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⚡️editor + writer . formerly 🌙 email me: julia.hollingsworth@sixthtone.com

Shanghai
Joined September 2011
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    Jan 24

    roastbusters is such an astonishingly ugly and cruel story from so many angles - the original assaults, the bungled investigation, much of the media handling then and now. grateful to and victims like laura for continuing to carefully document it

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    Jan 23

    The Great Firewall blocking Bing is a perfect metaphor for the state of Chinese freedoms these years; even the shitty, limited alternatives are being stripped away.

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    Jan 21

    At the Pegatron-owned Protek factory in Shanghai, we witnessed how the workers try every resource they have to ask for the unpaid money, how their dreams of luck and fortune turned into a sheer piece of paper. In the end, who is to blame?

    Due to the poor iPhone sales, many factories had stopped hiring workers in the last three months of 2018. Even those who were hired were promised money that they never received
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  4. Jan 20

    In Auckland, some people have more say than others. My bud has smashed it out of the park with this beautifully written piece

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    Jan 16

    BREAKING NEWS

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  6. Jan 15

    I love this, especially this quote from Nathan Law on his parents: “Hong Kong never felt fully theirs the way it feels like it is ours.”

    For this week's magazine, I wrote a love letter to & from Hong Kong. It's ostensibly a profile of one person but really, it's an ode to an island.
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    Jan 13

    The Chinese NZ Herald, which hosts translated versions of NZ Herald articles, has repeatedly edited them to remove information the PRC might not like

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  8. Jan 13

    “We will tell her everything, and she can understand how much we love her.” 's final, beautiful piece for on the joy and pain of being gay and a father in China.

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    Jan 11

    very cool

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  10. Retweeted
    17 Dec 2018

    1/ This article is about a big new building, Raffles City, which people in Chongqing think is - too big - ugly - too foreign - too much like Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands - too close to the water - bad for Chongqing’s feng shui

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    12 Dec 2018

    I have spent this year reporting, writing, and thinking about violence against women. I was angry before Grace Millane, and I'm furious now. I wrote about it here:

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  12. 13 Dec 2018

    New Zealand is both a country with an inspiring female prime minister at the helm, and a place where it's still not safe to be a woman. by for

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    29 Nov 2018

    . used satellite imagery to plot the growth of China's secretive camps in its far-flung western region of Xinjiang. Here's the latest interactive from :

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    14 Nov 2018

    Notably absent from this list: NZ. Will be interested to see if we do eventually sign it.

    The 15 Western ambassadors are from: Canada 🇨🇦 UK 🇬🇧 France 🇫🇷 Switzerland 🇨🇭 EU 🇪🇺 Germany 🇩🇪 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Australia 🇦🇺😃 Ireland 🇮🇪 Sweden 🇸🇪 Belgium 🇧🇪 Norway 🇳🇴 Estonia 🇪🇪 Finland 🇫🇮 Denmark 🇩🇰 Their letter is to Chen Quanguo, Xinjiang’s Communist Party boss.
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  15. 12 Nov 2018

    This is very good

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  16. 9 Nov 2018

    Dissident Ma Jian lands in Hong Kong after venues refuse his talks via

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  17. 1 Nov 2018

    I've watched this documentary numerous times now, and every time I tear up. A beautiful portrait of the kind of friendship that there don't seem to be adequate words for (by Wu Yue and ) <3

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    She never thought she’d become a boxer. Now, inspired by her best friend in the female boxing team, she hopes to win once before leaving for college. But will their friendship survive as their lives go in different directions? Watch “Boxing Shadows” here:
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    29 Oct 2018

    The Chongqing bus crash news over the weekend was tragic, and tragically sexist

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  19. 19 Oct 2018

    A story so weird and charming that I couldn’t help dabbling in some fan art of my own

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  20. 19 Oct 2018

    The latest from , featuring grizzled medicinal plant collectors, exhausting foraging missions, and mansions funded by mushrooms.

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