Henry Buchtel
Minor epiphany this morning while playing Taiji: "Walking backward along a circular trail" is a much better description of life than "Marching forward", "The forward march of progress" etc. My Taiji...
Henry Buchtel
It occurred to me last week, while I was trying to understand the blurb for Prof. Nappi's talk, that a lot of work in academics revolves around identifying concepts from different cultures and comparing...
Henry Buchtel
I'm quite disappointed that work will prevent me from attending Dr. Carla Nappi's lecture tomorrow afternoon (see PDF for details), especially as it might have been my only chance at finding out what...
Henry Buchtel
Warning: an attempt at humor follows! I have on my desk two different translations of the seminal text in the field of developmental psychology; “Viridia Ova atque Perna” by Dr. Suess. As befitting...
Henry Buchtel
I have found it extremely difficult to write even a simple blog post about Professor Michele Thompson’s talk on Vietnamese medicine. If, as Yi-Li Wu said in her introductory remarks, the greatest questions...
Henry Buchtel
For various reasons I've limited myself to one text, mentioned in the last blog post, so this may not be representative of mainstream Chinese views. However, as it is a nationally produced textbook used...