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Assessing Chiang Kai-Shek’s Good and Harm

( History and Taiwan )

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 [...]

Studying Institutions

There has been a trend called “new institutionalism” in political science, in which people identify various formal and informal institutions that cause, change course of, or are resulted from, all sorts of social phenomena. The “new institutionalism” is a huuuuge tent that exceeds the range of even the whole field of comparative politics. Some [...]

Done with the First Semester (for the third time)

I have finished my first semester in the history department. I am not super satisfied with my progress, but most importantly, I survived. I tend to forget the fact that I am a wandering foreigner in the American system. I should not stress  myself out with high expectations when others think I am doing fine.
It [...]