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James Gethyn Evans
@jagevans
China's foreign policy, Global Maoism, radicalism, (Post-)Cold War history | PhD-ing @ Harvard, comms @FairbankCenter 🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Mastodon: @jagevans@c.im
Jul 8, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Zheng He 鄭和 was a Ming Dynasty admiral and explorer whose story today is held up as one of triumph, peace, of the origins of China's maritime silk road, and as a key example in China's historical foreign relations. So of course, while in Malacca, I went to the Zheng He Museum! To start there is an example of Zheng He (standing) meeting the Sultan of Malacca (to his right). The Ming emperor is somehow also present. Notably, the Ming emperor is three steps higher than the sultan, which is the first clue to how the museum portrays Zheng He

Nov 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
❗UPDATE: NEW INFOGRAPHIC❗

The 20th Party Congress saw Xi Jinping extend control through his appointment to a 3rd term and the removal of Hu Jintao’s allies. Our updated infographic shows the new lineup for China's central leadership: a short 🧵

fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blog/… 1. unsurprisingly Xi prioritized promoting his close allies; everyone on the new PBSC has existing ties to Xi.

2. we don't have a finalized lineup yet, so we use | | for implied positions, { } for pre-congress positions that will likely be relinquished in the coming months.
Oct 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Trying to keep track of personnel changes in Chinese politics this week? Yuanzhuo Wang and I present our latest infographic (and explainer) to China's state and party leaders before the 20th Party Congress.

A short 🧵 explaining the infographic:

fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blog/… Five years ago at the 19th Party Congress, we made an infographic to explain "who was in charge of what" in elite Chinese politics. Five years on, China's top state and party leaders have remained relatively stable.

fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blog/…
Oct 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I've loved teaching intro to Modern China so far this semester with @guo_xuguang, here are some warm-up activities that have worked really well with students, sharing in case they are of use to others!

1) Map activity (aim: thinking about borders/boundaries): I give students a handout with a satellite image of China and ask them to draw China's borders from memory.

Everyone gets it wrong, which is the point! The exercise gets students thinking about where and why we have borders and what that means for who/where "belongs" in a state