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Just a note here to let all of my reader know that I'm still around. I've been working on my book chapter drafts, trying to crank ou...

Need to watch this when I get a chance... Chia-Chiun Shih-Chen  (zh) is Shih Ming-teh's second wife (his widow). 

I've already written a bit about this book here and here , so I won't say much about it here. I'll just note that, yes, the las...

Just a few days left with the two (!) Summer 1 courses I'm teaching. Although these are pretty intensive, cramming 14 weeks worth of wor...

Leonard Blusse and Natalie Everts, eds. The Formosan Encounter: Notes on Formosa’s Aboriginal Society, A Selection of Documents from Dutch A...

 

I wrote a post last month about prompting Claude for sources on a topic, getting fabricated sources, asking Claude why it fabricated source...

Christopher Joby, Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices , Brill, 2025. This ...

I'm trying to get some books with my professional development money before the fiscal year is over. No big trips abroad to give presenta...

James Lin's new book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan , is available now for purchase and f...

I've got tons of things that I should be doing right now (as usual), but on the way home from shopping, I caught some of this interview ...

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...