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Just something I noticed--don't know if anyone else did: during his visit to China, Wu Po-hsiung used the full name of the KMT: 中國國民黨 (C...

The Foreigner in Formosa comments on the KMT Chairman Wu Po-hsiung's use of "Mr. Ma" (instead of "President Ma") du...

via Call for Papers - Call for Participation International Conference on "Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation" Octobe...

While working on a syllabus for an MOE-required elective called "Introduction to English Rhetoric" (that may not ever actually be ...

Earlier I mentioned a letter I had read that included a description of Marjorie Bly. Judy Manwell (Moore), an Oberlin "rep" to Ta...

A while back, I posted about Marjorie Bly, a nurse who treated lepers in Penghu for over 50 years. I heard the other day from her cousin th...

After eating lunch at 客家本色 this afternoon, we went to pay the bill and noticed that the restaurant was playing music from Luo Shifeng '...

( via ) The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has put episodes of The Mike Wallace Interview from 1957-8 on their we...

Alex Reid over at digital digs describes a writing assignment his daughter is given: Today's 3rd grade in-class writing assignment: why...

Your time of day has a split personality -- sometimes it's sweat-streaked and loud, and you're on the dance floor, getting your thir...

Almost didn't see this one in time... The Seventeenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR...

I've just used "thematize", "narrativize," and "textualize" all together in one paragraph. Does anyone hav...

These posts are all related to access in academic publishing--access to publications (as a writer) and open access to published resources (i...

Kerim has a post illustrating more-or-less what my CNY (Chinese New Year) has been like so far. More or less because I've been trying t...

We visited Chung-Yo Dept. Store last night and, as usual, spent most of the time in the Eslite Bookstore there. I picked up two interesting,...

Dear Miss Manners, Semi-hypothetical situation: You're writing an e-mail to people you want to interview. You want to ask them about som...

Provided by the inimitable ERG: Gonna be all done When I'm forty-one. We'll see...

Bill Degenaro at the University of Michigan Dearborn has two posts up about working on his tenure portfolio. I'm hoping he says more a...

Looks interesting... “Re-visioning English Studies in Asia” The English Language and Literature Association of Korea International Conferenc...

First, a Christmas gift from my brother and sister-in-law: The Ugly American by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick (1958) Read it before, b...