THREAD🧵: It’s Lantern Festival in Asia today, a day where family reunion is celebrated, & PLA Eastern Command Theatre released a propaganda video targeted towards TW. Tone of the video is intentionally heartfelt & warm, but message & images are quite disturbing to many in TW. 1/
Thrilled to share my latest publication on the life story of Renren (once a popular social media network among Chinese college and uni students): it is a piece that takes us back a decade ago and here are some interesting highlights:
https://t.co/SKkE1wQcqT
The Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has awarded $600,000 to the University of Alberta to support teaching and research in Taiwan Studies - for more information click on the link: https://t.co/zvqImJjOhU
Thanks to everyone who posted tributes to my father. I thought I might honor him with a not-too-serious thread on some of his major works, from the admittedly warped perspective of one of his offspring. 1/13
Wonderful piece from @iandenisjohnson. Reference to @mattinglee book and Fang Fang Wuhan Diary, translated by @Bairuiwen. Appreciate Ian making the connection to climate change. A few thoughts on the connection to climate change... https://t.co/UFWYgK80Vj via @nybooks
Promo for new books can be difficult these days. Here's a blog post in the UW Press about my new edited volume, with Ryan Dunch
https://t.co/981AKKL6n4
Out of concern for the situation in #HongKong, our administration is keeping a close eye on the latest developments & evaluating possible impacts. In light of recent events, I have issued 4 directives to all government agencies: https://t.co/IwRnvpYuBW
Want to experience democracy in Asia first hand? Want to see high politics in Taiwan up close?
Spend a night in the Presidential Office Building!
Foreign guests only; there's a 10pm curfew.
https://t.co/HRWmPAuOLC