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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

2 years

第八位中國商人同消失咗嘅海員: The Eighth Chinese Merchant and the Disappeared Seamen Available as an Ebook @GooglePlay UK£4.50

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Gregory Lee 利大英

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5 years

Dear All, I have been offered, and I have accepted, the position of Founding Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of St Andrews @univofstandrews . I shall start there in July, and am very much looking forward to building a Chinese studies programme for the 21st century.

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#HongKong @StandNewsHK I prefer the Cantonese version!

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In pursuance of our aim of diversifying @univofstandrews #Chinese Studies programme, we've designed a new undergraduate module: Pearl River Cultures: #HongKong #Macau 1 *History of Macau *Macau's Languages *History of Hong Kong *Colonialism and (de)colonial cultures 1/2

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@RichardDawkins “ @thereaIbanksy : Perspective http://t.co/D7wOCkuqc6”

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"I want to tell the world that the Chinese army killed the Chinese people. I hope the Chinese people’s blood was not shed for nothing. I hope the Goddess of Democracy will stand again in Tiananmen Square." —Duo Duo, London, June 1989 📷 Gregory Lee

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To commemorate my grandfather Chan Chin Lee's death 60 years ago today, I burnt some incense, ate magnificent dim sum surrounded by the buzz and hum of dozens of Cantonese-speakers, and mused on his fate and China's after his arrival in England in 1911.

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3 years

Some of you may recall earlier in the year I reported that my mother Sue Lee – one of the oldest survivors of the old "mixed-race" #Liverpool #Chinatown – could no longer recall who I was. An early Christmas present: I visited her today and she recalled perfectly well who I was.

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My mother and me (aged 2/3). Upper Canning Street, #Liverpool It's all gone, the phone box and the road behind it.

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5 years

“Sixteen university labs around the world are identified as being run jointly by Chinese defence companies, or have major investments from them. Ten are based in the UK, with the University of Manchester and Imperial College London hosting six between …”

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3 years

Breakfast with @aiww . A very good start to the day.

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11 months

Chinese teachers in British classrooms are to be replaced via @MailOnline

Chinese teachers in British classrooms are to be replaced

Chinese teachers in British classrooms are to be replaced by recruits from Taiwan in the wake of the Commons spy scandal , The Mail on Sunday has learned.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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4 years

My mother, Sue Lee, 96 years young - the great survivor. She gets the vaccine tomorrow.

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5 years

'Chinese embassy coordinating efforts to curb academic freedom'— I've been trying to say this to colleagues and university authorities in the UK for the past seven years. It has always been blindingly obvious. But avarice & naivety have triumphed so far.

'Alarming' Chinese meddling at UK universities exposed in report

Chinese embassy appears to be coordinating efforts to curb academic freedom, say MPs

www.theguardian.com

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Now that my mother is dead, and there's no danger she'll be deported to China, I can reveal that she was a "stateless" person. My grandfather took out Chinese nationality for his children in 1940. After the war she was left in limbo, eventually forgotten by the Home Office.

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4 years

Children's books eight times as likely to feature animal main characters than BAME people

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@GBLee

26 days

Great day for the Chinese British community! A gold medal in the morning for triathlete Alex Yee, and the maiden speech of Labour MP Yuan Yang @YuanfenYang in the afternoon! 🙌 Recognition and inclusion have been a been a long time coming.

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1 year

I don't know who wrote the UK Foreign Secretary's policy speech on China delivered yesterday, but it sadly reiterates the same old "eternal China" myth.

Our position on China: Foreign Secretary's 2023 Mansion House speech

Speaking at Mansion House in the City of London, the Foreign Secretary James Cleverly outlined the UK government's position on China.

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3 years

Well-intentioned article, but unhelpful in referring to languages such as Wu (Shanghai) and Cantonese and Hokkien as dialects. These are Chinese languages. @DGTam86

Chinese dialects in decline as government enforces Mandarin

Linguists concerned as regional languages dwindle amid push to strengthen uniform national identity

www.theguardian.com

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@GBLee

1 year

For those of who have been following my mother's last agony, she finally passed away today 10th March 2023.

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@GBLee

3 years

#GBLeeArchive Sneak preview from the recently digitized movie archive (8mm), 1982-1987. It's now ready for editing. Between B&W negatives, colour slides and 8mm we now have a visual record spanning 1978-1987.

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Gregory Lee 利大英

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5 years

40 years ago today, I arrived in Beijing. I'd spent two days in #HongKong , walked over the footbridge at Lo Wu, caught the "express" train at Canton station. 39 hours later I was in Beijing. It was another world, another time, full of hope.

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4 years

#COVID2019 So it just became horribly real. My mother in in the UK has developed symptoms & has been isolated in her care home. I'm locked down in southern France. I can't go and see her. She can't receive visitors. I sympathize with the thousands in a similar position.

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@GBLee

3 years

粵語寫期刊眾籌成功下月出爐「廣東話應該有佢嘅文學」 - 20200612 - 副刊 - 每日明報 - 明報新聞網

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@GBLee

3 years

Pearl River Cultures: #HongKong #Macau 2 *1950s Hong Kong: Exiled Cinema, Emigre Writers *1960s-1980s: Cultural Re-Invention of Hong Kong *Cantonese- a literary language? *Hong Kong Cinema *Music in Hong Kong *Post-1997 Challenge to Hong Kong Identity *HongKongers in the UK 2/2

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@GBLee

2 years

Preparing a class for next week, came across this picture of Ding Ling 丁玲. Maybe I'd seen it before and blotted it out, but I don't think so. It brought tears to my eyes. For those who don't read Chinese, the words on the placard around her neck read "Big Rightist: Ding Ling".

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Sue Lee 100 minus 2 tomorrow and still going strong. Happy Birthday! Liverpool Chinatown's oldest survivor?

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#HongKong Studies #Macau Studies - an integral part of #Chinese Studies at @univofstandrews @UStAAlumni @StAModLangs

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

2 years

Happy Birthday to me 🍾🍿

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#GBLeeArchive @PKU1898 Peking University 北大 student card 1979 Like gold dust. I went to great lengths to get assigned to Peking U. Another long story.

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2 years

Delighted to announce from my COVID sick-bed that publication of my new book in English and 粵文 is imminent. More details on price and how to purchase very soon....

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

3 years

Article in @thesaintonline on @univofstandrews Department of Chinese Studies and Cantonese Studies Archive via @jpdavey333

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@GBLee

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I am delighted to announce that @hkbaptistu 's Dr. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera is at present Visiting Scholar @univofstandrews @StAModLangs and is collaborating with us on the CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 1976-2025 research project

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@GBLee

3 years

We're working on the @univofstandrews ug #Chinese Studies syllabus to allow prior-learning students (AP, A level, Advanced Higher, IB) to take a 2nd Chinese Language in Year 2 alongside Putonghua普通話 2nd Chinese Language A. #Cantonese 2nd Chinese Language B. #HokloTaiwanese

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

4 years

Good news! A big thank you to all those who sent prayers, vibes, wishes and thoughts. My mother seems to be doing well. I spoke to the care-workers today - a big shout out for them - and they say the symptoms have abated. I did say she was a tough old bird. Let's hope it lasts!

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

1 year

All the bureaucracy is completed. The cremation can go ahead. Time now to celebrate her life, rather than to weep. I shan't Tweet any more on my mother's demise, but you can always visit Here's a photograph taken in July 2022. Bye Ma!

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1 year

In my office at the University of Hong Kong, 1997.

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

4 years

A year ago, on 16th January 2020, I was offered and was delighted to accept the post of Founding Professor of Chinese Studies @univofstandrews

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Gregory Lee 利大英

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4 years

A big thank you to all those who have wished my mother well. As with many Chinese British citizens, her long life has not been easy and she has faced anti-Chinese racism for many of those years. She'll be heartened to know she has so many well-wishers.

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2 years

The first Chinese Studies Department New Year Lion Dance on St Salvator's Quad @univofstandrews A Dragon is planned for next year's celebrations.

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3 years

Here it is, co-authored article with @patrickpoon #HongKong @StAModLangs HONG KONG: THE DECOLONIZATION THAT NEVER HAPPENED

HONG KONG: THE DECOLONIZATION THAT NEVER HAPPENED

In this brief article, we attempt to demonstrate how a historic compromise between British colonial power and an affluent local Chinese social class created fertile ground for the emergence of...

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Gregory Lee 利大英

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3 years

My mother, who no longer remembers she is, celebrates her birthday today, 30 April. She is 97.

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Gregory Lee 利大英

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7 months

Because of COVID and other obstacles this happy event has been delayed until now. So, I am very happy to be able to give my official inaugural lecture as Founding Chair of Chinese Studies @univofstandrews on 13th March 2024.

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@GBLee

2 years

#HongKong A colourful staircase alongside a retaining wall, taken by William Shum

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@GBLee

4 years

To kick start the Chinese collection at the @univofstandrews I am donating the majority of my Chinese and China-related books to the library there @StAndrewsUniLib . If others have collections they would like to donate please let us know. @jollymaria

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2 years

Putting the finishing touches to @aiww 's St Andrews schedule. He will be with us in person for the "Launch" of the @univofstandrews Chinese Studies Department on 16th September – updates to come.

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4 years

Because of #COVID19 , we couldn't get to buy Chinese New Year decorations in a store, so our in-house graphic artist @NatachaYLee hand-painted them.

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3 years

" #Cantonese is a useful language to know, with Cantonese being spoken by 70% of the Chinese-speaking population in San Francisco, Oakland and Hayward; 60% of the Chinese-speaking population in the Bay Area and 48% of the Chinese-speaking population in California" 1/2

The Stanford Daily

@StanfordDaily

3 years

The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution to restore Stanford’s Cantonese Language Program and enable its courses to fulfill the University Language Requirement.

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4 years

My mother's birthday. Happy Birthday, Ma!

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3 years

"As the space for academic freedom and artistic expression shrinks in #HongKong , guardians of the city's culture are springing up around the world" via @citylab

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3 years

#GBLeeArchive @PKU1898 #北大 ‘Peking University: typing up Chapter 3 of my dissertation on Dai Wangshu 戴望舒, March 1983'

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@GBLee

2 years

Heading to Ireland from Scotland, the least environmentally damaging way, to give my lecture "What is Chinese" at @ucddublin on 7 April 2022.

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3 years

多谢🙏 @aiww

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3 years

#PearlRiverCultures #珠江 #南楚 #香港 #HongKongStudies Our #Cantonese -speaking World Resource Centre ( #CWRC ) @univofstandrews needs you. We need primary texts (maps, magazines, pamplets, brochures) in ALL languages to record the historical traces of #HongKong life.

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#GBLeeArchive 'Where it all started.' Aged 2, Liverpool, Canning Street. Hand-coloured photograph.

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4 years

#SpringFestival Another great Chinese New Year production from our in-house graphic artist @NatachaYLee 萬事如意！

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#GBLeeArchive "Lu Xun amidst the ruins" @GBLee I took this photograph in Tianjin 天津 in Oct 1979. 魯迅Lu Xun's statue, now vanished, sat in post-1976 earthquake rubble where people had built make-shift homes. The title I've given this image also has a metaphorical intent.

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4 years

Founding Professor of Chinese Studies @univofstandrews Day 1

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4 years

Finally, almost there! China books ready for collection and transport this morning to @StAndrewsUniLib . @maria_mlaw @SeanAllan4

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4 years

Farewell to Lyon! Last coffee on my balcony this morning.

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1 year

Oe Kenzaburo, a very decent human being, died on 3rd March. it was announced today by his publishers. I had the great honour of spending time with him in Chicago in 1992, and talking about French symbolist poetry in translation, Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口大学 and Dai Wangshu 戴望舒

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@GBLee

2 years

科幻作家倪匡過世享壽87歲！香港四大才子之一　寫紅衛斯理系列小說

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@GBLee

4 years

Then there were 4! The @univofstandrews Chinese Studies Department search to fill 2 positions in modern Chinese has been a success. The two new colleagues will join @ros_holmes and myself shortly. We're in the starting blocks for 1st September! More details soon.

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3 years

#HongKong memorial to #Tiananmen Square victims is removed

Outcry as memorial to Tiananmen Square victims removed from Hong Kong University

Site of the Pillar of Shame at city’s oldest university under guard after workmen cut up statue

www.theguardian.com

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With my mother in London, 1978.

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3 years

There is also room to design a module on the #HongKong diaspora, which will be more than a historical reality very soon.

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3 years

#Covid_19 #carehomes Damage is done for hundreds of thousands of care home residents and their families. My first real visit with my mother today in a year. She doesn't remember me, was surprised to learn she'd ever had a son. There must be many people in my and her situation.

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3 years

'Institut Liu Xiaobo', rumour has it, is the new name favoured by the city of Lyon for the Nouvel Institut franco-chinois @NIFC_Lyon (a 'charity' established to manage the heritage of the Institut franco-chinois/Sino-French University 1921-46 which trained 400+ Chinese students).

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#GBLeeArchive 10 Nelson Street, Liverpool 'My grandfather's house' Seat of UK's "Chinese Freemasons" 致公堂 or "Chekungtong". I waited for my grandfather here while he did his business in Chinatown. By 2018 it was being recuperated by the United Front Work Department 戰線工作部

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'[W]e are stuck with the proper noun “China”, and the adjective “Chinese” to identify people, country, ethnicity and language. These terms are woefully inadequate to describe the complexity behind them, bt extremely useful to those who would mask reality."

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@GBLee

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50 years ago, Japanese philanthropist Zenya Hamada gave the burgh of St Andrews 1000 Japanese flowering cherry trees. Here are the ones behind the house I live in.

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On #Cantonese Hugh Baker, former Professor of Chinese @soas : "It would be a great shame if such a vibrant and fun language should be allowed to rot away, so @univofstandrews would be doing the world a good turn if it can get this off the ground and flying." Thanks, Hugh!

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Despite the ravages and delays caused by #COVID2019 , the new Chinese Department at @univofstandrews is taking shape. People are being hired. Degrees are taking shape. Books will arrive. Seminars for colleagues & students interested in #China will happen in the Martinmas semester.

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We planted this rose bush in memory of my mother Gwenllian Sou Kang Chan Lee, known as "Sue". I believe she would have appreciated this colour. This climbing rose is called "HAPPINESS" . Her ashes are scattered here.

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#Sinovac one of the most widely used #vaccines in the world, does NOT provide sufficient antibodies to neutralize the #Omicron variant, #HongKong researchers say via @business

Sinovac Provides Inadequate Shield Against Omicron in Hong Kong Study

The vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech Ltd., one of the most widely used in the world, doesn’t provide sufficient antibodies in two doses to neutralize the omicron variant and boosters will likely be...

www.bloomberg.com

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2 years

It seems my mother's final days are approaching. She's been given weeks rather than months to live, and is receiving palliative care. I know several of you have painted/drawn her in the past. When the time comes, an exhibition in lieu of a memorial service might be envisaged.

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#GBLeeArchive 北大 Peking University, November 1979 'Long gone - Mao and Me, Peking University Library'

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@GBLee

4 years

Blind peer reviewing is essential to academic publishing. But it is a "service to the profession" and not a licence to kill. I try in my reviews to be constructive and encouraging, especially when younger scholars are involved. I don't understand those who abuse this power.

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粵語 Cantonese @univofstandrews Cantonese-speaking PhD students (second-year and above) who would like to teach Beginners Cantonese 1 hour a week, please get in touch with me.

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1/3 I am working on a couple of articles and special issues of journals to do with Hong Kong/Cantonese culture and history. I want to avoid pinyin. I have devised a procedure to refer to people's names. Feedback welcome.

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4 years

Big tech firms may be handing Hong Kong user data to China

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My vision for today's and tomorrow's "Chinese" studies, with a good, long glance at the past 40 years. Just published: Gregory Lee (2023) “CHINESE” STUDIES FOR THE 21st CENTURY, Asian Affairs DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2023.2244313

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Hasn't left my side since 1975.

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#GBLeeArchive #Beida #Haidian 北京海淀 back-streets, winter 1982/1983. Photographs by @GBLee

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And this homogenizing generalization: "And long before they coalesced into one polity, the Chinese people created their language and their civilisation." Ein Volk – ein Territorium – eine Sprache? The CCP itself could have written this.

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#Stoxbridge "It is the first time the Fife university [ @univofstandrews ] has been ranked highest in the Guardian’s annual guide to undergraduate courses, pushing Oxford into second and Cambridge into third."

Forget Oxbridge: St Andrews knocks top universities off perch

Latest Guardian University Guide shows leading trio are in league of their own for undergraduate courses

www.theguardian.com

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I couldn't disagree more with this "tip" for students about to go to university: "Never buy a book you can borrow from a library." If you are serious about your subject, you'll want to start building up your own library, especially in the humanities.

Never buy a book you can borrow: students’ best money-saving tips

We ask those with experience of university life for their advice – and to name their best buy

www.theguardian.com

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My #China library that will be shipped to @univofstandrews next month.

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My text " #chinesevirus : The Long Racism that Lurks Behind COVID-19" is now live on the Postcolonial Politics website

#chinesevirus: The Long Racism that Lurks Behind COVID-19

According to a recent study that analysed tweets from 9 March to 23 March 2020, corresponding to the week before and the week after President Donald J. Trump’s tweet with the phrase, “Chinese Virus,”...

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Alongside @britishmuseum China’s Hidden Century exhibition, *Creators of Modern China* - edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall & Julia Lovell. My contribution on Huang Zunxian; like many of the creators of modern China, Huang Zunxian was Cantonese. 廣東人黄遵宪我手写我口,古岂能拘牵

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#六四 #June4th As usual, an awful few days to get through: sad, bad, depressing memories.

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Sneaky dismantling of monuments by #HongKong 's universities: during the night, just before Christmas, and during the vacation. Sadly, one has come to expect such underhand behaviour.

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艾未未與利大英 St Andrews, 16 September 2022 Photograph: 王芬 @univofstandrews @GBLee @aiww

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#GBLeeArchive This is another great anniversary year for the archive. Watch out for #GBLeeArchive40 bringing you highlights of #China in 1982

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6 years

Discriminatory & racist university fees finally come to France. Non-UE students will pay thousands next academic year. I fought against this in the '70s when such fees were introduced by a UK Labour govt. Look what it led to. So kindly stop thinking of #Macron a nice kind of guy.

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Students with prior learning of Chinese starting an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies @univofstandrews in 2021 will be taught a 2nd Chinese Language (Cantonese or Taiwanese) from their second year onwards. The only UG course in Europe to do this. @ucas_online @bacs_china

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

3 years

@LizSly @AP #Kabul 2021 #Saigon 1975 Here we go again!

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

3 years

Early days but the take-up rate of our @univofstandrews Chinese Studies undergraduate degree is looking good, with a healthy contingent of prior learners, which means that Second Chinese Language ( #Cantonese #Hokkien ) will be "on the books" as of next year.

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

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Until recently when you Googled "St-Andrews Chinese", you got only the addresses of three local restaurants (which I'm sure are excellent eateries). However, now you also get: Chinese-University of St Andrews 中國研究系. The Chinese Studies Department...

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Gregory Lee 利大英

@GBLee

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Published today...

第八位中國商人同消失咗嘅海員／The Eighth Chinese Merchant and the Disappeared Seamen

現居香港的詩人北島，是當代中國最有名的詩人，也是世界最有名的中國作家，幾乎所有的作品都被翻譯為英法德日等語言。…

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