Han Au Chua

DPhil candidate @engfac @ExeterCollegeOx | Asian-European cultural histories, Colonial history, the Bloomsbury Group

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

So happy to find out that Textual Practice published my article on world literature! It reads Asian and European literary traditions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to extend Casanova's world literary space. It's open access here: https://t.co/YXSQl4xDCw

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@becimay Of course!!

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

NEW: Oxford's Saïd Business School has appointed Dr Athol Williams as its Poet Laureate, in a first for business schools globally.

Find out more ⬇️
https://t.co/rbrNEn9knT

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

Many powerful, if sweeping, claims last night. Unsure what 'at the UN every country has an equal voice, but not the same muscle' means. Shocking that Adama Dieng had to remind the panellists of the UN's colonial origins. Glad that Valerie Amos pressured the UN on accountability.

[Beci Carver @becimay]

And here’s the discount code …

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@ellekeboehmer @OxLifeWriting @engfac Can’t wait for the book!

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

Had the pleasure of listening to Simon Horobin’s ongoing work on Lewis and Tolkien yesterday. Absolutely inspiring research. Very glad to be able to attend @OxLifeWriting’s events again.

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@becimay I’ve been waiting for this!!

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

Favourite lines from a poem by W. S. Merwin from this evening’s Professor of Poetry lecture by A. E. Stallings: ‘you die without knowing | whether anything you wrote was any good | if you have to be sure don't write’.

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

I guess the words are 人 (human) and 仁 (humane), though colloquially and in writing it is unlikely for one to misread/mishear the standalone 人 as ‘humane’ because it would have to be written or said alongside other characters 有 (have) 人 (human) 情 (feeling) to be ‘humane’.

[Beci Carver @becimay]

‘We distinguish in English, by sound, ‘human’ from ‘humane’. Chinese does not; the Chinese speaker must distinguish the two by context’ (Margaret Masterman)

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

Spoke at Exeter’s Subject Family Symposium last night about Leonard Woolf’s career in Ceylon. Deepest thanks to @rentravailer, @DrNicoleKing, & of course to @becimay for recommending ‘Insurgent Empire’ by @PriyamvadaGopal. (Up early today and omw to the Nat Archives @ Kew.)

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@becimay I’ll keep an eye out for it and will write to you! Your essay reminded me of something I wrote and posted on Instagram almost 5 years ago. (It’s a silly little poem… ignore everything except the last line…)

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@DallawayJulia @UniofOxford Congratulations, Julia!! 🤩

[Beci Carver @becimay]

My new book’s crazy cover; never has an Oxford looked so mad! 🩷

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@becimay I’m so looking forward to this!

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

@DallawayJulia @alexhharris @mattbevis1 Massive congratulations, Julia!!

[The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @OxLifeWriting]

Congratulations to friend of OCLW, Han 🎉

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

Can biographical fiction depict a historical figure more accurately than biographies? In my new article, I show how this is possible for one kind of biofiction. It is open access: https://t.co/gP5Op3acvG @bodleianlibs @engfac @OxLifeWriting @Soc_of_Authors @nypl @Kings_College

[Han Au Chua @webbbbbyyy]

I have been to the Archives Centre at King’s so often, but I am always left a little stunned by how this part of the College looks like every time I leave. @Kings_College @Cambridge_Uni