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Passed!

I just got a certificate of Chinese language ability that should let me fulfill the department’s language requirements. To be honest, I haven’t spoken serious Chinese for three years so it was embarrassing to claim that “my Chinese is good” in my very rusty spoken Chinese, but anyways the instructor agreed with me that it [...]

Colonial Education in Taiwan (2) Taiwan Kyōiku journal

( Academic and History and Research and Taiwan )

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 in Taiwan (1) Dōka Policy

( Academic and History and Research and Taiwan )

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 [...]

New Books, New Songs

In my opinion, being a graduate student is an eternal journey to find the most comfortable place for reading books. Music is important, not only for aesthetic reasons but to keep myself reading. Over the last few days, all I did is ordering books for the new semester and buying new songs specifically for reading [...]