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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

I'm working on an application for a Humanities Center fellowship right now--here's their blurb about it: 2026-2027 Theme: Revolution...

My course materials are "published" ahead of time--classes start Wednesday, although I don't need to meet with in-person stude...

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...

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...

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 am close (I think) to finishing this chapter that I'm working on, and I really need to get it done asap so that I can prepare for my c...

I sent to the other authors the first of the three chapters that I'm responsible for in the GHK biography. It's actually the second ...

Just a note here to let all of my reader know that I'm still around. I've been working on my book chapter drafts, trying to crank ou...

Need to watch this when I get a chance... Chia-Chiun Shih-Chen  (zh) is Shih Ming-teh's second wife (his widow). 

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 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...

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