Lost in Translation

I'm still plowing through Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China, which in fact is the second academic book in a row that I've taken on. (The previous one was Sun Jung's Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption [Hong Kong University Press, 2010], to which I may return sometime.) That may account for some of the impatience I feel with it. It occurred to me today that academic

Lost in Translation

I'm still plowing through Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China, which in fact is the second academic book in a row that I've taken on. (The previous one was Sun Jung's Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption [Hong Kong University Press, 2010], to which I may return sometime.) That may account for some of the impatience I feel with it. It occurred to me today that academic

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

I'm in the middle of a reading push, as I think you could call it, trying to get through a pile of books that I've had out from the library for too long. (Not overdue; I've just been renewing them a lot.) It's been successful in that I'm making good progress, but I've found it difficult to make time to write. You'd think that retirement would have eliminated such time conflicts in my life, but

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

I'm in the middle of a reading push, as I think you could call it, trying to get through a pile of books that I've had out from the library for too long. (Not overdue; I've just been renewing them a lot.) It's been successful in that I'm making good progress, but I've found it difficult to make time to write. You'd think that retirement would have eliminated such time conflicts in my life, but