Gregory Lee 利大英
@gblee.bsky.social
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.
Pinned
#photography #drawing #Chinese #Paris #diaspora
"Mr Lee with Mr Xue"
Paris, October 2025
Ink drawing by @natachalee.bsky.social
www.natachalee.art
"Mr Lee with Mr Xue"
Paris, October 2025
Ink drawing by @natachalee.bsky.social
www.natachalee.art
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#photography #drawing #Chinese #Paris #diaspora
"Mr Lee with Mr Xue"
Paris, October 2025
Ink drawing by @natachalee.bsky.social
www.natachalee.art
"Mr Lee with Mr Xue"
Paris, October 2025
Ink drawing by @natachalee.bsky.social
www.natachalee.art
#China #LGBT
via @amyabides.bsky.social
Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
via @amyabides.bsky.social
Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China removes two popular gay dating apps from Apple and Android stores
Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#China #LGBT
via @amyabides.bsky.social
Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
via @amyabides.bsky.social
Two of China’s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Yes. It's the kinship of authoritarianism.
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
The Chairmen, Trump and Mao
The January 13, 1967 issue of TIME magazine featured Mao Zedong on its cover with the headline “China in Chaos.” Fifty years later, TIME made U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its Man of The Year. Wit...
www.chinafile.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Yes. It's the kinship of authoritarianism.
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
-Geremie Barmé saw the parallels already in 2017: www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
#China #UK
Astounding how suddenly everyone's waking up to this. It's as though we've been baying at the moon for years.
@amyabides.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MPs prepare to examine Chinese state influence at UK universities.
Astounding how suddenly everyone's waking up to this. It's as though we've been baying at the moon for years.
@amyabides.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MPs prepare to examine Chinese state influence at UK universities.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#China #UK
Astounding how suddenly everyone's waking up to this. It's as though we've been baying at the moon for years.
@amyabides.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MPs prepare to examine Chinese state influence at UK universities.
Astounding how suddenly everyone's waking up to this. It's as though we've been baying at the moon for years.
@amyabides.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MPs prepare to examine Chinese state influence at UK universities.
ICYMI
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"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China
Demands of absolute loyalty and attacks on institutions have raised memories of Mao-style chaos from US watchers in China
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
ICYMI
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"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Sittelle Torchepot/Nuthatch
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November 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sittelle Torchepot/Nuthatch
📷©@gblee.bsky.social
📷©@gblee.bsky.social
#China #UK #universities #censorship
via CLEMENT NGU @asia.nikkei.com
November 7, 2025 12:17 JST
China allegedly pressed UK's Sheffield university to drop study
asia.nikkei.com/business/edu...
via CLEMENT NGU @asia.nikkei.com
November 7, 2025 12:17 JST
China allegedly pressed UK's Sheffield university to drop study
asia.nikkei.com/business/edu...
UK academic freedom in spotlight after Xinjiang research suspension
Anti-terror unit involved after China allegedly pressed a Sheffield university to drop study
asia.nikkei.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#China #UK #universities #censorship
via CLEMENT NGU @asia.nikkei.com
November 7, 2025 12:17 JST
China allegedly pressed UK's Sheffield university to drop study
asia.nikkei.com/business/edu...
via CLEMENT NGU @asia.nikkei.com
November 7, 2025 12:17 JST
China allegedly pressed UK's Sheffield university to drop study
asia.nikkei.com/business/edu...
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Mobile #streetphotography #hongkong
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Mobile #streetphotography #hongkong
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#China #UK #universities #Uyghur #Uighur #censorship
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
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#China #UK #universities #Uyghur #Uighur #censorship
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
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#bird #photography
'Autumnal colours.'
Sittelle torchepot - Sitta europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
'Autumnal colours.'
Sittelle torchepot - Sitta europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
#bird #photography
'Autumnal colours.'
Sittelle torchepot - Sitta europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
'Autumnal colours.'
Sittelle torchepot - Sitta europaea - Eurasian Nuthatch
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
#photography #birds
Pretty much the way I ended the week.
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
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Pretty much the way I ended the week.
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#photography #birds
Pretty much the way I ended the week.
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
Pretty much the way I ended the week.
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
📷 @gblee.bsky.social
On naming..."we need to decolonize the language"
Absolutely, but who named Asia and Africa Asia and Africa?
Absolutely, but who named Asia and Africa Asia and Africa?
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
On naming..."we need to decolonize the language"
Absolutely, but who named Asia and Africa Asia and Africa?
Absolutely, but who named Asia and Africa Asia and Africa?
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Feeling vulnerable sharing this: I wrote about land-exploitation as ongoing #colonization, grief, accountability, and the urge to re-member our relationship with the Earth...
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
Ongoing Colonization: Land Exploitation & Complicity
How extraction continues colonization and why we must confront our complicity.
hazelvolk.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Feeling vulnerable sharing this: I wrote about land-exploitation as ongoing #colonization, grief, accountability, and the urge to re-member our relationship with the Earth...
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
"Governments & corporations, whether in Canada, Australia, or France, are staffed by people shaped by that amnesia. People who have largely forgotten their own history...no memory of old languages...of sharing space with a web of life that once named trees, rivers, and stars as kin, not “resources.”
Feeling vulnerable sharing this: I wrote about land-exploitation as ongoing #colonization, grief, accountability, and the urge to re-member our relationship with the Earth...
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
Ongoing Colonization: Land Exploitation & Complicity
How extraction continues colonization and why we must confront our complicity.
hazelvolk.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"Governments & corporations, whether in Canada, Australia, or France, are staffed by people shaped by that amnesia. People who have largely forgotten their own history...no memory of old languages...of sharing space with a web of life that once named trees, rivers, and stars as kin, not “resources.”
#euthanasia #film #cinema #YestoDignity
Cinematic portrayals of euthanasia and ageing across the decades
Neasa Fitzpatricka, Desmond O’Neill
The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10514p1942-1943October 25, 2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cinematic portrayals of euthanasia and ageing across the decades
Neasa Fitzpatricka, Desmond O’Neill
The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10514p1942-1943October 25, 2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cinematic portrayals of euthanasia and ageing across the decades
Cinema can be enormously instructive in reflecting and informing public consciousness
on societal issues. It is especially illuminating for exploring perceptions of ageing,
a complex, diverse, and het...
www.thelancet.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#euthanasia #film #cinema #YestoDignity
Cinematic portrayals of euthanasia and ageing across the decades
Neasa Fitzpatricka, Desmond O’Neill
The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10514p1942-1943October 25, 2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cinematic portrayals of euthanasia and ageing across the decades
Neasa Fitzpatricka, Desmond O’Neill
The Lancet, Volume 406, Issue 10514p1942-1943October 25, 2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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📖🔓Now online!
#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"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
#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"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📖🔓Now online!
#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"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
#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"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
#decolonisation
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.
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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.
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
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 that hold attention in g...
www.thelancet.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#decolonisation
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.
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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.
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#China is so much of the global #soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries.
Ok farm facts are back!
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.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM