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The Island: A Personal Account of Taiwan’s Extraordinary Transformation , by Mark O’Neill (Earnshaw Books, 2023). OK, I said this wouldn...

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this--you spend hours, days, weeks, months... reading the archived correspondence of your biographic...

This was George H. Kerr's address for about 26 years of his life in Hawaii. Out of curiosity, I googled it and was happy to find photogr...

I'm really working up to the last minute on the GHK stuff. I just sent off some vignettes (?) about Kerr's work on a book about King...

From a memo from George Kerr to the University Press of Hawaii, concerning their edits to his bibliography for  Licensed Revolution. and thi...

My course materials are "published" ahead of time--classes start Wednesday, although I don't need to meet with in-person stude...

So after writing about my resolution yesterday, I stayed up until after 2:00 this morning working on my course materials for the new semeste...

I did this last year , I see, so I'm going to end the year with a note on my somewhat unambitious resolutions for the 2025-26 academic ...

Just finished reading Anna Beth Keim's Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao . I reall...

My article about the pre-life of Formosa Betrayed  has just come out. Here's the abstract if you don't feel like clicking on the lin...

Saw this on LinkedIn recently. Reminds me of the " exploratory essay " assignment I've been doing in First-Year Writing for th...

It's always tough to take time off for a vacation right before the end of the semester--we all tend to lose momentum as a result. On the...

The following is an essay that George Kerr was working on in the mid-1950s about his experiences teaching English in Taiwan. I found it in t...

A few days ago, I was noting on LinkedIn that the Grammarly ads I keep seeing there seem to substitute efficiency for learning. The "in...

I thought I'd write a little about my First-Year Writing classes in which we're exploring and writing about the university's a...

Last week I received the proof of my paper about George H. Kerr that will come out in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations  by the e...

Since professional development funds in my college have been cut by 80% and the new purchasing/reimbursement system is unnecessarily baroque...

This looks interesting...

My wife recommended this video to me. On my YouTube, there are English subtitles in addition to the Chinese subtitles. So even if you don...

This looks like a good short video for a future class I might work on (once I get everything else done)... This is a good video , too, altho...