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 @chowleen on Twitter et alia. duke u prof + APSI Dir of Graduate Studies, Duke Story Lab director. shewoinstitute 舍我紀念館 director. 周成蔭 #everynightapoem

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Published: June 7, 2026 01:34

Aggressive and seemingly unstable guy hurling slurs at everyone in downtown Durham. When we made eye contact, I knew he was going to shout at me too. What I didn’t quite expect: “We don’t want you here! We’re not all Sinophilic!” 🥸

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Published: June 4, 2026 15:26

"Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life," they said in a statement sent to AFP. Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and screenwriter, died on April 8 last year. 😭😭 [contains…

https://bsky.app/profile/chowleen.bsky.social/post/3mngqshzh6c2j

Published: June 4, 2026 04:08

I am sorry to hear that the writer Gao Xingjian 高行健 has passed away - marking the passing of a generation. Sharing a slightly goofy memory of a day spent being Gao's interpreter shortly after he won the Nobel - and navigating an awkward encounter w Saul…

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Published: June 2, 2026 18:27

Friends: Duke APSI will be welcoming Viet Thanh Nguyen as our inaugural keynote this Nov, and we're reading two of his books this summer for APSI Book Club. All are welcome! Registration details in image alt. July 14 The Sympathizer, w Marguerite Nguyen …

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Published: June 1, 2026 01:31

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. —— Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. -Philip Larkin, The Trees #everynightapoem As…

https://bsky.app/profile/chowleen.bsky.social/post/3mn3fwdowwk2z

Published: May 30, 2026 15:54

Truly the best commencement address ever. Dr. Nathan Thadeo Yoashi, upon receiving his doctorate in environmental engineering from Natl Taiwan U, on growing up impoverished in Tanzania, how meeting Dr. Jane Goodall led him to Taiwan, and how he intends to…

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Published: May 28, 2026 22:44

As a grad student, I checked out a copy of Perry Link's Mandarin Duck and Butterflies from Stanford's Green Library and saw that almost every page had been angrily annotated by a previous reader...who I realized to be Rey Chow. Or someone basically Pierre…

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Published: May 28, 2026 20:37

I have a lot of respect for Sally Kornbuth - she was our provost (and my neighbor). She's also navigated recent attacks on elite higher ed quite nimbly. BUT the library closures /staff cuts are a horrific thing happening at all these institutions, incl…