Sophie Loy-Wilson
@sophieloywilson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216
Pinned
I've long dreamt of writing a review article for the field of Chinese Australian history. I wanted to trace where it fit (or didn't) within Australian national mythologies & see what happens when we view Australia through Chinese sources. Here it is:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934
Unidentified group of soldiers during Federation celebrations in Sydney in 1901
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Unidentified group of soldiers during Federation celebrations in Sydney in 1901
Two unidentified Chinese dignitaries being carried in a sedan chair. Sydney 1930s.
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Two unidentified Chinese dignitaries being carried in a sedan chair. Sydney 1930s.
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...
'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London
The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
🧵4/5
Pretty exciting to have @hannahforsyth.bsky.social at usyd today talking about Economics and History. Students were over the moon
October 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Pretty exciting to have @hannahforsyth.bsky.social at usyd today talking about Economics and History. Students were over the moon
Ever since I heard Craig A. Smith talk about Yao-Chang's work in 2023, I've been fascinated by his use of historical archives to recreate violent Qing colonial frontiers in Taiwan. I know the translators have worked hard to bring this work to us in English.
www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
Lionhead Flower: A Novel of 1875 Formosa By Yao-Chang Chen
Lionhead Flower: A Novel of 1875 Formosa By Yao-Chang Chen .
www.cambriapress.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ever since I heard Craig A. Smith talk about Yao-Chang's work in 2023, I've been fascinated by his use of historical archives to recreate violent Qing colonial frontiers in Taiwan. I know the translators have worked hard to bring this work to us in English.
www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
Australia explained for Americans courtesy Arun Chandran
October 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Australia explained for Americans courtesy Arun Chandran
Tired Lion. Wonderful name for an underrated Australian indie band. Also the grand tradition of filming indie music videos in bright-Australian-sun cemeteries.
I called your Mum. Spat on your car.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xu...
I called your Mum. Spat on your car.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xu...
Tired Lion - Waterbed (Official Video)
YouTube video by Tired Lion
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Tired Lion. Wonderful name for an underrated Australian indie band. Also the grand tradition of filming indie music videos in bright-Australian-sun cemeteries.
I called your Mum. Spat on your car.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xu...
I called your Mum. Spat on your car.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xu...
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal."
(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)
(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)
Down in Dyess
Johnny Cash wrote in his autobiography, “I grew up under socialism—kind of.”
contingentmagazine.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal."
(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)
(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect
This article challenges benign depictions of the gradual and intentional liberalisation of the ‘White Australia policy’ during the Menzies government through an analysis of the quick series of amen...
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
A fantastic photo essay about photographing the vanishing Third Front factories of China.
I am a third-generation of the Third Front Movement. There’s a saying that captures the experience of families like ours: “First we devote our youth, then we devote our whole lives — in the end, even the futures of our children and grandchildren are tied to the cause.”
The Factory Workers Who Helped Build a Nation
A photographer strives to protect the memory of China’s Third Front Movement and the families who dedicated their lives to it.
www.sixthtone.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A fantastic photo essay about photographing the vanishing Third Front factories of China.
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️
Reposted by Sophie Loy-Wilson
Indigenous Australian flag goes hard
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Indigenous Australian flag goes hard
“We have survived”
At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :
At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :
October 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
“We have survived”
At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :
At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :
History Workshop students learning about Sydney’s indigenous history with Aunty Maxine today , proud Dharawal elder born at the La Perouse mission
October 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
History Workshop students learning about Sydney’s indigenous history with Aunty Maxine today , proud Dharawal elder born at the La Perouse mission
Delighted to endorse this exciting new book from Bolin Hu.
Sydney University Press is publishing so much new Chinese Australian history. So happy and proud.
Have a look at our growing 'China and the West in the Modern World' series.
sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...
Sydney University Press is publishing so much new Chinese Australian history. So happy and proud.
Have a look at our growing 'China and the West in the Modern World' series.
sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...
Patriots and Propaganda
In the turbulent years of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), a unique and complex narrative unfolded far from the battlefields – in Australia. Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Austra...
sydneyuniversitypress.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Delighted to endorse this exciting new book from Bolin Hu.
Sydney University Press is publishing so much new Chinese Australian history. So happy and proud.
Have a look at our growing 'China and the West in the Modern World' series.
sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...
Sydney University Press is publishing so much new Chinese Australian history. So happy and proud.
Have a look at our growing 'China and the West in the Modern World' series.
sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...
👀Don't miss this! Two of Australia's sharpest & most prescient thinkers, the legendary Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin, on how the F we got here
If anyone can tell us, they can. They've seen it all
Moderated by my Dad, Russia specialist Kyle Wilson
www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/stali...
If anyone can tell us, they can. They've seen it all
Moderated by my Dad, Russia specialist Kyle Wilson
www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/stali...
Stalin, Mao…Putin, Xi, Trump? The march of authoritarian history with Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin
www.blackincbooks.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
👀Don't miss this! Two of Australia's sharpest & most prescient thinkers, the legendary Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin, on how the F we got here
If anyone can tell us, they can. They've seen it all
Moderated by my Dad, Russia specialist Kyle Wilson
www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/stali...
If anyone can tell us, they can. They've seen it all
Moderated by my Dad, Russia specialist Kyle Wilson
www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/stali...
Sydney moon on a hot, hot Sunday. Summer around the corner 🪩❤️
October 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sydney moon on a hot, hot Sunday. Summer around the corner 🪩❤️