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Publishers Weekly: "This gripping debut history from Beijing-based lawyer Zimmerman recounts the 1923 raid on a luxury train by Chinese bandits .... Dramatic and meticulously researched, it’s an immersive look at a forgotten chapter of Chinese history." https://t.co/GYncYQXhWT

This is the most sensible and informed piece on Chinese politics I've read in a year and is worth reading in its entirety:

Shanghai police is checking everyone‘s phone to eliminate dissent and trance of protest. This has been common in Xinjiang against Uyghurs for years. Now it is normalized in more cities. Beijing is scared to the people in China！

Here is a close-up of CCP extraterritorial police 'offices' in Europe as quoted in @FT from the @SafeguardDefend report. Spain has the most with 7 CCP police offices followed by Italy with 5.

This translated post poetically captures so painfully how joy has been slowly squeezed out of life for so many in China over the past several years. Read this beautiful piece by @LiYuan6 https://t.co/mD0NWBThRU

someone mentioned "foreign hostile forces" in Liangma river the crowd responded in fury: "the foreign force you talked about - are they Marx and Engels"? "Was it foreign force that set fire in Xinjiang? Was it foreign force that toppled over the bus in Guizhou"? "Are you all here

Happening on Twitter at the moment at a time of unrest/protests taking place in various places across China. When trying to find the latest posts on situations in various places (in Chinese), you get endless streams of nonsense ads preventing quick access to actual information.

Chinese dissident @changchengwai is suspended by twitter for sharing a post commenting on Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders like Deng Xiaoping. looks like she has to delete the tweet to b back. @elonmusk care to explain as ceo of twitter or Tesla？

I think maybe the insects in Carson Ellis’ “Du iz tak” have made the explanations for #Mastodon For instance, I was trying to figure out how to noot a bingle without jeffing a bonk but couldn’t figure it out.

when Xi meets Scholz he does not even address him as name or title for the ’greeting‘ he just said “哎你好 Ah hello”

Sadly, CBC closing its China bureau after 40+ yrs in Beijing. In the 5 yrs I was there, official roadblocks made it increasingly difficult to report, and Beijing unresponsive in granting new visas to CBC. Still, being there remains best way to tell China story. Hope we’ll return

A Chinese mother butchered son‘s pet bunny and took this TikTok video（抖音 in China）for click… You ask what‘s wrong with China’s future？ https://t.co/DxqMcM69gR

Should Russia lose in Ukraine (it points to that direction now but Putin will likely have one more go w all in), it would strengthen Xi’s hand vis a vis 🇷🇺. But if Putin falls as a consequence, well, trying to work out the scenarios for Beijing.

I guess it’s“Little Pink” Floyd now…

75-year-old Hong Kong activist with stage four cancer arrested, held for 5 months without bail and found guilty for a one man protest that was only *planned* and never even took place.

Two documentaries I previously did on Hong Kong & Taiwan are now curiously age-restricted on ⁦@YouTube⁩. Means you can’t access them without signing in. Wonder who’s been flagging them 🧐

If you have time for just one China article or video, watch this 14-minute film by @muyixiao and the @nytvideo team. Based on 100,000 pages of documents shared by @ChinaFile it shows the astounding measures taken to build a nation-wide surveillance state. https://t.co/9scGjCEeJm

Commemorating the largest, peaceful demonstrations in world history.

Wu'er Kaixi and Rahima Mahmut: ‘When Western leaders chose to welcome China back into the global community after Tiananmen, they told our oppressors that the world was willing to accept their transgressions.’ ‘Uyghurs are among some of the worst victims’