A Microsoft AI scientist chose to live in a tiny room in San Francisco’s Chinatown for less than $1,000 a month.
@annakook gives us a rare look inside a single-room occupancy building, where residents have private rooms but share kitchens and bathrooms.
ICYMI, here's a summary of a great conversation with my brilliant student Zhou Xiaorui as part of the US-China Rhodes Scholar Dialogue:
https://t.co/TqEqpcFITB
Thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of Boston demonstrating in the anti-Trump "Hands Off!" rally. It's one of 1,200 other protests unfolding in all 50 states across the country.
Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to scour social media accounts of applicants for student visas and other types of visas. Rubio and other aides aim to bar people critical of the US or Israel from entering. Story: https://t.co/ewxoCsGFGN
The AAR has endorsed a statement by the American Historical Association and the Organisation of American Historians that condemns federal censorship of American history. Read it now: https://t.co/PtRziFUbk5
Vance: Have you said thank you once?
Zelenskyy: You think if you speak very loudly—
Trump: He’s not speaking loudly. You’ve done a lot of talking. You’re not winning this
Dear followers, please see my bad-case scenario for where the US economy may be heading in the Financial Times
The real threat to American prosperity via @FT
https://t.co/PjpGgYbaIL
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks are all vocal Trump supporters within Silicon Valley who have roots in apartheid South Africa. These experiences profoundly shaped their worldviews, says author @zeithistoriker.
An outstanding piece by @jiangxuestory on the rebirth of Lifeng (Monsoon) Bookstore, which was closed six years ago in Shanghai but which like large swaths of Chinese civil society is being recreated abroad. https://t.co/MG0eBBEoyf
How do language and identity flow across borders and stay true? I write about China and Chineseness @chinabksreview through three magnificent books - @ewong's At the Edge of Empire, Chi Pang-yuan's The Great Flowing River, and Peter Hessler's Other Rivers:
https://t.co/K7WhF80U51