Ting
@tingguowrites.bsky.social
Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca｜ @shichapodcast.bsky.social 時差 cohost |🐻JAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |🐻 AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. https://ting902.com/
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Ting
@tingguowrites.bsky.social
· Apr 25
The paperback edition of my 1st book, #Religion, #Secularism, and #Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China, is coming out this June!
Many thanks to everyone who supported me along this journey.
The intro, "Not Exactly a Love Story": shorturl.at/sI4sq
TOC: shorturl.at/ak0hJ
Many thanks to everyone who supported me along this journey.
The intro, "Not Exactly a Love Story": shorturl.at/sI4sq
TOC: shorturl.at/ak0hJ
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On the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news w...
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August 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
On the eve of its second birthday in DC, after being forced to end a 20-year run in Shanghai in 2018, I write about Jifeng Books. It's about decades of change in and between China and the US, cultural production under capitalism and authoritarian politics, and ringing the bells that still can ring.
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"The rise, demise, and rebirth of the legendary bookstore embody decades of political and economic developments in China, and its transpacific journey lays bare the unruly contours of language and identity." @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes for @chinafile.bsky.social about JF (Jifeng) Books.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news…
www.chinafile.com
August 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM
"The rise, demise, and rebirth of the legendary bookstore embody decades of political and economic developments in China, and its transpacific journey lays bare the unruly contours of language and identity." @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes for @chinafile.bsky.social about JF (Jifeng) Books.
原住民 vs 原居民 & the political creation of indigeneity: the changing meaning of #indigeneity of Hong Kong’s “indigenous inhabitants” 原居民 from “an ethnic group peripheral to colonial culture” to “Chinese awaiting this reunion with China and being part of the mainstream of Chinese culture.”
August 30, 2026 at 1:10 AM
原住民 vs 原居民 & the political creation of indigeneity: the changing meaning of #indigeneity of Hong Kong’s “indigenous inhabitants” 原居民 from “an ethnic group peripheral to colonial culture” to “Chinese awaiting this reunion with China and being part of the mainstream of Chinese culture.”
Writing about 2019, feeling emotional all over again. Hong Kong artist Ah To reimagined two shy students trying to avoid touching each other's hands when forming a human chain in the style of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam: they were CREATING their own vision of the city & a future of freedom
July 26, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Writing about 2019, feeling emotional all over again. Hong Kong artist Ah To reimagined two shy students trying to avoid touching each other's hands when forming a human chain in the style of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam: they were CREATING their own vision of the city & a future of freedom
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Get familiar with the academic job market in #AsianStudies at this AAS Digital Dialogue on August 19, led by Dr. Paula R. Curtis of the Diversity and Equity Committee. Get insight into how to set yourself up for success now!
https://bit.ly/DEC-JobMarket
https://bit.ly/DEC-JobMarket
July 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Get familiar with the academic job market in #AsianStudies at this AAS Digital Dialogue on August 19, led by Dr. Paula R. Curtis of the Diversity and Equity Committee. Get insight into how to set yourself up for success now!
https://bit.ly/DEC-JobMarket
https://bit.ly/DEC-JobMarket
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For the ‘On Tyranny’ series, see here:
Did you know? During the HK protests, Timothy Snyder's words from 'On Tyranny' found resonance with HKers and were turned into protest art in the style of MTR stickers. Here's one - "Do not obey in advance"
Source: TW (Jul 2019)
Source: TW (Jul 2019)
July 16, 2026 at 4:02 AM
For the ‘On Tyranny’ series, see here:
Photo memories of another recently raided bookstore: Hunter 獵人書店. They used to sell bilingual postcards featuring quotes fr @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Tyranny & #Havel ‘s quote, “Living in Truth,” could be spotted at many indie #bookstores in #HongKong w incredible creativity, humour, courage
July 16, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Photo memories of another recently raided bookstore: Hunter 獵人書店. They used to sell bilingual postcards featuring quotes fr @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Tyranny & #Havel ‘s quote, “Living in Truth,” could be spotted at many indie #bookstores in #HongKong w incredible creativity, humour, courage
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Ting Guo's @tingguowrites.bsky.social "Can the Subaltern Feel?" considers how cogency theory--the analytics of what makes something feel true--helps us understand the tactics of the pro-democracy protest movement in Hong Kong, leading to a dialogue about ritual, persuasion, and Saba Mahmood. 3/
July 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Ting Guo's @tingguowrites.bsky.social "Can the Subaltern Feel?" considers how cogency theory--the analytics of what makes something feel true--helps us understand the tactics of the pro-democracy protest movement in Hong Kong, leading to a dialogue about ritual, persuasion, and Saba Mahmood. 3/
“I’m a bookseller.” Her T-shirt says. The defiance when she was cuffed & taken away by the police. Another bookstore in #hongkong: 留下書舍 Have a Nice Stay.
July 16, 2026 at 3:39 AM
“I’m a bookseller.” Her T-shirt says. The defiance when she was cuffed & taken away by the police. Another bookstore in #hongkong: 留下書舍 Have a Nice Stay.
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How has the rise of Asian popular culture in the twenty-first century expanded our understanding of global Asias? In what ways might media representations empower or disempower Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, as well as those belonging to other diasporic communities?
June 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
How has the rise of Asian popular culture in the twenty-first century expanded our understanding of global Asias? In what ways might media representations empower or disempower Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, as well as those belonging to other diasporic communities?
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How does the framework of Asia contribute to Indigenous Studies, and what does or can Indigeneity mean within Asian contexts? What happens when the concept of Indigeneity travels beyond and does not map neatly onto well-known settler colonial paradigms developed around Western environments?
June 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
How does the framework of Asia contribute to Indigenous Studies, and what does or can Indigeneity mean within Asian contexts? What happens when the concept of Indigeneity travels beyond and does not map neatly onto well-known settler colonial paradigms developed around Western environments?
Two important panels for #AAS2027 by the Diversity and Equity Committee!: 1) Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present
2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation!
2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation!
The @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee is pleased to announce our #AAS2027 sponsored panels! "Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present" and "Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation"! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals: AAS Diversity and Equity Committee Designated Sessions - Association for Asian Studies
The Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies invites applications for its two designated sessions at the 2027 Annual Conference, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts,...
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June 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Two important panels for #AAS2027 by the Diversity and Equity Committee!: 1) Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present
2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation!
2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation!
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The @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee is pleased to announce our #AAS2027 sponsored panels! "Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present" and "Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation"! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals: AAS Diversity and Equity Committee Designated Sessions - Association for Asian Studies
The Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies invites applications for its two designated sessions at the 2027 Annual Conference, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts,...
www.asianstudies.org
June 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee is pleased to announce our #AAS2027 sponsored panels! "Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present" and "Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation"! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pro...
CFP - Following the special forum in the JAS @asianstudies.org entitled ‘‘Religion and Social Movements in Hong Kong,” we are now looking for authors to join us in an edited volume #Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and #Religious Affects in #HongKong!
Details below:
Details below:
Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and Religious Affects in Hong Kong | H-Net
Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and Religious Affects in Hong Kong
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June 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
CFP - Following the special forum in the JAS @asianstudies.org entitled ‘‘Religion and Social Movements in Hong Kong,” we are now looking for authors to join us in an edited volume #Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and #Religious Affects in #HongKong!
Details below:
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WOW, thanks to open access and everyone's support, it's currently the most-read article in the journal...
May 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
WOW, thanks to open access and everyone's support, it's currently the most-read article in the journal...
Guangtian's excellent review of Chiara Formichi's #Islam and #Asia: A History in the JAAR!
//...historical contingencies... “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central to the understanding of Islam and Muslim histories as it perhaps ought to have been...//
//...historical contingencies... “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central to the understanding of Islam and Muslim histories as it perhaps ought to have been...//
Islam and Asia: A History By Chiara Formichi
No doubt owing a great deal to the historical contingencies that gave rise to “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central t
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May 28, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Immigration Bodhisattva. By Toronto-based artists for @loudnqueer_openmic.
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Immigration Bodhisattva. By Toronto-based artists for @loudnqueer_openmic.
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So glad it's out! "Can the Subaltern Feel?": a postcolonial reading of @feelingtheory.bsky.social’s Wild Experiment, on the felt dimension of state-socialist secularism (r/t scientific secularism/New Atheism), to decolonize the manipulation of #postcolonial affects in inter-imperialisms today,
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Can the Subaltern Feel? Socialist Secularism, “Colonial Nostalgia,” and A Double-Decolonial Reading of Cogency Theory
ABSTRACT. This article offers a postcolonial reading of Donovan Schaefer’s Wild Experiment to investigate the felt dimension of another form of secularism:
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May 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
So glad it's out! "Can the Subaltern Feel?": a postcolonial reading of @feelingtheory.bsky.social’s Wild Experiment, on the felt dimension of state-socialist secularism (r/t scientific secularism/New Atheism), to decolonize the manipulation of #postcolonial affects in inter-imperialisms today,
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🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️
We had a great conversation with Taomo Zhou about her fascinating research in the international history of the Cold War, Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, motherhood in the CW, and the transnational history of Shenzhen.
shicha.buzzsprout.com/1171871/epis...
We had a great conversation with Taomo Zhou about her fascinating research in the international history of the Cold War, Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, motherhood in the CW, and the transnational history of Shenzhen.
shicha.buzzsprout.com/1171871/epis...
#22 时差 x 城识：冷战中的移民，东南亚，深圳作为「临界空间」的跨国史 - 时差 in-betweenness
这期节目我们有幸邀请到新加坡国立大学的副教授周陶沫。作为一位历史学者，陶沫的研究和书写涉及冷战国际史，移民与华人华侨，中国外交史，中国经济史，和资本主义全球史。赵益民加入我们作为客座主播。我们聊到她的获奖作品《革命时代的移民》，冷战格局中东南亚华人群体的境遇和发挥的作用，印尼共流亡者Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej的生平和冷战中的“母职”，深圳的全球史，尤其深圳作为一个...
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May 18, 2026 at 10:34 AM
🎙️NEW EPISODE🎙️
We had a great conversation with Taomo Zhou about her fascinating research in the international history of the Cold War, Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, motherhood in the CW, and the transnational history of Shenzhen.
shicha.buzzsprout.com/1171871/epis...
We had a great conversation with Taomo Zhou about her fascinating research in the international history of the Cold War, Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia, motherhood in the CW, and the transnational history of Shenzhen.
shicha.buzzsprout.com/1171871/epis...
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One more report on OMNI TV with @tingguowrites.bsky.social, Bernice Cheung, and a student about @utsc @utsclanguage’s first offering of an intensive Cantonese language course in this summer!
May 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
One more report on OMNI TV with @tingguowrites.bsky.social, Bernice Cheung, and a student about @utsc @utsclanguage’s first offering of an intensive Cantonese language course in this summer!
Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century:
Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century - Volume 59 Issue 4
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May 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Yellow peril with a dash of green: The global imagining of an Islamized China at the turn of the twentieth century:
The latest hk action blockbuster #coldwar1994 寒戰1994, while paying homage to classic hk cinema Infernal Affairs, A Moment of Romance & of course the Lion Rock, is a vivid example of the neo-colonial+ nationalistic interpretation of postcolonialism…
May 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The latest hk action blockbuster #coldwar1994 寒戰1994, while paying homage to classic hk cinema Infernal Affairs, A Moment of Romance & of course the Lion Rock, is a vivid example of the neo-colonial+ nationalistic interpretation of postcolonialism…
Honored to review Alvin's book Unruly Companion that inspires more marginalized conceptualizations of the queering of social and political orders transnationally; incl the lingering question: how the minoritized communities in #HongKong felt uneasy imagining themselves in that future:
Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone
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May 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Honored to review Alvin's book Unruly Companion that inspires more marginalized conceptualizations of the queering of social and political orders transnationally; incl the lingering question: how the minoritized communities in #HongKong felt uneasy imagining themselves in that future:
This. The frustration of working on (women and) Christianity in #HongKong is that most studies simply praise the church for “liberating” Chinese women. The church in early colonial days preached conservative Victorian values that were just as patriarchal as the “Chinese customs” it condemned.
May 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
This. The frustration of working on (women and) Christianity in #HongKong is that most studies simply praise the church for “liberating” Chinese women. The church in early colonial days preached conservative Victorian values that were just as patriarchal as the “Chinese customs” it condemned.