"In our digital age, as completely erasing memory seems less and less feasible, an increasingly attractive solution for autocrats is to proactively refashion narratives in a brazen way that suits the state's objectives." Victoria Jones & @jwassers.bsky.social on history in Hong Kong (and the US).
Just started reading Louisa Lim’s « Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong»:
« The police, instead of being guarantors of security, were behaving like violent thugs… . Far from protecting reporters as civilians, the police were singling [journalists] out for attack. »
Trump=PRC
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Americans should read this book. It's eerily relevant.
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Oh wow! Thank you for sharing this with me.
Louisa Lim THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF AMNESIA TIANANMEN REVISITED
香港人心油 Indelible City LOUISA LIM Dispossession and Defiance IN HONG KONG "A truly extraordinary elegy" - Al WEIWEI
Everyone has their favorite historical parallels to the rising authoritarianism right now in America. The one I find myself looking to most is Hong Kong/China. Particularly personified by two excellent books from journalist @louisalim.bsky.social
Cappuccino and Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Labor Day afternoon cappuccino and a book. The way it should be.
What a list to be in! Thank you @georgiarybanks.bsky.social
Amazing authors supported YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION by providing praise which appeared on the back cover (known as blurbs). We want to thank each of them, starting with @louisalim.bsky.social! Thank you Louisa — it meant the world to us to get your thumbs up!
Congratulations!!!
Session 3: @sophtree.bsky.social, @louisalim.bsky.social & @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social about resistance, literature as power & literature as activism. #StellaDayOut
Looking forward to one of the best literary events of the year! 🥳 #StellaDayOut is happening this month & here in Melbourne, it's on 18th of Aug 2025 (Mon). Feat. @clairegcoleman.bsky.social @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social @louisalim.bsky.social
Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...
Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.
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A great, and quietly shocking, episode of @littleredpodcast.bsky.social.
@louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social
#China: Today, Sebastien Lai, son of #HongKong writer and media publisher #JimmyLai, addressed the UN Human Rights Council as a representative of PEN International and called for his father's release.
Watch his statement here🔽
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up three pro-democracy banners on an overpass in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.
Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
Periodic reminder and proof that Hong Kong is NOT part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. (Cc. @louisalim.bsky.social)
I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
More than BTW, I want so much for Hong Kong to not become part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. And believe it still isn't. With regards to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and also the events that @louisalim.bsky.social wrote about in her "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong".
The mail on Sunday headline which reads Now Stop The State Visit for Bully Trump
This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.
Extraordinary.
Just thinking about when the Atlanta shootings happened and Asian American journalists were told they were too biased to cover it.
Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.
Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.
From @louisalim.bsky.social's "Indelible City": "At the end of July, ...local triads in Yuen Long... ran amok inside a subway station... [D]ressed in white T-shirts, [they] were looking for black-clad protestors but ended up beating anyone in their path. The police did not arrive for 35 minutes..."
NYT: #Trump’s New Crackdown on #China Is Just Beginning, with a clamp down on Chinese investment & access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Leiden University Libraries established the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, to collect, preserve, and make accessible primary source material and scholarship on the Chinese queer experience, and to facilitate collaboration between academics, activists, and archivists. See edu.nl/qyewc for details.
