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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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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7h

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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 · 7d

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

Sixth Tone @sixthtone.bsky.social · 15d

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.

www.sixthtone.com

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Indigenous Australian flag goes hard

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

“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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 2d

You should ask! Will you be there?

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 2d

👀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

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

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

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

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

“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 · 7d

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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 · 7d

"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 · 7d

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 · 11d

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

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 11d

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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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 9d

Just delighted that Geraldine Fela won in the history category. Her postdoc ends next year. Hire this historian people!!!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2025: Michelle de Kretser wins $80,000 for Theory & Practice

The Stella prize-winning author used her acceptance speech to call out the Australian government’s response to the war in Gaza, in a ceremony marked by pointed political commentary from the podium

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · Feb 27

🚨 Historian Geraldine Fela has been working on producing this podcast about the 1998 waterfront dispute in Australia. Here’s the promo. Series will be a must listen for anyone who cares about unions/industrial history/politics in Australia!

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Conspiracy? War on the waterfront - ABC listen

On 8 April 1998 Australians woke up to the startling news that dogs and men in balaclavas were invading the docks around the country, locking out workers. This is a story of political intrigue, of ...

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 7d

✨Deeply honoured to deliver this year's Annual Digital Lecture at The National Archives! Drawing on our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project, I'll explore how preservation creates loss in the digital age and what that means for the politics of archives. Nov 20 6pm at Senate House, London. Do join us!

Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 7d

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

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

Coolangatta rests after the first full day of school holiday invasion

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

I grew up with a narrative that this place was Australia’s Sodom and Gomorrah . Meter maids in bikinis, skyscrapers on the beach, theme parks + corruption as far as the eye can see. And I suppose yes, that’s true, 80s Australia on steroids. My parents are mortified. I’m in heaven.

The Gold Coast

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

Last night, very close to the NSW/Queensland border, I had the honour of eating here with fam. 50-year old Chinese restaurant on the Gold Coast. And, yes, where they filmed Muriel’s Wedding: ‘Deirdre Chambers, what a coincidence.’

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 15d

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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