Joshua Bird

Community Development Specialist & Scholar. Interests = Asia, West China, ethnic identity and multiculturalism policy.

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

Proud to say that I am now a published author. Thanks to @routledgebooks and all who supported me along the way!
https://t.co/Ddq9HDmUET

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

A sad day for lovers of chocolate and movie trivia alike. VALE Fantales!

[Jen Dudley-Nicholson @jendudley]

Not Fantales! How can the combination of chocolate and trivia ever die?! https://t.co/vaFxipg6b8

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

Despite my natural pro-bird bias, even I think it is ridiculous that the city of Sydney has 5 x more statues of birds than it does of women.

https://t.co/pQCKZxCnSx

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

A great event for a great cause.

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

In my latest review for @BookReviewsAsia I wrote about Sofia Samatar's The White Mosque, which uses the story of a group of 19th Century Mennonites who settled in Central Asia as a prism to consider the author's own multifaceted identity.
https://t.co/2cvFCUHRXR

[Asialink @Asialink_au]

🇦🇺 Australia needs to embed Asia Literacy in it's education system to prepare our people to make the most of our region.

Read @AsiaEducation's pre-budget submission here: https://t.co/dRpO9WU7Bz

@UniMelb #AusPol #Budget #Asia #IndoPacific #Education #Teachers #Schools

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

You can feel the desperation of the copywriter through the page. See below.

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[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

This 1978 advertisement for Sydney's famed Sebel Town House personifies the cultural cringe of the times so well -
"You needn't go the exclusive Beverly Wilshire or the famous Caesar's Palace for the glitter and excitement of the Showbiz World"
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[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

In my latest piece for @BookReviewsAsia I review Knowing Manchuria by Ruth Rogaski, which seeks to make sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands.

https://t.co/uTBeBQdcCm

[Asian Review of Books @BookReviewsAsia]

Today in the ARB: @DrJoshuaBird reviews “Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland” by Ruth Rogaski @UChicagoPress https://t.co/nRJuZJ4p3a

[Fuchsia Dunlop @fuchsiadunlop]

It’s fabulous that a local Chinese relish has become a global brand not because of big-bucks marketing but just because of its sheer deliciousness! 老干妈(China’s hottest woman’: the driving force behind crunchy chilli sensation Lao Gan Ma) https://t.co/Ha2ufLxixe

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

Denying asylum-seekers the right to work is one of the main factors in their over-representation among those experiencing homelessness - and something I see firsthand through my work. Positive change at the Federal level would make a real difference on the streets.

[ASRC @ASRC1]

Next week we are heading to Canberra to deliver this petition calling for the right to work for refugees at a special event hosted by @zdaniel

We have hit 10,000, can we get to 15,000 🤔… let’s do it. Add your name today 👇🏽

https://t.co/v8NDpj2Bk5

[Sixth Tone @SixthTone]

You might assume it's a hobby. But as it turns out, it’s a profession that’s equal parts art and therapy: a small community of professional miniaturists specialize in recreating their clients’ demolished childhood homes.

https://t.co/BjsYZ2yTXv

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

Good to see more attention being given to the lamian economy. Hui restauranteurs represented a not insignificant proportion of those I spoke to for my research on ethnic minority entrepreneurship in Northwest China. A fascinating study of ethnic branding and co-option.

[Communist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs_journal]

JUST PUBLISHED: A Not-So-Simple Noodle Story: Authoritarian Legitimation, Everyday Hui Ethnicity, Migration, and the “Lamian Economy” in Northwest China, by David R. Stroup (@davidstroup)

Free to access for one week:
https://t.co/IJCRc7nAtq

#China #HuiMuslims #ethnicpolitics

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

@roch_town Yes, I suspect with music it is a arts and culture version of the Ikea effect, i.e. 'a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created'.

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

“Taking the extra step to load it on to my phone, or the extra step to flip over the tape, or put the CD on in the car, it feels like something that I’m doing, rather than something I’m receiving,” = Why I spent 3 hours @ the Glebe Record Fair on Saturday
https://t.co/9ZghybQzs3

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

I feel I have been vindicated for many of my Canberra-critical comments over the year. I always thought the lack of 'vibe' in Canberra was a deliberate policy choice.

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

Why is Canberra so dead? Because it was deliberately designed that why by a guy who thought urban life - cafes, bars, just walking around - was ‘third world’ and only for the tourists because ppl in ‘self contained dwellings’ just needed their homes. Thanks. I hate it.

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

I am very excited to see this kickstarter project finally come to fruition after all this time. But when I backed (back in 2012!) I was living a rather chilled child free existence back in Thailand. Here's hoping I actually have time now in 2022 to give it the time it deserves.

[Guys From Andromeda @AndromedaGuys]

TODAY IS THE DAY! THE BACKER ONLY RELEASE OF SPACEVENTURE PC IS HERE!

https://t.co/w0mbLtPoik

[Will Glasgow @wmdglasgow]

Wow, didn’t @MrKRudd have a few thoughts on Hugh White’s latest Quarterly Essay on the US, China, Australia and Taiwan!

If you’re interested in Australian foreign policy, I highly recommend this tour de force by Oz’s mandarin speaking former PM https://t.co/KNjAT6mH1z

[USYD Languages and Cultures @USydSLC]

⚡️Do you know high school students interested in studying languages @Sydney_Uni?⚡️Students can hear about options for tertiary level language study at our 11am info session and get their questions answered on Open Day August 27! More info 👉https://t.co/zroUPRx5Lx @LanguagesNSW

[Joshua Bird @DrJoshuaBird]

Gosh, this really is quite heartbreaking. Giving my daughter an extra hug tonight.

[ChinaFile @ChinaFile]

Legal scholar Xu Zhangrun, stripped of his job, pension, and teaching position at Tsinghua University, writes to his daughter on the eve of her return to China, translated and annotated by @chinaheritage (Geremie Barmé)-https://t.co/3IMk6e990U