The main ‘research’ part of my paper looked at 12 issues of the journal 台湾教育 (Taiwan Kyōiku), published in 1940. The year 1940 was chosen out of a mere technical problem of accessibility to the materials – the Library of Congress only holds thirteen issues; one from 1928 and twelve from 1940. I wanted to [...]
Colonial education is one of the most popular research topics especially in Taiwanese academia, and I am afraid that I am very ignorant of the major literature in Taiwan. I will post a part of my term paper on colonial education in two parts here shamelessly even though this is not one of my proudest [...]
One of very important reasons to stay being a student and to work in academia is the long summer (and winter) vacation. It is not really a ‘vacation’ since we usually have lots of work, but we have a chance to become a total vagabond for three months every year.
I fully enjoyed my [...]
Muninn has been posting really fun articles at his blog recently. Since I share common interests, and probably have similar background knowledge to some extent, I really enjoy his satires in these articles. At the same time, I have been surprised with how people react to them.One of the postings he made was about the [...]
Since I finished my semester around May 10th, I have been going back and forth between NY and DC until May 28th, when I finally packed and left NY for my summer Asia trip. My first stop was Los Angeles. Believe it or not, this is my first time, as far as I can recall, [...]
朝鮮半島・台湾出身の元ＢＣ級戦犯に補償案 議員立法初提出へ
I have been reading random materials in the East Asian Library at school recently, and I bumped into this report on the national survey in December 11, 2007 Lian-he bao.
誰貢獻大》蔣經國50% 扁5%與蔣中正相當 (Who Contributed Most: Jiang Jingguo 50%, Chen Shuibian 5% similar to Chiang Kai-shek)
Lian-he bao is a pro-KMT media, so it is clearly strategic to [...]
I arranged a few-day stop over in Taiwan on my way to Seoul since it is impossible for me to fly over the island without eating Xiaolongbao in Taipei. I asked Rumi, my best friend I had made in Taiwan, to join me. This is literally my re-charging time for another coming year, and we [...]
I have shown some differences between Taiwan and South Korea in their conscription policies in my previous postings. I asked the professors that I met why there are such differences. The summary of their and my speculations is as follows.1. The influence of the authoritarian regime of the past in Korea (pointed out by a Korean [...]
As I have showen in my previous postings, there are some differences in the system itself, the kind of political debate people engage in, and the social consequence of participation in the military service between Taiwan and South Korea. There are two specific points that I found very interesting in comparing the two societies. One [...]