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Researching health misinformation and digital literacy in the interdisciplinary Harvard Yenching Institute

I felt honored to have been awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant (2022-August) to visit the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Having received my Ph.D. in the U.S. many years ago, I am very glad to return once again as a Harvard visiting scholar in Boston. It is also a privilege to be selected as the visiting scholar of Harvard Yenching Institute (HYI), a prestigious foundation founded in 1928 and dedicated to advancing Asian higher education by cultivating excellent scholars in humanities and social sciences.

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A Rewarding Experience in Taiwan

The central focus of my research in Taiwan is character teaching. The Chinese writing system presents the “highest contrast” to alphabetic languages,

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British Art History in the US: My Time at Yale

I received the 2022/23 Fulbright Senior Research Grant and visited the Department of the History of Art at Yale University between February and August 2023 (see the cover photo where I am in front of the departmental building).

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波士頓學術研究與文化體驗

沒想到我真的有機會使用到這個開場白,真心感謝Fulbright提供這一年的研究資助,讓我在專業領域與文化生活,增加許多新的體驗並豐富我的人生閱歷。

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臺灣人號稱美國三大佛教學校,我來到普渡(Purdue)大學朝聖了!

非常榮幸能獲得2022-2023 Fulbright Senior Research Grants (傅爾布萊特資深學者研究獎助金)的支持,前往美國Indiana 州West Lafayette城市的Purdue University進行國際合作交流與美式生活體驗。此次搭乘的飛機為長榮航空,到達Chicago的O’Hare Airport (Terminal 5) 時為4/24的晚上九點,因為太晚,所以先入住附近的Holiday Inn Chicago – Elk Grove 飯店,進行自我防疫隔離,兩天後(4/26)再到交通車程約兩個多小時的Purdue University 報到,並調整時差。
本次計畫前往Purdue University的Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business (之前叫做Krannert School of Management) 的目的,主要是與Jen Tang (唐正)教授討論相關研究的議題。

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做照顧、做家庭:台裔美人與母國年邁父母以資訊和通信科技為媒介的照顧交換

本研究從移民與他們留守家庭的觀點,探討跨國家庭的照顧交換,這尚未受到相關文獻大量的關注。過去的幾十年間,遷移的女性化現象增進學界對於移民家庭的研究。Bryceson和Vuorela(2002)提出跨國家庭的概念,以涵蓋移民和非移民家庭成員。儘管存在地理距離,跨國家庭成員可以維持他們的關係,並創造集體的幸福感和共存感(Baldassar, 2008)。

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