Miscellanea About Taiwan

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Chico Harlan, Washington Nationals sign Chien-Ming Wang to pitching staff.
Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021904959.html

Quote:

"They [Nationals in DC] added him at a relative bargain -- $2 million for
2010, plus up to $3 million in incentives -- because other ballclubs aren't
so sure.

"The Nationals lost 103 games last year, worst in baseball. Wang, before the
season-ending shoulder injury, went 1-6 with a 9.64 ERA, highest among all
452 big leaguers who threw at least 25 innings last year. (Second-poorest
was Washington's Logan Kensing, 8.92.)

Note:
(a) Earned run average
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_run_average
(the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched;
determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of
innings pitched and multiplying by nine)

The higher the ERA, the worst the pitcher.

(b) After a year in Yankee of New York City, Mr. Wang was released. Now he
comes to Nationals.


----------------Separately
(1) Elaine Woo, Lucie Cheng dies at 70; UCLA sociologist 'revolutionized'
Asian American studies; Cheng broadened the field beyond Chinese immigrants
and examined issues of class and gender in immigrant societies. She also was
founding director of UCLA's Center for Pacific Rim Studies. Los Angeles
Times, Feb. 16, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-lucie-cheng16-2010feb16,0,1011828.story

Note: Lucie Cheng 成露茜, 成舍我之女

Quote:

"One of her most notable scholarly achievements was an innovative study of
19th century Chinese American prostitutes, "Free, Indentured, and Enslaved:
Chinese Prostitutes in 19th Century America," published in 1979 in the
journal Signs.

"Challenging a widely held belief that all Chinese prostitutes were slaves,
she offered the example of a 20-year-old Hong Kong woman who within two
years of her arrival in 1848 made enough money to buy a brothel that served
a non-Chinese clientele. The woman later retired from the business and
married a wealthy Chinese man.


(2) Hannah Mitchell, The Olympics through the eyes of an 8-year-old. Los
Angeles Times, Feb. 11, 2010 (blog).

("There is artwork from all over the world here. This picture shows artwork
from Taiwan.")

My comment:
(a) The quotation is the only in the blog that deals with Taiwan.
(b) The writer is a daughter of a reporter.

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