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We’re excited to hold a zoom discussion on @geosteinsoc’s new book The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, joined by excellent discussants Emmanuelle Saada, Ho-fung Hung, @matthikaru, Nicholas Hoover Wilson, moderated by Xiaohong Xu. Please register here umich.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Looking forward to moderating this event. It will be a stimulating conversation!

The recording of this fascinating panel discussion on George Steinmetz’s new book The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is now up on our Youtube channel. Friends & colleagues who have missed the event or want to rewatch it, check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=VwYl_e…

Agree with everything that Ho-fung Hung said in this post (and in his book China Boom & related writings since). Trust people who can tell you the big, slowmoving & invisible macrosocial processes, not just the short-term changes of social moods.

I have feelings about this piece, especially the author's surprise that "the polity which has brought more of humanity out of poverty than ever in history also seems committed so far to maintaining huge levels of inequality." 1/6 ft.com/content/f3476a… via @financialtimes

Lenny A. Ureña Valerio @KubikJan ASEEES @richardmole Jan Claas Behrends Wojciech Sadurski George Monbiot atefsaid عاطف @bhbradlow Edwin Ackerman ASA Sociology Jonathan Larson Tomasz Zarycki Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss @victoriadreyes Liza Weinstein City & Community @JoseItzigsohn karida.eth Stanford Press Eman Abdelhadi Neda Maghbouleh ندا مقبوله @ErikLove Jean Beaman Stranded Workers Action Network(SWAN) Anindita Adhikari @A1RWhite Flaminio Squazzoni Sociologica European Sociological Association Rappler @BinXuAtlanta Lisa Hajjar Global Voices @NoortjeMarres British Journal of Sociology @TimBartley99 UHM Sociology Contexts Magazine @JonathanWyrtzen Maryam Alemzadeh @seattlesquinn Terrific #ASA2021 #CHS session w Joel Herrera Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, N. Yasemin Bavbek Sociology@Brown, Xiaohong Xu, Michigan Sociology, @MGibsonLight, Dr. Benjamin Abrams, w atefsaid عاطف as moderator & Charlie Kurzman UNC Sociology discussant. #HistoricalSociology w theoretical sophistication.

I wrote a short piece on the state of Chinese feminist movements for general readers. Happy to see it appear in Current History with open access!

We are excited to launch THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies (WOCS) this fall! THiS WOCS provides a virtual platform for scholars who use qualitative/mixed methods to study Chinese societies to present and discuss their ongoing projects. The Zoom link is concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893

On Sep. 27 at 8 PM (ET), we will kick off THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies with Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪's project titled “The Homeland's Long Arm: Diaspora Politics and the Limits of Global China.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893

Coming March 2024! Feat. chapters by Stefan Bargheer, Xiaohong Xu Josh Pacewicz Dr. Natalie Laura Ford @geosteinsoc Jonah Stuart Brundage Simeon Newman Yang Zhang Rebecca Jean Emigh Dylan Riley, Patricia Ahmed, Phil Gorski Nicholas Hoover Wilson & me 🙏 @ei_schwartz cup.columbia.edu/book/after-pos…

How did ordinary people live their lives in imperial China? What legacies did the “peripheral” Inner Asian peoples leave? Please join our panel discussion with historian LUO Xin (PKU) on his recent publications that address these questions. Zoom link: umich.zoom.us/j/97402671510

On October 25 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host its second session featuring siying_fu's project titled “Revolution as the Easy Way Out: Discursive competition and elite behavior before the Xinhai Revolution.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87086000893

Our discussants include Juan Wang and Xiaohong Xu. @Yimang_SOCwill chair this workshop. Find the abstract of this presentation and more information on our website: thisoc.net/workshop/works…