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Sophie Loy-Wilson

@sophieloywilson.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · Nov 12

I've long dreamt of writing a review article for the field of Chinese Australian history. I wanted to trace where it fit (or didn't) within Australian national mythologies & see what happens when we view Australia through Chinese sources. Here it is:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 6h

Tired Lion. Wonderful name for an underrated Australian indie band. Also the grand tradition of filming indie music videos in bright-Australian-sun cemeteries.

I called your Mum. Spat on your car.

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Tired Lion - Waterbed (Official Video)

YouTube video by Tired Lion

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 12h

"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal."

(We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)

Down in Dyess

Johnny Cash wrote in his autobiography, “I grew up under socialism—kind of.”

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 11h

Tempted

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 1d

Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect

This article challenges benign depictions of the gradual and intentional liberalisation of the ‘White Australia policy’ during the Menzies government through an analysis of the quick series of amen...

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 1d

You are the best Jon , this book is so necessary

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 1d

So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 2d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Xander ✺ @spectralcodex.com · 9d

A fantastic photo essay about photographing the vanishing Third Front factories of China.

Sixth Tone @sixthtone.bsky.social · 17d

I am a third-generation of the Third Front Movement. There’s a saying that captures the experience of families like ours: “First we devote our youth, then we devote our whole lives — in the end, even the futures of our children and grandchildren are tied to the cause.”

The Factory Workers Who Helped Build a Nation

A photographer strives to protect the memory of China’s Third Front Movement and the families who dedicated their lives to it.

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 3d

I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Australian flag goes hard

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 3d

“We have survived”

At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 3d

History Workshop students learning about Sydney’s indigenous history with Aunty Maxine today , proud Dharawal elder born at the La Perouse mission

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to endorse this exciting new book from Bolin Hu.

Sydney University Press is publishing so much new Chinese Australian history. So happy and proud.

Have a look at our growing 'China and the West in the Modern World' series.

sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/978...

Patriots and Propaganda

In the turbulent years of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), a unique and complex narrative unfolded far from the battlefields – in Australia. Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Austra...

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to hear. Hope all is well where you are. Hard times in this strange world.

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 4d

You should ask! Will you be there?

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 4d

👀Don't miss this! Two of Australia's sharpest & most prescient thinkers, the legendary Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin, on how the F we got here

If anyone can tell us, they can. They've seen it all

Moderated by my Dad, Russia specialist Kyle Wilson

www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/stali...

Stalin, Mao…Putin, Xi, Trump? The march of authoritarian history with Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin

www.blackincbooks.com.au

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 5d

Sydney moon on a hot, hot Sunday. Summer around the corner 🪩❤️

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 7d

Oh fun to read this on my last night in GC.

White Shoes, White Lines.

"Yeah, they sure had got what they wanted, but they lost what they had"

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 8d

Movie night in GC. Slipping in Bob Dylan before ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ begins. I feel like the movie won’t provide the obvious answer : Training is a form a brain washing. Set the dragon free, free yrself in return . Abolish capitalism

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 8d

“What happens to Nat, his wife and his children? Du Maurier doesn’t care…What she gives us is that last cigarette, which carries its own freight of firing-squad symbolism….She tells us, in effect, decide for yourself. This is the essence of her unsettling genius.”

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‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier

From Rebecca to The Birds and scores more creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 9d

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Towards a Nanjing narrative of the Second World War in China: Navigating the stigma of an unspeakable past

In China, the political act of collaboration with Japan during the Second World War has been cast as a moral flaw, with those who collaborated condemned as hanjian – traitors to the Han Chinese. Th...

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 9d

"What is right and just will stand and need no artifices."
Beautiful. And so very pre-Spin Doctor.

Somewhere, Milton Friedman and Walter Lippman laugh darkly, and John Hamm (def drunk) learns his lines for Mad Men.

I still believe this though. And god I love Scotland.

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 9d

The Suffrage Oak on a junction box on Derby Street in the west of Glasgow.

Cont./

#glasgow #streetart #tree #trees #glasgowhistory #kelvinway

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 13d

There will be business school case studies written about this period of ‘reform’ across our university sector.

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 13d

Exclusive: After months of denial, the University of Technology Sydney has been forced to hand over a “master excel spreadsheet ... of academic staff members that are not meeting research expectations” created by KPMG as part of a $100 million restructure. satpa.pe/XRmHHZ9

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet

The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

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