Desmond Sham
@desmondsham.bsky.social
✤Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
✤Cultural Studies | #PostcolonialStudies | #CulturalHeritage | #Memory | Urban Culture | Cultural Identity | #Sinophone | E&SE Asia
✤Views are my own
✤Cultural Studies | #PostcolonialStudies | #CulturalHeritage | #Memory | Urban Culture | Cultural Identity | #Sinophone | E&SE Asia
✤Views are my own
I hope the Western media uses the same standard of investigation and reasoning of the Grenfell Tower fire when they explain the catastrophic residential blocks fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong. 1/
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I hope the Western media uses the same standard of investigation and reasoning of the Grenfell Tower fire when they explain the catastrophic residential blocks fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong. 1/
Anndddddd I was sent this piece which places blame solely on cites bamboo scaffolding as the reason for the rapid spread of the fire
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Reflexively blaming bamboo with no evidence and no effort to address regulatory failures is journalist malpractice but it doesn’t stop there.
Portraying living in a high-rises as a poor-people-thing, not a choice people gladly make, is the most condescending West-brained thing I’ve read in a while.
Portraying living in a high-rises as a poor-people-thing, not a choice people gladly make, is the most condescending West-brained thing I’ve read in a while.
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
International media, you can do better than this.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
"Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My latest publication in the Developing Economies. The article challenges the prevalent use of "gentrification" as a catch-all critique of culture-led regeneration and neighbourhood transformations in Sinophone Asia. 1/
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My latest publication in the Developing Economies. The article challenges the prevalent use of "gentrification" as a catch-all critique of culture-led regeneration and neighbourhood transformations in Sinophone Asia. 1/
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Writing about PRC military threats against Taiwan is difficult, because it’s bad to overstate (invasion isn’t happening, they’re drills) but it’s worse to understate (conflict could genuinely happen, these drills are serious).
Accurate wording has never been more important.
Accurate wording has never been more important.
April 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Writing about PRC military threats against Taiwan is difficult, because it’s bad to overstate (invasion isn’t happening, they’re drills) but it’s worse to understate (conflict could genuinely happen, these drills are serious).
Accurate wording has never been more important.
Accurate wording has never been more important.
TaiwanPlus is important in at least three ways:
1. While I read both Chinese and English, I still have difficulty to follow Taiwan media in Chinese, due to loads of irrelevant "news", from car cam, neighbour quarrels, to some random ads. In Eng, TaiwanPlus picks the more important news.
1. While I read both Chinese and English, I still have difficulty to follow Taiwan media in Chinese, due to loads of irrelevant "news", from car cam, neighbour quarrels, to some random ads. In Eng, TaiwanPlus picks the more important news.
January 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
TaiwanPlus is important in at least three ways:
1. While I read both Chinese and English, I still have difficulty to follow Taiwan media in Chinese, due to loads of irrelevant "news", from car cam, neighbour quarrels, to some random ads. In Eng, TaiwanPlus picks the more important news.
1. While I read both Chinese and English, I still have difficulty to follow Taiwan media in Chinese, due to loads of irrelevant "news", from car cam, neighbour quarrels, to some random ads. In Eng, TaiwanPlus picks the more important news.
We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.
December 15, 2024 at 8:25 AM
We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.
Reposted by Desmond Sham
News | The first report of its kind, conducted for Historic England, also reveals low social mobility in the sector
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Heritage sector diversity: report suggests workforce is 90% White - Museums + Heritage
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December 10, 2024 at 2:25 PM
News | The first report of its kind, conducted for Historic England, also reveals low social mobility in the sector
museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...
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as said many times before, campism is incredibly West-centric bc it's never concerned in the slightest with the agency of non-western peoples, reducing struggles elsewhere and everywhere to a fake anti-imperialist analysis centering US foreign policy
December 8, 2024 at 12:46 PM
as said many times before, campism is incredibly West-centric bc it's never concerned in the slightest with the agency of non-western peoples, reducing struggles elsewhere and everywhere to a fake anti-imperialist analysis centering US foreign policy
Dr Eva Li (Lancaster) and I will be presenting a paper at the Sinophone Europe conference at the University of Florence on 13/14 Dec.
Programme: sinophoneeurope.com/conference-p...
Programme: sinophoneeurope.com/conference-p...
Conference program
Conference program Day 1 – Friday, December 13, 2024 @ La Colombaria 09:00 Welcome & Intro 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Literature I Hong Kong Writings in Cold War Paris: Cross-Racial Ide…
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November 21, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Dr Eva Li (Lancaster) and I will be presenting a paper at the Sinophone Europe conference at the University of Florence on 13/14 Dec.
Programme: sinophoneeurope.com/conference-p...
Programme: sinophoneeurope.com/conference-p...
I will be presenting at the Symposium: 'Law, Economy and Society in NSL-era Hong Kong: 40 Years After the Sino-British Joint Declaration' at SOAS on 5 Dec.
Registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
November 21, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I will be presenting at the Symposium: 'Law, Economy and Society in NSL-era Hong Kong: 40 Years After the Sino-British Joint Declaration' at SOAS on 5 Dec.
Registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...