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Bad Taiwan Takes: Reactions from DC to Lai’s Comments on a White House Visit

EnglishLife
·July 20, 2023·3 min read
A report in the Financial Times earlier this week indicated that some in Washington DC were upset with DPP presidential candidate William Lai for suggesting that one day he hoped to see a Taiwanese president visit the White House. As the same article quoted an official stating that the White House had not been in contact with the Lai campaign over the remarks, those unhappy about Lai’s comments may not be from the White House, but could be from the State Department Read More

“Rewind, Pause, Then Play” Reminisces on the Videotape’s History in South Korea

EnglishFilm
·July 17, 2023·2 min read
Documentary “Rewind, Pause, Then Play” looks at how the videotape connected South Korea with the world during its authoritarian period Read More

Social Distancing 2.0: A Review of Hsin-Hui Lin’s Contactless Intimacy

BooksEnglish
·July 13, 2023·7 min read
Hsin-Hui Lin's Contactless Intimacy is a claustrophobic character study, a dazzling exercise in worldbuilding, and a chilling thought experiment: what would happen if artificial intelligence gained the power to dictate human intimacy? In a world where physical contact is prohibited, relationships are optimized by machines, and free will is exposed as fiction, what might become of individual agency? Read More

社交距離2.0——讀《零觸碰親密》

BooksChinese
·July 8, 2023·1 min read
林新惠的《零觸碰親密》是一部深入角色直至引發幽閉恐懼的作品。小說建構的世界令人讚歎不已,同時也是令人不寒而慄的思想實驗:如果有一天人工智能得以支配人類彼此的親密關係,會發生什麼?在一個身體接觸被明令禁止、人際關係被機械優化、自由意志近乎虛無的世界,個人的能動性將會發生什麼變化? Read More

Dogū Shapes the Images of Digital Monsters: From Jōmon Figurines to 21st Century Pop Culture

ArtEnglish
·July 2, 2023·3 min read
After a few days, my cousin was at our family dinner table. In his hands were some cards which always appeared in my childhood. “Hey Gi! Check out my new collections!” he said with a grin. He passed the cards to my hand, and I had an answer: “Claydol the Pokemon! They look like Dogū!” Read More

FTM Representation in Taiwan Takes One Step Forward and Two Steps Back with Chang Yi-ching’s “Be Myself”

EnglishFilm
·July 1, 2023·9 min read
Director Chang Yi-ching's (張伊青) new documentary, 《做自己的條件》Be Myself, made its world premiere last night at the 25th annual Taipei Film Festival. Be Myself documents video editor Hsin-yu’s (欣嶼) journey through gender affirming surgeries and changing his legal gender from female to male. Chang’s new full-length documentary, running at 138 minutes, is the first of its kind, providing viewers with a detailed portrayal of female-to-male (FTM) transition and achieving new heights in FTM transgender representation in Taiwan. However, Be Myself suffers from a severe lack of sensitivity and accountability on the part of the director, as well as a narrative arc that ultimately centers Hsin-yu’s family members rather than himself and inadvertently perpetuates subtle forms of transphobia Read More

Review: Sexca-paint (一邊打砲,一邊畫畫)

EnglishLife
·June 28, 2023·3 min read
When I went to the gallery at Ho Sng House (about a 10-15 minute walk from Guting station) to see Peng Hsiung Hsu’s Sexca-paint (一邊打砲,一邊畫畫) exhibition, the artist was there in person to offer a guided tour. I was handed a lollipop as part of the experience: “The lollipop is part of the exhibition.” Read More

A Stylish, Humanistic Take on a Classic Franchise: A Review of Shin Kamen Rider

EnglishMusic
·June 22, 2023·3 min read
Shin Kamen Rider, the latest in Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” series reimagining Japanese classic television shows, is an effective action film and drama. If the film does not compare to the heights of 2016’s Shin Godzilla, it is still a cut above last year’s Shin Ultraman Read More

Bad Taiwan Takes: Warren Buffett on the Dangers of Geopolitical Conflict Over Taiwan

EnglishLife
·June 21, 2023·2 min read
In comments last month, famed investor Warren Buffett justified his sale of 4 billion USD worth of stocks in TSMC on the basis of the geopolitical risk faced by the semiconductor manufacturing giant. While Buffett rather diplomatically praised the company’s management, as well as how it was run, Buffett stated that it was geopolitical risks that made him decide to sell stocks in TSMC. In particular, Buffett stated that he would rather own stocks in Japan or closer to home in the US Read More

“A Sense of Unity and Resilience”: Eastern Margin’s Road 2 Redline Tour

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·June 17, 2023·6 min read
New Bloom's Brian Hioe spoke with obese.dogma777, rEmPiT g0dDe$$, and Lumi about Eastern Margins' recent Road 2 Redline tour of Southeast Asia, collaborating with artists that previously worked on their Redline Legends album, released in 2021.  The tour included stops in Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Bandung, and Saigon Read More

A Glimpse of Singapore from Afar: A Review of Eternal Summer of My Homeland

BooksEnglish
·June 14, 2023·1 min read
Agnes Chew's Eternal Summer of My Homeland, written about the author’s homeland of Singapore while living in Germany, is a capable collection of short stories. Consisting of eleven short stories, the collection is briskly paced given their length Read More

Kindergarten Sleeping Pill Incident Points to Larger Issues

EnglishLife
·June 9, 2023·3 min read
A scandal has broken out after students were found to have been given sleeping pills at a preschool in Banqiao, New Taipei Read More
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