Benno Weiner
@bennoweiner.bsky.social
History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social.
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social.
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h
Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!
Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
Thrilled to be welcoming Professor Norkiko Unno (Osaka University) to Pittsburgh tomorrow, Wednesday March 12, for this fabulous looking talk. Thanks to the Asian Studies Center at UPitt for hosting. Details below.
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thrilled to be welcoming Professor Norkiko Unno (Osaka University) to Pittsburgh tomorrow, Wednesday March 12, for this fabulous looking talk. Thanks to the Asian Studies Center at UPitt for hosting. Details below.
We are looking forward to welcoming @kaiserkuo.bsky.social to Carnegie Mellon on Thursday evening 2/20, for a timely talk entitled, "The 'DeepSeek Moment:' Understanding China's technological Leap and America's Crisis of Confidence." If you are in or around Pittsburgh, please join us.
Details 👇
Details 👇
February 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We are looking forward to welcoming @kaiserkuo.bsky.social to Carnegie Mellon on Thursday evening 2/20, for a timely talk entitled, "The 'DeepSeek Moment:' Understanding China's technological Leap and America's Crisis of Confidence." If you are in or around Pittsburgh, please join us.
Details 👇
Details 👇
Important new report by @htheaker.bsky.social and @davidstroup.bsky.social
"Making Islam Chinese: Religious Policy and Mosque Sinicisation in the Xi Era"
tinyurl.com/37htx5j5
"Making Islam Chinese: Religious Policy and Mosque Sinicisation in the Xi Era"
tinyurl.com/37htx5j5
February 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Important new report by @htheaker.bsky.social and @davidstroup.bsky.social
"Making Islam Chinese: Religious Policy and Mosque Sinicisation in the Xi Era"
tinyurl.com/37htx5j5
"Making Islam Chinese: Religious Policy and Mosque Sinicisation in the Xi Era"
tinyurl.com/37htx5j5
The only holiday that matters...
www.kexp.org/internationa...
www.kexp.org/internationa...
February 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The only holiday that matters...
www.kexp.org/internationa...
www.kexp.org/internationa...
New Book 🚨!!
The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social
The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New Book 🚨!!
The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social
The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social
Nothing better than receiving not one but TWO beautiful new books in the mail on the same day!
Longing to Awaken, edited by Holly Gayley and Dominique Towsend, and Yasmin Cho’s forthcoming Politics of Tranquility. Expect to see reviews of both in a future issue of JAS!
Longing to Awaken, edited by Holly Gayley and Dominique Towsend, and Yasmin Cho’s forthcoming Politics of Tranquility. Expect to see reviews of both in a future issue of JAS!
December 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Nothing better than receiving not one but TWO beautiful new books in the mail on the same day!
Longing to Awaken, edited by Holly Gayley and Dominique Towsend, and Yasmin Cho’s forthcoming Politics of Tranquility. Expect to see reviews of both in a future issue of JAS!
Longing to Awaken, edited by Holly Gayley and Dominique Towsend, and Yasmin Cho’s forthcoming Politics of Tranquility. Expect to see reviews of both in a future issue of JAS!
Happy to have received the 'electronic offprints' for my chapter in this exciting new edited volume. Even happier to learn that it will be coming out this spring. Absolutely stellar list of contributors. And what a wonderful cover! For more info: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 3, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Happy to have received the 'electronic offprints' for my chapter in this exciting new edited volume. Even happier to learn that it will be coming out this spring. Absolutely stellar list of contributors. And what a wonderful cover! For more info: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Well, this is exciting!
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Well, this is exciting!
