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Found out the other day that one of the titles in the running for the GHK biography has been approved by the sponsor of the book, the Taipei...

I got a collection of four small illustrated books about old Taichung , 《臺中舊城》, which includes  「宮原武熊的一天」(about Miyahara Takekuma, a Japanes...

Writing from Taipei now. It is miserably hot and humid, but I walked (walked!) the 1.1 km (OK, I'm a wimp to complain!) to 唐山書店 (and no...

Just downloaded Evan Dawley's new book Taiwan: A People's History to my phone (the print copy isn't available yet). Hopefully, ...

As I have mentioned a couple of times , I'm going to be participating in a roundtable on the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association in Chi...

I have turned in the grades for my two summer classes, so now I can focus a bit more on the three things that I want or need to work on the...

My wife and I watched A Foggy Tale  on Netflix last night, and I became my usual blubbery self, of course. I don't want to give away any...

The spring semester is over here--and just in time, as a hay fever-driven lethargy has overtaken me, making it hard for me to concentrate on...

Yesterday, I attended the "Taiwan Studies+ 2.0" international symposium at Harvard. I found all of the presentations really fascin...

A couple of updates about the George Kerr biography: We have a publisher! (I'm not going to reveal the details yet, though. I'm not ...

Julien Oeuillet, who moderates the "Taiwan vs. the World" program on Radio Taiwan International, interviewed me for an episode ab...

I'm so far behind in posting this that the Formosa Files folks have already posted two new podcasts since my interview! But in case you...

The Island: A Personal Account of Taiwan’s Extraordinary Transformation , by Mark O’Neill (Earnshaw Books, 2023). OK, I said this wouldn...

Just finished reading Anna Beth Keim's Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao . I reall...

My article about the pre-life of Formosa Betrayed  has just come out. Here's the abstract if you don't feel like clicking on the lin...

The following is an essay that George Kerr was working on in the mid-1950s about his experiences teaching English in Taiwan. I found it in t...

Last week I received the proof of my paper about George H. Kerr that will come out in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations  by the e...

This looks interesting...

My wife recommended this video to me. On my YouTube, there are English subtitles in addition to the Chinese subtitles. So even if you don...

This looks like a good short video for a future class I might work on (once I get everything else done)... This is a good video , too, altho...