Category: feminism
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Weekly Wanderings: February 23, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. New Goodreads Reviews Recommendations China Stories Eliot Chen, “DOGE’s Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP” Michelle Kuo, “Found in Translation” Grace Marion, “In Taiwan, a Growing Cohort of ‘Preppers’ Readies Itself for an Uncertain Future” Dalia Parete, “Feminists Without Borders” — interview with Jinyan Zeng,…
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Weekly Wanderings: December 17, 2023
I’m sure there’s some mathematical concept that can explain why I’ll request five books from the library over a three-month span, only to see all five become available to me within the same week. Overnight, it seems, I find myself checking out an arm-full of books, all in great demand, with only 21 days before…
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Weekly Wanderings: November 12, 2023
On Monday night I was scrolling through Bluesky when a post from Jeremy Goldkorn caught my eye: The China Project (founded in 2016 as SupChina), a leading digital magazine and media organization in the China world, would be closing up shop—effective, it seemed, more or less immediately. An announcement at the site explained that a…
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Weekly Wanderings: October 8, 2023
About a year after I moved to Michigan, one of my co-workers—who must have noticed that I spent nearly every lunch hour reading—invited me to join her book club. She hastened to add, though, that the book club actually didn’t ever meet, nor did its members ever discuss the books they read. A veteran of…
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Weekly Wanderings: October 1, 2023
No commentary and only a few recommendations from me today because for the past week I’ve been mostly occupied with preparing for and then attending the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. It’s been years since I’ve written and presented a conference paper based on original research, and happily I haven’t forgotten how to do so—but…
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Screen: Angels Wear White
Pouring cups of tea and speaking in the practiced staccato common to tour guides and salespeople across China, a young woman wearing a nurse’s uniform outlines the advantages of hymen-reconstruction surgery. Lily, a newly single hotel receptionist in her early twenties, listens nervously. The nurse ends her pitch with the assurance that Lily will find…
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Weekly Wanderings: Give Me My Hour Back Edition
• Like nearly every other American commenting on the internet today, I hate the switch to Daylight Savings Time. There’s nothing more discouraging than waking up after getting a normal amount of sleep yet finding that it’s an hour later than it should be and I’m therefore already running behind. I need that hour. Not…
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Weekly Wanderings: September 30, 2016
▪ As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan; were it not for the condo regulations in my development, I’d definitely have a 13-foot-high inflatable Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man on my front lawn for the next month. My brother assures me that my still furniture-free living room is large enough to accommodate him, but I…
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Bookshelf: All the Single Ladies
By the time I finished reading the introduction to journalist Rebecca Traister’s new tour de force, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, I had highlighted so much that I started to wonder if highlighting was a meaningless activity. Every paragraph offered something I wanted to remember and return…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 