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The title of White's plenary at the Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics conference was "Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse....

My wife and I just finished watching a rebroadcast of Lien Chan's "historic" speech at Beida and came to the conclusion that o...

My experience of the conference on Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics at the University of Ghent last week was great, particularly because I felt m...

"良藥苦口," my wife tells me (good medicine tastes bitter). Then she gives me the cup of Chinese medicine that is supposed to help bri...

My colleague Michael Jacques had a letter printed in the Taipei Times yesterday on the lack of usable sidewalks in Taichung.

While I'm posting Tunghai-related events, here's some information about this conference that will be held at Tunghai in December. T...

My OFL colleagues in Tunghai's FLLD are going to hold a panel discussion on April 22. The topic is "The Image of Taiwan in Europe...

If you can believe this... Seems to leave out a ton of varieties of American English. (I also think quite a bit of my English has been shape...

Today we went to a different place to get my ankle worked on. Originally we had been going to the China Medical University's hospital, b...

ERG will remember how in the early 90s, our mutual professor S would greet me as "Julien" every time he saw me. For some reason, I...

Getting geared up to go to Belgium later this month for a conference on Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics (for some reason, I find the lack of an ...

I'll limit these to only a couple, since no one likes a complainer: I told my students a few days before the break that I'd proba...

I've been thinking about how I might expand my audience base beyond personal friends, family, and people googling for donuts. (Not that ...

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Stopped by Waili Donuts again the other evening and was pleasantly surprised to find a jelly donut filled with blueberry ... uh... jelly! T...

Well... "the former native speaker" is a year old(er) today. A lot has happened in the past year (most of which, unfortunately, I ...

Just a note here to myself, to read Amardeep Singh's post " Francis Fukuyama: The Protestant Ethic in an age of Islamic Terrorism ...

"V. S. Ravens" writes about " The Limits of Tenure " at her large public university in the U.S. What strikes me is that ...

According to a BBC World Service poll , most people see the PRC's influence in the world as positive rather than negative. The small pri...

I was looking through Two Self-Portraits: Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao and Hu Shih and came across Hu Shih's description of how he learned ...