Teaching at @cornellilr | The Urbanization of People: https://xitter.gq/t.co/d1u8V9GZSz | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Madrid, Spain
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We wrote this book to introduce how China's integration into capitalism transformed its society while catalyzing a destructive imperial rivalry with the US.
Lots of reasons for pessimism, but as we show, resistance springs eternal!
Available in June
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This took a lot of hard work. We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA program at the University of Washington. This would be the first Taiwan Studies graduate degree in North America (and second in the world). Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025!
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My new book (Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China) drops! Wanna know how China gained capacities dealing with COVID-19? Why gay rights can be illiberal? Etc. check it out! a.co/d/5yY0gQE
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Coming in January, if I was in the US I would be absolutely be there! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
NYU has a long track record of accepting censorship in its Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses, now it's boomeranging with a vengeance on the NYC campus
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Korean Confederation of Trade Unions just announced they would go on an indefinite general strike until President Yoon Suk-yeol resigns
[속보]민주노총 "윤석열 정권 퇴진 전까지 무기한 총파업"
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There’s another rally against the KMT’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today outside the legislature tonight. Though it started only ten minutes ago, it’s already larger than the rally last weekend
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Would be a large shift if nurses is opened up as a category to international labor, particularly at a time of large departures from the nursing industry
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They already snatched her husband, but she hasn't given up 🫡
Good snapshot of one of the many ways HK has targeted progressive activism
nytimes.com/2024/11/27/world…
My co-author Ashley interviewed about our book, includes a post-publication update on Gaza tempestmag.org/2024/11/build…
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“We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.”
New theory just dropped, Ideas Capitalism with Florida Characteristics
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Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and Workers Against CCP Rally with UK Trade Unionists
🔥Join our demonstration to "Free Hong Kong Political Prisoners"
45 pro-democracy activists including vocal trade unionists Carol Ng, Winnie Yu and labour advocate Leung Kwok-hung were convicted of "conspiracy to subvert state power" for their involvement in the 2020 primary elections and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four years and two months to ten years.
This sentencing represents a blatant act of political suppression, underscoring how authorities continue to weaponise the National Security Law to target civil society, with no indication of easing their repressive measures.
We must not remain silent. We are responsible for speaking out for the people of Hong Kong, ensuring that the 45 pro-democracy figures sentenced in the primary election case, along with others oppressed for fighting for Hong Kong’s democracy, know they are not forgotten.
Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and @WorkersAntiCCP are collaborating with UK trade unionists and activists of civic organisations, including those from UNISON, PCS （ Public and Commercial Services Union ）, the British Medical Association, Borderless Movement, and Democracy for Hong Kong (D4HK). We will organise a "Free the Hong Kong 45" protest rally on Saturday, November 30.
📅Date: 30 November 2024(Saturday)
⏲️Time: 3pm
📍Venue: Embassy of China, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL
🔥Free Carol Ng, Winnie Yu, Leung Kwok-hung and all the HK47 - quash their convictions!
🔥 Free Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and all Hongkongers repressed for pro-worker and pro-democracy activity!
🔥 Free political prisoners in mainland China including feminist Sophia Huang Xueqin, workers’ rights activist Wang Jianbing, civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong, and Uyghur intellectuals Rahile Dawut, Ilham Tohti and Perhat Tursun!
🔥Freedom to organise independent trade unions and political oppositon in Hong Kong & China!
Link to statement: bit.ly/4fxy5lF
Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months.
HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low. Via @HKLabourRights hklabourrights.org/research/…
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Another with one of the longest jail terms is the city’s most visible leftist, ‘Long Hair’—organized since the 1970s in Hong Kong against the British colonial regime, multiple US imperialist wars from Iraq to Gaza, the IMF and the World Bank.
#JUSTIN: Veteran activist "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung was given 81 months imprisonment, among the longest jail term of the defendants not categorised as a main organiser.
ALT File photo: Ousted pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, also known as 'Long Hair' reacts before entering the High Court to hear the sentence for his appeal over his disqualification from Legco in Hong Kong on February 15, 2019. (Anthony Wallace / AFP)
PRC seems to be getting comfortable with doing a little imperialism
Chinese authorities have reportedly detained Peng Daxun, the leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), in an apparent bid to halt the group’s offensives against the Myanmar military. buff.ly/3CzACgA
