The last time Jane Golley was in China was for three days in 2019. Staying in the luxury Four Seasons Beijing, she captured only glimpses of the China that she had experienced on her first trip there, 21 years earlier.
Golley is verbose. God, she can talk. The transcript of our conversation runs to 60 pages. And she’s funny. Self-aware, not giving a shit. She makes wild statements and, even though the whole lunch is obviously “on the record” because I have two dictaphones running, she reverts, occasionally, to “that’s not on the record”. Of course.
When we have lunch in December, she is still on leave but has resigned from her role in CIW and will, when the time comes, be a China specialist at ANU’s Crawford School of Economics. “I’m never going to understand it fully. No one has ever got to the bottom of China. I thought I was going to spend my entire life trying to understand the place and I haven’t even scratched the surface. It’s incredible.”
She describes her childhood as “bordering on abnormal” because it was so happy and functional. She was highly competitive, good at sport, academically bright, nerdy and with a healthy streak of rebellion. While there, one of those competitive/serendipity/happenstance things happened. She was told about a scholarship funded by Japanese firm Kobe Steel that was exclusively for Australians with some vague connection to sport in Japan to study whatever they liked at Oxford as a master's program for two years.
The penny had dropped. After a year as the go-to China expert in Treasury, she packed her bags for St Catherine’s College at Oxford to study economic and educational inequality and regional development in China. Her first trip to China was in 1997 and a group of academic connections from the Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University chose her Chinese name: Ge Lizhen. It means “beautiful, precious pearl”.It was on that trip that she found herself sharing duck and a hard table on a train to Chengdu and Xi’An to see the Terracotta Army.
She quoted sub par research to deny genocide and she is now given a platform to cry about it? Ya it’s only natural you get ostracised for questionable integrity and she deserves it
“Leading” academic? She is only leading the CCP’s official discourse in the West while deceitfully neglecting other discourses on the Uyghur genocide.
Ah, having 'views that were contrary to the Twittersphere’s opinions' definitely sounds a lot better than 'promoting genocide denying propaganda generated by 🇨🇳CCP & dismissing mountains of evidence for said genocide'.
It is time to face the reality instead of 'trying to process what happened'. It is time to admit that you made a mistake by denying the genocide. it is not only Twittersphere that your views were contrary to. It is the people of East Turkistan who were hurt. UyghurGenocide.
So she did all this, then denied that ccp had locked up any innocent UYGHURS. WTF is wrong with this woman?Obviously, they're not going to give her a guided tour of international crimes against humanity! WTF was she thinking? Xi is HITLER2.0, but bright lights convinced her🤦🤬
Where did she think the Uyghurs went to that could often be seen on the streets ?
Thought these Anglo-Saxons were pretty big on freedom of speech and opinion. Apparently not. (not forgetting that it is Australia... textbook genocide deniers and genocide practitioners themselves, also love slitting throats of innocent children from war-torn countries, etc.)
You mean genocide denial? Yeah she’s cancelled.
Not much of a mystery. Apparently one cannot always serve as an enthusiastic front for CCP talking points and claim to be an academic.
What next are you going to give a Holocaust denier a platform to play victim?
'Self proclamied 'expert' confused at being called out for genocide denial' there I fixed you headline
That is an incredibly misleading summary
What a strange article, not going to rehabilitate her genocide-apologist reputation though.
What next, rehabilitating David Irving? Shameful.
what an embarrassing puff piece…have you no shame at all, let alone editorial standards?
No, this isn't a matter of opinion. There is quite a bit of good reporting on the fact that the Uyghur genocide is real, and she's denying it. She's still trying to process the fact that she got called out for being a genocide denier.
“People criticized me for my genocide denial WAAAAH!” - Jane Golley I for one I’m flabbergasted. It’s beyond time we started bullying American or European “academics” that make a career out of whitewashing genocides abroad while calling themselves “experts” on our countries 1/
It was not just the 'Twittersphere' but many of the world’s leading China experts and Human Rights Watch
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