Talk:Asian History 2011-12

University of Wisconsin- Madison
Comments moved from Front Page (1/29/11):*"Madison is fast going from not very much to quite a lot in Chinese history.." I'm sure you don't mean to overlook their two esteemed retired professors of Chinese history...Chow Tse-Tung and Lin Yusheng...giants in the field.
 * Giants? Second tallest dwarves.
 * Re: "dwarves" comment above..." So you have read both scholars' extensive Chinese-language scholarship and are able to critically analyze both scholars' contributions? Can you tell me, for example, where Dr. Lin is now and what projects he is engaged in?
 * [29 Jan.] Is the discussion here really pertinent to the job posting? If you've got complaints about hiring practices/disicplines/whatever there's always the venting page or Universities to Fear AFII 17:36, January 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Re: aggressive questions about Dr. Lin. I agree. Your posting is totally inappropriate. Take that garbage to another site. Let the dead bury the dead.
 * Let me clarify: The "garbage" is the rude, immature, and disrespectful claim of calling Drs. Chow and Lin "dwarves." Dr. Lin is alive and well and continues to be a productive esteemed scholar. Apparently the poster of the "dwarves" comment is unaware of Drs. Chow and Lin's extensive Chinese-language scholarship.
 * Some common sense here people! Chow and Lin were / are decent people. It was crazy of Tengteng to call them "giants," but everyone on here knows that, and there's no need to point it out. As for ther person posting as Maurice Meisner, you are sick, demented, and vulgar. Have some respect for the dead.
 * "...everyone on here knows that..." This is your opinion/assumption, which of course you are entitled to, however, it is not trivial that Dr. Lin is one of 61 Academicians elected to Academia Sinica in Taiwan for Humanities and SS http://db1n.sinica.edu.tw/textdb/academicians/02.php?func=22&_op=?ID:H038. Do not assume you know everything about these scholars from their time at UWisc or Engl lang publications.
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