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A huge chunk of China/East Asia-related job openings in the academic job market this year are about security. This appears very concerning for me, and not just because I can't apply for these jobs.
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Carefully finishing my friend
@simonshluo
's article on Wang Hui, I can confirm that this is truly a great article. Since this article resonates well with a paper project that I'm currently working on, I will shameless present an unsolicited review of it. Simon's article 1/15
I wrote about how Wang Hui's theory of depoliticization and debates about this idea help theorists of the political party understand the relationship between the charismatic leader, mass movements, and possibilities of party renewal. Open access at
@apsrjournal
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I am happy to tell everyone that I plan to be in Seattle next year at the AAS 2024 conference to talk about intellectuals in the PRC!
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Of course protests in the US are organized by hostile Chinese forces, just like protests in China are always organized by hostile US forces.
NYU Professor Scott Galloway blamed China for anti-Israel protests on college campuses on “Morning Joe.”
“If you look at TikTok, there are 52 videos that are pro-Hamas or pro-Palestinian for every one served on Israel.”
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Propaganda department and Foreign ministry do not communicate. Not the first time this happens.
My favourite Twitter genre today is Chinese propaganda apparatus claiming the balloon story was made up by the Pentagon to smear China, before the Chinese Foreign Ministry admits it **is** their balloon
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New year, new career update: I will be joining
@wluwilliams
as an assistant professor in political science after my graduation from BU!
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Oh well, dude blocked me after I explained my position on Palestine. Who else find his cover picture ironic?
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最近微信上有一篇文章批评我不久前发表的关于“祖国爸爸”的文章是站政治正确的队。怎么港，我实在是没有想到，之前天天在豆瓣上diss学术圈的我竟然有一天会被人批斗成学术圈政治正确的既得利益者。1/
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Okay I guess now it's time to advertise our
#AAS2024
panel. Nobody hates early morning more than I do, but if you are from East Coast or Asia, I guess jetlag will make it alright...? Anyway, please join us on Saturday morning to talk about intellectual history in China! 1/2
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One thing I hate about political science is that when you painfully talk about some tragedy happening in the real world other people are like "That's a very interesting thing that's worth studying!" In Chinese we call that 发国难财.
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@MariaRepnikova
The "authoritarian country" part always triggers me. As if people want to be coming from these countries. We are all forcefully represented by our states I guess. What if I say "don't give scholarships to countries that elected Donald Trump and Boris Johnson"?
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I mean, these two books are two of the best books I've read on Soviet ideological history, and I owe everything to Library Genesis.
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I just finished my dissertation. Will spend another week editing and revising before turning it in, and then I'll defend in early May.
Up next in the weekend: grading midterms...
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As far as I can tell: No comments from Xinhua or People's Daily other than quoting the Foreign Ministry. Bsically no comments from the media system except for pro-Russian comments by nationalists outlets (环球时报 and 观察者网). Not much censorship on wechat for now.
Interested in this too. Yesterday someone leaked a directive to avoid anything criticizing Russia. The coverage yesterday was subdued as well. Haven’t had a chance to check everything today.
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@rzhongnotes
I mean, people have disagreements all the time but I don't understand why she thinks your comments are "hateful."
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I really regret not reading Arif Dirlik eariler. And I really hope more scholars in China studies or postcolonial studies, or just political science and sociology in general, can read his works.
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Friends was my first sitcom. My first English TV show. For kids in China growing up in the 2000s, Friends has some symbolic significance that cannot be summarized that easily. It was our first experience of the outside world. Matthew Perry, I'm forever grateful to you. RIP.
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I see there's a common question ppl ask about discourse analysis: Do you have statistics about exactly how popular this discourse/social phenomenon is? Is it "mainstream"?
My answer: Maybe no, and it's fine!
Let me give some examples: 1/
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Interesting study. But I got questions. 1. Experiments like this heavily rely on priming effect. But does priming effect capture the long-term outcome of "soft power"? Intuitively, the "softer" the propaganda is, the less significant priming effect it should have. 1/3
The Economist: Chinese propaganda is surprisingly effective abroad
New study reveals that CGTN videos-- which aim to tell
#China
's story well--were particularly persuasive among audiences in Africa & South America
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Looking forward to meeting fellow Asia/China scholars next year in Boston at AAS!
Our panel features
@ashleyesarey
,
@linanyao
, Heike Holbig, and me, with Timothy Cheek as discussant and chaired by Joseph Fewsmith. We will discuss how propaganda forges social and political norms.
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第五，中国学界不学无术的人有没有？当然有挺多。但据我观察，这些人往往是不关注性别问题、底层生活、工人文化这些具体社会话题的人。也只有没有实感的人才会不认为这些问题才是当下迫切需要关注的问题，或者认为背诵古文观止比关注社会问题更重要。7/7
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Quantitative researchers when they see discourse analysis
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As a recent graduate from
@BU_Tweets
I stand firmly with BU grad workers on strike for a fair contract that values their work and can actually sustain their life. BU - please do the right thing and meet the demands of your employees.
#BUGWUonStrike
#Solidarity
@gradworkersofBU
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#AAS2023
has been so exciting that I didn't have time to take pictures! But it was great to listen to people talk about new ideas and communicate with old and new friends. Hope to see yall next year in Seattle!
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Awwwww my paper was cited by one of my favorite authors!!!
(This is Pang Laikwan's new book One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty. It'll be out in April and this is the preview of the introduction and I really look forward to reading it!)
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And why is being leftist better than being rightist? Because leftist mistakes are usually considered 方法错误 method mistakes, whereas rightist mistakes are considered as 路线错误 line mistakes. In this case, not doing 精准防疫 is method mistake; not doing 清零 is line mistake.
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Let’s face it: Netanyahu’s Israel is just as much a bandit state as Putin’s Russia. Anyone who supports Ukraine but does not condemn Netanyahu is a hypocrite.
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My new paper on external propaganda 外宣 of China has been accepted by the Journal of Contemporary China. In the paper I discuss the structure and operation of 外宣, and how the structural fragmentation leads to inflexibility externally and fuels nationalism domestically.
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Here’s to surviving the first semester as an assistant professor! (Finished the last class of 2023 today!)
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We argue that China's economic success has greatly reshaped its popular nationalism. In a trend that we call "consumerist nationalism," consumerist norms and nationalist sentiments reinforce each other, and
consumption replaces political participation as 2/3
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This is such a common mistake made by Israel supporters. Let me say this again: the US authority is applying two completely sets of laws to pro-Palestine activisms and pro-Israel ones. If the latter is legal then there is nothing illegal about the former. 1/
There were no legal ways for the Tiananmen students to protest with. China essentially banned (still bans) all forms of dissent. They had to resort to occupying the square to make their case.
There are many many many legal ways with which US college students can protest.
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认为支持台湾就必须支持以色列，民进党这么决策情有可原，毕竟人家需要美国，普通中国人这么想，就完全是冷战站队思维，可以认为是CP教育的遗留影响。
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How ironic. This streamer got banned exactly because he did what the party expects him to do: completely forgetting about June 4th.
33 years after Tiananmen, some young Chinese just learned about it on a shopping live stream. The discovery was helped by the marketing creativity of the host "Lipstick King" and the hair-trigger reflexes of China’s vigilant internet censors.
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@dikaioslin
Exactly! 我感觉还有一点是，很多西方的左翼理论家没有把中国的国家权力视作一个问题，他们沿用了旧的思路，认为市场就是所有问题，市场的权力必然大过国家、大过一切，所以对于他们流水线式套用理论进行的批判，国家从来都不会是首要的批判对象。汪晖投靠了国家主义，对他们而言就是so what
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Next step Wang Yi will ask Nicholas Burns to install 学习强国 on his phone.
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said to Blinken: If the U.S. really wants to understand China, please study the 20th Party Congress report (by Xi Jinping) carefully.
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Initium translated my recent article to Chinese!
端传媒将我不久前发表的文章部分编译成了中文，希望更多读者可以看到。
原文：
「今天祖國爸爸過生日，結果全世界都跑過來抱大腿了」、「祖國爸爸一慶生，全世界的商場都坐不住了」
從什麼時候開始，中國網民們很少使用「祖國母親」而是一口一個「中國爸爸」？
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The "if you acted peacefully like MLK and Gandhi things will be all good" discourse is so toxic, and a deliberate misrepresentation of MLK and Gandhi. As if MLK never broke the law and went to jail during a protest!
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Someday I'll write an article with the following opening:
"A crucial factor that is somehow too often neglected by scholars of Chinese politics is exactly how stupid its top leaders are."
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I deleted my previous post about tankies, because I don't want to be seen as anti-leftist. I have no respect for tankies, but it's not fair to focus fire on them. There are better aspects of leftism worth paying attention to. Peace.
I'm not sure if tankies are the worst of these groups. I'm particularly triggered by them because they could have been better. I expect nothing else from Carlson or Mearsheimer. But Chomsky? if you brand yourself as "critical," you shouldn't so easily fall into Putin's trap.
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Oh this is such a delight!
Thank you to everyone that attended Assistant Professor Clyde Wang's talk on Chinese propaganda last Friday! And, of course, thank you to Assistant Professor Wang for coming down to Charlottesville
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Seen on Chinese social media today: claiming to be the victim of racism while calling other people by the N-word. Classic / 典.
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I’ll have my first zoom I terrier in this job market cycle. Wish me luck!
(Here’s a pic of my boy, Philip, looking hopeful.)
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I always remember the first day I went to college and saw "Citi Bank Lecture Hall." For me that remains a harsh reminder that academia is not free. Sure Panda Express Fellowship is not sth special, but it doesn't mean we should normalize all those things.
like oh my god, how dare the asian american, privately owned fast food chain name a scholarship after themselves??!?! 🐼
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On one hand, yes, I agree with the conclusion. But, this is a false reduction of Taiwanese cultures to the culture of the mainlanders who migrated there after 1949. People who had lived in Taiwan before the Chinese civil war have had their cultures shaped by a distinct history.
Free and fair elections in Taiwan, Republic of China, prove there is nothing "cultural" or "traditional" about Chinese autocracy, no reason why the Chinese communist party must rule indefinitely on the mainland.
Which is, of course, why the Chinese communists don't like it.
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BU grad works are unionizing. Join us.
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That incredibly amazing moment of hearing
@PatriceTipoki
singing Defying Gravity
@thetheatrecafe
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When "small countries" do things, there must be a great power behind exerting its will. Ukraine and other East Europen states are only pawns of US and NATO. So it's NATO expansion not East Eu states seeking NATO protection. The intention of small states don't matter. 2/2
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I argue that, since 2012, external propaganda's purpose has changed from promoting soft power in the form of "traditional culture" to projecting the image of a great power. 2/
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China is easing zero-Covid in the manner of zero-Covid because that’s the only manner this bureaucratic system knows.
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BU will have a grad union!
1,414 yes - 28 no
(313 provisional ballots not counted)
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One of the very few really good China articles in APSR!
I wrote about how Wang Hui's theory of depoliticization and debates about this idea help theorists of the political party understand the relationship between the charismatic leader, mass movements, and possibilities of party renewal. Open access at
@apsrjournal
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I mean, sure, we need to study all the bad things. But the only way to study is through empathy and solidarity with the people suffering. In social issues there should be no such thing as "purely academic interest." Don't cite professionalism as an excuse for you not to care.
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我觉得还是别了，不然本来能轻判成寻衅滋事的事情以后全判成煽颠谁受得了。
我们都知道问题不是某个法条某个罪名，问题是谁在使用这些法律。
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I think China's problem with external propaganda, however, is exactly that it's too "hard." Strategies like credit claiming or showing off infrastructure projects can have strong priming effect but will become annoying in the long run. (Do anyone know how to test that?) 2/3
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Y'all, I study propaganda, I see through propaganda. What triggers me most is that Israeli propaganda resembles China in so many ways - conflating regime loyalty with group identity, justifying genocide by labeling them all terrorists, stigmatizing protests by provoking fear...
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I could actually sympathize with him in the 1970s. People put hopes on the revolutions, and it's not fair to delegitimize the entire idea of revolution based on the deeds of Pol Pot or Stalin. But now? Putin is no revolutionary. He is the most reactionary thing you can imagine.
in the late 1970s when the Khmer Rouge's atrocity became obvious, he attacked the refugees for making stuffs up to discredit the revolutionary regime to please western journalists and officials hostile to comrade Pol Pot. it is beyond delusional.
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Job opening 🚨 My new department - the Department of Politics at Washington & Lee University
@wlunews
@wluwilliams
is hiring! Seeking someone in American politics, preferably with a secondary concentration in theory. Application link is here:
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Can academics please stop using this type of bullshit language? Thank you.
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The students are arrested based on made up charges that they endangered public safety. That is result of stigmatization of all pro-Palestine activism as antisemitism and this “new antisemitism” is an invented concept by the state of Israel to deter international pressure. 2/
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Individual editors at the official media/departments’ Weibo accounts sometimes have great autonomy. Many are recent university graduates like us. I would say this doesn’t mean any official endorsement, but shows how fragmented the authority is.
Holy moly! Justice Net, an official Weibo account of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (basically, the prosecutors) just posted message opposing LGBT discrimination & bullying for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia. cc:
@manyapan
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It's now published in an issue with 50 more free access! 😜
New article🚨!!! Thanks
@polcommjournal
for making it online so fast! Shamelessly speaking, this is a must-read piece if you want to understand Chinese propaganda!
In the past ten years or so, state media have done a lot to promote its popularity... 1/
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Do we not know academic jobs are hard to find when we apply? Academia means many things we can't control, but so does everything in our life. I'm not sure if I can continue my research in the future, but *trying* to make some impact through my work is something I won't regret.
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@DrEmilyMatson
Lu Xinhua's 伤痕, which gives the name to 伤痕文学; Liu Xinwu's 班主任, which is usually considered as the first piece of 伤痕文学; Zhang Xianliang's novels; and of course 芙蓉镇.
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I am NOT going to APSA this year. I do not cross picket lines.
So APSA is crossing a picket line on behalf of "underrepresented scholars"? HA! You do not represent me or other "underrepresented scholars"
Also, shame on calling a strike a "dispute"
This statement wants to have its cake and eat it too
I'm boycotting
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The chanting is “35 thousand death, you are arresting kids instead”
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In China, this is the 27th year of no commemoration of a non-existing event.
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as the main form of nationalist practices. Nationalist discourses deploy the stereotype of femininty related to consumerism and political disengagement, and construct the nationalist public as feminine children needing patriarchal state protection. Read the article for more! 3/3
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