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Kristy Bryant 徐愛童
@kristybryant.bsky.social
Research Associate @ Oxford China Centre | Head of Research @ The British Asian Collective | Interests in: China-West relations, identity politics, media and tech | https://hsukristy.substack.com/
New writing up on Substack: Reflections on positionality, being "Chinese", and what it means to write "from" as well as "about". 👉 open.substack.com/pub/hsukrist...
January 30, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Never thought I’d be this person, but I’m trying to stick to my resolutions this year. (My Substack is now live!)
Is This Thing On?
A reluctant case for writing anyway.
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Delighted to share that my co-authored article, “Chinese Online Views of Sweden as a Bastion of the ‘White Left’,” is now published in the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia!

🔗 You can find the article here: koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO...

#China #digitalpolitics #media
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I’m worried it can still get stupider
September 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A three-way handshake between China, Japan, and South Korea? If I didn't know any better, I'd say that Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize campaign is going pretty well this year!
China, Japan, and South Korea agree to “closely cooperate” in response to U.S. tariffs
April 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Content creators on TikTok worldwide have been rebuilding their communities on Xiaohongshu (or ‘Red Note’), which generates much research interest. It’s all great, but there are some points I have to get out of my chest. If you are planning to research or comment on the ‘TikTok Refugee’, pls read:
January 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
(1/3) I’ve recently spent a lot of time reflecting on the #TaiwanPlus controversy. Sadly, it isn't that shocking to me. For many #Taiwan scholars and watchers, this is symptomatic of a much deeper problem... When I used to host the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group, we discussed it EVERY session.
November 20, 2024 at 10:47 PM