I would like to welcome Mr. Xuei-Hen Ju (朱學恒) and all of the home guys (阿宅) from Taiwan who are stopping by DynamicSubspace.net today in response to my previous post: Fandom, Otaku, and Home Guys in Taiwan. I hope that my reporting of the home guy phenomenon is accurate, and I would welcome future discussion regarding fandom in general in the United States and Taiwan. Unfortunately, I can only speak English at the moment, but I will learn Chinese as soon as I am finished with my PhD.
Above picture: Mizuho Kazami (Please Teacher!) figure casts a shadow on my wall.
It’ll be great if you can speak Chinese one day. ;-)
As long as we have common interest, language will not be a problem….:>
Lucifer
I found the ‘home guy’ post very interesting too!
Lucifer, I agree with you wholeheartedly. There is something positive to be said of modern modes of production and technologies of communication, which facilitate sharing our common interests in virtual space.
Matthew, you’ll have to report back on what the scene is like in Scotland while you’re in the programme there. I haven’t been keeping up–are you already over there?