Andrea Janku
@zamarginalities.bsky.social
‘sinologist’ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic
What an amazing, moving interview: ‘Jimmy Lai’s last interview as a free man in 2020’
This billionaire tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This billionaire tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom
Lai, who is facing life in prison, always said he owed Hong Kong, a city that had given him
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What an amazing, moving interview: ‘Jimmy Lai’s last interview as a free man in 2020’
This billionaire tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This billionaire tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oooh I have some fun material here. One of the things HKers did to support the paper financially was to buy up classified ads, which became a whole new genre of soft-protest. A small thread -
A reminder that "Apple Daily" had difficulty getting advertisers because Leung Chun-ying pressured companies to not advertise in the pro-democracy newspaper when he was Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
In 2019, #AppleDaily implemented a subscription model, which peaked at 800,000 subscribers within 3 months. At a monthly fee of HK$50, this translates to HK$40,000,000 in monthly revenue, enough to cover operating costs & repay debts to #JimmyLai . #HongKong
pulsehknews.com/apple_202512...
pulsehknews.com/apple_202512...
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Oooh I have some fun material here. One of the things HKers did to support the paper financially was to buy up classified ads, which became a whole new genre of soft-protest. A small thread -
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The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.
Toolkit for UK Hunger Strikers
docs.google.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.
Just published: OA piece about #inclusion and #attainment in HE based on concrete practice at #SOAS by my fabulous colleagues @e-newbigin.bsky.social and Sarah Tucker:
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just published: OA piece about #inclusion and #attainment in HE based on concrete practice at #SOAS by my fabulous colleagues @e-newbigin.bsky.social and Sarah Tucker:
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One country, one system.
If Xi had any decency, which he doesn’t, he would let Lai live out his life in exile.
If Xi had any decency, which he doesn’t, he would let Lai live out his life in exile.
Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong court finds pro-democracy figure guilty of all charges – live
Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong court finds pro-democracy figure guilty of all charges – live
Incarcerated activist and media owner has been on trial for more than two years on national security charges
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Jimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong judges set to rule on national security charges
The three high court judges have entered the courtroom and taken their seats.
The hearing is due to begin and Lai has entered the court, news reports are saying, adding that he waved to his family. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
One country, one system.
If Xi had any decency, which he doesn’t, he would let Lai live out his life in exile.
If Xi had any decency, which he doesn’t, he would let Lai live out his life in exile.
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Prominent Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama and educator from Amdo detained and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediately. Report: tibetwatch.org/prominent-bu...
Prominent Buddhist Lama and educator detained; school forced to close
A prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader and educator from Amdo has been detained and ‘disappeared’, and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediatel...
tibetwatch.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Prominent Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama and educator from Amdo detained and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediately. Report: tibetwatch.org/prominent-bu...
The Chinese government is developing AI systems in the languages of the ethnic minorities in the PRC to expand state surveillance and control, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has warned.
www.tibetanreview.net/china-develo...
www.tibetanreview.net/china-develo...
China developing AI surveillance systems in minority languages, has launched a Tibetan large language model - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Dec03’25) – The Chinese government is developing AI systems in the languages of the ethnic minorities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to expand state surveillance and contr...
www.tibetanreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Jimmy Lai turned 78 today. He is still behind bars -- specifically, in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison in Hong Kong -- and his national security law trial has yet to conclude.
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying. Billionaire businessman who is one of Hong Kong's most well known political prisoners. Born in Mainland China, he fled to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution. Pro-democracy and anti CCP, he's been behind bars since December 2020, and faces national security law charges.
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Jimmy Lai turned 78 today. He is still behind bars -- specifically, in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison in Hong Kong -- and his national security law trial has yet to conclude.
If you're in London, join us for the final SOAS History Seminar of the semester. Desmond Cheung (SOAS) will speak on Locust Control and State Activism in Ming China.
Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm, C426
All welcome!
More info:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm, C426
All welcome!
More info:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Certainly within the university context it’s a clear sign than the system needs to change to become genuinely inclusive. It’s the lack of flexibility, the failure to allow divergence, that is pathologising.
"...these diagnoses are increasingly used by students & workers for organising to push back against oppressive systems & institutions of exploitation. The backlash against the expansion of these diagnoses is thus, in significant part, a ruling class backlash against a demand for change..."
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Certainly within the university context it’s a clear sign than the system needs to change to become genuinely inclusive. It’s the lack of flexibility, the failure to allow divergence, that is pathologising.
Zhang Yadi's plight illustrates the risk of going home for Chinese nationals who displease the state, as it increasingly tightens control over issues it considers sensitive -- such as that of Tibet. In full: buff.ly/EfBmfWe
Loved ones fear for pro-Tibet student activist detained in China
Zhang Yadi's plight illustrates the risk of going home for Chinese nationals who displease the state, as it increasingly tightens control over issues it considers sensitive -- such as that of Tibet.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
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A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social
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I keep saying this in dept meetings
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I keep saying this in dept meetings
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One country, one system
It appears that pretty much all Hong Kong-based newsfluencers, even those with international bylines or appearances, got a memo within the last 12 hours that they should shut up about the deadly fire, or else face consequences.
Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday
Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
One country, one system
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GovHK had a grand opportunity here to be part of a united community and be an instrument of goodwill to nurture that unity, and they just had to go and blow it, didn't they?
But then paranoia will do that. It's like they're so afraid of their own ppl that they see sedition plots everywhere. 1/5
But then paranoia will do that. It's like they're so afraid of their own ppl that they see sedition plots everywhere. 1/5
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
GovHK had a grand opportunity here to be part of a united community and be an instrument of goodwill to nurture that unity, and they just had to go and blow it, didn't they?
But then paranoia will do that. It's like they're so afraid of their own ppl that they see sedition plots everywhere. 1/5
But then paranoia will do that. It's like they're so afraid of their own ppl that they see sedition plots everywhere. 1/5
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The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化
Inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers linking to a petition demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化
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This
"With dismay we witness our university leadership making soulless choices that hollow out our institutions from within and erode the critical and self-reflective fabric of academia".
[from Guest et al., 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of "AI" Technologies in Academia']
[from Guest et al., 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of "AI" Technologies in Academia']
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This
‘What is to be done?’ Important piece about the British Library.
‘… the new interim chief executive … needs to build a top team and board who have a greater understanding of its academic users – knowledge that is currently held by specialist staff rather than the leadership.’
‘… the new interim chief executive … needs to build a top team and board who have a greater understanding of its academic users – knowledge that is currently held by specialist staff rather than the leadership.’
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
‘What is to be done?’ Important piece about the British Library.
‘… the new interim chief executive … needs to build a top team and board who have a greater understanding of its academic users – knowledge that is currently held by specialist staff rather than the leadership.’
‘… the new interim chief executive … needs to build a top team and board who have a greater understanding of its academic users – knowledge that is currently held by specialist staff rather than the leadership.’
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part One
"Topics targeted include: sentencing of officials over a detainee's death; environmental issues; Nobel Prizes; the deadly crash of a Xiaomi electric vehicle; the re-sentencing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan …"
"Topics targeted include: sentencing of officials over a detainee's death; environmental issues; Nobel Prizes; the deadly crash of a Xiaomi electric vehicle; the re-sentencing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan …"
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part One
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “...
chinadigitaltimes.net
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for October 2025, Part One
"Topics targeted include: sentencing of officials over a detainee's death; environmental issues; Nobel Prizes; the deadly crash of a Xiaomi electric vehicle; the re-sentencing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan …"
"Topics targeted include: sentencing of officials over a detainee's death; environmental issues; Nobel Prizes; the deadly crash of a Xiaomi electric vehicle; the re-sentencing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan …"
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As the lack of English secondary literature specifically dedicated to Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 makes this School of Chinese Philosophy and #Confucianism rather inaccessible, I have decided that it is time for a bibliography post including introductory and more specific works on Gongyang thinkers.
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As the lack of English secondary literature specifically dedicated to Gongyang Confucianism #公羊學 makes this School of Chinese Philosophy and #Confucianism rather inaccessible, I have decided that it is time for a bibliography post including introductory and more specific works on Gongyang thinkers.
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a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
OutSavvy - To Your Ear - Thursday 13th November 2025 at St Catherine's Church. Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/30652/...
To Your Ear Tickets - London - OutSavvy
To Your Ear returns to St Catherine's for a concert of music for strings and piano. There will be two brand new pieces: an octet for violin, viola, cello, three guitars, piano and keys by James M Cree...
www.outsavvy.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
OutSavvy - To Your Ear - Thursday 13th November 2025 at St Catherine's Church. Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/30652/...
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