I’ve heard of people opening “bookstores” for this purpose but housework is an interesting coded strategy

985 universities are elite universities (initiated May 1998 = 985) and this woman is also highly proficient in English. Maybe advert for tutoring under the table?

(Workaround only lasted for 2 mo into the current administration) www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/03/28/us-naval-academy-ends-affirmative-action-in-admissions

I’ll always love 同桌的你 and pretty sure that makes me basic ❤️

3/3 Screenshot from Wilson’s blog. Compare and contrast Wilson’s with Stalin’s “four commons.” Both = primordialist.

2/3…”a common language, a common territory, a common economic life, and a common psychological make-up manifested in common specific features of national culture.” See: www.marxists.org/reference/ar... When I saw Wilson’s definition on his blog, it reminded me of Stalin’s definition…

I think the idea is to primarily help the displaced and non-US citizens facing cancelled int’l student visa interviews. Later they may or may not return to the US but at least won’t have gaps in their studies/work or lose out on going to grad school

The tour was sponsored by a group that they are collaborating with to expand their access to the Chinese market, which doesn’t seem like an adequate explanation, considering that they were cognizant (their words) of the situation:
press.princeton.edu/news/sbac-to...

seems to make a disjointed argument simply praising the post-1978 ed system in China (and inserts the phrase “to do this” before “China created the C9 league,” which makes it seem even like basic education/literacy was positively affected by the creation of the C9).

comparing the dismantling of higher ed during 文革 to Trump’s attempts to structurally change elite universities. I thought his point was that China retreated from chaotic attempts to structurally change the exam-based system, not that it emphasized free thinking. The english version, however,…

He briefly mentions in both versions that the exam-based system is connected to autocracy/a decline in civil society. The Spanish version starts out with an explanation of “Kodak moments” and sets up the idea that there is a snapshot in time where a failure alters a trajectory before…

I noticed this article was originally written in Spanish and the English version is missing some paragraphs. The English version also strangely makes it seem like the C9 was formed in response to the dismantling of higher ed during the Cultural Revolution. theconversation.com/trump-vive-s...

Strangers in Their Own Land is great—Hochschild also has a newer book out called Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right. Stolen Pride adds a few elements to the same thesis (and can be read independent of the other).

Not acknowledging what's been happening in XJ is partly connected to leftist conflict discourse (and moreso, in my view, to indifference/unfamiliarity). However, the criticism of evol psych research on sex differences is that it isn't empirically robust, not that it's a threat to 2nd wave feminism.

Their policy on warantless bus searches is currently on their website: www.greyhound.com/warrantless-...

He didn’t say much, but he did get criticized by the PRC gov for saying this in his 2020 book: