User:WhisperToMe

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WhisperToMe is an American citizen and legal resident of Houston, Texas who worked in Shenzhen in southern China, near Hong Kong, from 2016 to 2020. He has an affinity for computers and world cultures, and has traveled throughout Asia during his time working there. He speaks English, some Mandarin Chinese, very little Spanish, and very little French.

He is currently a coordinator for the Wikimedia Hong Kong user group; feel free to send an e-mail to him if you need to contact him.

He was a sysop from 2003 to 2023.

'''Want to request Houston-area pictures for Wikipedia? Leave a request at my talk page - I do not guarantee that I will take the picture.'''

Books to write about

 * Make reviews of: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-ships-from-hamburg-review-voyage-to-the-golden-land-c637f449
 * Make reviews of: https://www.wsj.com/articles/barons-of-the-sea-review-rigging-the-market-1532050707
 * Make reviews of: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-money-kings-review-after-success-an-uneasy-feeling-e3965b81
 * "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa"
 * ru:Розничная торговля КНР
 * https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-elusive-story-of-the-bread-and-butter-pickle-sandwich?utm_source=pocket-newtab
 * ms:Senarai sekolah swasta di Malaysia
 * Lycée International de Houston https://france-amerique.com/en/the-lycee-international-de-houston-starts-its-first-semester/
 * Meten English https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/2020-12-21/doc-iiznctke7612987.shtml
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/books/review/the-first-day-of-spring-nancy-tucker.html
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-enslaved-families-who-went-to-court-to-win-their-freedom/2020/12/11/d126577a-2d94-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html
 * Bissonnet Road https://www.chron.com:443/bellaire/news/article/Bissonnet-carries-a-long-history-3993739.php
 * A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/stabbing-crucifixion-eaten-by-eels-learn-all-about-murder-the-roman-way/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
 * https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272743/coming-to-terms-with-the-nation and https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/5586
 * Pierre Rosegger (poet) https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/552/PFSIF9180718A381.jpg
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003462.html
 * Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953.
 * Frederick Stewart and the Education of Colonial Hong Kong https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/gillian-bickley-the-golden-needle-the-biography-of-frederick-stewart-1836-1889/ and https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/japc.11.2.12che http://caes.hku.hk/hkjalonline/issues/?guest_id=6247700e95be106e7b62b6a2dce3ab9213b569255f89aad8cf3db02f169405cd&file=1998_v3_2_evans.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/golden-needle-the-biography-of-frederick-stewart-18361889-by-gillian-bickley-hong-kong-david-c-lam-institute-for-eastwest-studies-hong-kong-baptist-university-1997-1350-isbn-9628027085/5F1BDFFB0B48418C89F8D9982F4F38DC
 * https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu:443/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1239&context=jil
 * https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691133386/paths-out-of-dixie
 * Books discussed in https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/9/14207302/authoritarian-states-boring-tolerable-fascism-trump
 * True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee - https://slate.com/culture/2021/02/stan-lee-biography-true-believer-excerpt-jack-kirby-marvel-comics.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
 * Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
 * The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/books/14book.html
 * The Second Founding
 * http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-01-03/entertainment/9303150591_1_stella-goldschlag-peter-wyden-berlin
 * Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
 *  Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
 * Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980
 *  In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, 
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/23731886?seq=1
 * https://www.asu.edu/mpa/Bartels.pdf
 * Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City
 * Quebec Schools https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/high-school-boy-s-dress-code-protest-arrives-1.5760467 and https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-area-boys-stage-brief-protest-against-short-skirt-rules-1.5755570
 * https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/china-west-portugal-macau-taiwan/612379/
 * Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present
 * Beatrice S. Bartlett. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723–1820. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
 * Cape May County, New Jersey: the making of an American resort community
 * Fault Lines: Portrait of East Austin https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/photos-east-austin-before-boom/ http://tupress.org/books/fault-lines
 * Why Hitler Came into Power: An Answer Based on the Original Life Stories of Six Hundred of His Followers (1938)
 * Maestro (book about Alan Greenspan)
 * Mating in Captivity
 * For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage
 * Will Our Love Last? - Sam R. Hamburg
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
 * Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour. 
 * https://search.proquest.com/openview/f1e079597948442c34210d2aff2dbbbf/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=48346 and https://megalodon.jp/ref/2020-0815-0317-16/https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/crawl.prod.proquest.com/fpcache/f1e079597948442c34210d2aff2dbbbf.pdf?X-Amz-Security-Token=FwoGZXIvYXdzEOT%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaDAFmLIRyE8m%2BkwVTGiKrAXSzWLcKnk%2Fx7o5b530xjoc8VxvT%2BgiBXwAMlSBzEao61NSV0d5jiC4kPv2KwhLspAWldCKNCEpaZw0unlUX0r8Hg2hcFtv31zk0a6lDiTXtKggP5JKai7W4x6Ahp9atkOkOo8ljrbNVihEk1GtDt0Hessc6y33%2F%2BlBJI0i9Bw3D3XIT598r%2FtZk61tF%2FshAQefiFKdt24fZuD1WOQ%2FvGqQMChKvJfWrYa3dzSiSptv5BTItaswRpfuaEhkDJrKXUkq%2B6PlcS4HOpuFwH9Evr34mR4Am7R4puK8axWzCpwZw&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200814T181550Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAXRL7BHBKZHX7HIH5%2F20200814%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=46a8e3438889117c4979344f27f3c15077aa4825f261197c5346f44cef3a8221
 * Francophonie and the Orient: French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940)
 * "The last stand of Chinese conservatism;: The T'ung-chih restoration, 1862-1874" by Mary Wright
 * Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein
 * Faith and Doubt https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/30/a-theology-of-power-mike-pence-and-the-dominionists/
 * The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace
 * https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/118/5/1621/20574
 * Possible movie to https://iffr.com/sites/default/files/iffr_2017_catalogue.pdf?ct=t(Tiger_Alert_Pro_January_2017_4_1_23_2017)
 * https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article/48/4/501/76578/The-Forgotten-Occupation-Peking-1900-1901
 * http://www.dartmouth.edu/~qing/WEB/LIU_K'UN-I.html
 * https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/871920
 * http://www.dartmouth.edu/~qing/WEB/LIU_K%27UN-I.html
 * https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130930-did-hollywood-help-the-nazis (also https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150206-the-most-racist-movie-ever-made)
 * https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/salt-in-my-soul-cystic-fibrosis-memoir
 * https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/16554
 * https://www.houshamadyan.org/mapottomanempire/vilayet-of-edirne/sandjak-of-rodosto/education-and-sport/schools.html
 * The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
 * Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
 *  Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (2004)
 * Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20030210095645/http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/betrayal/
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20030203190934/http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories2/070702_betrayal_review.htm
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/books/review/14APPLEBT.html
 * Book about Fiat-Ford race
 * Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909-1929: A Filmography and History
 * Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season 
 * "Sesame Street" and the Reform of Children's Television.
 * https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/6-books-to-help-kids-young-adults-learn-about-racism
 * https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/review-beautiful-day-isnt-really-about-mister-rogers-and-thats-why-it-works
 * Jews of Egypt: From Prosperity to Diaspora
 * Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture
 * The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s
 * Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/about-us/cidrap-staff/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph
 * The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-convert/
 * The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
 * A Southern Family in White and Black: the Cuneys of Texas
 * Brands, Trademarks and Goodwill: The Story of the Quaker Oats Company. McGraw-Hill, 1967, p. 154.
 * The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South
 * Slave in a Box
 * The Myth of Aunt Jemima
 * Where I Come From: Life Lessons of a Latino Chef by Sanchez - https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/aaron-sanchez-memoir-mexican-restaurants/
 * Languages of China by S. Ramsey
 * History of Modern Chinese by Chen Ping
 * “Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis,” - from https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/201710/was-secession-legal and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awU7PIojVvE&feature=youtu.be
 * https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/jul/16/favourite-medical-graphic-novels
 * The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
 * Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good by Steven Fenberg
 * Going Back to Galveston by Killingsworth
 * Houston: The Unknown City, 1836–1946 by Marguerite Johnston
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23739770.2020.1765581?journalCode=rifa20
 * Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whitness
 * The Stab-in-the Back Myth and the Fall of the Weimar Republic
 * Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veas seen at https://www.booklistonline.com/Year-of-the-Rabbit-Veasna-Tian/pid=9731531
 * Bullying Scars https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-being-bullied-affects-your-adulthood?utm_source=pocket-newtab
 * Modern Japanese Thought by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
 * Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature by Philip Gabriel
 * The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
 * More Than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan by Janice Matsumura
 * More Than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan by Janice Matsumura

Other stuff

 * École Française Internationale de Djeddah I found an article in the Arab News. https://www.arabnews.com:443/node/383762
 * Japanese School of Jeddah https://www.arabnews.com/node/2030016/saudi-arabia
 * zh:生活在树上
 * Sayun (film) - https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/publications/不一樣的月光-尋找沙韻-台灣首部原住民導演院線電影的教育意義-よる台湾初のチェーン興行映画における教育意義それぞれの月明かりサユン - https://web.alcd.center/aew/book.php?id=56 - https://alcd-web.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/03/ca0888e8badbfd16eae17865248e3ba0.pdf
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/22/american-teacher-in-japan-under-fire-for-lessons-on-japans-history-of-discrimination/
 * https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/AJPS-2006-Taber.pdf
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-brazil-series-by-bob-dylan-new-series-of-paintings-suggests-he-shouldnt-give-up-day-job-10273643.html

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