Cantonese World Resource Centre
@cantoneseworld.bsky.social
Cantonese World collects images, texts, sounds, & material culture from the Cantonese-speaking world 廣東, 香港, 澳門, 海外港人 and promotes the Cantonese-speaking regions.
Here are some more pictures from my #photography archive, from dancing in back-street Urumchi to enjoying an ice lolly/popsicle at the seaside. Click on the link www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p... or the QR-code
#China #HongKong #Taiwan “I am a bookstore employee” via Amy Hawkins and Yu-chen Li www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids
Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months
theguardian.com
#HongKong national security police arrest 2 bookshop owners over alleged sedition Hunter Bookstore owners, former district councillor Leticia Wong and local man arrested on suspicion of committing acts with seditious intent. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Hong Kong national security police arrest 2 bookshop owners over alleged sedition
Hunter Bookstore owners, former district councillor Leticia Wong and local man arrested on suspicion of committing acts with seditious intent.
scmp.com
#HongKong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures Created during the extradition bill protests in Hong Kong June-October 2019, Franco-Swiss photographer Thadde Comar's work is displayed as part of the Belfast photo festival. www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures
How Was Your Dream? is a documentary project by Thadde Comar, a Franco-Swiss photographer, created during the extradition bill protests in Hong Kong between June and October 2019
theguardian.com
Books on and in Palestine, and birds and warfare. www.gregorylee.net/what-i-came-... The latest edition of "What I came to say" is now online.
What I came to say
Although there is a collective unease amongst the chattering classes regarding the bellicose times we are experiencing, it's still unease rather than panic at this stage. Since the end of World War...
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"One-nation-one-language narratives lull us into assuming France speaks French, China speaks Mandarin; this ignores the tens and even hundreds of regional #languages, many of whose speakers have experienced everything from active persecution to bans in school..." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
What happens when we lose a language?
A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake
theguardian.com
Xinhua: Macao SAR chief executive Sam Hou Fai to visit Europe to boost cooperation – ‘official visits to Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium’
Macao chief executive to visit Europe to boost cooperation
english.news.cn
Why is #China petitioner Yin Dengzhen in jail at all? She has broken no recognizable law. She is also gravely ill and authorities are denying her adequate medical care. www.nchrd.org/2026/04/chin...
China: Release Activist and End Deprivation of Medical Care in Detention | Chinese Human Rights Defenders
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#decoloniality #China @bougon.bsky.social 新作：《從反殖民主義到去殖民性》。重新審視漢學、權力與代表性的問題。繁體中文版本現已刊登。 blogs.mediapart.fr/gblee/blog/1... In Chinese: From Anti-Colonialism to Decoloniality, and the Sino-French University of Lyon Une version en français est disponible sur blogs.mediapart.fr/gblee/blog/3...
The diaries of Mao's secretary to remain at Stanford University following court ruling... #US #China www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stanford University wins battle to keep diaries of Mao Zedong's secretary Li Rui
Stanford said the papers, which mentioned the Tiananmen Massacre, would be banned if returned to Beijing.
bbc.co.uk
Shen Quan* 沈铨 1682-1760 specialized in bird-and-flower painting 'A Hundred Birds' 《百鸟图》 *pronounced "shun chew-en"
Beyond Zouxian: The Making of Chinese Asylum-Seeking Workers in the US Platform Economy madeinchinajournal.com/2026/03/16/b...
Beyond Zouxian: The Making of Chinese Asylum-Seeking Workers in the US Platform Economy
‘Many of us who came and stayed here for more than two years are still stuck in Chinese-speaking communities.’ A Chinese asylum-seeker shared this with us during a conversation in late 2024. The senti...
madeinchinajournal.com
#monochrome #b&w #photography 'The world this week' 📷© @gblee.bsky.social Nathan Coley's There Will Be No Miracles Here, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
It's also posted on the website of the University of St. University of St Andrews research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publicati... I'm grateful to spend three months in St. Andrews in 2021. What a memorable Scottish summer! Beautiful.
Hong Kong: the decolonization that never happened
research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk
During my doctoral studies at the University of Lyon, I was honored and happy to co-write this article with Professor Gregory B. Lee HONG KONG: THE DECOLONIZATION THAT NEVER HAPPENED research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publicati...
