ok that site seems dead dead now but this place doesn't seem lively enough still. I'm going to give the blue one a go. get connected if you're there 👇🏻

room absolutely packed for panel discussion with London-based Chinese feminist & queer organisers

read a previous version of this and excited to see it out
a much-needed revisiting of social Darwinism as the very first current of globalized international thought in China and its long lasting impact
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/how-can-you-help-us-mr-darwin-social-darwinism-in-the-history-of-chinese-international-thought/757A219545CA2C919897B11B6DEEC4A6

some update from uni job
we welcomed Dr Suvi Rautio from Helsinki who gave a talk on her ethnography of state-led heritage-making project in a designated "traditional village". fantastic exchanges with our students from anthropology, politics, history & geography, kicking off the new academic year of the China centre 🗓️

the western far right not only see China as racialized enemy but also increasingly an object of envy, imagined as a techno-authoritarian, adequately non-woke, adequately queerphobic dystopian utopia
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/race-gender-and-occidentalism-in-global-reactionary-discourses/CFA6756B3E90A16BFC6DEC9BAF36AC40

fascinating piece
Social media and the ordinary: Marginalized voices in neo/non-liberal China - Cara Wallis, 2024
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20570473241270561

Leiden ranking is a uni ranking purely based on citations
the difference between fields is striking
all fields: pretty much dominated by 🇨🇳 unis
physical sciences & engineering; maths & cs: absolutely dominated by 🇨🇳 unis, plus some other Asian countries
social sci & hum: the only field where euro-american dominance remains (there are two other fields which are more diverse), or more precisely by anglophone & dutch-speaking unis. one reason is the ranking only considers publications in English