Month: June 2023
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Weekly Wanderings: June 24, 2023
Lots of self-promotion and work talk this week, but sometimes a bunch of things come together at once … Greetings from Daegu, Korea, where I’m working at the 2023 AAS-in-Asia conference, co-hosted by the Association for Asian Studies (my employer) and Kyungpook National University. For the past few months, every time I told someone from…
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Weekly Wanderings: June 10, 2023
The theme for this week’s collection of links is summer. Readers who follow me on Instagram have probably noticed that between April and October, most of my weekends involve 5K, 10K, and even half-marathon races. This is a relatively new activity of mine; as I wrote several years ago (in a post that still reliably…
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June Fourth
“Just another day.” For thirty-four years, June Fourth has not been just another day for those in China who remember the protests of 1989 and mourn those whose lives were ended or irrevocably changed in the violent crackdown that ended them. Nor is June Fourth just another day for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): it’s…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 