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Madeleine O'Dea

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Writer at large. Author of The Phoenix Years, Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus Books, 2017. Contributor to The Beijing Bureau, Hardie Grant, 2021. Deep in a new book ✍️ AKA: 欧美琳 madeleineodea.com

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Nov 20

Post you from a different era ... what being a foreign correspondent can do for you 🤣 China 86; PNG 92
#journalism #China 🀄️

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Aug 7

thank you! Magical morning

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Aug 5

This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jul 26

😃

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jul 26

Agree

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jul 26

Better be! 💜

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jul 26

#AUSHottest100

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jul 26

Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors

Reposted by Madeleine O'Dea

China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · Jul 1

Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
globalvoices.org/2025/06/25/h...

Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies

BL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew expressions of dominance and reproductive function.

globalvoices.org

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jun 25

#CharmianClift #IsakDinesen #GeorgeJohnston #GeorgeEliot #LawrenceDurrell #HanKang

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jun 25

How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jun 7

The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️

The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard

Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to.

www.newyorker.com

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Jun 2

Foggy morning on Blackwattle Bay, Glebe Point, Sydney. #Sydney #fog

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 22

Wonderful!!

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 22

@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 21

If you're in Sydney, don't miss this show. (it runs till the end of the month) #China #ContemporaryArt #Xinjiang 🀄️
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 21

One of the truly distinctive voices in Chinese contemporary art, and also a voice from its borderlands. Chinese contemporary art is now in its 4th decade & this is the first time a Uyghur contemporary artist has been shown in Australia.

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 21

Image 2 , me, 10 years later, introducing Aniwar in "Modern Painters" magazine. Images 3-4, Glenda Korporaal, in "The Australian" this month, backgrounding Aniwar's current show at Sydney's Vermilion Gallery. No accident that Aniwar intrigued all 3 of us.

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 21

3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · May 10

Surely nobody 😋

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hi Teresa Teng is what is used commonly in Taiwan and abroad, but Deng Lijun is how she is known (& revered) in the PRC

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Apr 18

yes, that is an error, not sure how that slipped through (should say ascend to the leadership or some such)Will note for the next reprint :)

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Apr 15

You'll see the bios I include at the back of the book make that clear.

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Apr 14

I think province is a more useful descriptor for a general reader given these are by no means autonomous regions within the PRC, Appreciating your close reading however 🙂

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Apr 8

Yes, I’m gutted I can’t make it

Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · Apr 5

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... Interesting 🗳️ #auspol #DadVote

The ‘dad vote’ crucial to Labor’s polling rebound

Support for left wing parties among young men is little different to young women, defying a trope that they have become starkly more conservative.