This year, in addition to teaching American philosophy in Taiwan, I have been researching John Dewey’s visit to China from 1919-1921. The facts
For my Fulbright grant I chose a topic of immense richness: the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. What I found exceeded my every expectation. I have
My research as a Fulbright grantee at Harvard University concerns the appropriation of political terminology from the West in late Qing and Republican China. Here
I do a lot of reading; it’s part of my job description as a graduate student. I read all types of works: newspaper
The heat of the day had receded as we walked into the shrine after ‘isha, the final evening prayers. The marble ground felt cool
An important skill that I have adopted for living overseas in a different culture is shifting my frame of reference to accommodate new
In this two-part essay, I survey two important academic lineages in Taiwan and their contributions to the study of Chinese Buddhist poetry. In
Chinese Buddhist poetry and literature remains largely unstudied in Western academia. The study of Buddhist poetry requires facility with the disparate fields of
This research period, so far, has been a fruitful one, thanks to the generous support of the Fulbright Taiwan Foundation for Scholarly Exchange.
“If they won’t go on the boats, then we’ll just go fishing, go far oceaning, ourselves!” says the wife of a member
