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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

40 years ago today, 2 February, 1986, I landed in China for the first time. It changed my life 💃✍️🀄️ (though I never did learn how to skate 🙃) #china🇨🇳 #ContemporaryArt #ThePhoenixYears

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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 · 07/06/2025

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 🀄️

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The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard

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

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

@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 · 21/05/2025

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...

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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 · 15/04/2025

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 · 14/04/2025

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 · 08/04/2025

Yes, I’m gutted I can’t make it

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Interesting new angle on #Gaugin by #SuePrideaux in @theGuardian.com ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light #BookSky

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A travesty of justice and a profound embarrassment to the United States

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Beevor: "Trump's ignorance & disregard of history extends to his view of other countries and regions. He has clearly forgotten Ambrose Bierce’s warning that “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography”.”

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

PS: the whole series has been great. Wonderful to have a whole new perspective opened up on #AgathaChristie

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It really is very good, I hadn’t really thought about her in that context before- I must read Pale Horse again. I didn’t really get it the first time. Too disappointed that it wasn’t a more “conventional Christie detective story” (!) This was when I was gobbling them up in my teens 😃

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

😃 Just happened to be listening to an earlier episode I’d somehow missed (on Horror, also very good) down here in Sydney, and suddenly the bonus ep appeared.

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

With you, Emily, a masterpiece. And v well done in Suchet’s Poirot

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Definitely! And loved your new episode on Christie and Muriel Spark. 2 underrated writers with some intriguing connections. Thank you for bringing them together

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Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Marina Hyde @theGuardian.com aces it 👏👏 #DeepSeek #AI #TechBros #MarinaHyde #China 🀄️ Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress

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