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Weekly Wanderings: April 22, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories James T. Areddy, “The China Foe Storming State Capitols” Ben Bland, “Making sense of China-Southeast Asia relations” Jonathan Chatwin, “The Race to Type in Chinese” Chang Che, “‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’” and “3 takeaways from my visit to Yiwu, the frontlines of the trade…
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Weekly Wanderings: April 13, 2025
Good morning and happy Sunday from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I’ve spent the last few days. The centerpiece of my trip was yesterday’s Milwaukee Half Marathon, but I seized the opportunity to work in some extra time in another new-to-me city. I’ve eaten some really good food (though no cheese curds; not yet, at least), toured…
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Weekly Wanderings: April 6, 2025
Today marks the launch of National Library Week. It’s probably not a surprise that I love libraries: how else could I ever afford to support my reading habit? Each time I’ve moved to a new place, getting a new library card is one of the first things I do to get settled. Even when I’m…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 30, 2025
Baseball is back! Amid a constant deluge of news about the Trump Administration’s infuriating decisions, anxiety-producing moves, and ridiculous justifications for both (see links below for all of the above), I’m making space in my schedule for Phillies games and holding on to the hope that this is the year they manage a World Series…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 23, 2025
Good morning from Chicago, where I’m at least 50% less frazzled and 150% more rested than I was when I last sat down to write a post intro. My brother and I have spent several days walking around the city, taking tours, and eating one good meal after another. Our hotel is in Little Italy,…
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(Mid-)Weekly Wanderings: March 19, 2025
I should have known that there was no way I’d get a Sunday post done just as the AAS Annual Conference was wrapping up, but I persisted in that belief nonetheless. And then it was going to be for Monday … then Tuesday … and now, here I am, writing this on a train to…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 9, 2025
We’ve once again arrived at my least favorite Sunday of the year: the start of Daylight Savings Time. I hate losing an hour—yes, I know I’ll get it back in the fall, but I need that hour TODAY. I especially need it because this upcoming week is AAS Annual Conference week, meaning my colleagues and…
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Wanderings: New Orleans
I’ve been sitting on photos from my trip to New Orleans since January and realized that Mardi Gras would be the perfect day to post them. Laissez les bon temps rouler. I stayed in a hotel in the Central Business District, east of Canal Street, which meant that I was only a 10-minute walk from…
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On View: Post No Bills
A small exhibit of artwork by Burhan Doğançay (1929-2013) has just opened at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. “Post No Bills: Burhan Doğançay’s Archive of Urban Protest” includes several of Doğançay’s collages, which were inspired when he looked at a wall in New York while serving there as a Turkish diplomat in 1962.…
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Weekly Wanderings: March 2, 2025
March! Where did you come from?!? Thanks for joining me this week. New Goodreads Review Recommendations China Stories Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, and Zachary Cohen, “US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say” Choe Sang-Hun and Muktita Suhartono, “On Chinese Tuna Boats, North Koreans Trawl for Cash…
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 