Gina Anne Tam 譚吉娜

@DGTam86

Historian of China, identity, race, gender, and language; traveler, feminist, and food lover. Views are my own. She/her

San Antonio, TX
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    Jan 15

    My latest piece: a reflection on 's Women and Power in a Chinese context

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    24 hours ago

    “The authorities put a helmet-like thing on my head, and each time I was electrocuted, my whole body would shake violently and I would feel the pain in my veins,” she [former detainee Mihrigul Tursun] said in a statement read by a translator.

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    Dec 1

    The patriarchy. H/t . Cc: ⁦⁩

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  4. Nov 29

    Thanks for sharing your work with us ! We loved hosting you!

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  5. Nov 29

    Excitedly listening to discuss her new book

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  6. Nov 29

    Today! Come see speak on her new book at 4 PM

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  7. Nov 28

    Pandora’s box is wide open in China: connecting CRISPR Babies to the one child policy in China

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    Nov 28

    World-renowned photojournalist Lu Guang has been seized by Chinese authorities in the western region where Beijing has imprisoned 1 million members of an ethnic minority - . 4 of his images:

    , , and 5 others
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    Nov 27

    This seems like a good time to re-up my story from last year, on systemic fraud in Chinese scholarship, lax standards & the huge pressure scientists face to publish. Notably, a scientist who “discovered” a new way to edit human genes was exposed as a fraud

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    Nov 27

    Looking forward to my first visit to Texas tomorrow to speak about on Thursday h/t

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  11. Nov 27

    I highly recommend trying an assignment like this, I found it a marvelous way to end the semester. Tomorrow, I'll tweet about my History of China final presentations, which so far have also been tremendous!

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  12. Nov 27

    In this meta take, this student recognized the limits of using generalizations to understand a huge, diverse country, while also showing how some actually DON'T spend all their time thinking about their identities. It was nuanced, poetic, and a little cheeky (in a good way) (7)

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  13. Nov 27

    His persona had spent much of his youth studying, but that was just what he was supposed to do; that couldn't be who he was. He was taught pride in his country, but he knew this nationalism didn't encompass his identity. Ultimately, he didn't really know who he was yet (6)

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  14. Nov 27

    One monologue encapsulated this in a very meta way. This student took on the persona of a new college student at Peking University. Surrounded by new, strange people, everyone kept asking him who he was; his persona realized that he hadn't spent much time thinking about it (5)

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  15. Nov 27

    All their monologues showed so much empathy; my students used the knowledge they learned to talk about cultural differences while still showing humanity. My students and their counterparts in EAsia may have different struggles, but they both respond to them in human ways (4)

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  16. Nov 27

    One student was a protestor in Taiwan's sunflower movement, another was a Japanese hikikomori struggling to talk to his brother. One talked about the anxieties of taking the gaokao; another was a kpop star-in-training struggling with body issues (3)

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  17. Nov 27

    For their monologues, we wanted them to practice taking the info they learned and mobilizing it to imagine individual, complex lived experiences. The goal was to write and perform a short monologue that told a narrative that revealed insight abt EAsia and demonstrated empathy (2)

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  18. Nov 27

    It's the last week of class, and watching final presentations, I'm bursting with pride for my students. I want brag here about the monologues in my first year seminar (called Being Young in Asia), which was a new assignment we tried this year with roaring success! (thread) (1)

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  19. Nov 26

    This is important and deeply troubling.

    Hey ! "The most pronounced losses [among history majors] have been among Asian American students, who were already underrepresented in history departments relative to their share of all students." 😩😖
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    Nov 26

    Audience can’t hold back tears listening to Mihrigul Tursun’s story of 10 unbearable months in China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs. Chained, beaten, separated from her 2-month-old triplets.

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    Nov 26

    I'm not a science ethicist but I have major concerns about gene-edited babies. Eg. See China's history of using eugenics in population planning.

    The control of women’s bodies - Uyghur and Han Chinese - is critical to the Communist Party’s effort to “establish the perfect order” in China. In , I write about the role of eugenics in China’s patriarchal authoritarianism
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