Louise Edwards

@ledw.bsky.social

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Academic, Asia-China-Australia

Louise Edwards FHKAH is an Australian sinologist. Her work has focused on women and gender issues in China and Asia. As of 2022, she is Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales and an honorary professor at both the Australia-China Research Institute and the University of Hong Kong. .. more

Sociology 39%

Political science 35%

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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 3d

Catch @tommcilroy.bsky.social on the ABC’s MediaLand discussing his essay in the latest Meanjin
‘“We shall all have to live with this”: the Canberra press gallery and the Dismissal’ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (listen from 8’40”)

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Politics of Common Reading

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954. What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated Chin...

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...

Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 4d

In the final hours of our Subscriberthon, our brilliant co-editors Evelyn and Jonathan have an important message for you. Head to overland.org.au/shop or overland.org.au/donate today.

A message from Jonathan Dunk and Evelyn Araluen.

Kids, the arts are in trouble. Censorship, interference, austerity, hyper-surveillance, ministerial oversight and the fetish of social cohesion are now standard fare across the industry.

In the wake of our fallen comrades over at Meanjin, Overland’s work becomes more vital with every passing year as the Australian publishing sector continues to flounder in the face of cynicism, bureaucracy and profit incentives that hollow out our cultural institutions and undermine the integrity of our voices and testimonies.

Overland has survived because of a community that values independent media and storytelling. By subscribing and donating, you help Overland sustain our organisation so we can keep this important platform open to all readers and improve payments to writers. With your support we hope to never let the bastards grind us down.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 4d

Our journalists can still tell sharp, critical, honest stories – but they might want to break free of the editorial obsession with casting China as the eternal antagonist. #auspol #China #News Corp #Racism

When in doubt, blame China (every News Corp headline needs a villain)

If you only skimmed the headlines from News Corp, you’d be forgiven for thinking China was launching a krill-powered naval strike from Antarctica, staging an electric vehicle blitzkrieg across the out...

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 4d

The arts & humanities, & languages especially, are again under attack, easy scapegoats for problems in HEIs. Nottingham prides itself on being a global university, but without language provision, that is now a problematic boast

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 6d

“We live in an oligarchy,
but with this humidity
it feels like a dictatorship.”

On Day #5 of Overland’s subscriberthon, we bring you “Force posture agreement”, a new poem by Miroslav Sandev.
overland.org.au/2025/11/forc...

Force posture agreement - Overland literary journal

The men of Darwin have all taken their rottweilers / out for a walk at the same time. / For our protection. Like Pine Gap: / all those big white eyes that scan / the darkening horizon. / The eyes stay...

overland.org.au

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 13d

Every time I don’t think Auspol can get any stupider, I get proven wrong. A national conversation over whether the PM should apologise for wearing a t-shirt featuring a very popular band that’s been around for decades because of its name, is stupid, stupid, even for us

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13d

#OtD 28 Oct 1932 hunger marchers were attacked by police in Hyde Park, London. 3000 unemployed had set off from across the UK in Sep. Met in London by over 100k supporters, they tried to give politicians a petition of over 1 million signatures when attacked

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13d

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery

This article reveals that British-based merchants invested capital made from the Atlantic slave complex in the early Port Phillip District’s pastoral sector. It traces the capital that underpinned ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14d

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writing about how the "for profit" child care model has totally failed.

But then we know the for profit model of public services *always* fails, and yet....

thepoint.com.au/news/251028-...

New investigation reveals that child abuse happens more frequently at for-profit childcare centres

Parents should expect that when they send their kids to childcare that they are safe and receiving top quality education and care. This is not consistent with the profit motive.

thepoint.com.au

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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 14d

Why on earth has it taken so long to use menstrual blood for diagnosing conditions—like the most obvious one, endometriosis—as well as investigating its generative potential with stem cells? Because “Blokes cringe if you talk about it in the pub,” say experts:
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.

It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 17d

“As Albanese once said, this should be the republic’s moment.”
Catch me at Canberra Writers Festival today and tomorrow discussing my latest book, When Australia Became a Republic
Editorial: Ambition is dead, long live the king www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/10/25/a... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Ambition is dead, long live the king

Six years ago, while he was still opposition leader, Anthony Albanese addressed the Australian Republic Movement at a dinner in the King’s Hall of Old Parliament House. You can find the speech tucked ...

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 17d

Polio is 99% eradicated — a remarkable global achievement. But the only way we can full get rid of it is by fully funding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. On World Polio Day, I’m joining those calling on world leaders to close the gap and finish the job. Together, we can end polio for good

World Polio Day poster with image of doctor giving the oral vaccine to a child

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 18d

The shortage of teachers in city schools in Australia is the equal sixth largest in the OECD with 36.6% of lower secondary teachers working in schools with a shortage of qualified teachers. #auspol #teachershortage #education

Australia has amongst the highest teacher shortages in the OECD

A new OECD report reveals that Australia’s education system is facing a diabolical staffing crisis. Since 2018, teacher shortages have soared leaving Australia among the worst-performing nations in th...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 19d

“The government is cherrypicking available science in its attempts to reassure UNESCO enough is being done to address the destruction of World Heritage caused by the salmon industry.

"This is simply not the case."

-Australia Institute Tasmania Director Eloise Carr
#auspol @eloise-carr.bsky.social

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19d

📣 New Podcast! "23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson" on @Spreaker #bristol #feminist #history

23 October 1913: Bristol University Suffragette arson

Mini podcast a radical history on this date.

www.spreaker.com

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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 19d

Catch Australia Council Chair Wesley Enoch on ABC RN rn talking AusArt Day—it’s today! Donate to your fave org or give to your fave artist if you can, and if that’s not possible for you, it’s just as powerful to talk up the value of the arts in our lives. Go:
www.creative.gov.au/ausartdayfaqs

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 19d

Chinese state media Beijing Daily says ‘failed state’ US is ‘dying from within’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan – SCMP

Chinese state media says US ‘dying’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan

Commentary highlights ‘political polarisation’ and recent large-scale protests against Donald Trump, says tariffs ‘backfired’ on Americans.

www.scmp.com

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Nicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social · 19d

I'm delighted to say that I have been awarded the State Library of NSW's David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship for 2026!

My project is titled "Close the Bases: A History of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition".

Looking forward to getting stuck into the archives next year.

A photo of the facade of the State Library of New South Wales, bathed in the glow of sunset.

A photo of the Mitchell Library Reading Room through the entry doors, on an angle. The doors are in the foreground, with desks in the reading room, and the glass ceiling visible at the top.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20d

The First Nations hold title of one sort or another to over three-quarters of the land in the north and more over the coastline. When Penny Wong became foreign minister in 2022 she declared that Indigenous rights would inform her policies. Has she told Marles? #auspol

Readying the north for war

Few Australians realise that the tropical north occupies more than 40% of our land mass while holding only 5% of the population. But governments — colonial, state and national — have speculated about its destiny since the middle of the 19th century.

johnmenadue.com

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20d

We must name and face our darkness. We must repent. Our wilful blindness and historical amnesia, our refusal to be accountable to the rule of law, our belief that we have a right to use industrial violence to exert our will..@chrislynnhedges #auspol #Gaza

Chris Hedges' Edward Said memorial lecture: ‘Requiem for Gaza’

Journalist Chris Hedges delivers the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, “Requiem for Gaza” in Adelaide, Australia.

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Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social · 22d

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Thought control - The Shot

In societies which call themselves open and free, where elites cannot easily control the general population with violence, opinion management by other means remains the holy grail.

theshot.net.au

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22d

#OtD 20 Oct 1877 this drawing was published in London depicting famine in Bangalore, India. Famine began in 1876, and while around 5.5m Indians starved to death 100,000s of tonnes of food were exported to England with almost no relief. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9318...

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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 22d

“Democracy needs to be honest, it needs to have integrity, it needs to have transparency.” Thank you to Kerri O'Brien for her response to When Australia Became a Republic. My latest book is a conversation-starter on pivotal moments in political and cultural history: www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Democracy not guaranteed in Australia, republic advocate warns

When Australia Became A Republic is inspired by the many times Australians have done things their own way, from the introduction of the secret ballot to the Sydney Olympics.

www.smh.com.au

Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social · 22d

www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China

This essay was originally published in The Ideas Letter and is reprinted here with permission.

www.sinicapodcast.com

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Thomas R. Webb, PhD @thomasrwebb.bsky.social · 22d

The magnitude, advanced methods and extent of Native American agriculture continues to be vastly underestimated IMHO: scitechdaily.com/archaeologis...

Archaeologists Uncover Massive 1000-Year-Old Native American Farms That Defy the Limits of Agriculture

Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities, revealing a complex agricultural system. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with...

scitechdaily.com

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 26d

#ODT in #ChineseHistory: In 690 CE, Wu Zetian #武則天 (624–705) ascends a palace gate in Luoyang #洛陽 and promulgates the change of the dynastic mandate from #Tang #唐 to #Zhou #周. Thus begins the official reign of #China's only #femaleemperor. #womenrulers #womeninhistory

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 26d

“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege."

War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan

Sudan siege: War crimes alert as el-Fasher runs out of food

Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.

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