Category: Baseball
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Weekly Wanderings: July 31, 2024
Sometimes … well, sometimes a week is more like 10 days, which feel like a month. Can’t explain it, time works in mysterious ways. Thanks for reading. Recent Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories David Bandurski, “Xi’s Ten-Year Bid to Remake China’s Media” Cate Cadell, Nick Miroff, and Li Qiang, “Walk the Line: Chinese migration surge…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 7, 2024
Greetings from Jakarta! I am in Indonesia for the briefest of long-haul trips—on the ground for six days, down to the hour—to work at the AAS-in-Asia conference this week. I arrived Saturday afternoon and will leave for the conference in Yogyakarta tomorrow morning, giving me one free day for some quick tourism. I walked around…
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Weekly Wanderings: June 23, 2024
Recommendations China Stories “From Xinjiang With Love: China Show Tries to Give Region a Rosier Image” James T. Areddy, “Mandarin Leaves a Manhattan Courtroom Lost in Translation” In some ways, “vigilantes” are the opposite of what their name suggests: rather than rogue agents meting out street justice, they are individuals deemed trustworthy by authorities, working…
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Weekly Wanderings: May 19, 2024
Recent Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories Gordon Corera, “The escaped dissident still pursued decades on by China”Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin, “Lai Ching-te, the political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency” The truth of whether the Wangs were small-time innkeepers or a secret weapon in Beijing’s decadelong effort to…
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Weekly Wanderings: August 13, 2023
My knowledge of U.S. Presidents in the late 19th century is … a little shaky. If pressed, I could probably name all of the men who came between Grant and McKinley; no promises I’d have them in the correct order, though. The single thing I previously knew about James A. Garfield was that he served…
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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…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 