Rachel Leow

@sivasothi such a delight/honour to see you and airani at the screening! It’s been SO long. I hope you guys are healthy & safe xx

@serigala thank you for coming!

Another month and another fantastic session by Pusat Sejarah Rakyat. Really enjoyed your presentation @idlethink 🙌

@netushanrn @petragimbad @BLMalay @yiningchang_ <3 this might be a nice place to share one of my favourite poems poets.org/poem/kindness

@bill_hayton me too! idlethink.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/cur… :)

I told a little bit of the saga of the incredible Belitung shipwreck - 9th century Arab dhow transporting Tang porcelain to Baghdad - in my South China Sea book. Looking forward to reading the rest of the story...

@BahnischMark @melatinungsari thank you so much, such an honour! Yes I saw this & also thought of my chapter 5 on DBP.... though ch 3 and epilogue also offer possibilities for resistance 🤓🤞

Language...always telling

1421: The Year China Discovered America

From "The Start of Winter" by Liu Waitong, translated into English by Lucas Klein: That corpse you planted in the winter of 2014 under Nathan Rd., has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? We will not ask again When bells chime the night sky will be filled with mad stars.

the best place to send ❤️and donations to directly support the minimal economic needs of strikers in #Myanmar, thanks to Tun Myint, Ajam Chatman and James Scott mutualaidmyanmar.org

@perpaduanmelayu @speechleyish you are so welcome!

@idlethink @speechleyish Dr Rachel Leow, I still use your letter to Prof Khoo Kay Kim malaysiadesignarchive.org/an-open-letter… in my constitutional law class. Thank you for writing that letter.

This doco by @idlethink packs a real punch. Over 20,000 Chinese people were deported from British Malaya to China between 1948-1953. Watch it. youtube.com/watch?v=2nw6sR…

@speechleyish that would be so brilliant!

@idlethink I'll ask if they're willing to discuss it and could put you in touch if they're amenable?

@mandalsumitk nail on head as ever ❤️

The stigma comes from the narratives of citizenship produced in the nation-state. This could change by looking at the time between colonial and national states.

“Chinese Go Home” by Rachel Leow @idlethink is a remarkable 20-min film framing Chineseness between colonial & national states. It helps restore to the memory of Malaysians/Singaporeans today stories of 20,000 left-leaning people deported to China c1950 bit.ly/3bp5z7a

@ssgtstanleychia thank you xx

A film by Rachel Leow on the deportation of 20,000 Chinese from British Malaya > China between 1948 & 1953. Stories were told through the voices of two women. Discussions on women's memory-work, twilight zone between history & memory, colonial genealogies. youtube.com/watch?v=2nw6sR…

@speechleyish I’d love to hear more of this story!

Oof. This one really hit me.

@DGTam86 @taomo_zhou @ShellyPSChan @tingguowrites @jwassers @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @chowleen @DrJustinTse @ejlacouture @soonw123 how about I’ll host an informal zoom planning chat next week -- anyone interested, DM me with your email address by this Friday? I’ll set up some time possibilities & send out an agenda :)

@idlethink @taomo_zhou @ShellyPSChan @tingguowrites @jwassers @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @chowleen @DrJustinTse @ejlacouture @soonw123 OH OH OH OH can I come can I come can I come? My new project is transcontinental!!!

Would welcome recommendations, @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @jwassers @chowleen and more @DrJustinTse has kindly recommended Andrea Louie, Chineseness Beyond Borders (2004), Madeline Y. Hsu, The Good Immigrants (2015), Ien Ang, and Aihwa Ong

@soonw123 @tingguowrites @jwassers @DGTam86 @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @chowleen @DrJustinTse @ShellyPSChan @ejlacouture @taomo_zhou Ah I am so sorry, I did not know your Twitter handle or I would have tagged you!

@idlethink @tingguowrites @jwassers @DGTam86 @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @chowleen @DrJustinTse @ShellyPSChan @ejlacouture @taomo_zhou @idlethink, thank you so much!

@taomo_zhou @ShellyPSChan @tingguowrites @jwassers @DGTam86 @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @chowleen @DrJustinTse @ejlacouture @soonw123 we should make a transcontinental zoom reading group!

@ShellyPSChan @idlethink @tingguowrites @jwassers @DGTam86 @chenchenzh @dikaioslin @chowleen @DrJustinTse @ejlacouture @soonw123 Yes! Now it's a particularly important time to approach nationalism, diaspora & modern China in critical and creative ways 🥰 look forward to reading @soonw123 's book & hopefully, reunion with @ShellyPSChan & @idlethink when it's safe to travel again!

Tomorrow 10 am BST webinar "Hong Kong’s Future under China’s National Security Law" with Johannes Chan Man-mun; @isabelhilton; Lai I-chung; Charles Parton OBE; moderated by Kun-Chin Lin, discussing legal and societal responses to the #NationalSecurityLaw tinyurl.com/yy7mpexb

@BronwenEverill @Harvard_Press @HarvardUPLondon congratulations Bronwen!!