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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.
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Published: October 4, 2024 22:03
My dear, it was a moment
to clutch at for a moment
so that you may believe in it
and believing is the act of love, I think,
even in the telling, wherever it went
-Anne Sexton, “The Expatriates” my favorite Sexton #everynightapoem #mineminemine
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Published: October 2, 2024 22:43
i bear witness to no thing
more human than hate
i bear witness to no thing
more human than love
apples and honey
apples and honey
what is not lost
is paradise
-Lucille Clifton, "Rosh Hashanah" 2001
No words suffice for this moment, so sharing…
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Published: September 27, 2024 22:24
Both panel proposals that were kind enough to include me were accepted, so see you at #AAS2025?
For one of them I’ll be discussing the history of crossdressed Story of the Stone 紅樓夢 performances- and in particular, my eternal favorite Brigitte Lin 林青霞 as…
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Published: September 27, 2024 22:10
Both panel proposals that were kind enough to include me were accepted, so see you at #AAS2025?
For one of them I’ll be discussing the history of crossdressed Story of the Stone 紅樓夢 performances- and in particular, my eternal favorite Brigitte Lin 林青霞 as…
https://bsky.app/profile/chowleen.bsky.social/post/3l55lwdy2et2b
Published: September 27, 2024 16:37
Reminding me of one of my favorite works by Duane Michals:
“This Photograph is My Proof” 1967-74
[Gelatin silver print w hand-applied text]
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Published: September 25, 2024 23:17
“A photographer’s self-portrait in a mirror, a hundred years ago, Japan, ca. 1920.”
[From a cache of found glass plate negatives]
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Published: September 25, 2024 22:57
A wonderful remembrance of Fredric Jameson by Rebecca Karl.
https://positionspolitics.org/rebecca-karl-on-frederic-jameson/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2A6FRTK7RHv9C2LTrGcsVr3t4BZz9VzJkDksPchYUBrsL3IOH2swKYD-E_aem_2tma9xjVZvXvbSp1LRtd2w
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Published: September 24, 2024 04:06
What is the most logical course of action in the face of an overwhelmingly busy semester?
Join a Proust reading group, of course!
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Published: September 23, 2024 14:46
I did! He had had a fictional credit system ("Baba bank" 爸爸銀行) with his children, including my mom, wherein he'd deposit a cent into their accounts daily if they memorized a piece of classical prose. By my time he dispensed with that fiction, but still…
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Published: September 23, 2024 04:13
"Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn." - a few notes on translating Xin Qiji's short lyric that I had a written a while back, here (yes, it's on substack, but free!): https://substack.com/home/post/p-149275958?r=3hk65&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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