Archive - A Broad and Ample Road

These Losers are Going Places

Michelle on the trials of marriage, status anxieties in and beyond the West, and discovering your heritage through your partner

May 9, 2021 •

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Fragments from a Country Under Threat

It’s October in Taipei, and we’re having friends over for tea.

Nov 13, 2022 •

"You will be reunited in the fullness of time"

In this week's edition, we remember Michelle's grandma, a refugee from China and a teacher in Taiwan, who passed away Monday night.

Nov 8, 2020 •

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"Ukraine is Not Giving Up": On The Hope for A Free, Democratic, Multiethnic Ukraine

Interview with Oleksandr Shyn, a Korean-Ukrainian student living in Taiwan.

Mar 6, 2022 •

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Michelle goes to intensive language school

Plus, Jeremy Lin scores 50 points in an amazing game and a book drive to support women's prisons in Taiwan

Apr 29, 2023 •

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A teary-eyed post-election missive

A party with radical roots wins an unprecedented third term

Jan 14, 2024 •

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On returning to the motherland

Albert processes guilt, family, and sacrifices incurred in decolonizing one's mind; plus, an extraordinary imperialism syllabus

May 16, 2021 •

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Reading, or Something Like It: Guest Essay from Catherine Chou

How to learn Taiwanese and read Mandarin in a year, plus two useful tools for learning these languages. And The Brothers Karamazov book club details.

Jan 23, 2022 •

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Was the atomic bomb a war crime?

For the first time, Albert’s students overwhelmingly think so. Plus reader responses, links, book club info, & bonus audio from baby P.

Feb 14, 2021 •

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Crushed Yams and Pizza!

On the "Global(e) Resistance" exhibit at the Pompidou; Uighur poets exiled abroad; and the death of jazz bassist Gary Peacock

Oct 4, 2020 •

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On Bad Laws and Even Worse Judges

Michelle on teaching E.P. Thompson, three-strikes cases, with bonus unsolicited advice for people interested in law school

Feb 7, 2021 •

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Is “Asian-American” a viable category?

Why not engage in some utopian thinking? Albert makes the case.

Apr 4, 2021 •

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