Beijing… Solo 1 Feb 2012 Virtually nothing was posted in January because I was parted from my main axe in Seattle; she needed work, and I needed time to teach and lecture and write, here…
Cultural Politics… Let a Green Curtain Descend… 21 Mar 2011 We should be both sorrowful and proud when friends depart, they finding the world in distress and applying their immense energies and talents to its re-balancing. The ecologists thus leave…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea Notes 21 Jan 201121 Jan 2011 The Hu-Obama Summit has already been subjected to some of the most intense lobbying pressures known to man. From big business to human rights groups to the defense hawks in…
Pensee Augur the Year of the Tiger 14 Feb 2010 Sun storm globule, rain in giant droplets/strikes Chinatown, and dolorous wandering in grey/gives way to a hail of light perceived through a thin haze of duck fat Firecrackers pop their secco revolts / of a…
Art… Liquid Architecture and Measured Resistance 7 Feb 20108 Feb 2010 Perusing the nifty KoreAm blog, and finding Eugene Kim's posts on architecture to be worthwhile, I found some photos of a newly-designed floating stage on the Han River in Seoul.…
French… This Ain’t Dallas: NYT on Seattle Teriyaki 11 Jan 2010 This is, sadly, no food blog, but the following article from the New York Times has been giving me a great deal of joy lately and I thought I'd share:…
Cultural Politics Russia’s Pacific Ambitions // Stalin and the GWOT 8 Jan 20108 Jan 2010 Working, living, and floating around the Puget Sound gives one a certain connection to the power of the Russian Far East. Colleagues describe their struggles with Sakhalin dialect; whale-watchers plug…
China… Reflections on Fieldwork, Forthcoming, and the Battlefield of Peer Review 29 Aug 200929 Aug 2009 Forthcoming After using this blog to pump up my collaborative effort with Chuck Kraus in Journal of Korean Studies to understand a concrete instance of rebellion in North Korea, it…
Cello… Eliezer peer review 17 May 200917 May 2009 Most peer reviews are anonymous. And that is fine. But I recently received a very interesting peer review of this particular "publication," this weblog, and I thought I might as…
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