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jung money , let’s go

AAS Vancouver 2026: Will be presenting at the panel "People's Republic of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Classification and Personnel in the Chinese State" Saturday 10:30-12 at VCC Room 220. With @mt-b.bsky.social @ktai.bsky.social Yi Lu, Juan Wang and Daniel Leese as discussants. See you there!

someone is going to put this in a psychoanalysis textbook.

someday, current me will have mercy on future me. but today is not that day.

Tracking China’s Progress Towards Law-Based Taxation Tracking efforts of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of China to elevate administrative tax regulations to statutes.

BREAKING: China's national legislature to revoke landmark 1985 decision granting the State Council blanket authority to issue economic regulations—which it used to build China's modern tax system.

4 taxes are still solely governed by regulations today.

Background: npcobserver.com/2018/08/14/t...

wait sorry -- it's the figure that's from the third edition of "Records Management" (Johnson and Kallaus)

"Administrative Office Management" (Keeling and Kallaus, 3d. edition) reprinted in Chinese Public Administration, (Issue 12, 1986)

(new york)

is there anything good (on a budget) to eat near the UN archives?

adding “soft-handed scribe” to the long list of professions I will tell people I do before I say “political science professor“

what do we want: 76年后可全文检索的中文出版物！！
when do we want them: now!!!!

Screenshot of plot showing ELO vs paramter count for different OCR models

There is no best VLM OCR model - rankings can flip completely by document type.

I built ocr-bench: run open OCR models on YOUR documents, get a per-collection leaderboard.

VLM-as-judge with Bradley-Terry ELO, all running on @hf.co. No local GPU needed.

oooh Adam that one is so good

they did; I just didn't digitize it before I left :/ I was still working mostly on the Mao-era stuff I needed for the diss.

HathiTrust might have scanned it it but they're not sharing, of course

just re-upping this in case anyone else might save me from trying to do this.

does anyone have digitized 红旗/求是 for the early reform era?

this game is why i study bureaucracy

I guess I will be submitting (checks notes) 18 ILL requests today. check back in 2027 for when I might have Something to Share™

Roger that. Sorry to ping you, thanks for checking. will let you know what I find …

before anyone asks: yes, I know about that website. no, they don't have original 红旗 issues from 1977-1988

maybe @christiangoebel.bsky.social ?

hey #chinasky, does anyone have a full run of digitized 红旗/求是 articles (for any period but especially looking for around the transition from one to the other)?

I know someone must have done this already. Please do not make me digitize another Chinese publication.

I too am very curious about the Chinese sources! Sounds like a great project though!!

ngl I was taught a lot of this as a middle schooler in Michigan but I kinda assumed it was mostly local propaganda

gonna be harder than ever to get that story out now, IMO

source: 《职位分类与人事管理》陈子明、李盛平 （1986）

I will never get tired of these choose your fighter-lookin-ass figures

i see "disjuncture" and raise you "discontinuity"

Announcing the release of new Common Corpus, and the first really global update. For the Indian AI Impact Summit we added 270B tokens of permissibly license collections, more than half of content from non-Western countries. pleias.fr/blog/blogcom...