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“Heaven Does Not Block All Roads” Looks at the Storied Life of an Activist

BooksEnglish
·April 28, 2025·1 min read
Heaven Does Not Block All Roads is an elucidating and well-written biography of Huang Chin-tao, a member of the resistance army Troop 27 and later dangwai activist. As such, Huang came to be known as Taiwan’s so-called “Eternal Warrior” before his passing in 2019 Read More

“Light of the Setting Sun” is an Elegiac Diasporic Reflection

EnglishFilm
·April 24, 2025·2 min read
Light of the Setting Sun is a capable, elegiac work examining filmmaker Vicky Du’s family. Du focuses on the history of silences in the family, silences she ultimately traces back to the trauma of displacement after the Chinese Civil War Read More

Interview: Vicky Du on “Light of the Setting Sun”

EnglishFilmInterviews
·April 21, 2025·6 min read
New Bloom's Brian Hioe spoke to Vicky Du, director of the new documentary, Light of the Setting Sun. Light of the Setting Sun follows Du's questioning of the political silence in her family in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War Read More

影評:《弟弟》

ChineseFilm
·April 15, 2025·1 min read
國家電影及視聽文化中心將在 4/20 和 4/26 上映台裔美籍導演王湘聖的作品《弟弟》,這是王湘聖的首部長篇電影,溫柔而真誠地致敬了青春成長的煩惱。 Read More

Lou Ye’s “An Unfinished Film” Is a Heartfelt Farewell to Sixth-Generation Cinema, The Hopes of an Era

EnglishFilm
·February 15, 2025·2 min read
Lou Ye's An Unfinished Film is a gripping look at the lockdown in Wuhan, China, focusing on the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the movie is more than that. Rather, the film proves something of a farewell to sixth-generation Chinese cinema and the era of optimism that, in many ways, sixth-generation Chinese cinema reflected Read More

Bad Taiwan Takes: Xiao Qian in the Australian Financial Times

EnglishLanguageLife
·February 11, 2025·2 min read
A recent op-ed in the Australian Financial Times by Chinese ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, has provoked consternation Read More

The 10 Best Taiwanese Movies of 2024

EnglishFilm
·December 31, 2024·10 min read
Discover the top Taiwanese movies of 2024 across genres like horror, heist, comedy, romance, and more—streaming links included when available. Read More

“The Pig, the Snake, and the Pigeon” Proves an Uneven if Well-Executed Work

EnglishFilm
·November 30, 2024·2 min read
Despite garnering a number of awards and otherwise being a capably executed film, The Pig, the Snake, and the Pigeon ultimately proves an uneven work. This is primarily because of the movie’s failure to develop compelling characters or a cohesive narrative. Read More

“Didi” is a Gentle and Heartfelt Tribute to Adolescence

EnglishFilm
·September 24, 2024·3 min read
Didi, the first feature-length film by a Taiwanese American director, Sean Wang, is a gentle and heartfelt tribute to the growing pains of adolescence Read More

National Day Logo Draws Criticisms, Mockery

EnglishLife
·September 4, 2024·2 min read
The new logo for National Day was unveiled earlier this week. However, the logo proved a far cry from the modernist designs of the preceding years, in that the National Day logo took the form of a red and blue logo with a plum blossom in the middle. The plum blossom is the national flower of Taiwan Read More

“Dead Talents Society” is a Humorous Send-Up of Taiwanese Influencer Culture

EnglishFilm
·September 2, 2024·2 min read
Detention director John Hsu’s latest film, Dead Talents Society, is a capable and humorous if unremarkable work. Hsu’s aim seems to steer away from Detention’s serious subject matter, seeing as it is set during the White Terror, while maintaining the horror frame. But even if the film has mixed results, Hsu at least proves that he is equally adept at comedy Read More

Dreams and Secrets: The Shadows of Archive

EnglishLife
·August 26, 2024·31 min read
In the second half of the 2020s, I traveled repeatedly from New York to Taiwan, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just one or two weeks, sometimes for several months. On one of these Taiwanese excursions which, as it seemed to me, always took me further and further abroad, I came on a bustling early summer’s day to the city of Taipei Read More
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