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I have more to say about this book, but I'm going to start with a rough translation/paraphrase of the second chapter: Early on in 《 一個...

It has been a couple of weeks since we finished the " disciplinary linguistic landscape" assignment that I asked students in my s...

The claim that George H. Kerr was spying for the U.S. during his first period in Taiwan (1937-1940) has resurfaced, this time in a 2017 publ...

I started a post last month on the Taiwan Independence Movement, the assassination attempt on Chiang Ching-kuo, and George Kerr's reacti...

About seven years ago I wrote about some of the theories going around regarding what happened to George H. Kerr's Formosa Betrayed  afte...

As I might have mentioned, I'm teaching a summer course in interdisciplinary writing, beginning in June. I've taught this course bef...

In their introduction to Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa , editors Davinder L. Bhowmik and Steve Rabson argue that in t...

Earlier this evening (or yesterday evening, depending on when I finish this), I was talking with someone who mentioned a store on the corner...

Chang, Sung-sheng Yvonne, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, eds. The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan . NY: Columbia UP, 2014. It...

A few years ago, I read a 1965 spy novel about Taiwan entitled The Jing Affair , after reading a scholarly article about it written by Chih-...

It seems that I have added a new writing project to my list of things to do during the summer. I am going to be purposely vague about it at ...

This is a two-volume boxed set, published privately in 1966 by Felix Tardio while he was in Taiwan. The first volume, Mr. Tardio Sees...

(Terrible title, I know.) In Michael Turton's [no longer] recent post about questions historians have neglected to ask about Chiang Ka...

We had the last day of class yesterday, so I now have to get caught up on grading so that I can turn in final grades before the due date. Fo...

Nothing really to say right now--or rather, I should say that I have a lot to say, but no time to write. I hope to have a few things to add ...

My spring break is almost over--classes will start again on Monday. Ironically, perhaps, there's a possibility that we'll have a sno...

I've been thinking about the author's note for Vern Sneider's 1950 short story, "A Pail of Oysters," that was publishe...

This paper was presented in absentia at the 20th anniversary conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association , Madison, WI, US...