drdavidtobin.bsky.social
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Author of 'Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang' (Cambridge University Press) https://sheffield.ac.uk/las/people/east-asian-studies-staff/david-tobin
👤 Joined on 10 October 2023
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Check out @drdavidtobin.bsky.social and Mirshad Ghalip’s excellent documentary about football in the Uyghur diaspora! Streaming free online on August 21 followed by a panel discussion.
Show PostChina: New Detention in Lhasa, Ongoing Cases Show Persistent Repression. www.nchrd.org/2026/07/chin... (Chinese activist traveling in Tibet detained for showing a photo of the Dalai Lama at Sera Monastery. The Sera, a very beautiful place ... now under occupation)
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Show PostApparently 2/3 of Americans don’t know who Mao was. 7/10 for Deng. Shocking but not surprising lack of popular knowledge about Chinese politics. It’s a huge issue. (before you snark with ‘oh Americans are so uniquely stupid’ are you confident similar results wouldn’t obtain in many other places?)
Show Post🧵: This new law, in keeping with previous ones lines the HK National Security Law, asserts that the PRC can extraterritorialize its jurisdiction over speech and actions related to its national unity. Essentially it’s stating that it can police how people abroad speak about ethnic policy. /1
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