By P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
Newsletter: Triptych
This is an update to my previous post about getting dual citizenship in Taiwan, focusing on steps we had to take to update my wife’s resident permit
I am incredibly proud to announce that I am now a Taiwanese citizen! After a year long process (described in excruciating detail below), today I
I’ve struggled with hip pain for twenty years. I mostly kept it under control with regular Iyengar Yoga practice, which I started in 2002, but over
My father, whose study of the Chernobyl death count I posted recently, reminded me that he also wrote a piece on the “the sheer number of
Now that Chernobyl is in the news again due to the HBO series, many people are once again asking this question. About three years ago my dad, a
I was asked to write some brief remarks in remembrance of my good friend Ilya 李士傑 whose sudden death last week shocked and saddened so many people.
Some people are happy to use Microsoft Word for everything. Others like to find the right tool for the task. If, like me, you are the second kind of
Like many people who were active bloggers back when blogging was a new thing, I’m somewhat nostalgic for the pre-Facebook internet. It isn’t so much
Our winter break in Taiwan starts next week1 and Shashwati and I have a pretty busy schedule of talks, conferences, and film screenings. I thought
What is happening in Paris is complicated. Add to that the fact that my French is not very good, and I am far too busy to read everything my friends
Below are some highlights from a new study on faculty hiring by anthropology programs in the US. approximately 79% of US anthropology doctorates do
Khunjerab Pass In the Fall of 1990, a little over a year after the protests in Tiananmen Square came to their shocking and terrible conclusion, I