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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, ...

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...

Since professional development funds in my college have been cut by 80% and the new purchasing/reimbursement system is unnecessarily baroque...

T. C. Brown, Made in Taiwan .  Proving Press, 2025 I heard about this book via a LinkedIn link to this review by David Frazier. Because my ...

I've already written a bit about this book here and here , so I won't say much about it here. I'll just note that, yes, the las...

Leonard Blusse and Natalie Everts, eds. The Formosan Encounter: Notes on Formosa’s Aboriginal Society, A Selection of Documents from Dutch A...

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

I'm trying to get some books with my professional development money before the fiscal year is over. No big trips abroad to give presenta...

James Lin's new book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan , is available now for purchase and f...

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 dithered about for a while thinking about what I should read after finishing Studying Taiwan Before Taiwan Studies , but I settled on Davi...

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...

I see that the U of Washington Taiwan Studies Program has posted some videos of its "Pioneering Taiwan Studies" workshop from las...

From Nov., 2024: Presented at the University of Washington:  The recent publication of Studying Taiwan before Taiwan Studies: American Anthr...

I just finished reading Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang's The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan . I can...