Iza Ding

‘China’s gaokao factories and America’s college-industrial complex are not accidents. They are the logical outcome of a global system that has mistaken education for investment and human life for capital.’ My essay in the London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/…

Read @izading's new piece in The Ideas Letter on Chinese soft power. theideasletter.org/essay/the-grin…

This week on @SinicaPodcast, guest host @izading speaks w/ @deb_seligsohn from COP30 in Belém about China's role at COP, the real story behind the 2007 Beijing air quality monitor, why China leads on technology but not negotiation, and the outcomes of the conference. Link below.

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available on Etsy tmr 🤍

A guest post by the wonderful @izading on the @SinicaPodcast: On Schopenhauer, Buddhism, and the obscure philosopher's strange afterlife in China and Korea. Link follows.

New essay for my readers! (Link in comment)

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@izading 母即道，即太极，一点阴，一点阳。🤓

Beneath a Cinderella story gone wrong lies the tangled reality of class, sex, and Great Power politics. My new essay: "Anora, Russia, America" izading.substack.com/p/anora-russia…

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Knighted by the wizards on the vespa. Lucky me!

@AmfortasH Thank you!

@izading that last ..stanza...was frelling wonderful. you write well. makes me wish i still had a book budget.

The father of modern conservatism considered himself a liberal. My new essay in The Ideas Letter explores liberalism’s existential crisis—from 1789 to now. theideasletter.org/essay/the-sorr… If you like my words, follow along: izading.substack.com

The end of the post-Cold War order and disillusion by @AyseZarakol, Burkean liberals and their fears of change by @izading, hyperpolitics and the lack of impact on power and policy by @oliver_eagleton, and more in the latest edition of The Ideas Letter: theideasletter.org/issue/imaginin…

@SteelyDelta10m @OpenSociety Thanks Steely Dan.

@izading @OpenSociety This is a remarkable essay Iza Ding, remarkable

“Goodbye, Gibbon” (theideasletter.org/essay/goodbye-…) is an essay I had the quiet pleasure of writing for The Ideas Letter from the @OpenSociety. In which I offer my non-answer to the question “Is America in decline from a Chinese perspective?” I conclude: “We should be careful not to let a question turn into a prophecy. Rises and falls need not be an inter-civilizational zero-sum struggle, however seductive Thucydides’ lair may seem. Rather than getting swept up in the collective effervescence of status anxiety, only to look for an elixir in the intellectual Viagra of declinism, perhaps we should forget Gibbon.”

Here's another thoughtful and timely essay, this time by @izading on Gibbon, China, and the US obsession with Decline: theideasletter.org/essay/goodbye-…

Brilliant essay by @izading in @TheIdeasLetter "Rather than getting swept up in the collective effervescence of status anxiety, only to look for an elixir in the intellectual Viagra of declinism, perhaps we should forget Gibbon." Shouldn't need China to improve ourselves 1/2

@chinaheritage @OpenSociety Thank you!

@izading @OpenSociety Professor Iza Ding: what a delightfully insightful essay!

@kevinweiluo 🙏🏻

incredibly important piece for these times