I appear to have survived.

[ahorbinski]

I've just finished the rough draft of my final assignment for the semester; it's a strange little paper, but I like it, and I'm glad it's mostly finished. I've also nearly finished polishing the paper I wrote for my research seminar on modern Japanese social thought, in which I discuss and translate a chunk of the thought of the feminist historian Takamure Itsue. Before her historical turn Takamure was well-known as an anarcho-feminist, and I'm starting to be curious about this strand of the modern period in Japan and China--Kanno Suga and Itô Noe spring to mind in the anarcho-feminist category, as do He Zhen and Qiu Jin in China. Anyone know of any anarcho-feminists in modern Korea? 

Anyway, all three final assignments will be turned in tomorrow, and on Wednesday I head home to the East Coast. I'll definitely keep reading things over the holidays, as well as posting some lecture notes; I'm also planning to redo the tags on this blog, though I'm not sure what's the best system: by author? by discipline? And how to define each? Hmm.

At any rate, I hope everyone's hanging in there.