Trust and Ties
Networks, resources, morality, and norms. These are four key concepts of social network theory. Following are rough-and-ready definitions.
No Shortcuts
Maybe I was a slow learner. Maybe I was overconscientious. Maybe I simply didn’t trust my own abilities. Maybe Chinese...
The Sensation of Skin Loss
What is unpleasant to bear is seldom offset by the ease of its description. Dermal detachment is a case in...
EB and Significant Others
Anyone who spends much time with me sees a lot of blood. I doubt anyone ever gets used to it,...
Translating Film Scripts
It was probably in my third of four years of full-time Chinese study that I started reading real Chinese. Modern...