“Why do we write?” One way of answering this question is by reflecting upon its counterpart, “Why do we read?”We read for a plurality of reasons – instrumentally, as a source of information, inspirati ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-18
The Shakespearean tragedy ‘King Lear’, modelled loosely after the apocryphal Leir of Britain, tells the story of an ageing King who seeks to divide his power and land between his three daughters. Whil ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-18
... e” on its WeChat account. The article claims to demonstrate from a “Confucian perspective” that companion robots (more commonly known as ‘sex robots’) fulfil the Confucian fantasy of the submissive wi ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-16
Seven years ago Yen Po-Wen (顏博文) was chief executive officer of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Taiwan’s second largest maker of semi-conductors, a global company headquartered in Hsinchu, ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-15
Indonesia is now moving its capital to Nusantara, East Kalimantan province, 1,236 kilometers from the current capital Jakarta (about the distance between Hong Kong and Shanghai). The relocation projec ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-09
... spent six weeks there but found it impossible to meet Chinese people without the presence of Japanese officials. How could they learn the true opinions of Chinese? A group of influential Chinese neede ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-08
Why do we live? This is a question that is often met with a fundamental introspection into the meaning and value of life. The more speculative answers will focus on the cosmological origins and roots ...More
EJ Insight2024-12-05
... 受性，他們便要參與（We've to work on them. But if the primacy has ...全文
... 2009, so we are overdue for problems. I suspect by next year, we will have problems in the financial markets, and if America does, everybody else will too,” said Rogers. “I think the US has the longe ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-28
I have always been fascinated by the phrase “character building”. We invoke the phrase to refer to all sorts of trials and tribulations – a deeply irksome and truculent acquaintance or colleague, a ma ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-28
Just a little over a month ago, the leaders of 56 heads of government in the Commonwealth came to the public conclusion that “the time has come” for a proper conversation about the reparations for the ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-26
... e – or so we think – yet are empirically ubiquitous: where failure occurs due to results that are not wholly beyond one’s control, but the control of which would have required immense perseverance, lu ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
It was the tenth lecture of my twelve-lecture series introducing my MA students to the theory and practice of politics. On this gloomy, somewhat dour November day, I opened my lecture with two particu ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
... nts. Last week the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that TSMC would receive up to US$6.6 billion in grants and US$5 billion in loans for the Phoenix facility. It is the first big award to be fina ...More
EJ Insight2024-11-24
