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I got back last Saturday from Yokohama, where I had a great experience talking to a small but very interested audience about George H. Kerr,...

I came across this video in my search for more information about WUFI, the World United Formosans for Independence organization. Unlike some...

I've been invited to talk at the Center for Asian Studies at Kanagawa University in Yokohama about my research on George H. Kerr. My le...

A lot has happened since I typed out these words .   A Pennsylvania Dutch proverb that I often heard as a child goes, "Ve git too soon ...

I saw an ad for this Fareed Zakaria special on Taiwan, but I wasn't able to see it when it was on CNN, so I'm recording it and will ...

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...