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Just turned in my final grades, so that means the get back to the Big D on a fulltime basis season begins. Big D also means "Big Deadli...

I won't be posting here for a while. I also intend (with help) to cut back drastically on my other online activities. I have some offlin...

Sorry, but my reference here is to how Britney drove around with her baby in her lap instead of in a safety seat. In Taiwan, as Michael Turt...

(Warning: mixed romanization follows. Proceed with caution.) After our interesting non-vegetarian meal, the former native Chinese speaker an...

This afternoon I attended a symposium at Tunghai on the topic of "Issues in Distance Language Learning." It was run by the MOE-spo...

TAMKANG REVIEW English Department, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan 251 TEL: 886-2-26215656 EXT. 2329 E-MAIL: tfwx@www2.tk...

The Tour de France: A Cultural History , by Christopher S. Thompson (U of California P, 2006) Get my copy now! ;-)

...and neither the BBC's nor CNN's websites even mention it. For those who are counting, this was the tenth attempt by Taiwan to ge...

[Update: I've made some changes to this, based on some informative comments from Clyde Warden.] Got this in our mailboxes on Friday. It...

Had to link to this description of driving practices in Burlington, NC. Sounds so much like home (here), only without the motorcyles and sc...

Today I received my last shipment of books from the University of California Press sale that I mentioned earlier . One of the books that I o...

Published version of this post available here (pdf).

I know I'm supposed to be finishing up that third post on A Pail of Oysters , but I wanted to mention a couple of other things in the me...

I pretty much agree with Roger Ebert's review of it . 'Specially the part where he says that "everybody wanders through the tow...

[Note: I took this down for a while, but have re-posted it. Some of what is below is developed in more detail in my 2007 article , "Emp...

I finished reading A Pail of Oysters the day after the book arrived. I should mention that the copy I finally bought is a little water-stai...

...in increasing order of how excited I am to have gotten them: Communication and Global Society , ed. Guo-Ming Chen and William J. Starosta...

I'm looking for a copy of Robert B. Kaplan's The Anatomy of Rhetoric: Prolegomena to a Functional Theory of Rhetoric . Language and...

OBTAIN A PROSPEROUS FUTURE, MONEY-EARNING POWER, AND THE PRESTIGE THAT COMES WITH HAVING THE CAREER POSITION YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF. D...

I was looking up the name of Michael Lindsay after finishing Philip West's Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952 th...