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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Rebecca Wragg Sykes on Neanderthals

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This is a topic that I know absolutely nothing about, so I'm not sure why this article, " Sheanderthal ," was pushed to me. (M...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Wenchang Jun Figurine (文昌君公仔)

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In last semester's Travel Writing class, I asked students to write about a "souvenir" that they had acquired (or hoped to acqu...
Friday, January 08, 2021

"Interesting times" redux

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A Twitter posting from Ketagalan Media ( why oh why  am I still looking at Twitter postings?) reminded me that I started this blog almost 1...
Friday, January 01, 2021

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 Nope.
Thursday, December 31, 2020

End of 2020

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It's the end of 2020, but I can't say I have a lot of hope for 2021. Despite having some vaccines, COVID-19 is still raging--particu...
Monday, December 21, 2020

End of the semester

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Turned in my grades last night, wrote up some final emails, filled out a couple of surveys that were sitting in my inbox, and now have until...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Stephen J. Hartnett, et al., "Postcolonial Remembering in Taiwan: 228 and Transitional Justice as 'The End of Fear'"

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Number six in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Hartnett, S. J., Dodge, P. S.-W....
Monday, November 02, 2020

Company

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 We had a visitor on Saturday...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Lev Nachman on studying Taiwan from a disciplinary perspective

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I'm listening to a podcast of  an interview with Lev Nachman, a PhD candidate in political science at UC Irvine, and it's reminding...
Friday, October 02, 2020

Hsin-i Sydney Yueh, "Beyond Cultural China: The Representation of Taiwan in US-based Speech Communication and Journalism Research"

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Number five in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Yueh, H.-i. S. (2020). Beyond C...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

"Confronting Disinformation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang"

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I'm drowning in work right now, plus having to monitor my son's remote schooling. (Though I have to admit watching his teacher at wo...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Some articles on racism in Taiwan on Taiwan Insight

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I see that Isabelle Cheng (author of the article I summarized here ) has written an article for Taiwan Insight  about her research about mig...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

New year's resolutions for the 2020-2021 academic year

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Just noticed my resolutions from last year --that seems like it was a century ago. Not sure I achieved any of the goals I had set for last y...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Isabelle Cheng, "We want productive workers, not fertile women: The expediency of employing Southeast Asian caregivers in Taiwan"

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Number four in  an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Cheng, I. (2020). We want produ...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Hsin-I Cheng, "Relational citizenship: Examining Taiwanese membership development through immigrant framing in public discourses"

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Number three in an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Cheng, H.-I. (2018) Relational ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Interview of Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang on PRI's "The World"

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Marco Werman from PRI's radio program The World  interviewed Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang today about her role and, more g...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Todd L. Sandel, "Communication Modes, Taiwanese"

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Number two in an occasional series of summaries of articles related to communication practices in Taiwan . Sandel, T. L. (2017). Communicati...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

Jan Blommaert's blog

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I'm very late coming to this, especially considering Jan Blommaert has announced that he has been diagnosed with stage-four cancer, but ...
Saturday, August 08, 2020

More on the Norwood meteor

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I wanted to say more about what I found about the Norwood meteor story that I came across last night.  I did a little research-Googling and...

Some sources about Norwood, MA

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I'm preparing for the fall semester--I'll be teaching two sections of First-Year Writing for Multilingual Students and one section o...