Kate credits her fascination for and involvement in Asian Studies – and especially Indonesian history – to an eight-week backpacking holiday that she took with some friends in her late teens. She says it changed the way she looked at the world and drove her to learn more about Indonesia, and especially its history. An
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Professor Tim Wright’s distinguished academic journey began with a chance encounter in 1960s Yorkshire with an inspiring schoolteacher whose enthusiasm for East Asia prompted Tim to study Chinese at university in 1967. He recalls the intensity of his undergraduate training—focused almost entirely on modern and classical Chinese texts—and his first visit to China in 1971,
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A small object, a long history Let me begin with a small object. In a follow-up contact in October 2025, one participant told me that she had just had an intrauterine device (IUD) removed after sixteen years. The photograph she shared is almost too ordinary: clinical, small, easy to overlook. Yet it carries a long
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