Happy Year of the Rabbit!

We're back!

Hello readers! Happy 2023, and happy Year of the Rabbit!

Albert here. We’re sorry we’ve been so out of touch. Since we last wrote, Michelle’s brother, sister-in-law, and adorable nephew visited for two weeks; I hosted a two-day international conference on superstition in modern China; and all four of our parents came down with COVID (they’re fine now, thankfully). We had the general busyness of Christmas and the New Year, both Western and Lunar, to contend with. Michelle finished teaching a class, whose thirty students gave it rave reviews (one told me it was the best class he’d ever taken), and my institute has been particularly busy, as the loosening of pandemic regulations has resulted in a slew of European and American visitors coming to Taiwan to give talks. Besides that, many old friends are in town after having been unable to visit in the past three years.

In short, it’s been a rewarding and wonderful month, but also a very hectic one. We plan to be back regularly for the rest of…