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I've been tagged by runningburro do do the "7 Facts About Me" meme. The rules: 1. List the link to your tagger and also post ...

Tunghai is beginning a new system of evaluations of its faculty. (I believe it's an MOE requirement.) Every three years, we have to turn...

CALL FOR PAPERS National Conference on College English March 29, 2008 Foreign Language Center, National Chengchi University “Perspectives on...

Has anyone been listening to the "oral histories" that Rick Monday has been featuring this week on ICRT? Evidently he's been i...

Got this in my e-mail the other day. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy Call for Papers for Special Issue National Image Management in Asia...

Been doing a lot of waiting recently. Yesterday the former native Chinese speaker and I went to a certain unnamed teahouse (that claims it...

Typhoon Krosa is on its way and looks like it'll be a big one. So I imagine we won't be going out much this weekend. It's just a...

During our recent move, we unpacked a box of books that contained the Ohio cookbook that ERG's mother had given us five years ago when w...

The former native speaker's four-year-old nephew (we'll call him "the not-yet-native speaker," or nyns, for short) just ex...

Health "events" in the family Moving and redecorating "events" (and sometimes redecorating "un-events" that sh...

Amen .

Been doing work to apply for IRB review of my research (again--but it's my fault since my 5-year renewable approved whatchamajiggit is e...

Just a note to say that I'm still alive. If you imagine that I have spent the summer thus far productively writing my dissertation, well...

My Ohio University grad. school classmate Eric has an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about part-time labor in U.S. colleges and uni...

Mingle 2 - Online Dating Isn't a G rating the kiss of death for a movie? Maybe I need to throw in a few gratuitous expletives, like ...

Here's another timely topic for the upcoming Rhetoric Society conference. It's another one I am interested in, but don't have t...

I was recently reminded that Robert Oliver, author of Communication in Ancient China and India (1971), worked as a publicizer of and ghostw...

RSA 2008: Call for Proposals The Responsibilities of Rhetoric Seattle, the location of RSA 2008, by virtue of its identity and its imagery c...

A while back I reviewed Kang-i Sun Chang's (孫康宜) book 走出白色恐怖 ( Farewell to the White Terror ). At least one commenter mentioned interes...

Got this in my e-mail today: 二、停止電話撥接上網服務(計中) 由於本校電話撥接上網（Remote Dial In Service）使用率極低，而且此項上網設備維護及零件更新不易，故2007年6月1日起計中停止電話撥接上網服務，原使用者請改以學校寬頻、...