Month: August 2024
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Weekly Wanderings: August 25, 2024
At 4:00pm this past Friday, I shut down the computer in my office at the Association for Asian Studies and officially started a month-long sabbatical. I like my job very much—I’m fortunate to have found a position that keeps me tied in to academia while also devoting my days to reading, writing, and editing. After…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 18, 2024
Recommendations China Stories Jude Blanchette, “China Is in Denial About the War in Ukraine” Keith Bradsher, “How China Built Tech Prowess: Chemistry Classes and Research Labs” Tang spent eight years in Taiwan’s government (the last two as the world’s first minister of digital affairs), putting her theory into practice – and it has worked, from…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 11, 2024
Recommendations China Stories Mr. Hu has not explained his silence; nor have China’s internet authorities. But many in China think he has been censored, pointing to signs that party officials may have been irked — paradoxically — because Mr. Hu lauded them in the wrong way. In China, even misplaced praise for the party may…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 4, 2024
Happy August, and thanks for reading. Recommendations China Stories James T. Areddy and Chun Han Wong, “Kamala Harris’s Record Offers Only Hints of a China Worldview” Migratory grief stems from the losses experienced when one moves away from home. These span both the physical and the intangible, which makes the grief a complicated process. The…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 