Suburban Dissident

One of the courses I am taking involves heavy reading on recent finding concerning the way our brains work and how that relates to traditi...

Mead claims that the self can only emerge through interaction, that without language and socialization the self would never come to be. This...

Sociology, as a discipline, is not particularly friendly to religious faith. The framework of 'methodological atheism' makes it impo...

1. Apparently, one of the best known winter vacations spots in China has decided to sell a little bit of itself . Part of the Harbin ice fes...

The slower pace of life in Tainan hits you almost as soon as you get off the bus. Or, more accurately, it moseys over, shakes your hand and ...

I have decided to repurpose this site, again. Instead of being primarily China related work, the dissident will house my more analytical wor...

The BBC’s publication of an article on how the current financial crisis is hitting not only Chinese factories, production, and the economy a...

My review of Jiang Rong's novel _Wolf Totem_ over at the GCC website: [ here ]