@Sinobevan

Research Associate, SOAS China, 1600-2000, literature, art, and music Sinologist, curator, literary translator (classical & modern)

 London
Joined June 2019
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SOAS China Institute@SOAS_CI7h
Join Dr Panpan Yang's book launch of 'Animation Thinks: A Story of Media Entanglements in China' @SOAS 🗓️Mon 26 Oct, 5pm 📌Room G3, SOAS Main Building Register today: tinyurl.com/hxmk52rz
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Swiss Cottage Library, Camden 1964 Basil Spence and Partners modernism-in-metroland.co.uk…
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Edward Luper@EdwardLuper23h
One of my personal favourites, inspired by a Japanese hi-ire with Dutchmen, but replaced with my favourite nostalgic Lego pirate figures. #lego #ceramics #art #contemporaryceramics #japaneseart
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This rare, early-1920s cardboard advertising sign from our collection promotes the British Lever Brothers disinfectant soap Lifebuoy in China. But if you look closely, there is something a little odd about the key visual… 🧵👇 1/5
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'Pigs are the most important of the six domestic animals' — Chinese poster, 1960
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A 1994 (!) postcard of Shanghai with the cityscape practically still unchanged since the 1930s
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Clint Twist@ClintTwistOct 14
Artistic licence? In this illustration from the Red Guard notebook, Lei Feng appears to be wearing a small badge in the shape of Mao's profile. Such badges were not produced until five years after Lei's untimely death.
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Khatayi’s book is the most in-depth, sophisticated account of China’s government, society, and culture written by any foreigner before the era of European colonial empires. Now translated into English for the first time. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-bo…
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Paul Bevan@SinobevanOct 6
Please consider reading the essay I wrote for @asiancha about how I came to translate the 2 Ma stories. It is a new essay composed of material that has not been published anywhere else. You may (or may not) find it interesting. Your feedback is welcome! chajournal.com/2026/09/18/be…
Paul Bevan@SinobevanSep 22
The book contains the 20-chapter story, and 2 essays - a translator's introduction & an exploration of Shanghai as Ma Yongzhen would have known it in the 1870s. Tammy has kindly published 4 chapters that give you a flavour of the book plus a short essay about why I translated it.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the end of China's Cultural Revolution. I want to take this opportunity to tease my research project, “The Pen and the Gun” — coming soon! I worked trough antique materials revealing the insides of the CR’s weapon of choice: art! Stay tuned
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Where I talk a bit about my book, ignore the scary looking picture
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@EastViewPeepsSep 29
New #OpenAccess exclusive interview from the latest issue of The Current Digest of the Chinese Press eastviewpress.com/meritocrac…
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Please consider reading the essay I wrote for @asiancha about how I came to translate the 2 Ma stories. It is a new essay composed of material that has not been published anywhere else. You may (or may not) find it interesting. Your feedback is welcome! chajournal.com/2026/09/18/be…
Paul Bevan@SinobevanSep 22
The book contains the 20-chapter story, and 2 essays - a translator's introduction & an exploration of Shanghai as Ma Yongzhen would have known it in the 1870s. Tammy has kindly published 4 chapters that give you a flavour of the book plus a short essay about why I translated it.
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Clint Twist@ClintTwistOct 6
#Maobadge with three loyalties that seem to be smiling
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Clint Twist@ClintTwistOct 5
#Maobadge A battered survivor depicting performative enthusiasm for the Ninth National Congress. The reverse inscription was embellished with a lantern at left and a star at right.
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Clint Twist@ClintTwistOct 4
Replying to @redbooks1966
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t@myetceteraSep 25
Me, reflecting on life. A moment of stillness. And a moment of inner scream.
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Clint Twist@ClintTwistSep 25
#Maobadge made for National Day 1968
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I always assign Ho Ping-ti's "The Significance of the Ch'ing Period" from 1967 for my intro class. Not because he's correct on all points, but because in 7 pages he lays out succinctly the outline of why we should study the Qing if you want to understand China today
John Handel@_John_HandelSep 24
I think we are at a historiographical inflection point where there is a huge comparative advantage to reading old secondary work (like 1930s-1970s). Cultural history has become so much the norm that current students no longer are taught/no longer even engage with the historiography that cultural history emerged out of
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Paul Bevan@SinobevanSep 22
Reposting this wonderful piece of footage originally posted by @chineselore @LWestwoodAuthor @BraxM
BBC Archive
@BBCArchive21 Sep 2018
#OnThisDay 1976: The Water Margin was first broadcast on BBC Two. Here's how a Japanese TV epic, based on a Chinese Classic, was dubbed into English by a writer who understood neither Chinese nor Japanese.

"It's somewhere in between Fu Manchu and The Goon Show"

This clip is from Nationwide.

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Edward W.@edwardW2Sep 22
lets normalise writing like this again :3
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal@asianchaSep 18
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | @Sinobevan writes about translating two lively 1920s Chinese novels centred on the martial artists Ma Yongzhen & his fictional sister, Ma Suzhen, explaining what drew him to these neglected works of popular fiction. 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗: chajournal.com/2026/09/18/be…
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