My name is Rachel Leow & I'm a PhD student in History, at the University of Cambridge, England.

My present research is broadly concerned with language and the intellectual legacies of empire and decolonization in twentieth century Southeast Asia. I have a particular interest in Singapore and Malaysia, where these legacies have been so fundamental to the shape of their present societies, and so close to my own heart and mind. I think a great deal about how we remember things. I am pretty interested in how people, places, ideas and words change over time.

idleThinK has been, for many years, my home on the internet. Once upon a time the sole outlet for my writing, it's now an aggregator for the whole spectrum of my internet activity -- which, supposedly, looks something like this:


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