Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
@qiaoj.bsky.social
History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
On #RemembranceDay, my yearly reminder that an estimated 140,000 Chinese men were sent to labour in Europe amidst hefty war casualties, and linking to what remains one of the most touching life stories I've had the privilege to research for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On #RemembranceDay, my yearly reminder that an estimated 140,000 Chinese men were sent to labour in Europe amidst hefty war casualties, and linking to what remains one of the most touching life stories I've had the privilege to research for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
Waking up in Asia to the *absolutely unhinged news* that the Collège de France, one of the most venerable French academic institutions, cancelled a conference on the past & present of Europe-Palestine relations after our own Minister for higher education ceded to pressure by Jewish orgs in France
L’annulation d’un colloque sur la Palestine au Collège de France suscite critiques et incompréhension dans le monde universitaire
L’annulation d’un colloque sur la Palestine au Collège de France suscite critiques et incompréhension dans le monde universitaire
France Universités, qui regroupe les dirigeants d’université, a exprimé lundi son « incompréhension » et sa « vive inquiétude » face à une décision qui « porte atteinte à la liberté académique », selon elle.
www.lemonde.fr
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Waking up in Asia to the *absolutely unhinged news* that the Collège de France, one of the most venerable French academic institutions, cancelled a conference on the past & present of Europe-Palestine relations after our own Minister for higher education ceded to pressure by Jewish orgs in France
Les collègues, c'est parti ! Concours des plus belles affiches réalisées en mode débrouille car retards/délais/manque de supports...
Je me lance 👇🏻
Je me lance 👇🏻
Comme j'ai trop attendu pour demander la production d'une affiche, j'ai dû le faire moi-même. C'est 100% sans IA et... ça se voit. Mais je me suis amusé à le faire au moins!
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Les collègues, c'est parti ! Concours des plus belles affiches réalisées en mode débrouille car retards/délais/manque de supports...
Je me lance 👇🏻
Je me lance 👇🏻
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
D'ailleurs s'il y a des gens de l'ESR qui savent comment se faire rembourser des frais de numérisation de pièces d'archives, en particulier par des fonds d'archives étrangers, reconnaissance éternelle 🙏
(car pour l'instant c'est soit mes deniers perso, soit y aller en mission train/avion + hôtel)
(car pour l'instant c'est soit mes deniers perso, soit y aller en mission train/avion + hôtel)
Aujourd'hui dans l'administration publique: j'ai écrit à mon directeur de laboratoire pour avoir une attestation comme quoi l'inscription à la bibli de recherche de la BNF est bien une dépense professionnelle homologuée que je peux faire passer en frais de mission quand je vais en mission à la BNF
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
D'ailleurs s'il y a des gens de l'ESR qui savent comment se faire rembourser des frais de numérisation de pièces d'archives, en particulier par des fonds d'archives étrangers, reconnaissance éternelle 🙏
(car pour l'instant c'est soit mes deniers perso, soit y aller en mission train/avion + hôtel)
(car pour l'instant c'est soit mes deniers perso, soit y aller en mission train/avion + hôtel)
Ditto 34-year-old as a professor. Ask me how I know 😅
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ditto 34-year-old as a professor. Ask me how I know 😅
Pendant mon séjour à Taiwan, j'ai eu l'occasion d'enregistrer une série de trois émissions pour la branche francophone de RTI, d'abord avec Li Ang 李昂 autour des traductions et adaptations de son oeuvre
www.rti.org.tw/fr/programne...
www.rti.org.tw/fr/programne...
Voyages, traductions et adaptations du Banquet ahprodisiaque de Li Ang - Rti
La traductrice Coraline Jortay et l'autrice Li Ang (李昂) parlent des voyages du Banquet aphrod...
www.rti.org.tw
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Pendant mon séjour à Taiwan, j'ai eu l'occasion d'enregistrer une série de trois émissions pour la branche francophone de RTI, d'abord avec Li Ang 李昂 autour des traductions et adaptations de son oeuvre
www.rti.org.tw/fr/programne...
www.rti.org.tw/fr/programne...
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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“Primavera 8×5”: fascinating long-read (30k characters!) on the struggles of Sudd Cobas, a grassroots union of migrant workers in Prato’s textile industry dominated by Chinese factory owners. quick thread but it's so well worth a read.
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qCqImhOcvh...
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qCqImhOcvh...
当华人移民成为“剥削者”
“剥削者不取决于国籍，而是取决于人心。”
mp.weixin.qq.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“Primavera 8×5”: fascinating long-read (30k characters!) on the struggles of Sudd Cobas, a grassroots union of migrant workers in Prato’s textile industry dominated by Chinese factory owners. quick thread but it's so well worth a read.
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qCqImhOcvh...
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qCqImhOcvh...
I never thought growing up that the Dutch I reluctantly learned at school (believe me or not, I hated languages) would come *extremely* handy to read up on the Dutch League of Religious Anarcho-Communists for research on translations of the Harlem Renaissance in Shanghai yet... here I am!
October 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I never thought growing up that the Dutch I reluctantly learned at school (believe me or not, I hated languages) would come *extremely* handy to read up on the Dutch League of Religious Anarcho-Communists for research on translations of the Harlem Renaissance in Shanghai yet... here I am!
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What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
I really didn't mind at all the 18- and 20milers at 5am in 31C/81F degree heat but... we've had heavy tropical storms for a week just as I hit taper, and if I have to do another 5-miler on that 150m indoor track (that's 54 laps, if you ask), I will *scream bloody murder* 🤬😅
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I really didn't mind at all the 18- and 20milers at 5am in 31C/81F degree heat but... we've had heavy tropical storms for a week just as I hit taper, and if I have to do another 5-miler on that 150m indoor track (that's 54 laps, if you ask), I will *scream bloody murder* 🤬😅
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
Not usual. And thus very newsworthy, and worth reading.
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Not usual. And thus very newsworthy, and worth reading.
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
Eastern Taiwan's ill-fated Taroko Gorge is under evacuation orders due to a landslide barrier lake that formed today (8/17). The debris is 25 meters tall and as you can see in the attached photo of the Swallow's Grotto (via the national parl FB page), water levels were already high this afternoon.
October 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Eastern Taiwan's ill-fated Taroko Gorge is under evacuation orders due to a landslide barrier lake that formed today (8/17). The debris is 25 meters tall and as you can see in the attached photo of the Swallow's Grotto (via the national parl FB page), water levels were already high this afternoon.
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
Speak White, Michèle Lalonde
Speak white
il est si beau de vous entendre
parler de Paradise Lost
ou du profil gracieux et anonyme qui tremble dans les sonnets de Shakespeare
nous sommes un peuple inculte et bègue
mais ne sommes pas sourds au génie d’une langue
youtu.be/sCBCy8OXp7I?...
Speak white
il est si beau de vous entendre
parler de Paradise Lost
ou du profil gracieux et anonyme qui tremble dans les sonnets de Shakespeare
nous sommes un peuple inculte et bègue
mais ne sommes pas sourds au génie d’une langue
youtu.be/sCBCy8OXp7I?...
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Speak White, Michèle Lalonde
Speak white
il est si beau de vous entendre
parler de Paradise Lost
ou du profil gracieux et anonyme qui tremble dans les sonnets de Shakespeare
nous sommes un peuple inculte et bègue
mais ne sommes pas sourds au génie d’une langue
youtu.be/sCBCy8OXp7I?...
Speak white
il est si beau de vous entendre
parler de Paradise Lost
ou du profil gracieux et anonyme qui tremble dans les sonnets de Shakespeare
nous sommes un peuple inculte et bègue
mais ne sommes pas sourds au génie d’une langue
youtu.be/sCBCy8OXp7I?...
Reposted by Coraline Jortay 喬海霖
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
Perfect translation nerdiness meets so-many-childhood-memories timeline cleanse ✨💫
A lovely look at the craft of the Asterix translations here. auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...
Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…
auntymuriel.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Perfect translation nerdiness meets so-many-childhood-memories timeline cleanse ✨💫
Job klaxon 🚨
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postroctoral research fellow in social sciences/migration studies (Based in Taipei, Taiwan)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Job klaxon 🚨
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography)
Deadline: November 4
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi
Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to t...
www.routledge.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
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The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Taken as Strictly True: Neuroscience and Sinology in Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens
Cha is a Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing quality poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, and reviews written in English, as well as photography an...
www.asiancha.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...
Oui, et avis aux historiens : c'est merveilleusement pratique pour faire une copie cloud de ses bases de données en WebDAV ! (on voudrait juste plus d'espace 🥲)
Question aux chercheurs et chercheurs en unités CNRS mais pas forcément permanent(e)s ou employé(e)s par le CNRS :
Savez-vous que vous avez accès via le CNRS à divers services dont un cloud de stockage et d'édition collaborative ?
Savez-vous que vous avez accès via le CNRS à divers services dont un cloud de stockage et d'édition collaborative ?
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Oui, et avis aux historiens : c'est merveilleusement pratique pour faire une copie cloud de ses bases de données en WebDAV ! (on voudrait juste plus d'espace 🥲)
This is Nobel Week and, like clockwork, people are speculating about Can Xue 残雪 again -- so reposting this little thread in French about a very deserving contender who remains vastly undertranslated in the Francophone world
Alors que l'autrice chinoise Can Xue est une fois de plus favorite pour le Prix Nobel de littérature, largement traduite et primée dans le monde anglophone et au Japon, son oeuvre reste méconnue en France : les deux seules traductions (épuisées) datent de... 1992 et 2001 !
October 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is Nobel Week and, like clockwork, people are speculating about Can Xue 残雪 again -- so reposting this little thread in French about a very deserving contender who remains vastly undertranslated in the Francophone world
What fresh right-wing hell is this?
Belgian Ministers for Justice and Migration currently on diplomatic mission in Albania and Kosovo to explore building prisons there as a way of "easing prison overcrowding" in Belgium.
www.lesoir.be/703134/artic...
Belgian Ministers for Justice and Migration currently on diplomatic mission in Albania and Kosovo to explore building prisons there as a way of "easing prison overcrowding" in Belgium.
www.lesoir.be/703134/artic...
La Belgique cherche des solutions dans les Balkans pour faire face à la crise carcérale
Alors que les prisons belges débordent et que la surpopulation atteint un niveau record, Annelies Verlinden et Anneleen Van Bossuyt se rendent cette semaine en Albanie et au Kosovo. Objectif : explore...
www.lesoir.be
October 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What fresh right-wing hell is this?
Belgian Ministers for Justice and Migration currently on diplomatic mission in Albania and Kosovo to explore building prisons there as a way of "easing prison overcrowding" in Belgium.
www.lesoir.be/703134/artic...
Belgian Ministers for Justice and Migration currently on diplomatic mission in Albania and Kosovo to explore building prisons there as a way of "easing prison overcrowding" in Belgium.
www.lesoir.be/703134/artic...