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Dashingclaire @dashingclaire.bsky.social · 6d

No spiritual comfort #Chicago

Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 6d

The arrow was purportedly from the 1813 attack, but Betsy (never one to mince words) pointed out to the guide that the arrow was on the wrong side of the wall: the rebels had not reached that side. Apparently--so the story goes--the next time she returned to that courtyard, the arrow was gone. 2/2

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite story about this event is connected with Betsy Bartlett, one of my thesis advisors. She made a living in the 80s guiding tours of the Forbidden City, and one day eavesdropped on a Chinese tour guide pointing out an arrow that was lodged in the wall of the Palace...1/2

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 6d

It's not just the Rapture! Millenarian movements seeking to bring about the end of days: This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City

October 9, 1813

www.sinicapodcast.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 6d

But also it was bad right? My sense was that it flopped (but I have no actual idea)

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful ways

The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial

Editorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other

www.theguardian.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 7d

I didn’t know what to expect from One Battle After Another…but i didn’t expect so burst into tears in the last scene….

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 7d

Two big new essays for fans of @yangyangcheng.bsky.social this week! At @chinabooksreview.com, she writes about new @bairuiwen.bsky.social translations of two novels by Fang Fang ...

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression…

chinabooksreview.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 11d

I thought this was strong but I saw your point. …but I thought you meant Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas…

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 12d

The New Yorker reviews my new book, The Second Emancipation (about Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism), along with Mahmood Mamdani's Slow Poison (about Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni). www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

www.newyorker.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 14d

I always stand up for Bluesky against critics who say it’s full of people who are afraid that somewhere someone is having a good time.

And then Bluesky decided to self-parody itself and ridicule folks for being excited about a new Taylor swift album.

Srsly?

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 14d

That’s just silly

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 16d

Tyrant? Revolutionary? Los dos? This Week in China’s History looks at the brief reign and gruesome end of Wang Mang, 2000 years ago

www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

This Week in China's History: Wang Mang Dismembered, Remembered

October 6, 23 CE

www.sinicapodcast.com

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 16d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18d

#ICYMI, I joined @kateshaw.bsky.social and @williambaude.bsky.social for (another) @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable on #SCOTUS — as the Roberts Court marks its twentieth anniversary and with a momentous new term set to begin next Monday.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 18d

Yeah. I’m sure that will work out. I’m just old.

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 18d

Sticking with my earlier comment that I don’t think you should take out a pitcher when they have given up no runs and no one is on base.

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 18d

So I’m still thinking I’m right about this. 🙄

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 18d

I am old, but I don’t think you take pitchers out when they given up 0 runs and no one is on base

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 19d

Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.

Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 19d

In a new graphic narrative, Rivi Handler-Spitz (author of a chapter in our Global Anti-Asian Racism volume) shares comments from Chinese students about the uncertainty they feel regarding their position in the U.S.

Visa Chaos: A Graphic Narrative (opinion)

A graphic narrative written and drawn by Rivi Handler-Spitz.

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 19d

The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-symbol...

Looking forward to this! As a primer, I broached this topic in This Week last year www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages

This week on Sinica, I chat with Peking University’s Professor Wang Dong (王栋), an international relations scholar at the School of International Studies at Peking University, where he also serves as D...

www.sinicapodcast.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 21d

Illinois both won and lost that game all by itself. USC was almost irrelevant to the outcome!

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 22d

Life, uh, finds a way. “The CIA used to try and learn about China in the early 1960s by getting fishermen in HK to import fish and other products wrapped in local newspapers. They would unwrap the fish, sell the newspaper to the CIA, and the CIA would learn about some case in some little town.”

Mr. China - The Wire China

Jerome A. Cohen pioneered the study of Chinese law in the United States. He met with Zhou Enlai, trained Chinese officials and helped American firms set up in China. Now, even at 90, he presses Beijin...

www.thewirechina.com

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 23d

Just saw the news of Jerry Cohen's passing. Unmatched expertise & also humanity & humility--he made a difference in the world. I had the privilege to meet him in grad school, and his generosity with students of all levels is a model of how to mentor and pay it forward. RIP. usali.org/institute-ne...

Remembering Jerome A. Cohen: Field Builder, Rights Advocate, and Mentor — U.S.-Asia Law Institute

Jerome A. Cohen, professor emeritus of law at New York University and founding director of the law school’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, who passed away on September 22, 2025, introduced the study of Chin...

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 23d

Speaking about my new book, The Second Emancipation, at Yale this afternoon at 4:30. whc.yale.edu/second-emanc...

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