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It's 1 o'clock on an Easter morning (does 1 a.m. count as part of Easter morning?), and I'm in the middle of grading, but I was ...

I just sent off my revision of my paper on the "pre-life" of George H. Kerr's Formosa Betrayed . The editor might require more...

I know I said the other day I wouldn't be blogging for some time, but I was inspired by an AI training session last night to test out Cl...

My contributions (?) to this blog are going to slow down in the coming months, I'm afraid. I'm looking forward to heavy grading the ...

From Taiwan Plus

I dithered about for a while thinking about what I should read after finishing Studying Taiwan Before Taiwan Studies , but I settled on Davi...

This is my 901st published post. Only took me 21 years (as of March 20)!  I've been experiencing a slowdown this month. I've had an ...

Something else to watch when I have time (if and when that time comes):

New Books Network has a great interview with Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison about their book, Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhoo...

Studying Taiwan before Taiwan Studies: American Anthropologists in Cold War Taiwan  was a relatively easy book to read, as most oral histori...

I see that the U of Washington Taiwan Studies Program has posted some videos of its "Pioneering Taiwan Studies" workshop from las...

From Nov., 2024: Presented at the University of Washington:  The recent publication of Studying Taiwan before Taiwan Studies: American Anthr...

I just finished reading Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang's The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan . I can...

I just noticed that an interview I did with Keith Menconi for an ICRT podcast almost 10 years ago about Vern Sneider's A Pail of Oysters...

As I sort of predicted in my last post , my book-reading has hit the wall. Part of it is that my workload has gone up now that we're int...

I'm happy that I've managed to finish reading four books so far this year, but I think my reading pace is going to slow down now tha...

I finished reading Lin King's translation of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's Taiwan Travelogue this morning. I enjoyed the novel a lot, including ...

Just finished my third book of the year--Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison's Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing W...

I have two on-ground classes tomorrow--two sections of "Advanced Writing in the Business Administration Professions." I have been ...

I enjoyed reading Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan , by Jonathan Clements. I realize it's a general history for people who...