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Received this through the CFP mailing list . It looks like an interesting project and would, I think, benefit from an international perspect...

Even though I'm only halfway through Cold War Orientalism right now, the post office still operates (to the extent that it operates) an...

From a Times of India report : MANGALORE: The Marathon Lecturer stopped at 11.30 am on Sunday, clocking 98 hours and beating the earlier wo...

Would be nice to have some submissions to this book from Taiwan... Also of interest: a conference on second-language writing at Tamkang Uni...

Just received my copy of Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 by Christina Klein. I got the hardback edition...

This news is a little old, but a report in last Saturday's Taiwan News cites a study that found that "[m]ore than half of Taiwan...

Received this via H-Rhetor : Save the Dates February 22, 23, &24, 2008 2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research Theme: Writing ...

In the span of less than two hours--between about 10:15 and 11:50--we saw three 2-car accidents and two 3-car accidents on Taichung Harbor R...

Haven't felt one of those in a while... (Guess I'm not usually sitting in the office when they come.)

Michael Turton has a great rhetorical analysis/critique of a USA Today article about Taiwan/China/US relations, reflecting on the biased ma...

Earlier this evening I caught a story on the TV news about Pres. Chen's visit to Marjorie Bly, a retired American nurse who is in a Peng...

Last night we went to "Tea Work" on Wenxin Road for dinner. Walking into the restaurant, we spotted a cute little baby (maybe a ye...

From BBC News : Online reference site Wikipedia blames US Congress staff for partisan changes to a number of political biographies. Computer...

A few months ago I noted an article and an editorial in the Taiwan News regarding the possibilities for deliberative democracy in Taiwan. ...

When we were back home over the CNY holidays, I came across a few pics of Mei-mei from about 11 years ago. Thought I'd share a couple of...

The former native Chinese speaker and I went to Bookman Books (書林) downtown this afternoon so she could look for a book for her monsters. I ...

Courtesy of the Simpsomaker --or is it the "Simpomaker"? (Note: I had to do a "PrtSc" to get a copy of the image--which ...

Got this (forwarded) from ERG: Cna yuo raed tihs? i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweo...

Back in 1997, I wrote about the first Chinese New Year that I spent with my then-future in-laws, but the only version left of that story is ...