For professional and family reasons, I have visited China four times within the last year. This time there seem to be a lot more foreign visitors than previously, at least in Chengdu. Airfares to China are still high and planes aren't full, but some visitors seem to be returning.

Happy Mother’s Day, mom, wherever you are now. I miss you.💔❤️

For those who suffered through or are still in the process of getting the GC with no sight of an end, you can probably appreciate the humor and despair this license plate captures.

Where is this?😉

Dao Companion to China's Fa Tradition: The Philosophy of Governance by Impartial Standards, ed. by Yuri Pines, is published. It has 23 chapters, plus the editor's masterful intro. Almost 700 pages! I contributed a chapter on the Legalists and the Mohists. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

My first #APSA2024 conference, in downtown Philadelphia, close to Chinatown. So a simple Chinese breakfast is in order.

Yesterday in my Buddhist Phil class I have taught for 20+ years, several bright students took the discussion to a place I had never been to before. Afterward we stayed on to talk more. It was mind blowing, the kind of intellectual stimulation that makes teaching worth everything.

Prague the beautiful, even under a severe raining condition.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) to those who celebrate!