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Eating Chinese
In my Understanding Asia class (required for my Asian Studies minor, and one of the most engaging classes I’ve taken), we’ve been studying Asian-American literature for the last two weeks. We’ve been looking at several major elements: 1) what does it mean to be Asian-American, and to what extent do you remain Asian while at [...]
April 21st, 2009My bread-and-butter
Having finished the first half of the semester, I have finished writing one of the two main research papers that have been assigned to me this spring. The first was the easier one, and also the less interesting of the two. The second is the one I turn to now, to focus my attention and [...]
March 8th, 2009Thoughts on History: Part II
Continuing my discourse on history, and what that concept means and entails, I will admit that I am skeptical of the history I have seen in China. A good illustration of my reasoning came with the field trip my history class took to Anyang, an ancient Chinese city and the location of the famous oracle [...]
July 19th, 2007Thoughts on History: Part I
The more I learn and see in my life, the more I am convinced that “history” is a multi-faceted term, and that history itself is largely subjective, relative to time and location, and deeply influential in national psyche. Within each city, museum, temple, mausoleum, and other culturally significant thing I have visited, I am reminded [...]
July 19th, 2007