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Long Hair’s letter to his partner Chan Bo Ying in the wake of the trial, posted by Avery Ng on IG—my quick translation. Both are Marxists organizing since the 1970s. Chan is one of the few oppositional figures left still organizing protests despite constant police harassment.

As the world looks at Hong Kong as a case study for democracy movements, Gina Tam Gina Anne Tam 譚吉娜 (China Historian, Trinity University) argues for the critical importance of including gender as a lens of analysis. blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institut…

Really honored to write this piece on gender and democracy movements in Hong Kong

And... we have a description up for KNOWING AN EMPIRE (edited by me and Huiyi Wu)! This volume is coming out with Lever Press in August 2025. Check out the stakes for global and local histories in and beyond imperial frameworks: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Knowin… Details on gorgeous

In this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, Tristan Brown discusses his award-winning book on how feng shui in the Qing era had less to do with furniture placement and was more about power, belonging, and control of spaces in a rapidly evolving society. blubrry.com/barbarians/138…

Tonight: FRONTLINE documentary "China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping," with commentary from 周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou Edward Wong Orville Schell, me, and others pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…

Had so much fun answering questions for History Today On The Spot! Also real conversation w/ my partner while completing this: Him: oh cool what will you say for person in history you’d most like to meet? *at the same time* Him…and don’t say Yuen Ren Chao Me: Yuen Ren Chao

The Role of Gender in Hong Kong’s history of democracy movements | By Gina Anne Tam blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institut…

My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon. amazon.com/Making-Maos-St…

✨ Very excited that my book proofs have arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice” will be out in May from Duke University Press ✨ It’s starting to feel real!

Celebrating "Revolutionary Taiwan", today the 2nd bestselling Asia book on @Bookshop_Org 🙂 @mhar4 & I tell a story of how a self-consciously TWese nation was built in the unlikeliest geopolitical conditions, a revolution that remains unrecognized globally bookshop.org/p/books/revolu…

Online hate has gone mainstream in the United States and beyond, posing a threat to both women and democracy, writes Linda Robinson. Moving forward, government leaders must step in to combat online attacks on women elected officials. foreignaffairs.com/world/global-a…

They just played Girls' Generation "Into The New World", the protest anthem and song of a generation. What a night.

My book on #Hongkong Be Water Revolution will be out next spring. I develop an agency-based explanation to make sense this unthinkable protest that forever changed the city's fate. There's 25% discount with the promotion code below.

Flattered my book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, on identity and Xi Jinping's China, is on Foreign Policy 's list of most anticipated books for this year with a lot of great-looking China books coming out too! foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/31/202…

I’m deeply honored to join the editorial board of Journal of Global History 🌍 Journal of Global History 📢2 make the field more inclusive, we r hosting a Development Editing Workshop tailored 4 scholars for whom English is not a first language or outside N. America & W. Europe

BTW, in addition to Chinese New Year vs Lunar New Year (vs Lunisolar New Year), remember that there are many Chinese languages and the "Gong Xi Fa Cai" greeting is in only one of them -- and it's not one all ethnic Chinese speak.

Michigan State U abruptly cancels Lunar New Year event, citing Trump DEI orders statenews.com/article/2025/0…

We are organising an ECR conference on Hong Kong history on 25-26 June this year, here in Bristol! Deadline for submitting an abstract is 14 March.

It was a delight to learn from these 4 amazing scholars through their reviews of “A Global Enlightenment” in a special issue of Global Intellectual History Global Intellectual History. Following them, I reflected a bit on the orphans of the Enlightenment. Hope to continue the conversation!