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Wow, the 籌海圖編 is just full of fun! Here's a timeline of pirate raids. Each region gets a row (south at the top, and moving north as you proceed down), and the years are arrayed vertically (right to left) with brief descriptions of events.

NEW FEATURE: Our latest feature breaks down China’s involvement in constructing rail infrastructure in foreign countries. Use the interactive data visualization to explore where China has signed rail construction contracts: bit.ly/CP_rail_constr…

Zotero now has beautiful PDF annotation and a clever new system for taking notes (both in beta).

It’s a chapter of my dissertation that shows the cost of revolving door in China. Connections are not always good, sometimes they could be a liability. Thanks Empirical China Papers for recommending this piece.

wow! a nearly year-by-year chronicle of labor insurgency in greater China with 70+ authors, a who's who of china labor studies

Happy to share my new research paper on China's No First Use nuclear policy and its implications for the current international debate around the issue of NFU, published in the Asian Security. Link for 50 free online copies: tandfonline.com/eprint/C5GGMAS…

Happy to report that my book Localized Bargaining will come out at @OUPPolitics in June. If you’re interested in China’s high-speed railway project, central-local relation, intergovernmental bargaining, or distributive politics in general, please check out bit.ly/Rail_Ma

🔓New open access paper Brett Carter, Erin Baggott Carter and Stephen Schick examines #survey methodology in #China. doi.org/10.1017/S03057…

A cynical person might say "no duh" but it's in fact very useful to have this proven: Chinese citizens fudge their answers on opinion polls; thus we must question polls showing that the CCP enjoys widespread legitimacy. The China Quarterly cambridge.org/core/journals/…

𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇

"The pervasiveness of self-censorship has caused observers to overstate the amount of legitimacy that the CCP enjoys." Read Hoover Institution fellows @Brett_L_Carter and @BaggottCarter, along with @StephenASchick, in @East_Asia_Forum: eastasiaforum.org/2024/10/29/dat…