🧵🇪🇺 Threads is finally available in the European Union. Folks can find me on the same handle, and I hope to post more there moving forward. I prefer its edit and limit replies functions.
I was haunted by Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil's essay in The Atlantic, and am eager to dive into his just-published memoir and story about his escape from China, WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT. Translated beautifully by Joshua L. Freeman. Available in the US and UK.
Absolutely wild story about the battle for THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM's IP that includes a real-life murder and rumors the author, Liu Cixin, sold the rights for $28,000 USD. The TV series will air on Netflix next year. In The Wire China:
How Liu Cixin lost control over "The Three-Body Problem" universe, likely China's most valuable intellectual property.
Got my signed copy of @letahongfincher.bsky.social’s 10th anniversary edition of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China! So excited to dive into this and a big congratulations! 🙌🏼💪🏼 Folks go out and buy it!
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🇨🇺 I am so looking forward to diving into Edel Rodriguez's graphic memoir, WORM, about his childhood in Cuba and subsequently growing up in the US:
The political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more.
🎶🇨🇳 So pleased that my piece on the recent history of Wagner operas in China has been re-published in Los Angeles Review of Books! The essay originally appeared in Almanach 2023, the annual of the Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
🎧 Activist artist @badiucao.bsky.social (and co-author of our upcoming graphic novel!) was on Monocle's podcast for this great, thoughtful interview:
Chinese dissident artist Badiucao sits down with Georgina Godwin to discuss his life in self-imposed exile and how he uses his art to challenge censorship and…