Jun 8 4 min An Introvert Sits Down to Write a Book... As an introvert, the act of writing is right up my alley. Spend hours alone?✅ Reading and researching?✅ Imagining things? ✅ I’m all in!...
Apr 15 1 min African Americans in Interwar Asia Thrilled to see the final form of this essay I wrote for BlackPast! It considers the ambitious and varied endeavors of the African...
Apr 8 1 min On Historic Shanghai's Bookshelf Historic Shanghai has an interview up on their blog, discussing Rumors from Shanghai's beginnings and the influence my sojourn in...
Apr 7 1 min NüVoices Collective Online Interview is up... NüVoices, a collective of women China experts from a range of fields/professions, now has an online interview up about my historical...
Apr 6 4 min Highly Improbable! And yet... A Black American representing the diplomatic interests of the United States in the Russian Far East at the turn of the 19th century?...
Mar 20 3 min Pre-WWII Seattle and the Japanese Community In #RumorsFromShanghai, characters from Black, Chinese and Japanese backgrounds shape the protagonist's viewpoint and interests. These...
Mar 11 4 min Early Pacific Northwest-China Ties Early Chinese residents in Washington State most famously and numerously drew from Southern China's Taishan region. The impact of...
Mar 1 4 min "Rumors from Shanghai" launched March 1, almost a year to the day since the original planned launch date at the 2020 Shanghai International Literary Festival, is launch...
Jan 24 3 min Post-Inauguration Reading...for Fun: "Remembering Shanghai" The celebrations the last time America ousted a disastrous head of state is a fond memory. Michelle Garnaut, inimitable founder of M on...
Dec 6, 2020 1 min No, Biden's China Policy Will Not Be Trump 2.0 The Seattle Times has an op-ed out "The path to a new China policy" from Michael Burke and me: We have no illusions that the US and China...
