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my work moves between the visual avant-garde, utopian and dystopian literature, historical pain, and everyday dark humour

i am interested in how beauty, silence, monstrosity, movement, diplomacy, and technocracy reorganise what becomes visible, as well as in what anomalous cases reveal about otherwise normal structures and systems

    Utopia, Dystopia, and the Future of China

    Published in LSE Review of Books (October 2026)

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Everything You Wanted to Know about China**But were Afraid to Ask (Bui Jones 2026; Stanford 2027)

    […] This “little yellow book” for general readers offers no romance of an exotic “Orient”. Instead, it may help readers question their assumptions about China’s rivalry with the “West”, especially the other “big country”, the United States. Beyond the competing personality cults surrounding Trump and Xi, their appeal to audiences worldwide, and the social media memes that circulate their images lie more fundamental questions. What sustains political power and the leaders who wield it, what shapes history and makes it recur, and what keeps China going today?

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