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Picked up a collection of William Holden movies the other day, mainly to watch The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), which is based on a novel Jam...

Prof. Yang Tianshi , who was visiting Taiwan for a conference at Tunghai that took place over the weekend, gave a talk today about Chiang Ka...

I was warning my students today about the dangers of using "full-sentence translation" features on their electronic dictionaries, ...

「東海大學教學卓越計畫---人文通識訓練」通識課程學術講座 講題: 「蔣介石日記」與兩岸民國史研究 講者: 楊天石教授(中國社會科學院近代史研究所研究員) 呂芳上教授(東海大學歷史系教授) 時間: 96年12月18日星期二14:00~16:00 地點: H122 歡迎踴躍聽講!!...

Just taking a break from working on the diss.--specifically, from harassing would-be interviewees with pages of detailed questions about thi...

Call for Abstracts 4th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse June 3‐5, 2008 Indiana University‐Purdue University Indianapolis S...

Just found out that the first issue of this e-journal , published by the Taiwan Culture Research Programme at the London School of Economics...

This seems to be a sign of the times, but it's still bizarre... Much of Stanford University’s historic East Asian collection is destined...

Karen Kingsbury, former associate professor at Tunghai and translator of Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City , will be speaking at Tun...

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 .