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Gregory Lee 利大英

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Writer and academic. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. Professeur émérite, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon. 香港人文學院院士. Formerly SOAS/PKU/Cambridge/UChicago/HKU/BBC/社科院. Founding Director IETT, Lyon. Gen editor Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化.

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · Jan 19

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 5d

#decolonisation

The gaze reversed

Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and places... in global health.

@thelancet.com
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The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes

Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and places that hold attention in g...

www.thelancet.com

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 8d

#China is so much of the global #soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8d

Ok farm facts are back!

China is so much of the global soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries. There isn't enough soybean demand in the world to fill that dent.

And farmers... know that.

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JocelynH @jocelynhphoto.bsky.social · 28d

anyone in hong kong, interested in joining a street photography workshop in macau?
#photography #streetphotography #macau #workshop

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JocelynH @jocelynhphoto.bsky.social · 12d

dress up.
#streetphotography #pink #blue #hongkong

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 8d

Proposed law in #China to accelerate assimilation and expand Beijing’s ideological control beyond borders.

The 62-article draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, was submitted to the National People’s Congress on 8 September.

www.phayul.com/2025/09/29/5...

China’s draft ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law seek to expand assimilation drive - Phayul

Phayul.com is one of the most popular & successful Tibetan news website in English. With daily readers touching over 12,500 and still growing. It features news and views on Tibet.

www.phayul.com

Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 8d

#ZhangYadi #China #Tibet
via Jessie Lau
Tue 30 Sep 2025 11.00 BST

Zhang was arrested in late July. Neither her family nor friends have had any contact with her since. She returned to China this summer from #France planning to travel into more Tibetan regions.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support

Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama

www.theguardian.com

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Eva Montemaggi @evamontemaggi.bsky.social · 8d

The new frontier of manufacturing? For those who still think they can 'bring back' manufacturing jobs.
#china #manufacturing #tech
www.texspacetoday.com/china-enters...

China enters new era of ‘Dark Factories’ with no lights, no workers

China is on the cusp of a manufacturing revolution with the emergence of “dark factories,” fully automated facilities that operate without human workers or traditional lighting. Powered…

www.texspacetoday.com

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 10d

The conviction of Nicolas #Sarkozy for conspiracy in the #Libyan funding case and his sentence of five years imprisonment with a deferred detention order – which means he will soon be jailed – has sparked a political and media furore in #France.

via @mediapart.fr

www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/f...

Sarkozy-Gaddafi court case: ten questions to help understand an historic verdict

Mediapart has analysed the 400 pages of the court judgement that saw ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, his former senior aides Claude Guéant, Brice Hortefeux, middleman Alexandre Djouhri and others conv…

www.mediapart.fr

Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 12d

All credit to @mediapart.fr journalists whose 14 years of meticulous investigative journalism have led to the condamnation of former French president Nicolas #Sarkozy to 5 years imprisonment for criminal conspiracy in the Sarkozy-Khadaffi corruption scandal.

Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 12d

#photography #flora

"Late September quince"

OM-D with M.Zuiko digital 17mm f1.8 lens, 4000 F1.8, ISO800
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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 12d

#China #Belgium #Europe #imports #mafia
via Jean-Pierre Stroobants @lemonde.fr

Belgian customs overwhelmed by packages from China. Temu, Shein, AliExpress, #counterfeit goods, #drugs, Chinese and #Italian mafias

Only 0,005 % of goods checked.

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Belgian customs overwhelmed by packages from China. Temu, Shein, AliExpress, #counterfeit goods, #drugs, Chinese and #Italian mafias

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 13d

#France #Chine #Tibet
Zhang Yadi, étudiante chinoise en France et militante pro-Tibet, arrêtée lors d’un séjour en Chine

via @sleplatre.bsky.social

Publié le 23 septembre 2025 à 15h53, modifié le 24 septembre 2025 à 09h31
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Zhang Yadi, étudiante chinoise en France et militante pro-Tibet, arrêtée lors d’un séjour en Chine

La jeune femme écrivait notamment pour « Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet », un site d’information en mandarin. Cet engagement peut lui valoir l’accusation de séparatisme.

www.lemonde.fr

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 13d

#China #Tibet #France
via @sleplatre.bsky.social @lemonde.fr

Zhang Yadi, Chinese student in France and pro-Tibet activist, arrested in China

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Zhang Yadi, Chinese student in France and pro-Tibet activist, arrested in China

The young woman wrote for Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet, a Mandarin-language news website. Her activism may lead to charges of separatism.

www.lemonde.fr

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Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 13d

#Trump #UN

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 15d

#photography #Palestine #France

Le drapeau palestinien déployé au côté des drapeaux européen et français sur la mairie de Grabels (Hérault), le 22 septembre 2025. © Photo Gabriel Bouys / AFP

via @mediapart.fr

Le drapeau palestinien déployé au côté des drapeaux européen et français sur la mairie de Grabels (Hérault), le 22 septembre 2025. © Photo Gabriel Bouys / AFP

Gregory Lee 利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 15d

#Italy #Gaza #photography

'No.1, Lungomare Araldo di Crollalanza, Bari'

September 2025

©📷 @gblee.bsky.social

#Italy #Gaza

'No.1, Lungomare Araldo di Crollalanza, Bari'

September 2025

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · Dec 30

Howlin' Wolf
Photo by Don Paulsen

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · Jan 13

Muddy Waters photographed at Wilbraham Road Station in Manchester, England, while filming the Granada Television special Blues And Gospel Train, in 1964. 🎥https://youtu.be/rflgvYPhU34?feature=shared #bluesmusic
Photo by TV Times via Getty Images

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · Mar 19

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · Mar 24

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · May 5

Muddy Waters live in Manchester, UK - excerpt from the 1964 Granada TV production of the Blues and Gospel Train. #blues #bluesmusic #bluesguitar #blueshistory