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A few thoughts about Grajdanzev's "virtual" presence in the IPR hearings and comments on his scholarly abilities that came out...

When I was working on the previous post about Andrew Grad/Grajdanzev , I also wrote to Frank Joseph Shulman of the University of Maryland wh...

I've been skimming through William L. Holland's Remembering the Institute of Pacific Relations: The Memoirs of William L. Holland  f...

Steven Vertovec, “Super-diversity as concept and approach: whence it came, where it’s at, and whither it’s going”

" Three new essays on the Chinese script and a new twist to the old problem of censorship in Chinese studies "

This is a little old, but I teach an interdisciplinary writing course, and this semester there have been quite a few computer scientists who...

Got this interesting email today. Dear Jonathan,  You may not remember me but I am a former student of yours. I always loved your class...

Deng Xiaoping overlooking Shenzen, China, 1993 I took this picture in Shenzhen back in February, 1993--my first and only trip to China...

You can apply through the NU HR portal:  https://neu. peopleadmin.com/postings/59696 The English Department Writing Program of Northeas...

I've been skimming around in the online volumes from the hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Inter...

Davidson, James W. The Island of Formosa, Past and Present . 1903. Taipei: Southern Materials Center, 2008. This is a beautifully produ...

The 2018 edition of George H. Kerr's Formosa Betrayed , published by Camphor Press , is now available: Formosa Betrayed  is a detailed...

I started this post back in October, but haven't gotten around to publishing it until now, at the end of the semester. I should note tha...

My four-year-old, looking at a black and white picture of people: Blackberries, strawberries, blueberries. They lost their colors. Without...

This comes from a history of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Taiwan Regional Office that Edward Paine, R...

From the George H. Kerr Papers, Okinawa Prefectural Archives (GHK4A01006) MEMORANDUM 13 July 1986 G.H.Kerr’s Wartime and Postwar As...

Yesterday we took a trip to Lowell, Massachusetts to visit some historical sites there (my father would have been proud...). We went to the ...

I posted some new academic year's resolutions a couple of Septembers ago , imitating something I had done 10 years before that . One t...

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...