The novel coronavirus has provided me with the time and recommended social isolation to return to a subject that has interested me from my boyhood days. Call me wacky, weird, or wonderful, but
Vol.107.1: AMERICAN JERKS
Normally, it’s the kind of flap that barely snares my attention. I first heard about it on NPR and then began seeing the book show up on some of the literary sites that I peruse as it got more
Vol.88.3: WITNESSES, a triple BR of: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF CHAIRMAN MAO, by Dr. Li Zhisui (1994); THE MAN WHO STAYED BEHIND, by Sidney Rittenberg (2001]); REGINALD JOHNSTON, by Shiona Airlie (2001)
The benediction “may you live in interesting times” is, of course, an ironic curse. But, so also would be that one should preside over tedious times.
Vol.103.5: AMERICA’S PTSD
Ken Burns’ 12-hour Vietnam documentary series is airing this week to great fanfare from PBS, as though the treatment of this controversial war might be finally put to bed by its treatment
Vol.101.2: THE LOST PAINTING, by Jonathan Harr (2006) BR
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ (1602) oil on canvas (52.6 in × 66.7 in) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Owing to my concentration
Vol.94.7: TEACHING ENGRISH IN ASIA, Part 3
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A Lesson in Guilin
I never taught English in China. In fact, other than a little shipboard course in travel writing I have never taught English anywhere. I doubt that a very brief experience in Guilin
Vol.94.6: TEACHING ENGRISH IN ASIA, Part 2
[Continued from 94. 2]
A multiple book review essay on:
- Iron and Silk (1987), Mark Salzman
- Twilight In the Forbidden City (Revised 4th Edition, 2009) Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2006) Peter Hessler
- Pretty Woman Spitting (2012), Leanna Adams
- Unsavory Characters, The Rather Eclectic Group That Are The English Teachers In China, Marc. C Rush (2010)
- Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries, Tim Anderson (2011)
- Without You There Is No Us, Suki Kim (2013)
- Surviving Paradise, Peter Rudiak-Gould (2009)
River Town’s broad scope and textual elegance contrasts with Marc. C Rush’s
Vol.94.2: TEACHING ENGRISH IN ASIA, Part 1
A multiple book review essay on:
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- Iron and Silk (1987), Mark Salzman
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- Twilight In the Forbidden City (Revised 4th Edition, 2009) Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
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- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2006) Peter Hessler
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- Unsavory Characters, The Rather Eclectic Group That Are The English Teachers In China, Marc. C Rush (2010)
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- Pretty Woman Spitting (2012), Leanna Adams
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- Without You There Is No Us, Suki Kim (2013)
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- Surviving Paradise, Peter Rudiak-Gould (2009)
- Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries, Tim Anderson (2011)
Jimmy, a former graduate student of mine from Bombay, occasionally writes to me about pedagogical matters from the college in China where he has been
Vol.88.3: WITNESSES, a triple BR of: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF CHAIRMAN MAO, by Dr. Li Zhisui (1994); THE MAN WHO STAYED BEHIND, by Sidney Rittenberg (2001]); REGINALD JOHNSTON, by Shiona Airlie (2001)
The benediction “may you live in interesting times” is, of course, an ironic curse. But, so also would be that one should preside over tedious times.
Vol.87.4: MIDNIGHT IN PEKING, by Paul French (2011) BR
Period French postcard, with added fox by UrbisMedia
My mind kept returning to that last scene in Robert Towne’s screenplay of Chinatown (1974)
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