Gregory Lee 利大英

Can 'China Studies' still be trusted? It is generally agreed that Britain needs to improve its China capabilities. But what happens when institutions responsible for building those capabilities are compromised by the Chinese Communist Par...

It's generally agreed that the UK needs more #China expertise - from understanding history & culture to speaking Mandarin. But as I ask in the Spectator, what if institutions charged with improving such capabilities are captured by the Chinese communist party?
www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-...

Black and white photo of two Chinese women wearing wireless headphones. One holds a Polaroid camera.

Invisible Space tells the centuries-old tale of Bai Suzhen through experimental theatre and modern silent disco technology.

www.lothianlife.co.uk/2025/08/invi...

#edfringe #theatre #china #chinafocus #justthetonic

China counts down to start of work on Xinjiang-Tibet Railway National rail operator registers company to oversee construction of line from Hotan to Lhasa.

#Tibet #Xinjiang

#China counts down to start of work on Xinjiang-Tibet Railway
National rail operator registers company to oversee construction of line from Hotan to Lhasa

www.scmp.com/news/china/a...

Footballer, journalist, fashionista: whatever French Muslims do, we’re treated as the enemy within | Rokhaya Diallo Ministers have accused us of ‘infiltration’ and posing ‘a threat to national cohesion’. They’re old racist tropes given a dangerous new life, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

#French #Muslims treated as the enemy within

Rokhaya Diallo hits the nail on the head and up sets @lefigaro.fr in doing so (www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politiqu...)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elle ne se trompe pas.

Dockworkers in Italy win against arms shipment to Israel : Peoples Dispatch Dockworkers in Italy secure victory as shipping companies announce return of Israeli-bound weapons cargo to its point of origin.

wrote.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/04/dockworkers-in-italy-win-against-arms-shipment-to-israel/

#labor #unions #antiwar #antigenocide #decolonisation #antiShoah #antiHolocaust #counterterrorism #counterdisruption #zionismIsWhiteNationalism #endStateTerror #endEthnicCleansing [3/4]

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

Diversification is not decolonisation. "Those who avoid engaging with racism and colonialism in scientific works and spaces merely promote the status quo. All scientists will encounter opportunities to be anti-racist."
Privilege = responsibility.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Xinjiang #photography 'Mosque at dawn' Urumqi, August 1981 📷 © @gblee.bsky.social

#Xinjiang #photography

'Mosque at dawn'

Urumqi, August 1981

📷 © @gblee.bsky.social

#China #photography

'Traffic police box but no traffic'
May 1980

Note the original-looking information panel describing the Hebei coastal resort town of Beidaihe 北戴河, habitual summer retreat of China's party leadership. In the early 1980s there were no private cars.

📷 © @gblee.bsky.social

#China #photography

'Chicken to go'
Shopping for poultry in pre-freezer China
Beijing, September 1979

📷 © @gblee.bsky.social

Translational Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Modern Chinese Literary Scholarship This article introduces Chinese Literature and Thought Today’s “Translation Studies as Methods” special issue that explores the evolving intersection of modern Chinese literature and translation st...

📣 Excited to share my new article—co-authored with Yifeng Sun—is now published in Chinese Literature and Thought Today!

📰 It introduces our special issue, “Translation Studies as Methods.”

🔗 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So pleased to have a thumbs-up from the thinker that inspired this essay, her work in Violent Phenomena (www.tiltedaxispress.com/violent-phen...) deeply changed the way I look at translation, can't recommend it enough. Her poetry is terrific, too: www.thewhitereview.org/poetry/two-p.... Thank you!

聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒚. 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, a Hong Kong-based bilingual (Chinese and English) print publication, invites poets and translators worldwide to.....

𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒚.

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒—Voice & Verse, a Hong Kong-based bilingual print publication,invites poets/translators worldwide to submit original ENG-language poems & poems newly translated into English for their upcoming issue themed 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗠.
www.facebook.com/VoiceAndVers...

Closing Market - night - Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
August 8, 2015
#photography #China #Ganzhou #night #blur #lights #streetphography #market #blackandwhite #b&w #abstract #blueskyart #man

Why are proposals for China’s super-embassy in London so contentious? Angela Rayner has asked China to un-redact parts of the plans that had been ‘greyed out’ in the application

#China #UK super-embassy
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

J'ai signé et vous?
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Truer now than then?
Seinfeld episode: George Costanza sitting in a New York diner reading his morning paper. He "looks across to his companion with weary exasperation. Why, he asks, does the high-minded New York Times refuse to accept that #China is a turn-off?"
via Martin Kettle @theguardian.com

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English 'Contradictions in objectives' of Chinese Studies Dept & what China would like UK schools to project

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzMK...

#China #UK #academicfreedom

Contradictions in objectives' of Chinese Studies Dept & what China would like UK schools to project

Here's the link to my France24 interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzMK...

#China #UK #academicfreedom

Contradictions in objectives' of Chinese Studies Dept & what China would like UK schools to project

Here's the link to my France24 interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzMK...

www.prio.org/journals/jpr...

John Beck (2025) Those Who Should Be Seized Should be Seized. New York: Melville House. ISBN: 978-1-68589-179-4

300 word book note on this excellent, gripping work on China's atrocities against Uyghurs and Kazakhs,

By Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University

Ah c'est le mois d'août, le mois où certains trolleurs français installés en Chine retournent bronzer dans la mère patrie et, ayant enfin un accès facile aux réseaux sociaux non-chinois, viennent poser leur petite crotte sous les publications en ligne du gouvernement taïwanais...

Legal battle erupts over inheritance of former richest man in China Zong Qinghou, founder of the Wahaha beverage empire who died in 2024, reportedly fathered three children from an extramarital affair. These children are now contesting the late tycoon's inheritance wi...

#China
Zong Qinghou, founder of the Wahaha beverage empire who died in 2024, reportedly fathered three children...now contesting the late tycoon's inheritance with his legitimate daughter, who has become CEO of the company.
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
via Jordan Pouille @lemonde.fr

German trial reveals far-right AfD party's ties with Beijing A former aide to far-right MP Maximilian Krah stands accused of passing sensitive information to the Chinese authorities.

#China #Germany #espionage

"German trial reveals far-right AfD party's ties with Beijing
A former aide to far-right MP Maximilian Krah stands accused of passing sensitive information to the Chinese authorities."

Ludovic Piedtenu (Berlin) via @lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Indeed. Having navigated this for over 45 years, there's no one answer. Depends on the political moment, the particular circumstances. Also depends where you are in your career. The elephant in the room is conscious or subconscious self-censorship. Also, whose safety? Ours or our contacts in China?

#China
Brings back memories of my practising a similar movement on waste ground at the back of the dorm at Peking University back in the winter of 79-80.
Looks like @karenattiah.bsky.social got that mastered better than I ever did.

Comment Leroy Merlin pousse des syndicalistes vers la sortie Mediapart a réuni les témoignages de plusieurs militants syndicaux accusant l’enseigne de bricolage de vouloir les faire partir par tous les moyens. De son côté, l’entreprise assure « avoir pris les …

Après avoir lu cet article, je ne ferai plus aucun achat chez Leroy Merlin.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

#China #UK #France
Just did a live TV interview with @france24.com English service on the UKCT Cold Crisis report on Chinese state interference in UK universities.
You can probably watch it on catch-up.

ukctransparency.org/wp-content/u...

#China #UK #France
Just did a live TV interview with @france24.com English service on the UKCT Cold Crisis report on Chinese state interference in UK universities.
You can probably watch it on catch-up.

ukctransparency.org/wp-content/u...