historian at cambridge university. likes books which are axes for the frozen sea inside us. believes every pipe dream has a bibliography. perpetrated a book.
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12 May 2021
1421: The Year China Discovered America
10 May 2021
You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite book. You immediately leave. What’s the book?
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Rachel Leow retweeted
1 May 2021
From "The Start of Winter" by Liu Waitong, translated into English by Lucas Klein:
That corpse you planted in the winter of 2014 under Nathan Rd.,
has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
We will not ask again
When bells chime the night sky will be filled with mad stars.
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17 Mar 2021
the best place to send ❤️and donations to directly support the minimal economic needs of strikers in #Myanmar, thanks to Tun Myint, Ajam Chatman and James Scott mutualaidmyanmar.org
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Rachel Leow retweeted
8 Mar 2021
A film by Rachel Leow on the deportation of 20,000 Chinese from British Malaya > China between 1948 & 1953. Stories were told through the voices of two women. Discussions on women's memory-work, twilight zone between history & memory, colonial genealogies. youtube.com/watch?v=2nw6sRY7…
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Rachel Leow retweeted
17 Aug 2020
Tomorrow 10 am BST webinar "Hong Kong’s Future under China’s National Security Law" with
Johannes Chan Man-mun; @isabelhilton; Lai I-chung; Charles Parton OBE; moderated by Kun-Chin Lin, discussing legal and societal responses to the #NationalSecurityLaw tinyurl.com/yy7mpexb
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Rachel Leow retweeted
6 Aug 2020
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5 Aug 2020
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Rachel Leow retweeted
3 Dec 2019
47% of research staff in higher education are non-British
We're asking the university to end complicity with hostile environment policies of surveillance and support staff with visa costs & NHS fees
#UCUStrikesBack #CUCUStrikes #EndtheHostileEnvironment #UnisAreNotBorders
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29 Nov 2019
reading about @BorisJohnson's refusal to engage in the #ClimateDebate on @channel4 reminded me of something I read by @BrunoLatourAIME recently, & seems a good moment to share his words
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29 Nov 2019
and they have decided that, to conceal the crass selfishness of such a flight out of the shared world, they would have to reject absolutely the threat at the origin of this headlong flight…
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29 Nov 2019
hence the denial of climate change.” — Bruno Latour, Down to Earth
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