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@andybliu

3 years

hey cool review 😎 thanks, yueran!

Jacobin

@jacobin

3 years

Though it's often said that the history of capitalism is Eurocentric, few have attempted to rewrite it from a non-Eurocentric perspective. Historian Andrew B. Liu rises to the challenge with "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India."

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@andybliu

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nypd is doing a tiananmen style crackdown in uptown and midtown while an NBA playoff game is happening like 500 meters away

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@andybliu

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My book was just published. It's about the tea trade but also about: China, India, labor, ideology, and writing capitalism's history in Asia and the postcolonial world. I'll be posting some more about it soon - since there are no Steph Curry games rn.

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@andybliu

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im sorry this is an ass-backward reading -- marx challenged the idea that jewish people are separated from christians on theological/idealist grounds. in practical civil-society they are like everyone else: governed by self-interest and worshipping $$. it's a universalist essay!

Chris Freiman

@cafreiman

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Marx’s anti-Semitism is quite clearly connected to his anti-capitalism

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@andybliu

5 years

JEREMY LIN WORLD CHAMPION

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@andybliu

2 years

i think you guard luka with nemanjia bjelica -- body him on the perimeter and whisper cold war-era curse words mutually intelligible between serbian and slovenian into his ear, the game within the game

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@andybliu

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ok im listening to wkcr. this is horribly ominous. kicked out everyone. hope the kids living in dorms are recording from their windows ??

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@andybliu

2 years

Wrote about Jason Kelly and Isabella Weber's @IsabellaMWeber new books on CCP economics and capitalist experiments during the Mao era + 1980s reform. Also, thoughts on 'neoliberalism studies' and the place of China + others outside the North Atlantic!

China Between Communism and Capitalism

The history of the country’s relationship with the market is filled with conflicting narratives.

www.thenation.com

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@andybliu

4 years

Wrote about how we can think about Xinjiang without being useful idiots for the US nor the PRC. Refusing the nationalist blackmail (pro-US/anti-Ch + anti-US/pro-Ch) means examining links of global capital + global counterterrorism and, ofc, to 'always historicize!'

The Nation

@thenation

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We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms

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@andybliu

4 months

i think these guys are all just asian americans from five miles away pranking nba media by making up increasingly outlandish stories and mediocre players they are flying to see

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@NBA

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He flew 6,860 miles from Taiwan to see Russ play 🙌 ...and wore ALL his jerseys 🤣

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@andybliu

9 months

legitimately so funny imagining all of you learning about the Qing memorial system now

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@andybliu

8 months

going crazy reading abt this -- im not postmodernism guy but this rumor felt straight out of discipline and punish: drawing distinctions between bad/barbaric vs. good/modern warfare. same thing happened with the boxers in china + countless other examples from high imperialism

Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

8 months

The damage is done. You repeated the claim because you were all too ready to believe that Palestinians and Muslims would behead babies and you helped disseminate Israel’s propaganda to rile up the world as it bombed Gaza. You are complicit and an embarrassment to journalism.

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@andybliu

5 years

Me on the Rockets and the Warriors. Does Hong Kong even need the NBA? via @MotherJones

Does Hong Kong even need the NBA?

A protest movement becomes a prop in the US culture war.

www.motherjones.com

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@andybliu

2 years

Very grateful/humbled! Gotta say, feels surreal they gave this to a book driven by debates in Marxist theory lol. Feels like we're in a moment of greater + greater recognition of the importance of capital's history. Hope to see more global hist. of capsm recognized in the future!

The Business History Conference

@TheBHCNews

2 years

Congratulations to @VillanovaU @andybliu The book #TeaWar A History of #Capitalism in #China and #India @yalepress is the winner of the Business History Conference #BHCRalphGomory Prize #bizhis #BHC2022

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@andybliu

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i just need larry david to come out for palestine and finish jerry's image for good

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@andybliu

1 year

insane -- philly needs some belt and road loans!

Billy Penn

@billy_penn

1 year

Everything we know about the I-95 collapse in Northeast Philly

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@andybliu

2 years

Wrote about why 'wet market' was overtaken by the lab-leak hypothesis + its wilder conspiracy forms, + what this says about how the world thinks about China/east Asia today. On techno-Orientalism, Colleen Lye's 'Asiatic racial form,' capitalism, fetish, Asian America and China!

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@nplusonemag

2 years

Out now from behind the paywall: @andybliu examines the Covid lab-leak hypothesis.

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@andybliu

4 years

Wrote for @ttsgpod newsletter about those “letters to my Asian parents and community about anti-black racism,” teasing out their assimilationist assumptions and wondering if it’s possible to think about racism in more global and historical terms.

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@andybliu

3 years

lol deep stuff from slavoj. who needs an editor?

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@andybliu

9 months

we should probably think really hard about why the ussr and chinese high-socialist systems failed

PanAmerican Comintern PhD/Black Belt

@PanAmComintern

9 months

What Marxist take will have you like this?

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@andybliu

4 years

@PerBylund @VincentGeloso Honestly confused by this. Marx wrote hundreds of pages on this question, on the distinction between productive and unproductive labor, in which he approvingly cites Smith and classical thought. What is your characterization based upon?

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@andybliu

2 years

Reviewed *The Chinese Question* by Mae Ngai (doesn’t tweet, good for her) for @LRB . It’s the kind of big history I love, locating China/Asia/diaspora within global processes, beyond natl units. Check it out if interested! thx to @danielsoar for editing!

Andrew Liu · Who digs the mines? Chinese Exclusion

In 1852 California introduced its first anti-Chinese law, a tax on foreign miners that targeted Chinese migrants in...

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@andybliu

5 months

fwiw this isn't that random, these are code pink protestors who have a history of tankie hot takes. the video cuts off right as Nancy launches into a nuanced critique of resurgent class inequality during the jiang zemin years. she cites @EliDFriedman 's piece in @JournalSpectre .

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@halalflow

5 months

Pelosi to protesters outside her house: "Go back to China where your headquarters is!"

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@andybliu

2 years

didn't actually write this on notes app but thought it'd be funny to do it this way. thanks @jaycaspiankang and @etammykim for inviting me to do this and entertaining my weird thoughts the last two years! pissed them off one last time by making them read the tiger mom book lmao

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@ttsgpod

2 years

As promised, for Andy’s last episode before he walks off into the verdant fields of academia, we discussed Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

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@andybliu

5 months

belated announcement -- the chinese edition of my book came out in december! many thanks to my editor oliver wong + translators huang huaqing and hua tengda for patiently translating all the abstruse social theory into mandarin. glad to get the cool colorful cover too!

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@andybliu

3 years

wow disturbing new direction for the @nytimes

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@andybliu

4 years

imagine how hype tonight would be if it was trump versus sanders

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@andybliu

2 months

lol wtf? apple made an ad for the violence of capitalist abstraction negating concrete human labor. who needs value theory, just look at this shit!

Tim Cook

@tim_cook

2 months

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

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4 years

wondering if others find that most historians think this way too or not ( @adam_tooze )

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2 years

finally had to speak my truth! some thoughts on Curry's finals MVP, NBA history as history, fandom and the dialectic, and getting your shit done in the end thanks @markkrotov for editing!

Stephen Curry and the Spirit of History | Andrew Liu

Rather than height or leaping ability, Curry creates spatial advantages by simply shooting from farther away than ever before. To prevent taller defenders from closing the distance, he speeds up his...

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@andybliu

3 years

blazers playing in the raymond williams jerseys

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@andybliu @get_ir_Dunn

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@andybliu

3 years

harvard (yes, the entire school) did a study on names that appear most frequently among ABCs vs. general population -- that is, the most uniquely ABC names -- and, yep! quantitative evidence matches qualitative experience!

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@andybliu

3 years

1) this is some self-orientalizing stuff about exotic, collectivist/confucian asian values 2) i dunno, ive spent far more time telling my immigrant relatives to be quiet in public than the other way around

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3 months

what the actual fuck lolol

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@andybliu

2 years

one of my favorite foods is fermented tofu 豆腐乳, the next obvious asian condiment for hipsters to discover. someone better than me is going to make it a fad then charge $15 for a $3 jar. i just tell myself not to get mad at them b/c i would do the same if i had any real skills.

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@andybliu

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random: i have an original copy of the 1977 new left review where brenner laid out his big theory for the origins of capitalism in England -- and nowhere else 😭 -- which i guess i picked up for $2 from those carts outside labyrinth books on the uws (rip) as an intrepid teenager

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@andybliu

3 years

"Foreign Affairs" started as a journal about the imminent race war with Asiatics wild lol

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Mark Mazower on the emergence of international relations as an entirely new academic discipline:

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@andybliu

3 years

talked with @gabrielwinant about his book, philly vs. pittsburgh, the rumored 'history of capitalism' boom, and why the only people who say 'PMC' are themselves 'PMCs' 🤔

Time to Say Goodbye

@ttsgpod

3 years

new ep! andy talks with gabe winant @gabrielwinant about his book "The Next Shift," on Pittsburgh and the transition from a steel to care economy. also: histories of capitalism and neoliberalism, the U.S. left, and revisiting the "PMC" thing (!)

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@andybliu

1 year

tasked with coming up w/ a catchier subtitle for my modern China survey course, i considered but ultimately decided against: • "from communism to covid" • "from mao to moderna" • "from Ze to Xi" • "from semicolonialism to semiconductors" • "from peasants to pangolins"

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4 years

nba ratings would improve if they broadcasted these meetings, they sound really interesting

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3 months

the PRC has forcibly kicked out a bunch of US companies, so maybe there's strategic logic to the US responding in kind. but instead of saying so honestly i keep seeing myopic liberal racism about how only Chinese companies are bad and American ones get to do whatever they want.

Tianyu Fang

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The TikTok bill will legitimize the Chinese model of internet governance, which sees foreign platforms as inherent threats to political stability. My piece in @NewAmerica :

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@andybliu

2 years

very excited about this one! got to talk with Adolph Reed, whose ideas have transformed my own thinking about race/class debates and history. also asked him about the universality of his ideas beyond the US context -- questions he embraced -- and even a bit of nba banter!

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@ttsgpod

2 years

new ep! andy talks with prof. Adolph Reed about his new book *The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives* a wide-ranging convo about jim crow and slavery histories, race/class debates, generalizability of white/black racism, a shot at tarantino, and nba!

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@andybliu

4 years

Best piece I've seen responding to the speculation that Chinatowns and diaspora factories were hotbeds for exporting coronavirus. How Italy’s ‘Little China’ dodged the coronavirus

How Italy’s ‘Little China’ dodged the coronavirus

Alarmed by news from Wuhan, many in the Tuscan city of Prato took precautions early.

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3 years

when you're an economic historian

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4 years

This NYT piece on U.S. exceptionalism is like the most insidious form of U.S. exceptionalism, jfc.

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2 years

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2 years

Don't think it's hard to defend race-conscious admissions while acknowledging the current version punishes Asians? Lot easier than making shitty jokes that Asians are dumb puppets of the whites, w/o rational grasp of their own interests. Why is this the go-to liberal position??

Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

2 years

White people: If only we had some *model* minorities. Asian-Americans suing Harvard: Sign me up. Black people: Dude, it's a trap. Asian-American plaintiffs: Shut up, darky. Muslims: Dude... it's a freaking trap.

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@andybliu

4 years

Me in the Guardian this morning. Thanks @Yohannk for editing and @tobitac for helping me think through some of these ideas.

The Guardian

@guardian

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Blaming China for coronavirus isn’t just dangerous. It misses the point | Andrew Liu

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@andybliu

8 months

youtube algorithm gave me this amazing episode of rashid khalidi talking to the asshole who owns the comedy cellar. it's this incredible encounter between like a sports radio show caller vs. the most knowledgeable person on the subject on the planet

Contentious interview with Professor Rashid Khalidi on the Hamas...

Columbia professor Khalidi felt this interview was an "ambush." You be the judge. We discuss all matters Palestine.*Two clarifications: 1. I think we talk...

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it's been 17 months and i can't find my teaching pants for tomorrow

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4 years

Thursday edition of @ttsgpod : just me, talking Chinese TANKIES with @brianhioe of @newbloommag . We talk why tankies should be taken seriously; what they tell us about global trends; why they appeal to woke Asian diaspora; and if dialogue is possible?

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@andybliu

3 years

yves @yvesandthemoon was far more clear-eyed and informative than anything i've read or heard about atlanta this week. very, very moving imho.

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"I want you to care when people are still alive" Yves Tong Nguyen ( @yvesandthemoon ) of @RedCanarySong guiding us through the big Qs after the Atlanta shooting. Demystifying the massage industry, talking about race, sex, gender, labor, and migration.

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@andybliu

3 years

spoke with Mae Ngai ( @CUHistoryDept ) about Asian American studies, writing a history of racism, and the relevance of the 'Chinese Question' today! the book is really ambitious and provocative, weaving global, economic, and labor histories w/ a new history of Chinese exclusion.

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@ttsgpod

3 years

Today's episode is a conversation between @andybliu and Mae Ngai, a professor of history at Columbia. Lot of talk about Mae's new book "THE CHINESE QUESTION" and about history, generally.

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@andybliu

3 years

thanks to claire shang @claireshng with @blueandwhitemag for asking thoughtful Qs about my day job and also my full-time job of being asian! the biggest honor for every columbia lion is to get into yale or harvard instead but surely this is a close 2nd!

Andrew Liu

On rereading Marx and coming to Asian Americanness.

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Niall Ferguson

@nfergus

1 year

How did the steam engine change the world? A lot. How did the internal combustion engine change the world? A lot. So how will battery-powered electric vehicles change the world? Probably a lot — but not necessarily in the ways we now anticipate. 1/9

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@andybliu

3 years

some nerd stuff: next Thursday, will be zooming about my book for UCLA's Center for Chinese studies, talking about it with (the v influential) Bin Wong!

Asia in the 19th - 20th c. Global Economy of Capitalism

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3 years

feel like the comparison is not the cultural revolution but the qing officials who cheered on the boxer loyalists then gave them up to the other side immediately

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2 years

love all my literature friends, but I can’t imagine having all these very important ideas about how the world works and then having to be like, “ok here are some novels I read”

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@BigDadd53052239 @RealEnverHoxha @PerBylund @jlemuel1 @VincentGeloso The diamond-water paradox was invented by Smith and the classicals to show that labor rather than utility mattered most (diamonds are useless but take a lot of effort, water is useful but is everywhere).

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don't actually think you can be this dense, this guy is definitely a project. jacobin got alan sokaled unfortunately!

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This is the most racist depiction of Arabs I've seen on modern television. A group of Arabs "is planning the next intifada", but that doesn't stop Larry David from sexualizing the woman. Then he calls her an antisemite. Absolutely unhinged.

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3 years

whatever 'post-dirtbag' means, i only listen to podcasts from people with masters degrees trying to describe NBA shot charts

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3 years

TTSG = post-dirtbag left?

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4 years

an amazing and useful soundbite for educators everywhere

ben (unintelligible) flores

@limitlessjest

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when my kid flunks a math test because i made them spend all day with me at the horse track

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happy pho of july

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have many publicly made the explicit connection between: - vincent chin = chinese victim of anti-japanese paranoia and - atlanta = korean victims of anti-chinese sentiments ?

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receipts!! thank you joker!!

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global trade blocked by giant metaphor

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if this is real, then it is the greatest history thingy of all time

JokicJoestar

@JoestarJokic

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never forget castro spamming the euro step so much that it made Che Guevara question his commitment to the revolution

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wow! lolll

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only one goat in this picture, and it's the korean spoon, humanity's greatest invention

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4 years

booking the fly for @ttsgpod @etammykim @jaycaspiankang

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i need to talk through the brenner ackerman piece with others!

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@andybliu

4 years

Never got nice and warm vibes hearing boomers say "the Chinese," "the Japanese" etc maybe that's just me

Cecillia Wang 王德棻

@WangCecillia

4 years

Wow ⁦ @JoeBiden ⁩. Already trying to out-Trump Trump. This kind of fearmongering is causing violent attacks on Asian Americans. If you are trying to reform your past history of racist policymaking, like your 1994 crime bill, you had better do some homework. This ain’t it.

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Marxist social history of Hawaii capitalism feels like an obvious niche someone should fill

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@andybliu

4 years

Good, sound medical reporting comes first, but if you're bored, here's my attempt to make sense of the headlines and our absurd situation. via @nplusonemag

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@andybliu

2 years

tomorrow for AAS @AASAsianStudies at 1130A HI time, 530P EST, a panel on China and the 80s + *neoliberalism* with: Yige @yige_dong + Xiaohong @Xiaohong__Xu + Isabella @IsabellaMWeber + discussant Patricia Thornton @PM_Thornton and chaired by Elizabeth Perry should be fun!

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4 years

Some of you have asked about my next book project.

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found this clip where conan obrien and larry david talk about how they loved majoring in history. thought it could be a really powerful recruiting tool for undergrads before realizing how out of touch i am

✂️ conan and larry david loved majoring in history

43 seconds · Clipped by andy liu · Original video "Conan Admired Larry David’s Quick Exit | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend" by Team Coco

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@andybliu

4 years

Re: that Trump/Pelosi/Chinatown thing. Instead of saying "Chinatown is not in China!" isn't it better to say "(ethnic) Chinese people are not inherently diseased, in China, US, or elsewhere?"

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they're all "tā" !!

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4 years

Tjarks continually rewriting and perfecting his criticism of chris paul is like how marx spent decades redrafting his critique of political economy. it will stand the test of time. The Basketball Gods Have Punished Chris Paul Once Again via @ringer

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hello philly! 4.24 (wed), there'll be a history panel on Chinatown and the controversial 76ers arena plan. with VU's @lepagevu center and hosted @AsianArtsPhilly ! featuring activist Mary Yee; historian Domenic Vitiello; and prize-winning critic @IngaSaffron - spread the word!

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@andybliu

3 years

good book or article that ties together the Korean + Chinese + Taiwanese democracy movements of the 70s + 80s? readable, too?

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@andybliu

3 years

@athenogenes mintz's sweetness and power is still like the best global commodity book

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@andybliu

4 years

rereading my advisers first book and uh @brianhioe

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@andybliu

2 years

accomplished a lot this year for my career, so let me share it with you all in this thread. first was this tweet:

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nobody talk to me

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@andybliu

3 years

from a brief survey, it seems like the academic literature on neoliberalism is *mostly* -- not exclusively ofc -- an *intellectual* history. is that right? and isn't that kind of wild?

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@andybliu

4 years

Really smart piece by someone who clearly thinks about these questions everyday. Touching ending. The following paragraph felt most resonant to me.

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@andybliu

4 years

imagine being a student elsewhere in the world trying to do a school year by logging on in the middle of the night -- would ruin your brain and probably all social relationships. would kinda have to be crazy not to drop out.

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@andybliu

4 years

Put aside the book for a second to foreground a close reading of Marx’s Capital (and its many drafts) that hopefully helps students rethink established economic history models and also think about capitalism in light of modern China, South Asia, and global history more broadly.

Spectre Journal

@JournalSpectre

4 years

We asked @andybliu to write about how his new book "Tea War" (on the development of capitalism in India and China) forces us to revisit Marx's Capital with fresh eyes. Not to be missed!

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6 years

My piece on Crazy Rich Asians and capitalism: via @nplusonemag

How Asia Got Crazy Rich

What the film’s central conflict turns upon is not simply strife between rich and poor, Asian and American, but rather the friction between different forms of accumulation—landed rents, financial...

www.nplusonemag.com

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@andybliu

3 years

the vaccine plan says phase 1B covers "education workers" -- but does it count as working if i love what i do?

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@andybliu

2 years

wow neat are they all like this

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@andybliu

4 years

lol the baffler reviewed my book, thanks @Francis_Wade !

The Baffler

@thebafflermag

4 years

“The popular framing of capitalism’s origin story—that it began in northwest Europe and then spread to the rest of the world—doesn’t hold up against a closer, more textured examination of plantation life in south and east Asia.”

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@andybliu

4 years

oh boy discount code 🔍

Long Institute

@LongInstitute

4 years

Introducing "Long Shorts" from the Long US-China Institute. Our first video features Andrew Liu @andybliu on his new book, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. Watch here: Use code YAB99 at for 25% off @YaleBooks

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@andybliu

4 years

Important book in this photo. "Itsar 919" by Agner.

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@andybliu

2 years

gonna be so many armchair psychology takes about playing dumb, crumbling under pressure, etc. etc. but to me it's obvious that the stars in this game had no legs by the end of the game. saw it happening in g3 and g4 too, gonna be a factor going forward.

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@andybliu

1 year

@DanielDenvir @badler being European helps i think -- eg, ft also treats China seriously as a capitalist superpower instead of the weird civilizational caricature you get in nyt/wp or most US press.

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@andybliu

2 years

whatever technology they use to pluck baby spinach leaves from their stems -- they can't do that for chinese greens? like a bag of stemless water spinach/kongxincai or pea shoots/doumiao? would pay a lot of money for those. is this too bourgeois a thought?

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