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The spring semester is over here--and just in time, as a hay fever-driven lethargy has overtaken me, making it hard for me to concentrate on...

Yesterday, I attended the "Taiwan Studies+ 2.0" international symposium at Harvard. I found all of the presentations really fascin...

A couple of updates about the George Kerr biography: We have a publisher! (I'm not going to reveal the details yet, though. I'm not ...

Julien Oeuillet, who moderates the "Taiwan vs. the World" program on Radio Taiwan International, interviewed me for an episode ab...

I'm so far behind in posting this that the Formosa Files folks have already posted two new podcasts since my interview! But in case you...

Spring break is almost over for me, and if I had one, my to-do list would still be full. I didn't clean my study. I didn't finish th...

I'm working on an application for a Humanities Center fellowship right now--here's their blurb about it: 2026-2027 Theme: Revolution...

Besides grading, I'm avoiding three things that all would be good for me. One is doing some stretching (or even physical therapy) for my...

It occurred to me this morning to change the name of my offline journal, which I've been keeping for the better part of 20 years. Right ...

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...