Tuesday 11 August 2009

Currently reading...

Lan Pei-Chia, Global Cinderellas: migrant domestics and newly rich employers in Taiwan (Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2006). 中文翻譯:藍佩嘉:《跨國灰姑娘 : 當東南亞幫傭遇上台灣新富家庭》(台北:行人出版社,2008)。 Global Cinderellas, what a beautiful name; nevertheless, it's merely better than the global slaves.
Michèle Lamont, How professors think: inside the curious world of academic judgment (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2009). Illuminating. A must read to understand how professors work in the "black box".
Paul Gray and David E. Drew, What they didn't teach you in graduate school : 199 helpful hints for success in your academic career (Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub, 2008). If you are a graduate student or are thinking to join the circle, read it along with this: Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius's "So what are you going to do with that?": finding careers outside academia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.)

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