@kaiserkuo.bsky.social Since you asked I will (against better judgement) provide feedback here on social media:
democracy and human rights are more than tedious details
”the West” does not equal the US
”intellectual flexibility” cannot simply mean replacing US exceptionalism with Chinese exceptionalism
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social I’m combining these 👆👇 posts by explaining why I have a pile of 1980s rpgs that I’ve never played.
(I didn’t have any friends and reading the rulebooks was more interesting than playing the game anyway…)
bsky.app/profile/beij…
@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social For a text that argued that a political lens serves us poorly for understanding Chinese literature it was oddly political in itself.
I suppose the cost of access these days is a certain amount of biaotai 表态.
@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social Speaking of disclaimers, I subscribed to Granta a while ago and the editorials make my spidey-sense tingle a bit.
Saying that China was ”first to withdraw [their ambitions] from the geopolitical scene” and calling the war in Ukraine a ”proxy war” are rather particular ways of framing the issues.
@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social Some people say that The Guardian gives too much space to transphobic views. I haven’t followed it closely for years so I can’t really say.
@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social I really like the London Review of Books even if it didn’t quite work out for me.
bsky.app/profile/mrg….
@tobbinatorscw.bsky.social What about The Guardian Weekly (the usual disclaimers apply)?
www.theguardian.com/info/2018/oc…
@camerondcampbell.blog This is how you tell me you’ve learnt Cantonese by watching action movies without telling me you’ve learnt Cantonese by watching action movies.
@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Isn’t that Ong’s ‘Orality and Literacy’ in a nutshell? Reading in itself trains people in abstract thought and enables separation of concepts from concrete objects (in particular persons, since in orality-based ways of thinking concepts are mostly mediated by someone speaking).
@malkintrash.bsky.social It also gives a feeling for how the period between the industrial revolution and the gig economy has been compressed to one or two generations for many people in China.