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Anglish and English: Why our language is 750 and not 1,500 years old

By Isham Cook on February 12, 2017 • ( 10 Comments )

The conventional history of English force-fed to university students benefits no one but the academic textbook business and its tired stakeholders.

An American talisman

By Isham Cook on December 18, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

Only a perverted and schizophrenic society dangles sexual temptations to ever-younger people and punishes them brutally.

My problem with the atheists (it’s not what you think)

By Isham Cook on November 8, 2016 • ( 8 Comments )

An atheist patiently explains why most atheists are really believers in disguise.

Living the Taiping

By Isham Cook on August 27, 2016 • ( 5 Comments )

Historical novel set during Taiping Rebellion cultivates a richly textured English, while another captures Sir Robert Hart’s love for a Chinese woman.

From Van Gogh to the Camino de Santiago: Symbolic travel and the modern pilgrim

By Isham Cook on July 16, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

The exponential growth in international tourism seen in the context of European travel and tourism stretching back a millennium.

The literature of paralysis: The China PC scene and the expat mag crowd

By Isham Cook on May 14, 2016 • ( 13 Comments )

What happens to writing when it’s fed through the political correctness machine.

John Dowland and the lost English Consort School of chamber music

By Isham Cook on March 30, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

England was home to the first great school of classical chamber music, preceding the Viennese School of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven by two centuries.

Why Airbnb ain’t my cup of tea

By Isham Cook on November 28, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

The ambiguous host/guest boundary in many Airbnb households makes for most inhospitable stays.

Macau and the writer: A photo essay

By Isham Cook on August 9, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

Photo essay of old Macau with nudes and choice literary quotations.

American rococo

By Isham Cook on August 3, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

The rococoesque beauty of the American ghetto and the obese.

The question of breeding (why foreign men get the “ugly” Chinese girls)

By Isham Cook on July 22, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

Tongue-in-cheek explanation (with more than a grain of truth) of why it’s so hard to land a Chinese beauty.

At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom

By Isham Cook on May 7, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

What decades of living in China have taught this American expat.

The many faces of Chinese “face”

By Isham Cook on March 15, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

Chinese “face” and Chinese “apathy” reconsidered in dynamic relationship.

The breast etiquette project

By Isham Cook on February 23, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

A civilized approach to men’s obsession with the breasts.

Honesty, diligence, obedience: Why I support China’s Great Firewall

By Isham Cook on February 10, 2015 • ( 9 Comments )

An openminded appreciation of the Great Firewall of China.

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