@tingguowrites
Religion, gender, &politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca๏ฝ @shichapodcast.bsky.social ๆๅทฎ cohost |๐ปJAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |๐ป AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. https://ting902.com/
14/3 10:30 Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. and Beyond), VCC 212
19:30: Society for the study of Chinese religions, challenges of journal editing roundtable, Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6
Friends! Let me know where & when your panels are, and hope to see you there!
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My AAS schedule:
10 - 11/3 Backreading Hong Kong Symposium, Asia Centre Auditorium, UBC (my own book talk at 2 PM, 10/3)
13/3 9:00 Democratic Strategies under Threats of Fascism, VCC 115
14/3 8:30 discussant for the Longue Durรฉe Perspectives on Secularization in the Sinophone World, VCC 219
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No matter which institution you hail from, we'd love to hear about your experiences navigating these turbulent times across the globe. Read more and bookmark the event here! cdmcd.co/XKv9qq
Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. and Beyond) - Sponsored by AAS Diversity and Equity Committee Sat, March 14, 2026 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT Location: VCC, Room 212 Over the last decade, higher education has experienced a disconcerting variety of threats which have taken a variety of forms at institutions globally, include but are not limited to restrictions on academic freedom, budget cuts and the adjunctification of instruction, the elimination of entire departments, surveillance, and much more. In recent years, the United States in particular has been a site of further and accelerated existential attacks on the infrastructure of the humanities, area studies, higher education as a whole, and students whose identities or activism make them vulnerable, destabilizing the foundations of critical pedagogy and rejecting the necessity of diversity, equity, and justice for educators and students alike. The reckless and often extractive push towards new and little-understood technologies like generative AI without consideration of their influence on teaching, research, or student development further hinders instructors of every discipline and background. Finally, the militarization of campus security, including intensive surveillance technology, has restricted free speech. With repercussions far beyond North American academic circles, these trends both echo and resonate with the experiences of colleagues and institutions around the world. These targeted forms of disempowerment have effects well beyond US borders, necessitating that we both raise awareness of these issues and collaborate on strategic paths forward.
As we get closer to #AAS2026, a number of scholars on the Diversity and Equity Committee panel "Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. & Beyond)" have found that they cannot attend the conference due to visa issues. We are therefore encouraging scholars to stop by and share in this important discussion.
Call for Informal Participants - Pedagogy under Threat
Sat 3/14, 10:30 (VCC Rm 212). Designed Panel, Diversity and Equity Committee @asianstudies.org
Several scholars cannot attend due to visa issues. Please stop by & join this important discussion! Thank you!
AAS Diversity and Equity Committee
If in #Vancouver/ going to #AAS2026 !
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 2:00-2:45pm, Auditorium, Asian Center, UBC
To register: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event...
@tingguowrites.bsky.social's book talk on 27 Jan (Tuesday) at @utsc.utoronto.ca!
The Reparation Blog: Beating the Villain with a Slipper: Rituals of Reparation in Urban Hong Kong
by @myetcetera.bsky.social:
As friends in the US sharing rage & heartbreak for #alexpretti , some young activists #hk47 in HK were finally released after all these years. Itโs not only a time for comparing global authoritarianism, but also for rethinking the foundations & trajectories of democracy and liberalismโฆ
The most inspiring aspect of Andersonโs Imagined Communities: how colonialism engenders anti-colonial nationalisms (& its relationship to the paradox of Marxist nationalism).
โโฆ Lineage formation in China is not so much a matter of residence and โbiologyโ as it is of politics and economics.โ
Noticing smth new each time in Village Life in #HongKong: #Politics, #Gender,& #Ritual in the New Territories: it was written during the Cultural Revolution/right after the โ67 riotโ in HK; the Watsons contextualised the political-economic making of Chinese patrilineage (โ #Confucianismโโ)
This looks wildly similar to my book. 1) who at Yale invited him 2) will anyone challenge him at the talk?
macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/eve...
Honored to have contributed to the reporting of this fascinating phenomenon of "digital parents" & Q of "East Asian families;" thx for quoting my book on the politicization of (parental) love => the Internet has become a resort for expressing familial intimacy & #love:
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/art...
Happy new year! 1st book talk in 2026 & first time on UTSC campus! RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
#toronto #love #booksky #utsc
๐ The traditional Chinese characters translation of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing will be available at Eslite among other places once it publishes soon www.eslite.com/product/1001...
Researching on women & #Buddhism in #HongKong; history indeed looks entirely different if we centre women instead. The earliest Buddhist community, school, hospital, chaplaincyโฆ were all founded by women, monastic or lay, during the war, the Cold War, social upheavals, famines, pandemics, and more.
H. S. Sum Cheuk Shingโs โChinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movementโ in our special forum โ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kongโ:
H. S. Sum Cheuk Shingโs โChinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movementโ in our special forum โ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kongโ:
The Jiao Festivals #ๅคชๅนณๆธ
้ฎ (purification rite) this year received extra attention for its use of bamboo scaffolding and, as we argued in this JAS special forum, popular religions have provided a sense of (political) identity in #hongkong:
#religion #chinesereligion #daoism #ritual #jiaofestival
@tingguowrites.bsky.social :
"Many of the tragic events in locations far from us are shaped by local and global politics, international capital, and modern state institutions, rather than by โcultureโ, and we must contextualise these events while also recognising their connections to โour worldโ."
also enjoying this open-access paper from Myung-Sahm Suh: Vacillating between the Cold War and the Culture War: The Contemporary Predicament of the Korean Evangelical Right www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...
A highly recommended read:
โHong Kong has gone through so many traumas and so much mourning in the past five years, and all of us have repressed emotions: anger towards the neoliberal and authoritarian powers, and grief for the lives and the way of life that have been lostโ.
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When the Hong Kong fire occurred, initial international media coverage focused on bamboo scaffolding. This Orientalised and exoticised the tragedy, obscuring the fact that it was not just an accident, but an outcome shaped by long-term neglect and inequality, writes @tingguowrites.bsky.social.
A difficult piece to write, for all the emotional turmoil for #hongkong #HongKongFire (+my ill-timed minor surgery). But #emotions are powerful; they create a #community of #mourning across boundaries & envision a future under impossible conditions. Please feel them to transcend the distance bt us:
We also discussed @helenjinkim.bsky.social โs Race for Survival: How #ColdWar South #Korea Shaped American #Evangelical Empire!
๐ฃwe have a new episode - the very first Shicha episode in English!๐ฃ
@tingguowrites.bsky.social talks to Myung-Sahm Suh on the global Christian right, religion and modern Korea!
open.spotify.com/episode/574D...
Some photos from the Tai Po fire memorial area yesterday.