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Robert Postings

@robertpostings.bsky.social
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| Freelance journalist in London | Previously in China + Jordan | Written for The Times, Time Out Shanghai, The PIE, The Defense Post + more.

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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
'One of the Greatest Writers, Full Stop' - was great to review Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms by Lu Xun for @asiancha.bsky.social chajournal.blog/2025/06/16/w...
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[REVIEW] “One of the Greatest Writers, Full Stop: Lu Xun’s 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠 & 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑢𝑠𝑘” by Robert Postings
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Also read “Feature: Lu Xun” in Cha. Lu Xun (author), Eileen J. Cheng (translator), Theodore Huters (editor), Wild G…
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
On Tuesday 3rd June I'll be moderating a talk about 'Reporting on China'. Come along to hear from a diverse group of four great journalists about the realities of reporting on China. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
May 18th is the last chance to check out the great 'Living Spirits' exhibition in London detailing the crafts and beliefs of the Bai people from Yunnan, China. Part of London Craft Week, it is organised by Yicrafts x Liuran. Read my article about the exhibition here: chinaminutes.com/2025/05/16/l...
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Living Spirits Exhibition: The Life and Craft of Bai People
“In the Hands of the Bai, all things have spirit” shares the Living Spirits: Bai Craft nd the Art of Nature exhibition at London Craft Week.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
May 18th is the last chance to check out the great 'Living Spirits' exhibition in London detailing the crafts and beliefs of the Bai people from Yunnan, China. Part of London Craft Week, it is organised by Yicrafts x Liuran. Read my article about the exhibition here: chinaminutes.com/2025/05/16/l...
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Living Spirits Exhibition: The Life and Craft of Bai People
“In the Hands of the Bai, all things have spirit” shares the Living Spirits: Bai Craft nd the Art of Nature exhibition at London Craft Week.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I recently interviewed @xuetingni.bsky.social for China Minutes talking about Sinophagia, Chinese Horrror, and sharing Chinese cultures with a wider audience. It was a lovely chat and I hope everyone gives it a read! chinaminutes.com/2025/04/25/x...
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Xueting C. Ni Interview: Sinophagia and Chinese Horror
Xueting C. Ni talks to China Minutes about her latest work Sinophagia, Chinese horror, and sharing Chinese culture with the West.
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Interview with China Minutes, in which I talk about Sinophagia, horror literature and my work on Chinese cultures. chinaminutes.com/2025/04/25/x...
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Xueting C. Ni Interview: Sinophagia and Chinese Horror
Xueting C. Ni talks to China Minutes about her latest work Sinophagia, Chinese horror, and sharing Chinese culture with the West.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I recently interviewed @xuetingni.bsky.social for China Minutes talking about Sinophagia, Chinese Horrror, and sharing Chinese cultures with a wider audience. It was a lovely chat and I hope everyone gives it a read! chinaminutes.com/2025/04/25/x...
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Xueting C. Ni Interview: Sinophagia and Chinese Horror
Xueting C. Ni talks to China Minutes about her latest work Sinophagia, Chinese horror, and sharing Chinese culture with the West.
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Ruby Wang @rcjwang.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thanks so much @robertpostings.bsky.social !
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
If you're interested in China or Health, please do follow my friend @rcjwang.bsky.social and check out her Substack China Health Pulse. She writes great articles like this one, which breaks down some of the biggest myths about Chinese healthcare: chinahealthpulse.substack.com/p/five-bigge...
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Five Biggest Myths I See About China’s Healthcare
Here’s what everyone keeps getting wrong - and why it really matters.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I wrote about the Chinese uncle who followed IShowSpeed across China. His name is Jiang Ge from Rongchang near Chongqing. A local internet celebrity who has consistently worked to promote his hometown, support local farmers, and do charity work. Read all here: chinaminutes.com/2025/04/09/i...
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Who is IShowSpeed Unc that Followed Him Across China?
IShowSpeed Unc followed him across China giving Speed food and becoming a highlight of the stream - all to promote his hometown.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Photos from the large protest at old Royal Mint yesterday, the proposed site of the new Chinese Embassy in London. Well over a thousand protesters turned up opposing the move.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My latest for @thepienews.bsky.social translating and summarising a White Paper on Chinese overseas students' experiences. Includes lots of useful data and provides an important Chinese student perspective on struggles with English language and academic requirements. thepienews.com/chinese-stud...
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Chinese students grapple with study and language pressures, report finds
Study pressures and language barriers are the biggest challenges shaping the experience of Chinese students, according to new research.
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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I made a starter pack for NUJ London Freelance branch members, committee, and union officials. NUJ members on Bluesky - please join and share! #StrongerTogether #JoinAUnion go.bsky.app/JyaRxx
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 22/12/2024
Christmas films: the less-known and the old classics @gemmagould.bsky.social @robertpostings.bsky.social @chasmanthium.bsky.social
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Christmas films: the less-known and the old classics
This Christmas you may prefer to watch your favourite films; we offer you two alternatives you may make your new classic must-watch movies
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As always @chinahousebrief.bsky.social a great read if you have an interest in China or Sino-British relations.
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🥲 so proud of our institution, so proud. The Principal always makes sure we hit the headlines in such hopeful ways. Good thing he made his office run this entire vanity conference to be the conduit between the minister and Chinese vice-minister, ambassador, and AI investors.
Screenshot of a tweet by The Times. It has a picture of the Principal of QMUL with the Chinese vice-minister for education and the UK minister for skills. And a lead that questions the wisdom of setting up that meeting while there are concerns about Bejing and security
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Was great getting my first article published in @thetimes.com with an exclusive scoop that UK Minister for Skills Baroness Smith had a private meeting with Chinese Vice Minister of Education Wu Yan in London last week. Previously the meeting had not been reported. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Education minister held private meeting with Chinese counterpart
Baroness Smith of Malvern and Wu Yan had discussed how universities could work together at a roundtable event in London
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 18/12/2024
Christmas presents seem to bring both pleasure and stress; three members of our team have a few thoughts to share @gemmagould.bsky.social @chasmanthium.bsky.social @robertpostings.bsky.social
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Christmas presents are both a pleasure and a pain
Christmas presents seem to bring both pleasure and stress; three members of our team have a few thoughts to share
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 17/12/2024
While numerous in-depth stories in China are produced every year, genuine investigative journalism remains rare. This is why GIJN's Editor’s Picks have pivoted from featuring investigative reporting “in China” to “about China." Below are our 2024 picks: twp.ai/1KAb1i
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A Mysterious Poisoning, Contaminated Tanker Trucks, and a Death in Custody: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories About China
Also featuring reporting on an elaborate con on a Chinese dissident, an academic credentials scandal, and trekking with Chinese migrants to the US border.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 17/12/2024
Birmingham Christmas: an unapologetically festive time As the arrival of consumer Christmas seems to creep earlier and earlier, head to Birmingham to enjoy an unapologetically festive time @robertpostings.bsky.social
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Birmingham Christmas: an unapologetically festive time
As the arrival of consumer Christmas seems to creep earlier and earlier, head to Birmingham to enjoy an unapologetically festive time
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Syria Is Free
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Even in what were Assad's heartlands along the coast like Latakia, people are celebrating the fall of the regime.
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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It's over for Bashar. Syrian state TV airs video announcing Bashar al-Assad’s fall.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
‏"إنها سوريا العظيمة وليست سوريا الأسد" -الراحلة مي سكاف "It is Syria the great, and not Syria of Assad." -The late Mai Skaf
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Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The liberation of prisoners from Branch 215, the branch from which the Caesar photos emerged… Back in September and October 2011, I was a prisoner in this vile prison. I am truly happy for the release of the detainees. Your families will be waiting for you.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Syrian TV broadcasts a still image with the words: The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.
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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Former Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi Al-Jalali is leaving his home to hand over power to the Syrian Military Operations Command.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I hope wherever Assad emerges, it eventually leads to him appearing in court for the crimes he's responsible for. France already has an arrest warrant out for him over the August 21st 2013 sarin attacks, partly based on evidence I submitted.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It's over. Assad has left and rebels have taken the country. الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام, الشعب اسقط النظام
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Short thread on the rebels imminent victory over Assad in Syria and connections with China.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Yesterday HTS's Political Affairs Department issued a statement in Chinese (below), Arabic, and Russian telling Russian and Chinese civilians that the Syrian rebels fight is only with Assad and "not directed against any foreign country or its civilians"
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Rebels have now entered Damascus province from the south. Kanaker town and the neighbouring 121st Brigade military base have been captured. Reports government forces are withdrawing from other towns around Damascus. Rebels are just over 20km from Syria's capital.
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 06/12/2024
As the news reports that Damascus and Assad are said to be in the sights of the rebels in Syria. This article by @robertpostings.bsky.social details the speed in which the rebels launched on and captured Aleppo
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Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack
In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
10 days after rebels launched a sudden offensive, the government has lost six provincial capitals as government forces retreat from acrosss Syria back to Damascus. The defeat of Assad looks closer then its ever been. To understand what happened, how, and who the rebel HTS are, read my article:
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/12/2024
Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces @robertpostings.bsky.social
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Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack
In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 05/12/2024
In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces | Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social
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Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack
In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hama has been captured by rebels. Syrian State Media say government forces are withdrawing from Hama. Pictures and videos show rebels inside the city.
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
For @centralbylines.bsky.social I wrote about the rebel’s sudden new offensive in Syria, that in four days redrew front lines that hadn't changed in four years. centralbylines.co.uk/news/world/h...
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Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack
In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 03/12/2024
Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces @robertpostings.bsky.social
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Syria rebels capture Aleppo and move on Hama in rapid attack
In Syria, after four years of fixed front lines, a sudden rebel offensive has captured the key city of Aleppo and routed government forces
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I've created a London news starterpack, containing local london news organisatons. I'll continue to add it as more join Bluesky. If I've missed any please let me know! go.bsky.app/6JGLbRd
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For the first time in years, opposition groups in Syria have launched a major offensive against the Government. They attacked in Western Aleppo capturing several villages, seizing weapons and equipment, and killed/captured government fighters. www.newarab.com/news/syrian-...
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Syrian rebels launch shock offensive against regime in northwest
Syrian rebels have launched a new offensive in the northwest, reportedly capturing several villages, as regime forces launched airstrikes on opposition towns
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! I thought I'd introduce myself to new followers. I'm a freelance journalist in London, previously I've spent time reporting in China and Jordan. In this thread 🧵 I'll share some of the articles I've written over the past couple of years and let them do the talking for me:
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Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! I thought I'd introduce myself to new followers. I'm a freelance journalist in London, previously I've spent time reporting in China and Jordan. In this thread 🧵 I'll share some of the articles I've written over the past couple of years and let them do the talking for me:
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