Join us for a series of book talks in Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Taipei on Dr. Eno Pei Jean Chen's new book, 'Cultural Politics of Love.' Featuring alumni Chiu-Hong Liang (PhD '13) at NCKU history & wen liu.
nccupress.nccu.edu.tw/book/bookdetai…

Engaging and emotional panel on 10 years of Sunflower and Umbrella Movement today. I’m touched by the panelists call for not leveraging suffering as the point of solidarity, btw TW, HK, Ukraine, Palestine, as it neglects the labor of doing contextual and historical analysis.

Is Ma Ying-jeou Taiwan’s Kissinger?
-formerly respected but deeply unpopular in their countries at end of office
-welcomed in Beijing
-inexplicable media adulation
-over the hill but desperate to be centers of attention
-supernatural powers (死亡之握 and ability to avoid death)

I was fortunate to read an advance copy of Catie Lilly and @mhar4's new book, Revolutionary Taiwan. It exceeded all expectations. Chou and Harrison have presented a Taiwan-centric historical narrative that explains its search for identity, sovereignty, and nationhood.

Tw Sunflower and HK Umbrella Movement Ten Year Retrospective on April 12, 3pm at NTNU 台師大. Roundtable w/ Alex Chow 周永康, Wei Yang, Tseng Poyu chaired by wen liu; keynote by Jeff Wasserstrom. Thanks to Lev Nachman and Ming-sho Ho and other organizers/sponsors inc Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Free!

Check it out! wen liu and I's piece on Chinese nationalism and the diaspora left reprinted in 端傳媒 Initium Media

theinitium.com/article/202403…

Incidentally, wen liu and I have a paper in the most recent 思想 Reflexion on the diaspora left and Chinese nationalism

linkingbooks.com.tw/LNB/book/Group…

Our latest investigation: how Taiwan became one of Russia’s most important suppliers of high-precision metalworking machines. Some of the machine tools were even acquired by nuclear research institutes and missile developers in Russia. 🧵

In Tempest 🌪 along with wen liu on the recent elections and how to interpret them from the left