I don't know why this photo resonates vis-à-vis this post, but it did. It doesn't matter if they're locals or immigrants -- more...

Here are some cops harassing Free Market participants for absolutely no good reason. I don't want to focus too much on the cops themselv...

Sometime around 1916, my great-great grandfather converted to Islam.  Five generations later, nobody in the family knew about it. It wasn...

From Wikimedia Commons I like to read old books about Taiwan, and it doesn't get much older than this. In 1704, a man named George Psalm...

I am grateful that I had the time to attend an exhibition of Sanyu (常玉) works in December It doesn't matter how you spin it or even if y...

國破山河在 I have a hankering to learn the oud.  I don't know if it has to be an oud exactly. I'd be perfectly happy with a saz or a kanu...