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Call for Papers Matters of State: Bildung and Literary-Intellectual Discourse in the Nineteenth Century Leuven University, April 23-25 2009 ...

The former native Chinese speaker pointed out this article to me in the China Times that mentions a few interesting things about work perm...

I just finished judging a debate contest in which students from the Composition and Oral Practice I classes at Tunghai (first-year English m...

Here are some pictures we took of the Central Mountain Range on Sunday. They were taken from the fifth floor of the Humanities building at T...

The weather cleared up a bit yesterday, so the former native Chinese speaker and I took a trip to Hemei in Changhua to look at the Daodong T...

I've been getting my picture taken a lot lately, not because of my killer good looks (though I'm sure that's one reason) , but b...

Mmmm.... good... Nothing like homemade zongzi ...

I'm evidently quite confused... What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03) created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Utilitarianism Your life...

Tamkang International Conference on Second Language Writing: Issues and Concerns Call for Abstracts: Writing as one of the fundamental langu...

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...