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Sabina Knight 桑稟华

Sabina Knight 桑稟华

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*#Chinese #Literature: A VSI* (Oxford) *Heart of Time* (Harvard) @FairbankCenter #PIPfellow @NCUSCR Emerita @SmithCollege Censored: 雙語 @SangBina @sky_sabina

Northampton, MA Katılım Ekim 2014
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China Books Review
China Books Review@chinabksreview·
The bestselling Chinese novelist Yu Hua foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction. Read Sabina Knight's review of "City of Fiction": chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/fic…
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Sabina Knight 桑稟华@SabinaKnight1·
@LWestwoodAuthor Chen Zhi, the editor, & I were grad school classmates & fellow Chinese-language TAs at UW-Madison. The 2-vol Festschrift is dedicated to William H. Nienhauser, whose year-long "History of Chinese Literature" course we took together. brill.com/display/title/…
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@five_books @smithcollege "Short stories are especially apt for conveying a sense of Taiwan’s colliding cultures and aspirations. The stories reveal the precarity of war & dislocation, the oppression of women, the wages of materialism, the reclaiming of Taiwanese identities, . . ." fivebooks.com/best-books/sho…
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Victor Shih
Victor Shih@vshih2·
How do dictators maintain power for life? I explain in a new book that they can stay in power by forming "Coalitions of the Weak" composed of tainted or inexperienced officials. Not a loyalty-competence tradeoff but one of institutions vs patrimonialism #fndtn-metrics" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/books/coa…
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Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo@KaiserKuo·
Let's hope you're right. It's odd, though: I remember talking about Sino-Indian negotiations over the perennial border issue with Ananth Krishnan, veteran reporter, and his sense was that China generally prefers to start with the high-level stuff: atmospherics, positivity — while the Indian side wanted to get down to brass tacks first, and then announce something when there was something substantive to announce. Perhaps it's different in dealings with the U.S.?
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李其 Lizzi
李其 Lizzi@wstv_lizzi·
For what it’s worth, I still think a U.S.-China deal—some form of one—is very much possible in the near term. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s still very much in the works. From what I hear/understand, there’s mutual willingness to deescalate. The catch is this: China prefers to negotiate from the bottom up—starting with lower-level talks to hash out specifics, then gradually building toward a high-level summit, sealed with a Trump-Xi meeting on camera. Xi is unlikely to take the political risk of appearing first. If he shows up and the U.S. changes its mind the next minute, it’s a major loss of face. Beijing wants everything locked in before Xi steps onto the stage. Meanwhile, the U.S.—or more specifically, President Trump?—seems to prefer a leadership-level “call” upfront. That kind of move would project strength and burnish his image as the ultimate dealmaker—especially if it looks like the Chinese leader is coming to him. But such optics would be politically unpalatable for Beijing. And that, it seems, is the real headache...
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