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Andrea Janku
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‘sinologist’ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic
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It’s getting dark very quickly.
View up to the sky at the fall of night through layers of foliage of a couple of trees with some big black maple leaves in the foreground.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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On the high ground of the modernised, sinicized Marxism of the 21st century … the ‘way of truth’ - School of Marxism, Fudan University.

Another random quote:
‘Die Religion ist das Opium des Volkes.’
Drop-shaped bronze plaque on paved ground with this text highlighting the message of Marxism as the way to the truth: “真经” “心经” 马克思主义中国化现代化 立场观点方法 世界观方法论 中国化 马克思主义真理之路 二十一世纪马克思主义 马路 当代中国方法 (vertically framing 马路 on both sides:) 马克思 真理之路 制高点 马克思主义 立场观点方法 两个结合 马克思 主义 行 sign/sculpture at the entrance of the School of Marxism and the school for the study of Chen Wangdao saying in big red letters: 心有所信 方能行远 and in smaller red letters on a white pedestal: 马克思主义研究院 望道研究院
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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For people interested in the creation of #archives: look forward to the research of this year‘s BACS ECR Prize awardee Matthew Hurst on the intricate history of the migration of Hong Kong’s colonial archives - an amazing story!
#BACS2025
#HongKong
Photo of an archive showing two rows of shelves with document boxes. Caption: Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park. Matthew Hurst BACS Conference | September 2025
September 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Looking forward to the second #ToYourEar gig this Wednesday, 16 April, 7pm, St Catherine's Church, Hatcham, Pepys Road, London, SE14 5SG

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To your ear, music for strings and piano, @tye.collective
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The second to your ear gig upcoming in London next month:
www.outsavvy.com/event/25866/...
#NewMusic
Flyer, white letters on blue background: To your ear | music for strings and piano | James M Creed, Matthew Gilley, Jon Paul Mayse, Janet Oates, Donnacha Dennehy, Caroline Shaw, Luiz Henrique Yudo | @tye.collective, anne_yin, jamesmcreed, yada_fernando and mt_gilley
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Dark times
Trees at night, some bare branches lurking into the image from the right and top left, trees of different sizes in the background, low horizon, modestly eerie effect of the branches reflecting the flash light.
January 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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A dark year is coming to an end.
To whatever lies ahead …

#TheThames in Ham, 28 December 2024
Withered and dried plant with a thick stem reaching to the grey sky, a white feather horizontally trapped in it, separating some hanging down withered black leaves from the grassy-seeded top; a blurred riverscape filling the background of the lower third of the image. Black-and-white, moody vibe.
December 28, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Peace and kindness for the final days of 2024. There’s always hope. A gift from friends.
Two white doves flying towards each other from the two sides of a square frame meeting each other in the middle, with a round white moon in the background covering the space between them. Dark blue background, red-lined frame with little green stars lined up along the margins. Linoprint.
December 18, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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Keynote book launch this Thursday (28 Nov) co-convened by my wonderful colleague Henny Ziai:
Book launch poster showing two book covers and their authors: Crude Capitalism by Adam Hanieh/ Making Space for the Gulf by Arang Keshavarzian, Thursday 28 November 2024, 5-7pm, main building, Khalili lecture theatre, registration QR code in the lower right corner. Department of Politics and International Studies & School of History, Religions and Philosophies. Co-conveyors: Hengameh Ziai (History), Sarah El-Kazan (Politics), Rafeef Ziadah (KCL), Mattin Biglari (Bristol)
November 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Just right after the frenzy of the last few days …
Stage in red light, programme notes held in the foreground: To Your Ear Programme Linda Caitlin Smith - Ricercar (2015) Laurence Crane - Bobby J (1999) Matthew Gilley - A Kernel, A. Spark, A Thought (2024)* Interval Kristine Tjogersen - Prologue (2021) Claudia Molitor - I Had to Protest (2006) Lotte Anker - Share Our Breath (2020) Julius Eastman - Buddha (1983) Charlotte Glyn-Woods - No.2 (2024)* Interval Laurence Crane - Holt Quartet (2013) Julius Eastman- Joy Boy (1974) James M Creed - Piano Quintet: A Version of Tending (2024)* * indicates first performance Performers Anne Yin Han - violin Matthew Gilley - violin Freya Hicks- viola Rebecca Burden - cello Jay Austin Keys - piano Fernando Yada Rodrigues - piano James M Creed - electric guitar About the music First set Our programme begins in a quiet atmosphere with two solos, one for cello by Linda Caitlin Smith and one for guitar by Laurence Crane. We then have the first of the night‘s brand new pieces of music, a string trio
September 26, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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To Your Ear: New Music for Strings and Piano
If you’re in the area (SE London) this Thursday, 26 Sep, consider joining this crowd of young musicians: www.outsavvy.com/event/21751/...
Poster for new music gig: To your ear: new music for strings and piano by James M. Creed Charlotte Glyn Woods Matthew Gilley Plus Julius Eastman Linda Catlin Smith Claudia Molitor Laurence Crane September 26, Doors at 7pm, Avalon Cafe, Juno Way, SE14 5 RW Tickets £5/£10 No one turned away for lack of funds bit.ly/to-your-eat Light green yellowish inside of a mussel shell on white background
September 24, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Inspired by @ferrousmu.bsky.social and tempted to try posting a video clip: #water or rather #MovingWater - #TheThames in Ham
September 21, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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‘Dance with me’ - on the Thames in Ham, 15 September 2024
Old derelict piece of a wooden plank floating on darkish water sprinkled with little leaves and twigs, with the words ‘dance with me’ painted on one end. Autumny feel.
September 16, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Autumn in Ham Lands. 14 September 2024
A horse chestnut on the earthy ground of a wooded area, bedded on brown withered leaves, a little stick reaching into the image from the mid-top to the top right just over a little grey stone, one half of the chestnut still covered by its bright green spiky shell, the other half (left) somehow shining whitish with something small and round on it that looks like an eye and a tiny little stem of a leaf peaking out where a mouth might be. Darkish mood, apart from the shiny bright green and white in the middle.
September 15, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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No.18
#BookChallenge
Cover of Joanne Limburg’s Letters to My Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood, light grey background with abstract forms in the not very accurate shapes of a cuboid (bluish-grey), a bigger (darkish orange) and a smaller (greyish black) circle, shakily stacked on each other, two overlapping rectangles (black line-drawing) reaching vertically across the bigger two shapes, and a third one, bigger and drawn even more shakily, in a thin white line, linking everything
August 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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No.17
#BookChallenge
Book cover, the silhouettes of the earth’s biggest landmasses in black on white background, the Americas stretching horizontally across the top, Eurasia forming one piece, almost, with Africa, pointing to the bottom, the title and names of authors in blank spaces along the left, in fine black letters on: The Shock of the Anthropocene, Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
August 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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No.16
#BookChallenge
Book cover showing a colourful Persian miniature horseback/arrows-and-bow fighting scene; a red banner separating off the upper third of the page with the author’s name: Tamim Ansary, above at the top the title, whitish letters on black background: Destiny Disrupted: a History of the World through Islamic Eyes
August 17, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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No.15
#BookChallenge
Book cover showing a small humanoid skull at the centre, graphite black background, title in very light brown/beige above: On Deep History and the Brain; author’s name below: Daniel Lord Smail; bottom margin shows a stripe of a pictorial map, mare sive sinus persicus on the right, with two streams flowing out of it towards the left and right respectively, a lion and another smaller animal on the left. Pre-publication praise along the top margin, small print: “No other book integrates the study of human history with principles of biological and cultural evolution on such an ambitious scale.” David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin’s Cathedral. The cover also has a King Country Library System bar code and number sticking on it, but inside there is a red stamp saying ‘This is no longer the property of King County Library System.’ There is also the shadow of hands holding the phone taking the photograph in the lower half of the image.
August 12, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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No.14
#BookChallenge
Book cover, white background, black letters and black-and-white image of upper half of the head of a black person, from the eyes up, slightly in profile. The author‘s name and book title fill the upper third of the cover: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Decolonising the Mind The Politics of Language In African Literature
August 11, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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No.13
#BookChallenge
Book cover, soft white background, title of series on top, in small black letters, underlined: Weißes Programm: Im Jahrhundert der Frau, beneath that, in dark green letters: Ding Ling, Next two lines, in lighter green same size letters: Das Tagebuch der Sophia, last line, shortly above mid page, small black letters: Suhrkamp. Mid-left: smallish photo of young Chinese woman with bobbed hair, sitting in what looks like a garden with a building in the background, playing a pipa, in shades of green.
August 10, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Falling behind - No.12
#BookChallenge
Book cover: Stefan Heym / Der König David Bericht / Roman, illustration shows a street full of shops and people in an old Middle Eastern City - could be Jerusalem? Don’t know. Background in pastel yellow. Fischer es.
August 8, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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No.11
#BookChallenge
Cover of Eduardo Galeano’s Die offenen Adern Lateinamerikas: die Geschichte eines Kontinents von der Entdeckung bis zur Gegenwart. Erweiterte Neuauflage, Hammer [Verlag]. Black letters on yellow background, except for the main title which is written in red. The lower three quarters of the cover are filled with a black-and-white illustration showing Theodore de Bry’s ‘Christopher Columbus arrives in America,’ 1594, engraving, from Collected travels in the east Indies and West Indies: Columbus’ encounter with the local people bringing gifts on his arrival, his ship behind him anchored close to the beach.
August 5, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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No.10
#BookChallenge
Book cover: Wolfgang Borchert, Das Gesamtwerk (key piece is the play: Draußen vor der Tür), showing the silhouette of a nude young man (Greek god? Apollo?) holding a harp in his right hand, floating upright in the air, in greyish brown on a white background. The name of the publisher, Rowohlt, appears at the bottom. Some stains along the margins.
August 3, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Moving to ‘left an impression’:
No.9
#BookChallenge
Cover of Theodore Zeldin’s An Intimate History of Humanity, showing the upper part of the body of a nude white woman: right breast, shoulder and upper arm, head in profile, a white earring, and dark hair combed back, melting into the black background, something red hanging down over the top left corner.
August 2, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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No.8
#BookChallenge
Cover of a badly used book, greyish background, divided into six squares, each showing an iconic scene from a Grimm‘s fairytale. Part of the dark red and broken spine visible on the left side.
July 31, 2024 at 6:50 PM