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My review of Resistance in the Era of Nationalisms: Performing Identities in Taiwan and Hong Kong , edited by Hsin-I Cheng and Hsin-i Sydney...

Back in August, I wrote up a few new year's resolutions for the 2024-2025 academic year. In the past, I've usually written them up ...

Back in August, I wrote about my plans for the new course I was going to be teaching, " Rhetorics in Contact ." Now that the cours...

 I need to watch this at some point (when I have 3 hours to spare!):

I just joined Bluesky for some reason. I'd like to find people who are interested in talking about comparative rhetoric and books about ...

They don't all apply, but they're food for thought: " One thing a lot of Democrats are thinking about these days " (11/7/0...

For some reason, I didn't notice the overlap between the themes of the two books I wrote about --even though they're right in the ti...

I just finished reading Anru Lee's Haunted Modernities , which was a fascinating study of the intersections of memory, feminism, women...

Need to watch this video sometime. I don't know if it's my computer or their set-up, but the audio is terrible. [Update 10/31/24: U...

Just picked up (well, was sent) a new book from the University of Washington Press on the CIA and the Asia Foundation, a Cold War-era nonpro...

I just got my copy of Kim Liao's Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence , which came into print (or "drop...

I'm happy to announce that I've chosen the first book that I'll be reading on the train to school, starting on Tuesday (I'm ...

We're just a few days away from the beginning of the semester, and I've been feverishly working at getting my new "Rhetorics in...

I haven't done this for a few years (I think the last time was 2021 ), but it's not necessarily a bad idea to write down a few thing...

My review of Stephen J. Hartnett's book , A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War , is out in the ...

Christina Yi, Andre Haag, and Catherine Ryu, eds.  Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asia...

I've been hearing a lot lately from friends and relatives about various age-related or partially age-related health problems they're...

Got back from a short trip to find these two books that I ordered from 博客來 books : 移工築起的地下社會：跨國勞動在臺灣 ( Underground Lives: Stories Untold fo...

This was produced in 2020, but I didn't see it back then. It's pretty interesting. I learned a bit more about higher education durin...

This week I was supposed to be attending (and presenting at!) the 2024 North American Taiwan Studies Association conference in NYC, but I bo...