Category: Weekly Wanderings
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Weekly Wanderings: July 30, 2023
In recent weeks I’ve driven round-trip from Ann Arbor to both Grand Rapids and Cleveland, and I’m currently in Pittsburgh en route to Philadelphia, so I’ve had lots of time to catch up on podcasts while behind the wheel. Here are some highlights of my playlist during these road trips: Drum Tower, “The Cage,” a…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 23, 2023
I’m in Cleveland this weekend, hiking the trails of Cuyahoga Valley National Park (ahhhh) and watching the Phillies lose 1-0 to the Guardians (agggghhhh). I can say with reasonable certainty that I haven’t spotted Chinese Foreign Minister and Xi Jinping protégé Qin Gang in Ohio—so that’s one place where he isn’t. But where is Qin…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 16, 2023
Last weekend, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen traveled to China for a series of meetings. Among those Yellen talked with were a group of female economists and entrepreneurs, with whom she shared stories of being “almost the only woman in the room.” Unfortunately, the women who met with Yellen then became targets of an internet…
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Weekly Wanderings: July 9, 2023
The ongoing decimation of Twitter coincides with my own desire to get back into a regular writing practice, so I’ve been slowly reviving this blog. I’m making a minimal commitment here: a photo and short gloss on Wednesdays, and a “Weekly Wanderings” round-up of stories/thoughts/recommendations each Sunday morning. If and as I can, I’ll post…
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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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Weekly Wanderings: May 13, 2023
Yesterday marked 15 years since a deadly earthquake hit Sichuan Province, causing the deaths of at least 85,000 people and revealing widespread corruption in the local government and construction industries. I wrote about the Wenchuan Earthquake on its tenth anniversary in this post (which I revisited yesterday, checking all the links and updating them as…
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Weekly Wanderings: May 6, 2023
The ongoing decimation of Twitter coincides with my own desire to get back into a daily writing practice, so I’m reviving this blog. I’m making a minimal commitment here: a photo and short gloss on Mondays, and a “Weekly Wanderings” round-up of five stories/thoughts/recommendations each Saturday morning. If and as I can, I’ll post occasional…
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Weekly Wanderings: Still Wrapping Up 2018 Edition
■ I have a minor flurry (a squall?) of new pieces to share this week, as several things I wrote in late 2018 got published all at once: At Dissent Magazine (subscribe!), I have a long review essay about new books by Carl Minzner (End of an Era) and Elizabeth Economy (The Third Revolution) that…
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Weekly Wanderings: Away We Go Edition
• The “Weekend” alarm clock on my phone is set to go off at 7:00am (usually an ideal, not reality), but today my brain saw fit to nudge me awake at 5:30 in the morning. “Come on, get up, we have so much to do,” it whispered, bringing to the surface of my consciousness a…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 