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Dec.17.2012
The December issue of my collaborative novel EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS FAR AWAY (vol. 8, chapters 18 & 19), co-written with Peter I. Chang (who also did the artwork and design for this month) is now available. The musical contribution for December's edition is from IP(identity problem) with an...
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Nov.18.2012
October's & November's edition of EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS FAR AWAY (my collaborative novel in progress with filmmaker Peter I. Chang) is now available online to read for free, featuring, respectively, chapters 14 & 15 and 16 & 17 in the continuing saga of young Samuel Chu. ...
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Jul.16.2012
This month's issue of EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS FAR AWAY is now available online to read for free, featuring chapters 7 to 9 of the novel in progress that Peter Chang and I have been working on. July's musical contribution is from Tsutomu Nakayama (Pizzicato Five, Original Love), with new original...
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Jun.17.2012
As of June 15th, the second online issue of EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS FAR AWAY is available and free for all to enjoy. This project is a mixed media, serialized novel in progress that I've been working on for a while now with my partner Peter I. Chang. Volume 2 picks up where May's Volume...
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Sep.02.2011
There is a little rain that falls between and on the cars and scooters that zoot past in a rush to go where they want and never where they're needed. It bounces and slides off things like ineffectual insults. Deaf, but not unfeeling, some sheep look up from their daily grassmunching lives to stare...
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Jan.21.2011
China should consider the following salient points if she wants to be accepted as a world power by other nations.
[1]Free a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner immediately!
[2]Allow the Dalai Lama to return to rule his country .
[3]Give Taiwan what she wants-her freedom.
[4]Work assiduously on your...
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Nov.10.2010
Native American tribes celebrated harvest festivals with ritual dances and other observances of thanks long before the arrival of Europeans. And people throughout the world give thanks for the abundance of harvest. In China we have our Mid-Autumn Festival.
When I was a child in Taiwan, the...
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Oct.25.2009
On a beautiful day in San Francisco 16-year-old Laura Ruth Barry had no trouble defending her San Francisco Parkside tennis crown, beating fellow American Sam Barry (who is, in an extraordinary coincidence, her father) 6-1 and 6-2. The match was actually more lopsided than the score would indicate...
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Sep.26.2008
In 1960, the year I was born on the island of Taiwan, my father, the dean of a private school and my mother, a teacher of Chinese literature at the same, jointly made the equivalent of 60 US dollars each month.
My baby formula consumed a third of their income, another third went to cafeteria fees...
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Aug.20.2008
August 8th, 2008 is a day this generation of Chinese people will never forget. Aside from being the most auspicious date thinkable in Chinese culture (the number 8 is considered good luck), for China, the commencement of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics are in fact the closure to a race against...
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