Jean Fan  

@jean_yujing_fan

Researcher; Chinese-American; on leave from Stanford. Send me book recommendations and good art📚 🖼

Oakland, CA
Joined January 2019
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    Oct 11

    🇨🇳🇺🇸Sharing the story that doesn't get told about China. Told by yours truly with

    American discourse doesn't prepare you for how good life in China is becoming. It's a sharp contrast to our own governance troubles. It feels like the American dream has moved to the other side of the world. - by
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    Nov 10

    The many ways don't include freedom, obviously. But as the piece says, Americans don't understand just how much China has advanced otherwise. I also spent a couple weeks there in 2006, an interesting interim period featuring both the poverty of the past & the seeds of the future.

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    Nov 10

    Anecdatal concurrence: when I visited Shenzhen last year it seemed in many ways more appealing as a place to live than most American cities nowadays, and absolutely, utterly transformed from the China of my first visit in 1997.

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    Nov 10

    I'm totally fascinated by several overlapping, wonky, intellectual do-gooder movements emerging in SF For example: - Progress Studies - Effective Altruism - Governance Futurism - Humane Technology I bet I'm missing some. What are they??

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  5. Nov 11

    What the absolute fuck

    Monday in Hong Kong, a man who openly disagreed with radical protesters was poured gasoline over by rioters and set on fire. Radical protesters in Hong Kong have started behaving like ISIS members.
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    Nov 11

    Fueled by incitement of politicians like you, Hong Kong is falling into the abyss of turmoil. Thugs attacked police officers openly and set people holding different views on fire. You are fostering ISIS-like terrorists in Hong Kong.

    Tiananmen Square 2.0 — This is no police force, it is a freedom suppressing, anti-democracy squad.
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    Nov 11
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    China provides a proof of possibility for *some* types of progress that Americans have largely given up on, e.g. domestic infrastructure. Just as we shouldn’t ignore ways China obviously needs to step up, we also can’t dismiss important improvement targets for ourselves. (2/2)

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    Nov 11
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    Ultimately, the point isn’t how the U.S. and China compare. It’s to say point out that our country—America—isn’t meeting the standards of freedom and happiness that we had once hoped for, and which many people seem more resigned on. (1/2)

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    Nov 10

    This was a fantastic essay and beautifully summarizes the challenge coming in the next years: the very real possibility that China will have better quality-of-life standards for its citizens than the US does for its own.

    American discourse doesn't prepare you for how good life in China is becoming. It's a sharp contrast to our own governance troubles. It feels like the American dream has moved to the other side of the world. - by
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    Nov 9

    I'm in a bunch of FB groups of Han Chinese students/expats in the West where they regularly use language they picked up from critical theory to argue against Western hegemony and influence in China.

    "Her fluent analyses of oppression and the white gaze made me think she would feel at home in a seminar at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, deconstructing received wisdom.... “Yes,” she responded, “but Islam is really inherently violent.”
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    Nov 6

    🎙 on the future of governance with Tivy’s incisive work with has forced me to examine many unthought assumptions about politics, which has significantly shifted the way I think about it.

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    Nov 7

    We've analyzed compute used in major AI results for the past decades and identified two eras in AI: 1) Prior to 2012 - AI results closely tracked Moore's Law, w/ compute doubling every two years. 2) Post-2012 - compute has been doubling every 3.4 months

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    Nov 7

    Wuyuan 婺源 is ancestral of Zha Clan before my ancestors migrated to Haining, Zhejiang 700 years ago. I’ve visited, can confirm it’s beautiful. It used to be part of ancient Huizhou古徽州, preserved many villages w Ming/Qing Dynasty architecture

    The autumn scenery in Wuyuan. Wuyuan, known as the most beautiful countryside in China, with at least 50 old villages, is located northeast of Jiangxi Province, and near Mt Huangshan and Jingdezhen. Wuyuan is home to a few of the well-preserved ancient architecture in East China.
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  14. Nov 7

    Did a podcast with Palladium on my recent China piece, clarifying some things and giving context on the piece!

    Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton are joined by Palladium writer to discuss her recent narrative piece on the psychological experience of observing rapid progress and change in China.
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    Nov 1

    The team recorded a great show today with ! Laid some seeds for future pieces on . Attn: aspiring east-west writers

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    Oct 21

    Twitter Purge? People have reported to me that somehow their account unfollowed me without them doing anything. is this happening only to accounts originated in China? I know @TweetNathanRich reported that YouTube did same to his followers

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    Oct 17

    Culiacan, Sinaloa in Mexico is currently a war zone. I encourage everyone to go checkout the situation in Culiacan, Sinaloa online. This is after El Chapo's son was arrested there. Praying for the people of

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  18. Oct 19

    Apparently impact investing will be a trillion dollar industry according to ’s John Halstead at London

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    Oct 18

    My deep dive into the battle for Hong Kong is out in print today in the with stunning photographs by ! If you’re in the UK, it’s in and if you’re elsewhere in the world (including HK), check it out in the section

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  20. Oct 19

    The inside look into the months-long Hong Kong protests by the wonderful , South China correspondent

    I spent the past few months following the evolution of a group of Hong Kong protesters - frontliners, moderates, high schoolers - as they fight for democracy against the world's most powerful authoritarian state. This week's magazine cover story by me
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    Oct 18

    This piece by on her experience of China over the years does draw my attention to how black and white my picture of China seems to be. Worth a read if you want to a little more colour to your image of China.

    🇨🇳🇺🇸Sharing the story that doesn't get told about China. Told by yours truly with
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