Honoris Causa

In Du bon usage de la Francophonie, Beninese scholar Guy Ossito Midiohouan tells us he habitually corrects people when they refer him as a Professor of French. Professor of literature, he insists. I understand his plight, as in my case, I was often asked, if not challenged, by people in Hong Kong why I would … Continue reading →

Por ahora: Remembering Tiananmen, June 4, 1989

Red Shirt for Burma, and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in My Heart, originally uploaded by Taekwonweirdo. If you ask me which photo of me I like the most, I have to say this one. I was in front of the Chinese diplomatic mission in Chicago, supporting Burma’s failed Saffron revolution. Failed, to borrow Hugo … Continue reading →