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A couple days ago I finally completed a draft of my introduction to a forthcoming new edition of Formosa Betrayed  and sent it to the editor...

In Chapter 7 of Formosa Betrayed , George Kerr writes about two reports he sent to the US Embassy in Nanking: Late in the year I sent alon...

I happened to watch the following video today and was interested to hear how the Democratic Progressive Party was involved in the 1987 move...

Haven't written anything here for a few months. Unfortunately, I don't have time to write much now, either. But I got three books in...

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...