@Kevin_W_Kind I’ve been on the search/hiring side and I can’t imagine a circumstance in which I would find it helpful to make a candidate do that. The material submitted in an application should be a starting point for a discussion of teaching in the interview.
@siegeweather Worth remembering that Beatrice Bartlett worked on her Grand Council book for two decades including years of archival work in Taipei and Beijing. Much of the value of the book for scholars is not in the big argument, but in the detail, the back matter, the footnotes.
@siegeweather Perhaps you are missing the true significance of this study- the antecedents of Thomas the Tank Engine and his comrades were the products of Late Qing engineering
@Webwight @readingthestone Agreed on Story of the Stone. I kinda like Mirror for the Romantic - except that the Jia Rui episode gives that a different inflection.
@DowntownLouFan “In life Lin Dai-yu was no ordinary mortal, and in death she has become no ordinary shade (Minford, 372). Postmortem she haunts both the surviving characters, and readers alike… #readingthestone
@LDennis1368@readingthestone I love that chapter too, and I feel like Hawkes’s translation of the poetry works in English (i don’t always feel that way). Can’t speak for its accuracy…
@readingthestone@iasann Thank you, Eileen for creating this & also to the always thoughtful Waiyee and Ann for their contributions. It has been a pleasure, and inspired me to get my students #ReadingTheStone this spring. Happy year of the rabbit everyone!