Madeleine O'Dea
@madeleineodea.bsky.social
Writer at large. Author of The Phoenix Years, Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus Books, 2017. Contributor to The Beijing Bureau, Hardie Grant, 2021. Deep in a new book ✍️ AKA: 欧美琳 madeleineodea.com
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Post you from a different era ... what being a foreign correspondent can do for you 🤣 China 86; PNG 92
#journalism #China 🀄️
#journalism #China 🀄️
thank you! Magical morning
August 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
thank you! Magical morning
This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞
Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors
July 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors
Reposted by Madeleine O'Dea
Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
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Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
BL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew expressions of dominance and reproductive function.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
globalvoices.org/2025/06/25/h...
globalvoices.org/2025/06/25/h...
How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
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Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to.
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June 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
June 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social
If you're in Sydney, don't miss this show. (it runs till the end of the month) #China #ContemporaryArt #Xinjiang 🀄️
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you're in Sydney, don't miss this show. (it runs till the end of the month) #China #ContemporaryArt #Xinjiang 🀄️
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
One of the truly distinctive voices in Chinese contemporary art, and also a voice from its borderlands. Chinese contemporary art is now in its 4th decade & this is the first time a Uyghur contemporary artist has been shown in Australia.
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
One of the truly distinctive voices in Chinese contemporary art, and also a voice from its borderlands. Chinese contemporary art is now in its 4th decade & this is the first time a Uyghur contemporary artist has been shown in Australia.
Image 2 , me, 10 years later, introducing Aniwar in "Modern Painters" magazine. Images 3-4, Glenda Korporaal, in "The Australian" this month, backgrounding Aniwar's current show at Sydney's Vermilion Gallery. No accident that Aniwar intrigued all 3 of us.
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Image 2 , me, 10 years later, introducing Aniwar in "Modern Painters" magazine. Images 3-4, Glenda Korporaal, in "The Australian" this month, backgrounding Aniwar's current show at Sydney's Vermilion Gallery. No accident that Aniwar intrigued all 3 of us.
3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.
Hi Teresa Teng is what is used commonly in Taiwan and abroad, but Deng Lijun is how she is known (& revered) in the PRC
April 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Hi Teresa Teng is what is used commonly in Taiwan and abroad, but Deng Lijun is how she is known (& revered) in the PRC
yes, that is an error, not sure how that slipped through (should say ascend to the leadership or some such)Will note for the next reprint :)
April 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
yes, that is an error, not sure how that slipped through (should say ascend to the leadership or some such)Will note for the next reprint :)
You'll see the bios I include at the back of the book make that clear.
April 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
You'll see the bios I include at the back of the book make that clear.
I think province is a more useful descriptor for a general reader given these are by no means autonomous regions within the PRC, Appreciating your close reading however 🙂
April 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I think province is a more useful descriptor for a general reader given these are by no means autonomous regions within the PRC, Appreciating your close reading however 🙂
Yes, I’m gutted I can’t make it
April 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Yes, I’m gutted I can’t make it
