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.
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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…
Intersection and wet market at Ping Shek/Ngau Chi Wan
A month or two ago I ran an errand down at the market at Ngau Chi Wan (buying some dim sum for the following day’s breakfast) and brought along by Canon G5 X Mark II. I’m pretty impressed with what that camera can do. It’s the first pocket camera I have had that I thought…
Gongguan 公馆, Taipei 台北
Earlier this fall we were in Taipei. I was attending meetings so only had time to take pictures in the evening. One of my meetings was at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and we stayed near the campus of National Taiwan University, so in the evening we walked around the Gongguan 公馆…
Beitou 北投, Taiwan 台湾
In fall 2019 we visited Taipei. I was pretty busy with meetings and only had time to take pictures in the evening after dinner. One evening we went to Beitou and walked around a bit. Beitou is an old hot spring area. I don’t have any pictures of the hot springs but I do have…
Relocated website
I moved my website here from my university’s server. I did this mainly because I wanted to be able to post occasionally about non-academic topics like my photography, favorite music, or random observations. While my university doesn’t set any rules on what I can say on a blog hosted on a university server, I felt…
PhD student Bijia Chen finishes PhD, begins postdoc at Renmin University Institute of Qing History
Bijia Chen successfully defended her PhD dissertation on October 25, 2019. The title of her dissertation is “Origins and Career Patterns of the Qing Government Officials (1850-1912): Evidence from the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q)”. Cameron Campbell was her primary advisor, James Lee was her co-advisor, and Yongshun Cai, Lawrence Zhang and Matthew Mosca served…