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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 40 No. 1 | March 2014 Guest Editors: John Rodden & Henk Vynckier Deadline for Sub...

A while back, I came across the name of John Caldwell in reference to Vern Sneider's A Pail of Oysters . As I wrote then , Caldwell, who...

  " Advocacy and the informed outsider " (DJ Hatfield, Savage Minds, 2012) " Westerners on White Horses " (Nicholas Kr...

Little did I know when I was writing posts on this popular theme that they would culminate in a trip to this historic site: Home o...

On our most recent trip to my parents', we saw a few pictures that my late uncle took when he was stationed in South Korea during the Ko...

Just noticed today that 邱永漢 (Kyu Eikan) died back in May. Here's an English-language obituary. He's known for having been a novelis...

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 39 No. 1 | March 2013 Special Issue Call for Papers “Documenting Asia Pacific” Guest E...

Sayaka Chatani's recent post mentioning the idea of running a history/critical thinking summer camp for high school students from Japan...

In the autumn of 2012, The Centre for Academic Writing at Coventry University will launch the first taught postgraduate programme in Academi...

我剛跟一個韓國學生聊天了(聊了天？)。她說她會講四種語言，以前覺得還不錯，可是來到東北大學以後認識了一些會講七種語言的同學!我覺得自己很糟糕，連一種外語也沒有學好......

我最近在想 ， 用第二個語言(或者第三,四,五個語言)寫作要經過多少翻譯 呢 ？ 像我 ，  為了寫我剛剛寫的句子 ， 必須先用英文想 ，  想到了以後開始慢慢地翻 ，  結果我寫到的中文句子跟我原來用英文想的句子不太一樣 。  這可能是因為我寫的時候 ，  忘記我本來在想甚麼 ...

( via ) Papers are invited for publication in a special issue entitled "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" -- edited by I-Chun ...

我們今天去看了兩間公寓.兩間都不錯,而且週邊生活機能完善.可是我覺得買房子是個很大的決定...

最近一直熬夜改學生的作文.("Portfolio"中文怎麼說?)還好明天不用上課,下禮拜因為感恩節只要上一天的課.

萬聖節還沒到 ， 怎麼會下雪？

非常抱歉 ， 最近因為要批改很多作文 ，所以 我 沒時間寫 部落格。

我們七月中從台灣運過 來的三十個箱子終於到了 ， 可是一當我看到其中兩個箱子被撕破了兩大片 ， 心裡就很緊張 。 一個箱子裝著電腦和銀幕 ， 另外一個裝著廚房用品 。 電腦中央處理機的外殼現在有一點凹進去的樣子 ， 銀幕後面被刮了一大痕 ， 可是電腦好像還可以用 。 我還不敢看第...

如果你/妳受不了看下面的菜中文，不要怪我，都是因為Paul Kei Matsuda前天在他的演講中叫我們用第二語言試寫一篇有關我們學生的文章。他大概要我們了解留學生每次用英文寫報告要面臨的挑戰。我寫了三句非常簡單的句子就放棄了。因為Paul這樣的提醒，我就決定用中文寫部落格。

I finally got to meet another of my dissertation interviewees in person last Thursday (6/23). Dr. Thomas B. Gold , who was an Oberlin rep to...

This won't make any sense if you don't know that in Chinese, "pork" is called "pig meat" (豬肉)... I won't m...