#1990s

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6Good article, but worrying. Albert Hirschman argued that once a developing country reaches the maximum level of investment it can absorb productively, which I'd argue China did in the past

Kieran Healy

kjhealy

Google Scholar parsing school lunch menus as publications. Here's one that—appropriately—is published by the respectable academic imprint SAGE. https://twitter.com/AlexanderRKlotz/status/1252389218514427909 There's a whole literature. Unsurpr

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even

Carl Zha

CarlZha

I was born in China 1 month aft Mao died. When I was born, China was a desperately poor country. My Grandparents lived thru Warlords, Japanese invasion and Civil War.

Maks (aka 大二郎)

maybeitsdaijiro

I've started been working on the Brazilian 2010 census name data again a few months ago after leaving it aside for a long time. One of the #babynames that caught

Amar

theUnfading

Sriram Panda (ଶ୍ରୀରାମ ପଣ୍ଡା), is a former Odia movie actor, director and a screenplay writer. He started his film career from the movie Dharitri in 1972. He emerged as a

dungani

thunderdomeVIP

The most amazing miracle of Capitalism is that the greatest threat to our "way of life" is, at the same, the greatest commodity. If #coronavirus was a product, how much

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

So—probability. Do we really need it? This has been on my mind since 2017, when I finally sat down to think through quantum theory. (/n) One thing that’s always struck

#WeStandWithDGHisham

itik_rendang

Wow, you're a journalist? Did you know that a Chinese couple with their 6 months old baby vanished after they befriended Mona and Affandi in Terengganu? Their remains later found

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Please, Kim Reynolds @IAGovernor share with us your knowledge that allows you to say one of the greatest infectious disease & public health experts anywhere doesnt know viral outbreaks as

Portia

whowhywherewhen

In 1998 Prof Dickson Eyoh, now Associate Professor at Toronto, wrote in Africa Today about the"dichotomy between African intellectuals (particularly but not exclusively those located on the continent) and their

Jun Mai

Junmai1103

A few thoughts on China’s vice president Wang Qishan. His long-time protege Dong Hong has been placed under an internal probe, CCDI announced a week ago, raising speculations of implications

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

This is a thorough(and entertaining!) debunking of the “PC wars” of the late 80s and early 90s. Turns out so many of the “PC out of control” stories from that

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

1. I'm going to start over with what I hope will be an informative thread on "What is Phoenix TV?" 2. People in the US started asking this because a

David Tobin

ReasonablyRagin

Since mass internment camps in #Xinjiang emerged during 2017, English-language discussion of the region has grown enormously. This new interest in a place so familiar and intimate to many of

Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs

naomi_jacobs

(1/2) Zara's been reflecting on yet another over-diagnosis moral panic (apparently the evil internet helps people learn about ADHD, *gasp*). As always, written from a non-disabled/NT standpoint - ignoring medical