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Arts
In this second instalment, Jonathan Chan bids a bittersweet farewell to the “crucible” that is Cambridge.
Arts
In this two-part creative piece, Jonathan Chan evokes the many contradictions that have defined his time at Cambridge.
Features
Jonathan Chan recounts his days in the military and what that has taught him
Features
I have learned to let go of the anxiety that governed my Cambridge days, of the impulse to fill every moment productively
Features
“I see a new anxiety in Cambridge as my friends and I try to make sense of the season”, writes Jonathan Chan
Features
In the final entry of his “Rethinking the canon” column, Jonathan Chan considers how the column has challenged his own perceptions of what decolonisation means and looks like
Features
Jilani, a PhD student at King’s, researches subjectivity and decolonisation in African and South Asian film and literature
Features
This week, columnist Jonathan Chan shares Mariam Abdel-Razek’s difficulties in feeling burdened to carry BME legacy as a Trinity student and as a BME person involved with the theatre scene
Features
Columnist Jonathan Chan sits down with Bermudian student Zach Myers to discuss how his background challenges fundamental assumptions about what ‘decolonisation’ might entail.
Features
In his column, Jonathan Chan sits down with Ian Wang to consider how and why interethnic solidarity is crucial to the campaign to decolonise the curriculum.
Features
Columnist Jonathan Chan talks to Fergus Lamb about critically rethinking our learning
Features
Columnist Jonathan Chan talks to Nusrath Tapadar about the limitations of the composition of the English tripos
Arts
Jonathan Chan unpicks the life and work of the eminent 20th-century Chinese poet, a beloved figure who built the first cultural bridges between China and Cambridge
Features
In his column “Rethinking the canon”, Jonathan Chan sits down with several English students to examine the personal implications of a decolonised English curriculum and give credence to it as an intellectual practice that demands an extension of the empathetic imagination.
Features
In his column “Rethinking the canon”, Jonathan Chan sits down with several English students to examine the personal implications of a decolonised English curriculum and give credence to it as an intellectual practice that demands an extension of the empathetic imagination.
Arts
Jonathan Chan compares two markedly different cities, Cambridge and Beijing, and how each take this tension to task
Arts
Jonathan Chan is a student poet and undergraduate at Wolfson College
Features
Jonathan Chan seeks to provide a glimpse into the challenges international students face in Cambridge. These are the stories of 12 students
Violet
When examining his relationship to the English language, Jonathan Chan discovers how his life is bound up in the legacies of colonialism
Comment: Jonathan Chan
The State of the Decolonise English Movement
Jonathan Chan, Chairperson of the Decolonise English Working and Reading Groups, illustrates what little steps Cambridge’s English Faculty has taken to address students’ calls for the decolonisation of its syllabus, and argues that although the process will be difficult due to the decentralised nature of the curriculum, it is necessary.