Rules of the game

Each semester consists of 18 weeks in a uni; each assistant professor is required to teach 9 hours per week if the school is not kind enough to offer deduction up to 2 hours in the first 2 years. Almost each assistant professor is required to write grant applications to bring money to the department in order to fill the blanks on the CV for his/her own sake. S/he had better write crappy articles to submit to various and many crappy journals that are peer-reviewed by crappy colleagues in order to fill other blanks on the CV.  These journals had better to be in English; sometimes these crappy articles written in English were reviewed by crappy reviewers who know very little about the subjects and local dynamics related to the subjects. And they got published! And then the authors said that how many times their articles in English were downloaded online in order to prove how significant their academic contribution is.

Sometimes foreign reviewers and readers are mostly if not only interested in National Palace Museum and its dynamics with the Forbidden Palace and the cross-strait cultural-political dynamics. S/he shall always remember that it is the foremost important thing to choose the right topic to attract the international readership.

Play it or leave it.

who is s/he?

After all the years, when friends from work introduce someone new, they still start with s/he is someone's daughter/son/daughter-in-law/son-in-law/sister/brother. Guangxi still matters a lot.

A pair of slippers called DELUXE

Looking extremely tired, he grabbed a seat (a priority seat which any man of his age would not dare to sit on) and fell asleep almost immediately, leaving his big bag full of vegetable underneath the seat.  His slippers are called DELUXE.

Touch me please: 不再「賣笑不賣身」

2009年的一則新聞，來自一則不挺出名的媒體：

“Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons To Touch Paintings”

http://www.theonion.com/articles/struggling-museum-now-allowing-patrons-to-touch-pa,2821/

Re-writing museology: development in China

Development in China in almost every aspect defies the usual trajectory of the West. So is the museum development.

artistic creation and theories

Isn't that any artistic creation that involves a particualr theory on the creator's mind is doomed to fail? However, academic writings, some sort of artistic activity, are quite the opposite.

The stray dog

The stray dog kept looking at me and seemed to know that I was one of them who had left something for him to eat by the lamppost.