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My father passed away two months ago, so this was my first Father's Day without him here. I was looking around for pictures of him with ...

Wang, Chi-ming. " Writing across the Pacific: Chinese Student Writing, Reflexive Poetics, and Transpacific Modernity ." Amerasia J...

A particularly poignant part of Vern Sneider's novel A Pail of Oysters occurs when the American journalist Ralph Barton, aided by the K...

I have been keeping a journal on my computer(s) for about 10 years; I started it in the context of trying to work on my dissertation, and I ...

Since I turned in my grades on May 2, I've been trying to get started on some writing projects for the summer. I'm not teaching this...

I've been writing about the assignments that I tried out this past semester in ENGW 1102, our writing program's first year writing c...

Just a note to mention that A Pail of Oysters is now available for pre-ordering in paperback. You can pre-order it at the Camphor Press we...

A while back, I started writing about my approach this (past) semester to a first-year writing class for multilingual (mostly international)...

The University of Hawai'i Press had an online book sale (in fact, it ends at midnight tonight, so get over there!), so I bought three b...

Lin, Hsiao-ting. Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2016. I asked my ...

Ong, Iok-tek. Taiwan: A History of Agonies . Trans. Shimamura Yasuharu. Ed. Ong Meiri. Taipei: Avanguard, 2015. I probably won't get a...

Just found out today that as of the next academic year (2016-2017), I'll be a Senior Lecturer. As I told a colleague, this mainly means ...

Not sure any of my students read this blog, but anyway... I am catching up on reading the reflective journals that my 1102 (First-Year Wri...

I was interviewed last week for a program on ICRT (International Community Radio Taipei) called "Taiwan Talk." The subject was Ver...

This paper, entitled " The Location of Chinese Culture: The Rhetoric of Chineseness in Post-World War Two Taiwan " (I really hate ...

Judging from the picture, though, I seem happy about it... There's a certain irony to the fact that at the end of the week that I de...

I mentioned in a recent comment to a previous post on A Pail of Oysters that a new edition would be coming out soon. It's out now in e...

I uploaded to Academia.edu a copy of a paper that I presented back in February of 2004 (wow--that actually predates this blog!). The title i...

Before this semester, the last time I taught a section of first-year writing was in the summer of 2014 (hmmm... not that long ago...). I...

It's just a preface, and it's basically the same text that I posted here , but I recommend the book because it has a lot of great m...