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Celebrating a God’s Birthday with a Temple Rave

EnglishLife
·December 7, 2020·8 min read
The first hint that something big would be taking place in Bangka over the weekend was when a large stage was set up on the street of my apartment building and started blaring loud electronic music every day at 11 AM Read More

Film Review: Twelve Nights 2 (十二夜 2)

EnglishFilm
·December 7, 2020·5 min read
Twelve Nights, a 2013 documentary film about animal shelters, is probably one of the most influential Taiwanese advocacy films you have not heard about Read More

LAB KILL LAB

ArtEnglishEvents
·December 15, 2020·9 min read
The LAB KILL LAB project concept aims to “permit a well-defined working lab the possibility to be renewed, substituted, replaced, regenerated and retired as time progresses”. The concept is exemplified and laid out as five “work stations” at C-LAB in Taipei from the week of December 14 to December 20, 2020 Read More

Review: A Sun (陽光普照)

EnglishFilm
·December 22, 2020·4 min read
Despite its release last year to much domestic acclaim, winning best film in 2019’s Golden Horse Awards, A Sun has received a new wave of critical attention internationally after making Variety’s list of best films of the year last month Read More

Review: Tiong Bahru Social Club

EnglishFilm
·December 24, 2020·4 min read
Tiong Bahru Social Club, Tan Bee Thiam’s solo directorial debut, is a satirical comedy that follows a man who leaves his humdrum routine office job to become an “Agent” for a data-driven project aimed at creating the “happiest neighborhood in the world” Read More

Reflecting on the Critical Success of Your Name Engraved Herein (刻在你心底的名字)

EnglishFilm
·December 29, 2020·19 min read
Part one of a two-part conversation on the critical success of Your Name Engraved Herein Read More

The Many Strangers of Bangka

EnglishLife
·January 5, 2021·4 min read
The thing about living in a city I really love is how many interesting characters there are. And you'll never know them all, no matter how hard you try. Where I live in Taipei—Bangka, the oldest and historically poorest district—has proven especially full of unique characters. All of these people have stories, but I'll never know them all Read More

Review: Cracks and Glimmers Photography (裂縫.微光——勢必與屋共亡的攝影展)

ArtEnglishEvents
·January 12, 2021·5 min read
The struggle against the Tainan Railway Eastern Expansion has been ongoing for twenty-five years, and Huang Chun-Cian’s house is the very last holdout against eviction to expand the railway. This exhibition takes place at the very site of struggle and will continue until the house is torn down Read More

Transformative Fan Experience, Audience, and Experiences from Your Name Engraved Herein

EnglishFilm
·January 14, 2021·18 min read
The second part of a two-part conversation on the critical success of Your Name Engraved Herein! Read More

Interview: Charles Yu

BooksEnglishInterviewsLife
·January 19, 2021·8 min read
New Bloom/No Man is an Island editor Brian Hioe spoke to writer Charles Yu about his recent book, Interior Chinatown, which recently won the National Book Award Read More

Staging Hakka-ness: ‘Stir-fry’ and its Path to New Identities

EnglishEventsLife
·January 21, 2021·5 min read
“The winner of the 2020 National Hakka Stir-fry Culinary Competition goes to A-Wu’s Shop!”, announced Andre Chiang, the lead judge of the final round judges’ panel. The crowd cheered as the restaurant owner and chefs headed up to the stage to claim their trophy and banner Read More

Reading Havel in Hong Kong—And Arendt in Bangkok

BooksEnglishLife
·February 2, 2021·2 min read
What follows, written at a time when news is coming out of both Hong Kong and Thailand of young activists facing prison time for speaking out for things they believe, is the English language original of the preface of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink Read More
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