我曾在美国加州的弗里蒙特（又译佛利蒙 Fremont）待过一段时间，因此一直对本地历史颇感兴趣。这是我在这个方面一点小小的写作尝试——由于种种原因没有写完，但先发在这里供感兴趣者一阅。
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Edmund Burke says, and indeed they are. If we do not study our past and “let bygones be bygones”, it is inevitable that we would, sooner or later, be drawn into another war or plague, or misunderstanding, by the powerful gravity of human neglect and arrogance.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), Part One
*Originally published on another blog of mine, Miscellaneous Notes, now republished here with slight edits and modifications* FEATURING — NALC Yes, I did spend real human money at the NALC online store, as promised, and got myself three mementos: a patch bearing the organization’s logo plus two books. A part of me also wanted to purchase …
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关于夏威夷神话的报告（二）
续上篇 A Report on Hawaiian Mythology, PART II
关于夏威夷神话的报告（一）
原本是写给几位朋友的短文，暂且放在这里。 A Report on Hawaiian Mythology, PART I.
[PLACEHOLDER] Foreign Military Presence in China During the First World War
This is a project that I occasionally work on. There is no end in sight, and it is, as its title suggests, nothing but a placeholder for the prospective final product, should it ever materialize. UPDATED 2021.09.27 Here are some notes I took, and some materials I compiled. If everything goes well I will continue …
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Buffer Zones of Russia: 1700-2020
Dated December 2020, Final Paper for “Politics of Russia and the Post-Communist World” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Steven Lloyd Wilson. This is but a working draft of the project I envisioned, but due to the limited time I had, this was the final product.
U.S. Economic Policy Towards the People’s Republic of China: 1948-1950
Dated May 2020, Final Paper for “U.S. Foreign Economic Policy” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Kerry Chase.
Chinese Intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-1922)
Everyone knows about the Russian Civil War that unveiled the first powerful communist regimes of the world, but not too many had heard of the Allied Intervention in it, which speaks to an effort by Britain and Japan, along with several other conventionally named “imperialistic” powers, to militarily suppress the Red Army immediately after the …
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Legal Nature of Exclusive Social Clubs: An Overview
Dated December 2019, Final Paper for “American Legal History II” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Michael Willrich.
洛夫克拉夫特《人之本性》
洛夫克拉夫特，作为怪奇文学史上一个绕不过去的形象，在中文世界的流行程度一直呈增长之势，而越来越多的读者似乎也开始注意到了他在文学背后掩藏着的政治和社会观念。这些观念中的许多在如今看来已经过了时，但仍然不失为了解他创作动机和想象源泉的渠道之一。以下是其中一篇，发表于1918年7月，第一次世界大战的最后几个月时间里。