In a few weeks, I’ll be heading off to Hong Kong.
For 3 years, I lived there, and going back will be a crazy experience. First, I never thought I would. Second, I’m finally with the person I wanted to be with back when I lived there. Third, I’m finally getting to do some on-the-ground scouting [...]
May 19, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: China, Hong Kong, Olympics, travel . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 2 Comments
From a park in China.
May 8, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: big bottom, China, humor, photography . Author: tmacphail . Comments: No Comments
So, clearly I’m not anti-China. In fact, I’m very wary of painting China as the next, big, bogeyman. I don’t believe in simple solutions regarding trade, balance of power issues, or human rights. And, I think that it’s ridiculous to become locked in an “us” against “them” mentality.
This is a blog. Which means that I [...]
May 6, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: China, China/US relations, Congress, economy, politics, presidential campaign . Author: tmacphail . Comments: No Comments
Because I always seem to blog on a Monday morning. Maybe that is because I am procrastinating the beginning of yet another week. Which I’m usually afraid is going to suck.
But not for much longer!
The perk of being in academia is definitely the summer break. This summer, I have every intention of finishing my second [...]
April 29, 2008
Categories: China, academic life, fiction, humor, novel, procrastination, self-help, stuff white people like, women's issues, writing . Tags: academia, academic life, China, fiction, humor, Monday blues, novels, to-do lists, writing . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 3 Comments
I just put the finishing touches on my article for Language and Politics, an academic journal which is publishing a special issue on avian flu. This afternoon, I sent it off to the editor, two days ahead of schedule. So, in other words, I’m feeling pretty good and largely carefree right now.
The article is entitled, [...]
August 16, 2007
Categories: avain influenza, bird flu, politics, public health . Tags: academia, bird flu, China, disease, paper writing, politics . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 2 Comments
I’ve been asked to write an article on the political language of bird flu, specifically as it relates to the recent battles over viral samples from China and Indonesia. I’ll be focusing upon China, and discussing how public health is pretty much synonymous with politics these days. Basically, everything about global public health as it [...]
July 5, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: academia, bird flu, China, disease, paper writing . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 2 Comments
I take it back. There is disease news to disseminate from the road.
Officials in China have confirmed that the microbe causing the mysterious epidemic in Guangdong, in which 300 pigs have died, has been identified. According to the Xin Hua news agency, it’s apparently a common pig illness called ‘blue-eared pig disease’. The People’s Daily [...]
May 18, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: bird flu, China, disease, pig flu, politics, Uncategorized . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 1 Comment
The Olympics are here! And I’m already over it.
The opening ceremony hasn’t even aired here in the U.S. and I am already bored of the Olympics. Isn’t that terrible? I blame all the media hype.
I blame the fact that for months, all I’ve been seeing everywhere is Olympics, China, China, Olympics, human rights, China, Tibet, Olympics, trade, oil, China, environment, China, Tibet, protests, [...]
August 8, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Beijing Olympics, China, China-U.S. relations, commentary, election 2008, media, media hype, Olympics, satire . Author: tmacphail . Comments: No Comments