外 not

Came across this "Proposal for a Formosa Studies Program, with Comment" that George H. Kerr sent to Cheng-mei Shaw (蕭成美) on March ...

Christopher Joby, Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices , Brill, 2025. This ...

I just sent off my revision of my paper on the "pre-life" of George H. Kerr's Formosa Betrayed . The editor might require more...

I know I said the other day I wouldn't be blogging for some time, but I was inspired by an AI training session last night to test out Cl...

New Books Network has a great interview with Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison about their book, Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhoo...

Studying Taiwan before Taiwan Studies: American Anthropologists in Cold War Taiwan  was a relatively easy book to read, as most oral histori...

My review of Resistance in the Era of Nationalisms: Performing Identities in Taiwan and Hong Kong , edited by Hsin-I Cheng and Hsin-i Sydney...

Back in August, I wrote up a few new year's resolutions for the 2024-2025 academic year. In the past, I've usually written them up ...

Back in August, I wrote about my plans for the new course I was going to be teaching, " Rhetorics in Contact ." Now that the cours...

For some reason, I didn't notice the overlap between the themes of the two books I wrote about --even though they're right in the ti...

We're just a few days away from the beginning of the semester, and I've been feverishly working at getting my new "Rhetorics in...

I haven't done this for a few years (I think the last time was 2021 ), but it's not necessarily a bad idea to write down a few thing...

Got back from a short trip to find these two books that I ordered from 博客來 books : 移工築起的地下社會：跨國勞動在臺灣 ( Underground Lives: Stories Untold fo...

This week I was supposed to be attending (and presenting at!) the 2024 North American Taiwan Studies Association conference in NYC, but I bo...

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...

As I mourn the waning days of my "sabbatical" and the feeling that I haven't achieved as much as I should, I'm distracting...

I think the last time I really thought about National Academic Writing Month was back in 2016 . As I said back then, I didn't think Nove...

Shimabukuro, Mira. Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration . University Press of Colorado, 2015.  I r...

I noticed that I haven't posted anything yet this month, so I thought I should let my reader know that I'm still working on the proj...

My "productivity" has slowed down a bit since the beginning of the month. Though I did finish reading a book (Scott Simon's Tr...