Image from Brian Blomerth's comic Bicycle Day Like many, my high school and university years were misspent in imagining that the...

Qiu Jin's Tomb in Hangzhou (Image from Wikimedia Commons) Introduction to 秋瑾Qiu Jin and 精衛石  Stones of the Jingwei Bird Qiu Jin was a...

Photo by Michael Falcon  on Unsplash An obligatory industrial scene from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, hometown of one of the authors of the...

Marie Antoinette Sontag was an influential associate of the Korean imperial court who first came to Joseon (Korea) to head the household...

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The self-published mimeographed magazine that gives Ian Johnson’s journalistic book Sparks [1] its title takes its own name from a...

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In advance of the trade summit set to take place in City X, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement of terms in the form of...

Photo by Ingo Doerrie on Unsplash Opium has been consumed as both a medicine and a poison for centuries, attested to by archaeological...

Photo by TruckRun on Unsplash What do you picture when you hear the term ¨working class¨? Most would likely paint a picture of a...

Port of Mariel, Cuba Photo by Pavel Mata on Unsplash In a collection of oral histories on the Cuban exodus to the United States in the...

The Seahorse, the only male animal that gives birth Photo by Jules Marvin Eguilos on Unsplash It’s more than one year in the United...

Marriage. How much sorrow, misery, humiliation; how many tears and curses; what agony and suffering has this word brought to humanity....

Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen on Unsplash A giant, reeking mass in the Atlantic, coming to invade the Florida coast – this is the language...

After years of avoiding it (for no reason), I've finally been reading Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities. This classic work on...

Image found in "Shanghai Modern" by Lee Ou-fan, pg. 149 Original caption reads "Eileen Chang in a theatrical pose." One of the most...

The legend of Nero singing while the Roman slums burned is, according to the historian Tacitus, most likely false. But the global...

After the recorded population of the world was registered at 8 billion people a week ago, – the highest yet – a slew of articles came out...

“Art and Culture”: an opaque shield for capital accumulation by dispossession (the process otherwise known by its euphemism...

The French theorist Helene Cixous coined the term "ecriture feminine" in her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa." For her, the term was...