Harlan Chambers 章毅诚
@harlanc.bsky.social
Researcher of modern Chinese literature and culture. Feminist theory, political-economic thought, film and theater.
Postdoc at the University of Göttingen.
不辣不革命
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Postdoc at the University of Göttingen.
不辣不革命
🍉🍉🍉
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Harlan Chambers 章毅诚
@harlanc.bsky.social
· Feb 15
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My article on amateur culture and socialism now out in Modern China (open access). It's a study of amateur cultural practices and their importance for efforts to reform rural Hunan in the 1950s, as well as bigger implications for China's socialist project.
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
It has been a minute since I translated this Li Tuo interview ––glad that it made it to print!
read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
The Two Movements in the 1980s: Forces That Shaped Contemporary China
Abstract. In this interview, Li Tuo reflects on the complexity of the intellectual landscape of the 1980s. He observes that “Thought Liberation” (Jiefang sixiang) was not a uniform movement but rather...
read.dukeupress.edu
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It has been a minute since I translated this Li Tuo interview ––glad that it made it to print!
read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
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he's right and he's right to say it
June 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
he's right and he's right to say it
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why would I ever spend any of my academic life taking "ai" seriously (as subject). why should I. why should it be the focus of my work, my thinking, my artistic production? what are we doing here? turning from the entire world to a narrowest slice of simulacrum? are we serious?
June 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
why would I ever spend any of my academic life taking "ai" seriously (as subject). why should I. why should it be the focus of my work, my thinking, my artistic production? what are we doing here? turning from the entire world to a narrowest slice of simulacrum? are we serious?
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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🎙️ Join us on June 3 for Dr. Harlan Chambers’ talk: Guerrilla Practice and the Cultural Conjury of Cooperation in Wartime China (1937–1945). @harlanc.bsky.social
📍 Göttingen | Info: www.cemeas.de/event/lectur...
#CeMEAS #ChinaStudies #EastAsianStudies #GuerrillaHistory #PublicLecture
📍 Göttingen | Info: www.cemeas.de/event/lectur...
#CeMEAS #ChinaStudies #EastAsianStudies #GuerrillaHistory #PublicLecture
May 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🎙️ Join us on June 3 for Dr. Harlan Chambers’ talk: Guerrilla Practice and the Cultural Conjury of Cooperation in Wartime China (1937–1945). @harlanc.bsky.social
📍 Göttingen | Info: www.cemeas.de/event/lectur...
#CeMEAS #ChinaStudies #EastAsianStudies #GuerrillaHistory #PublicLecture
📍 Göttingen | Info: www.cemeas.de/event/lectur...
#CeMEAS #ChinaStudies #EastAsianStudies #GuerrillaHistory #PublicLecture
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today we all find out
April 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
today we all find out
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one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
Forget universities telling professors to keep quiet when their students are disappeared. Apparently, now universities will help disappear their own faculty…
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
arstechnica.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Forget universities telling professors to keep quiet when their students are disappeared. Apparently, now universities will help disappear their own faculty…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom in '21: "We make a case for tenure that sounds like 'I need tenure to do my research.' I don’t think that’s a resounding case. All workers shd have those protections & if we’re not making that an explicit claim we’re pt of the problem." www.dissentmagazine.org/article/acad...
Academia After the Pandemic - Dissent Magazine
A roundtable on how COVID-19 has changed American universities.
www.dissentmagazine.org
March 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Tressie McMillan Cottom in '21: "We make a case for tenure that sounds like 'I need tenure to do my research.' I don’t think that’s a resounding case. All workers shd have those protections & if we’re not making that an explicit claim we’re pt of the problem." www.dissentmagazine.org/article/acad...
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BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
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The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.
Good piece on many university presidents' cowardly refusal to speak out against the Trump administration's ghastly, unlawful abduction and detention of Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation against his constitutionally protected speech. No surprise, but a shame nonetheless. slate.com/life/2025/03...
Why Isn’t the Entire Country Terrified by the Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil?
Universities are running scared. But this is no time to be timid.
slate.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.
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There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
March 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
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Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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read Columbia university's response in this piece. unforgivable. faculty there better be organizing a mass work stoppage. that's the least they can do at this point against a leadership that is willing to sell out their Palestinian students like this.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
read Columbia university's response in this piece. unforgivable. faculty there better be organizing a mass work stoppage. that's the least they can do at this point against a leadership that is willing to sell out their Palestinian students like this.
One month later this thread hits even harder
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
One month later this thread hits even harder
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
My article on amateur culture and socialism now out in Modern China (open access). It's a study of amateur cultural practices and their importance for efforts to reform rural Hunan in the 1950s, as well as bigger implications for China's socialist project.
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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February 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My article on amateur culture and socialism now out in Modern China (open access). It's a study of amateur cultural practices and their importance for efforts to reform rural Hunan in the 1950s, as well as bigger implications for China's socialist project.
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
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We all – workers, students, communities – must come together to defend our institutions and protect our local economies. Join us on Feb 13 for a National Strategy Call and Feb 19 for in-person actions across the country! More info: www.labor4highered.org
Labor for Higher Education
www.labor4highered.org
February 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We all – workers, students, communities – must come together to defend our institutions and protect our local economies. Join us on Feb 13 for a National Strategy Call and Feb 19 for in-person actions across the country! More info: www.labor4highered.org
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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"i need to access your code"
February 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"i need to access your code"