Rachel Leow @idlethink
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. getpocket.com/@idlethink?s=i… Cambridge, UK Joined September 2008-
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
1421: The Year China Discovered America
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.
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
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=2nw6sR…
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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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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