I have some money left over from my professional development fund for this fiscal year, so I bought a few more books that I thought might be helpful to my research.* Here they are:
- Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan, by Anru Lee (2023)
I read the introduction and part of the first chapter, and I'm already hooked! I just finished Niki Alsford's Taiwan Lives, and I think this will be the next book in my collection that I read. - Making Punches Count: The Individual Logic of Legislative Brawls, by Nathan F. Batto and Emily Beaulieu (2024)
This seems particularly timely, considering the fights that went on in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan recently. - Rhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare, edited by Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson (2019)
After Hart-Davidson's recent death, I read an obituary that mentioned this book. It looked interesting. - Guiguzi, China's First Treatise on Rhetoric: A Critical Translation and Commentary, trans. Hui Wu (2016)
I've already read C. Jan Swearingen's "wide-ranging" chapter from the book, but I think I should read the whole translation. - Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan, by Jonathan Clements (2024)
This looks like a good readable book about Taiwan, possibly useful in an introductory course. - Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, ed. Gunter Schubert (2016)
One of these days, I'd like to get access to the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies Online, but this also looks like a useful reference.
Buying all these books has me wondering, though, what I'll do with them down the line. I've been following Kurt Bell on Twitter recently; he and his wife are retiring and moving to Japan. They decided that they could only take a total of 6 boxes of belongings with them, and this has me thinking about what I'll do with all my books if I get to that point in life. Maybe I can eventually donate these books to a library or organization (or person?) interested in Taiwan. Anyway, I think I have a few years before I get to that point.
*Or something like that.
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