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I'm not sure they'd appreciate this being called a webinar, though. My latest virtual learning opportunity will be via the 2020 Taiw...

I wonder what bloggers do (or are supposed to do) when the links from old posts get broken. I mentioned a couple of posts from seven years a...

I found some more letters by Antenna on the 國史館 website. I'm just going to transcribe one letter from August 31, 1949 , though, because ...

Remember the old Leonard Nimoy-hosted In Search of. ..  shows? (The link will take you to one on astrology--just in time for the upcoming fu...

One thing that I've been thinking about recently, first with the COVID-19 pandemic and then with the demonstrations for racial equality ...

I started watching The Warped Ones  on Turner Classic Movies tonight. I couldn't sit through the whole thing, but I did get curious abou...

Wow--how did it get to June 16 already? I listened to that webinar on COVID-19 in Taiwan on June 2. I'm not sure if anyone was waitin...

If you are looking for a copy of Richard C. Bush's 2006 book, Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait , if you hurry you can...

I'm hoping to "attend" this webinar next Tuesday: 6/1/20: UPDATE FROM THE FAIRBANK CENTER: AVAILABLE ON ZOOM. CLICK HERE T...

My wife told me this afternoon that our upstairs felt like a 三溫暖 ( sān wēnnuǎn ; sauna), and that got me thinking about the origins of this ...

I saw that  ｢ 不老騎士：歐兜邁環台日記 ｣   Go Grandriders (2012) was on Kanopy and asked our school library to order it. I'm thinking of using it i...

So I decided that instead of feeding my rage over what's going on currently, I'd give myself a chance to rage about the past. I just...

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...