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I was going to post a thoughtful note on George H. Kerr's perspective on the April 24, 1970 assassination attempt on Chiang Ching-kuo, b...

This is the term I came up with this morning to describe how I lurch from one anger-inducing news story to another about the intersection of...

My son has gotten into writing books now. His writing looks like a flock of birds, and he glues the pages together so they form sort of a lo...

Yesterday a big storm came through, with heavy rain and strong winds that tossed branches around the yard and even cut out our power for abo...

... for this semester, anyway. This week is the last week of classes, and I'm finishing up reading drafts of Travel Writing portfolios r...

I'm supposed to be working on my never-ending (never-beginning?) Kerr paper right now, but I'm going to take a break to transcribe a...

I came across Michael Berry in his response to a position paper by Shu-mei Shih about " Linking Taiwan Studies with the World " (f...

[Update, 10:48 p.m. Well, this doesn't make any sense, probably  because I've been feeling tired and dizzy all day. The "parall...

I feel like Mr. Scott. Getting some reading done. Currently reading through some articles from the International Journal of Taiwan Studie...

Since the Association of Asian Studies conference this year was cancelled, I took advantage of the University of Hawai'i Press Asian Stu...

I started this blog 16 years ago tonight with the rather bland line, " We live in interesting times in Taiwan ." Sixteen years a...

I've been getting frustrated with how the US media has been generally ignoring Taiwan's management of the coronavirus, especially in...

Not quite sure what to do with this information yet, but here's a reference to Grajdanzev about when he was in China. I'd love to kn...

Around the time I started posting about Andrew Grajdanzev, I bought a relatively inexpensive copy of his 1942 book, Formosa Today , on Amazo...

Happened this morning upon a TV show called Asian Focus  that's on Sunday mornings at 7:00 (why so early on a Sunday morning??). There w...

An update on Grajdanzev's presence in the McCarran IPR hearings . I missed a few spots where he was discussed more in testimony by Owen...

Here together are links to the books by Grajdanzev that are available online, since print versions are usually expensive (or undependable if...

Came across a couple of references to Andrew Grajdanzev in Eiji TAKEMAE's The Allied Occupation of Japan  (translated and adapted from t...

OK, that was a terrible title. It just struck me, though, that the other day I posted something about a petition to support Taiwan's par...

I just signed this . I don't know if it will lead to any action on the part of the US government, but it's worth a try: Taiwan own...