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This past summer, I found myself eating a California Roll in a suburban Minnesotan country club. Standing amongst various men and women dressed in pastel polos, tennis sweaters, and khakis, I recalled the hostility with which Midwestern preppies viewed sushi throughout the latter half of the 2000s. Having always been fond of Japanese cuisine, even … Read more

For the associated web version with an interactive map display, click HERE Following almost a decade of tension and unrest following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, President Bill Clinton normalized US-Sino relations by signing the U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000, intertwining both nation’s economies and smoothing over issues regarding democracy in the South China Sea. … Read more

  Click the link to watch the presentation (pictures followed)   Reflection My original plan was to interview several East Asian students at Wes who have tattoos. I posted an Instagram story (Picture 1) and got at least 10 replies. Some said they would like to be interviewed, and those who did not have tattoos … Read more

When I submitted my essay “Buddhism and Haiku: The International Inheritance of a Poetic Past” on March 28, I was required to include a proposal of a “creative project” which would “illuminate aspects of the topic that would otherwise not be able to be expressed through a standard academic paper”. Based on the topic of … Read more

Watermelon. I look at the dark green watermelon atop the wooden cutting board in the kitchen. My mom stands, knife in hand, facing the watermelon. My brother and I are sitting around the kitchen island, kicking our feet in the air against the ceramic stand. My dad comes in from the backyard with my uncle; … Read more

Introduction: The section explains how I got to the current project. Initially, the project was to create my yokai that incorporated elements with more traditional ones. My previous paper suggests that yokai were used to explain things people couldn’t understand in the past, one of which was sickness and illness. As someone studying psychopathology for … Read more

Project Orientation: Goals and Aims Having already had a strong interest in haute couture, I thought it would only make sense to pursue my midterm through this lens. In learning more about Guo Pei, and the influences she draws from in creating her pieces, it felt like I was looking at all of her pieces … Read more