Archive for November 2007

27 Nov 2007 1505H

Hataraki Man

Just a quick note about Hataraki Man, a 2006 anime about Hiroko Matsukata, a pretty, modern, workaholic 28-year-old woman editor of the fictional Japanese weekly magazine Jidai, and her furtive, desperate attempts to keep her work and life balanced. Unfortunately, because she and her boyfriend are such workaholics, usually, life gets the short-end of the [...]

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22 Nov 2007 2357H

Thanksgiving in Chinese Chicago, c. 1938

Every year at this time, I re-read this passage from Paul Siu’s remarkable PhD dissertation of 1953, the Chinese Laundryman: a Study of Social Isolation. Sometimes I get the sense that my colleagues, even within Asian American Studies, roll their eyes when I do this, but I’m not doing it for them. I read it [...]

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21 Nov 2007 0828H

Pretty much sums it all up for me

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19 Nov 2007 0827H

‘Displacement’ in IM to avoid awkward situations

If memory serves me correctly, back in the 1930s when sociologist Paul Siu was doing research during the heyday of the Chicago School of Sociology, he noticed among Cantonese immigrants that spoke at least some English that they tended to (in my words) “displace” or “distance” socially awkward situations by switching to English to describe [...]

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12 Nov 2007 0557H

Hardly worth mentioning

but since I’m so far down the road of self-indulgence on this blog, why stop now? Chicagoans and other flatlanders, tune in to Foods of Chicago on Channel 11 WTTW on November 27th at 7:30PM and 10:00PM, and see my host, “Auntie Yee” Jew, and me in my guise as president of the Chicago Chinese [...]

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07 Nov 2007 0240H

Really busy lately

So much so that A) am missing out on DUX this year, B) an old, somewhat disturbing pattern of awakening at 2 and 4 each morning that happened during the last time I worked in consulting has reoccurred, and I’m not liking it. Why 2 and 4? Why not 1 and 3 or 4:21 and [...]

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