外 not

Next Wednesday (9/3) will be the first day of classes, and marks the beginning of my fourth year teaching at Northeastern University. Time f...

王乾任: " 尊修辭而輕思辨的美文寫作教育，害死台灣 " I do agree with this comment from him: "寫作是專門技能，國文老師一定會教寫作的假設，其實很奇怪，卻少有人會質疑--something I'm...

I'm still working on the grant proposal. And questioning myself every step along the way. And skimming library search results and Google...

I've got a grant application due soon that I've been half-(w)racking my brain over and half-avoiding, and I came across this post t...

Liked this one when the former native Chinese speaker (why do I still call her that?) told it to me long ago. This version is updated to 20...

This is an old joke that people more educated about US-China relations than I am probably all know, but I got a kick out of it. In a review ...

(I'm not sure why I'm still calling myself "the former native speaker...") The National Geographic Magazine , January 19...

Here's a poem I wrote about Uncle Erich back in 1985 after I spent a summer in Allentown living with the Salomons and working at Salomon...

Here's a picture of Uncle Erich (right), Aunt Lucy (with whom he recently celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary), and their son Eric...

So after coming up with this cool (well, at least in my view it's cool) new title for my blog, unfortunately I haven't made much us...

http://www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/events/18jun2014-roundtable-on-taiwans-sunflower-social-movement-causes-strategies-consequences-and-comp...

http://blog.kaishao.idv.tw/?p=592

" A Buried History of Taiwan "

Joseph W. Ballantine, Formosa: A Problem for United States Foreign Policy . Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1952. From the inside...

One of the projects that I've been working on for the past couple of years has been related to George H. Kerr's writings about Taiwa...

This was a public statement that Governor-General Chen Yi ( 陳儀) made as the killings were going on after March 8, 1947: Brethren of Taiwa...

As I'm writing this, students in Taiwan are occupying the Legislative Yuan , the parliament in Taiwan, to protest the ruling party's...

full name / name of organization:   Center for Cross-cultural Studies of National Chengchi University, Taiwan contact email:   ...

Ronald Fuentes, "Benefits and Costs of Exercising Agency: A Case Study of an English Learner Navigating a Four-Year University." L...

Kanno, Yasuko, and Linda Harklau, eds. Linguistic Minority Students Go to College: Preparation, Access, and Persistence . NY: Routledge, 201...