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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 was going to write up my resolutions for the new academic year as I've done in the past , but I noticed that last year I didn't r...

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'm now scrambling to put my course materials in alternative locations because of a cyberattack on Canvas that has shut it down across ...

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

A few days ago, I was noting on LinkedIn that the Grammarly ads I keep seeing there seem to substitute efficiency for learning. The "in...

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...

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...