So I’ve had the occasion – thanks to a visit from family – to completely set aside work for about two and a half weeks & just relax. One thing I’ve found since starting grad school, lo those many years ago, is that “relaxation” is sort of a misnomer for what’s going on when...
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Being a Chinese historian – or, I should probably say, learning to be a Chinese historian – can be great fun, and also really frustrating, and fun and frustrating all at once. Like most things in life, I guess, but I’m occasionally confronted with obstacles that make me wish I’d taken my mother’s initial...
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Or I should say, on the joys of kongfz.com. One of the delightful things about living in China is the shopping (despite inflation worries, there are still a lot of goodies to be had on the cheap). For a bibliophile like myself, who likes to own every bit of material related to my research that...
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