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Showing posts with label Chinese language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese language. Show all posts
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Two new books in the former native speaker's library

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University of Hawai'i Press has a clearance sale going, so I bought two books--I think they were a dollar each: Ideogram: Chinese Chara...
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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Notes on Chu Yu-hsun (朱宥勳), When They Were Not Writing Novels 【他們沒在寫小說的時候】

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朱宥勳 (Chu Yu-hsun). 【他們沒在寫小說的時候：戒嚴台灣小說家群像】 When They Were Not Writing Novels: Portraits of Novelists from Taiwan Under Martial Law . 2nd. ed....
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

An anecdote about writing in postwar Taiwan from【他們沒在寫小說的時候】

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Was going to do some writing on my paper this morning, but instead read a chapter from When They Were Not Writing Novels (【 他們沒在寫小說的時候 】). ...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Notes on Xing Lu, Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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Xing Lu, Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication . University of South Caroli...
Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Todd Sandel, "Linguistic Capital in Taiwan"

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Number ten in an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Sandel, T. L. (2003). Linguistic ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Next up on my reading list

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Taking a second look at the reading list that ChatGPT created for me ( discussed here ), I realized that not only did ChatGPT not actually w...

Notes on Robert Culp, Articulating Citizenship

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Culp, Robert. Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912-1940 . Harvard University Asia Cent...
Friday, June 09, 2023

Notes on Xiaoye You, Genre Networks and Empire

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You, Xiaoye. Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China . Southern Illinois University Press, 2023.  This book will be, I i...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Notes on Roger T. Ames, “Thinking through Comparisons"

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Ames, Roger T. “Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding.” Early China/Ancient Greece : Thi...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Some more play with ChatGPT

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This evening, my wife and I were playing with ChatGPT to see how it translates from Japanese and Chinese. I remembered that I had once trans...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Winter break begins

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I have a few weeks off from teaching now that I've turned my grades in, and I have to make sure that I use that time wisely. (So far I...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Notes on Lien Heng (1878-1936): Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition

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Wu, Shu-hui. Lien Heng (1878-1936): Taiwan's Search for Identity and Tradition . Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana Uni...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Morgan Chih-tung Huang & Rong-xuan Chu, "A Political Linguistics Analysis of President Tsai Ing-wen’s Apology to Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples"

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Number eight in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . 黃之棟、朱容萱，2019，「 總統道歉的語言學：【蔡英文總統...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Rong-Xuan Chu & Chih-Tung Huang, "The day after the apology: A critical discourse analysis of President Tsai’s national apology to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples"

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Number seven in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan .  Chu, R.-X., & Huang, C.-T...
Friday, July 02, 2021

Summer writing project (Day Forty-Five): Current events and my project

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Since yesterday, there's been a lot of discussion on Twitter about one particular "idiom" ( chengyu ) in Xi Jinping's spee...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

For future reading, once I get finished grading

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" Three new essays on the Chinese script and a new twist to the old problem of censorship in Chinese studies "
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

In which my translingual aphasia leads me to explore the origins of the term 五金行

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Earlier this evening (or yesterday evening, depending on when I finish this), I was talking with someone who mentioned a store on the corner...