I participate from time to time at a site called Math StackExchange , where users ask and answer questions about mathematics.  Most often,...

The last of four Chinese novels on my reading list, 錢鐘書 Qián Zhōngshū's 圍城 Fortress Besieged , is its author's sole piece of long ...

Third on my Chinese novel reading list was 邊城 Border Town , by 沈從文 Shěn Cóngwén.  This slender volume, occupying only seventy or so pages...

The second Chinese novel in my reading program was Mo Yan's 生死疲勞 Life and Death are Wearing Me Out .  This absurd tale of reincarnati...

As I mentioned previously , my first Chinese novel reading project was 西遊記 Journey to the West (1592).  Attributed to 吳承恩 Wú Chéng'ēn...

For me, anyway. This is, likely, the first in a series of posts, and ironically, one I'm writing as I come to the end, temporarily, of...

Although I live in California, this actually has nothing to do with rainfall. Earlier this month, the Chicago Cubs ended a century-long dr...