In late December 2019 we also Teshima in Japan. It’s a small island best known for the Teshima Art Museum. This is a spectacular museum and well worth a side trip. It’s pretty special and hard to describe, and as with many museums on Naoshima, no pictures were allowed inside, so the pictures here are…
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Some thoughts on online teaching
Now that many North American institutions are moving instruction online, I see a lot of discussion among my friends in academia about practical details. As many of you know, we have been teaching online since November. The switch last November was because of the deterioration in the situation on campuses, and then in late January…
Naoshima, Japan 日本直島
In December 2019 we spent one day on Naoshima, which is famous for its museums. It was an easy day trip via ferry from Takamatsu. The key parts of the island including the museums were easily seen via a combination of walking and a bus ride. The museums are spectacular but do not allow photography…
Paper on assortative marriage in rural Shanxi during the mid-20th century in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Our paper “Education, class and assortative marriage in rural Shanxi, China in the mid-twentieth century” was accepted at Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. The paper is lead-authored by XING Long at Shanxi University and co-authored by myself, Xiangning Li, Matthew Noellert and James Lee. A pre-print is now available open access at the site:…
University of Illinois Arboretum
Last November we visited Urbana-Champaign. On one cold, grey day we went to the University of Illinois Arboretum. We took pictures of the trees and once again I focused on what I thought were interesting patterns of branches. The full gallery of University of Illinois Arboretum photos is here.
Shikoku Village 四國村, Takamatsu
Shikoku Village is an outdoor museum preserving traditional architecture from around the Shikoku region. It’s lovely and well worth a visit in Takamatsu. The original Shikoku Village gallery is here.
Ritsurin Garden (栗林公園), Takamatsu (高松), Japan
We spent Christmas break in Japan. We began with a visit to Takamatsu. On our first day we visited the Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu. This is a lovely historic garden. There was a lot to see there and we wish we could have spent more time. The original photos are also available in the Ritsurin…
Scenes from train rides in mainland China
Lately I have been taking the train back and forth to Wuhan and other locations in the mainland on a pretty regular basis. I like taking pictures of the scenery around sunrise and more commonly sunset. I especially like overexposed shots suggestive of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Please visit the full gallery at my photography website.
Forbidden City (故宫 紫禁城) in Beijing
Last year while in Beijing we took a day to visit the Forbidden City. The first time I visited was actually back in 1987, when I was an undergraduate and I spent a summer in Beijing participating in a research project by my advisor. We visited the No. 1 Historical Archives on a regular basis,…
Wuhan High-Speed Rail (HSR) Station 武漢高鐵站
I have been going to Wuhan pretty regularly for the past few years. I like taking pictures at the Wuhan high-speed rail station there because the flooring on the platforms reflects the sun, creating lots of interesting effects. It is sort of how I imagine the way train stations in Raketen-Stadt in Gravity’s Rainbow might…