Writer and academic. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. Professeur émérite, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon. 香港人文學院院士. Formerly SOAS/PKU/Cambridge/UChicago/HKU/BBC/社科院. Founding Director IETT, Lyon. Gen editor Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本 跨文化. .. more
Writer and academic. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. Professeur émérite, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon. 香港人文學院院士. Formerly SOAS/PKU/Cambridge/UChicago/HKU/BBC/社科院. Founding Director IETT, Lyon. Gen editor Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本 跨文化.
Gregory B. Lee is an academic, author, and broadcaster. Lee is Founding Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of St Andrews. He was until July 2020, Director of the French research Institute for Transtextual and Transcultural Studies based at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 where he is currently Professeur émérite. Lee was previously Chair Professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. From 2007 to 2010 Lee was First Vice-President (Research) of Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. In 2010, Lee was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the French Order of Academic Palms. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. .. more
That was 2018. Since, the list of hooligans passing for respectable heads of government has expanded, and what I called "hoodlum diplomacy" is now common currency.
A new form of political show is now widespread. It involves a set of practices that are common currency not only in China, but also in Russia and Turkey. The conduct of these countries’ foreign policies has become no more than a virulent form of ‘hoodlum diplomacy'
Astounding how suddenly everyone's waking up to this. It's as though we've been baying at the moon for years.
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MPs prepare to examine Chinese state influence at UK universities.
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-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
via @amyabides.bsky.social Amy Hawkins 5 Nov 2025
Very interesting piece, fits with what I've thinking over for a talk I'll be giving in a couple of weeks.
"A cultural revolution? Trump’s #America feels oddly familiar to those watching from #China"
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"If you can get an entire institution to back off from criticizing China's human rights record, that's much more efficacious than dissuading just one scholar."
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November 7, 2025 12:17 JST
China allegedly pressed UK's Sheffield university to drop study
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Human rights research halted after pressure from China
Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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'Autumnal colours.'
Sittelle torchepot - Sitta europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch
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Pretty much the way I ended the week.
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
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Absolutely, but who named Asia and Africa Asia and Africa?
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
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#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
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Cinematic portrayals of euthanasia and ageing across the decades
Neasa Fitzpatricka, Desmond O’Neill
The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10514p1942-1943October 25, 2025
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#PdH20 is now available on our website.
This special issue, edited by Noemi Alfieri, is dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge"
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#openaccess #openaccessjournal
Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox, Anna O. Law , and 45 more Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Nandita Sharma, Robbert Sanderman, Robert Böhm, Amy Bruckman, Håvard Kauserud, Gavin A. Schmidt, Wolfgang Kiessling, Colette L. Heald, Julie L. Lockwood, Anthony Ricciardi, Dominique Berteaux, Euan G. Ritchie, John R. Hutchinson, Serge Guimond, Megan L. Ranney, Gregory B. Lee, Niels Werber, Laura Pereira, Tuomas Mattila, Paul Cassia, Leonhard Dobusch, Carlos Nunes Silva, Caroline T. Schroeder, Andrew Jacobs, Bessma Momani, Peter Jacobsen, Josef Früchtl, Susan Strasser, Urška Demšar, Vaughan S. Roberts, Fábio Angeoletto, Nikki Fairchild, Catriona Seth, Klaus Oschema, Jason Williams, Olivier Sandre, Charles T. Mathewes, Aviel Roshwald, Aidan O’Sullivan, Gareth Terry, Peter Jacobs, Kristina McElheran, Paul Caplat, Elena D. Concepción
The gaze reversed
Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and places... in global health.
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China is so much of the global soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries. There isn't enough soybean demand in the world to fill that dent.
And farmers... know that.
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China is so much of the global soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries. There isn't enough soybean demand in the world to fill that dent.
And farmers... know that.
The 62-article draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, was submitted to the National People’s Congress on 8 September.
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