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University of Hawai'i Press has a clearance sale going, so I bought two books--I think they were a dollar each: Ideogram: Chinese Chara...

Not much to say about these yet because I'm still buried in reading student work, last semester's "sabbatical" a distant b...

Think I'll watch this when I get a chance. I tried to get my son the train fanatic to watch this with me, but he lost interest because I...

Despite everything, this is why I stay on Twitter (or whatever they're calling it these days). I saw a link to this 1936 short film: 台中州...

Books read since the end of last spring semester (links are to my posts on the books--I didn't post on everything I read): Hsin-I Cheng ...

This afternoon, I went to the neighborhood 7-Eleven and picked up a book I ordered yesterday from the 博客來  website: it's called 《 島國知音：台...

We took a short trip to Taiwan during winter break, and though most of our time was spent visiting family and friends after not having been ...

I was about to email Mark Mancall to ask him a question about George Kerr, but I was saddened to find out that he passed away  in 2020. Dr. ...

Hsin-i Sydney Yueh, Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan: A Sajiao Generation . Lexington Books, 2017. A while back (OK, it was o...

I mentioned this book in a previous post as a "future book" in my library, and now it has arrived.  Wendy Cheng, Island X: Taiwan...

This is another video I want to watch. Prof. Chatani has done some really interesting historical work on youth and emotions in modern East A...

As I mourn the waning days of my "sabbatical" and the feeling that I haven't achieved as much as I should, I'm distracting...

I love to run into these kinds of puzzles, but this one has me stumped. I came across a letter written by John H. Falge from The China Tiffi...

I think the last time I really thought about National Academic Writing Month was back in 2016 . As I said back then, I didn't think Nove...

Shimabukuro, Mira. Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration . University Press of Colorado, 2015.  I r...

朱宥勳 (Chu Yu-hsun). 【他們沒在寫小說的時候：戒嚴台灣小說家群像】 When They Were Not Writing Novels: Portraits of Novelists from Taiwan Under Martial Law . 2nd. ed....

I noticed that I haven't posted anything yet this month, so I thought I should let my reader know that I'm still working on the proj...

A-chin Hsiau,  Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, Nationalism . Columbia University Press, 2021. It's tak...

Was going to do some writing on my paper this morning, but instead read a chapter from When They Were Not Writing Novels (【 他們沒在寫小說的時候 】). ...

Just got a few books in the mail: Mira Shimabukuro, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration 朱宥勳, 【 他們...