Melissa Chan

Our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION was selected to be on @MSNBC and Ali Velshi's Banned Book Club segment. Thank you so much to Ali and the production team! @badiucao and I enjoyed our stop in the studio to discuss authoritarianism, democracy, and activism!

Earlier in the Oval Office, I asked the two presidents about the gaps in the trade deal and whether basing US missile systems in the Philippines could provoke China.

It’s no exaggeration that Ukrainian public opinion is in an absolute firestorm after the parliament today approved a law essentially dismantling independent anti-corruption agencies, just days after SBU raided key investigators. The law isn’t enacted until Zelensky signs it — and…

So great to get a mention from @SD_Comic_Con! 💥 See everyone FRIDAY, 2-3 PM PT @ Booth 2103!!

Despite all my traveling, I managed to pop into Deutsche Oper this summer to see a wild new opera by Rebecca Saunders called Lash – Acts of Love. Thank you to JAB for the invite! It was good to see new music.

Thank you 田間 and @cnmediaproject for this interview with @badiucao and me in Chinese! We did something special this time: We translated and converted some pages of YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION into Chinese! 🧨 專訪: 政治圖像小說作者巴丟草、陳嘉韻 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/tianjiancm…

Remember those clown popos from HongKong？ More east eggs to find in our graphic novel “You Must Take Part In Revolution”

In Stowe, VT ⁦@melissakchan⁩ is featured

🇹🇼 REMINDER! Taiwan bookshop Bookman (書林) is still taking orders for YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! They've set up a special link and there is a discount if you order now! 🔗 shorturl.at/MjVB4

Just downloaded:)

🇨🇳 On the Princeton University Press debacle: "If they cannot resist such inducements, can they resist government censorial pressure that compromises the independence of their book acquisitions processes?" By @shaunodwyer: thediplomat.com/2025/07/prince…

Re-reading this, because it's so timely. Also available on audiobook. I don't see how you can read scholar @ruthbenghiat's definition of fascism and neo-fascism and not see it in our world today. #strongmen

"The dissidents who were the Soviet enemy within are now the vastly fictionalised Tren de Aragua gang members who supposedly terrorise our land, and indeed all migrants deemed insufficiently Afrikaner." A breathlessly devastating piece by @Shteyngart: theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

👋🏼 American in Europe here. Seeing this "no A/C and no dryer" talk and agree it's an issue, esp. the former. Europeans can't say it's about energy savings when winter's heated like an oven. Overall, you win some / lose some. Having healthcare and public transport is nice.

I am rewatching JAWS for the first time since I was a child. It had scared the hell outta me. I had no idea it was actually about capitalism.

On Friday, the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club hosted Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim @bikhim for an exclusive briefing. She spoke about issues such as the threats and coercion Taiwan faces, tariffs, semiconductors, and building resilience. The event was chaired by @tchau01.

🧨 Woo hoo! Thank you to @chinabksreview for including YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION on its mid-year list of books to read! 🔗 chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/15/ncb…

Appreciate the shade from Le Monde on Trump cuts to California rail project: "Unlike Europe or Asia, passenger rail travel is one of the least developed forms of transportation in the United States, with high-speed rail virtually non-existent." lemonde.fr/en/internation…