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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

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

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

Recent Incidents Highlight Continued Coercion of Taiwanese Entertainers in China

EnglishLife
·May 14, 2024·3 min read
News reports indicate that Taiwanese actor Wu Mu-hsuen was made to sign a pledge of agreement with China’s territorial claims over Taiwan. Details of this pledge were disclosed by Wu’s agent, Chen Hsiao-chih Read More

Political Cartoon: Macron Meets Xi Jinping

EnglishLife
·May 12, 2024·1 min read
No Man is an Island presents a political cartoon by Suzanne Duroy on French president Emmanuel Macron's recent meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping.  Read More

Development Plans at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Spark Controversy

EnglishLife
·May 5, 2024·3 min read
Over 4,000 have signed a petition against development plans by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University for the campus of its College of Hakka Studies, which is located in Zhubei Read More

Political Cartoon: Support from the CCP After the Earthquake in Taiwan

EnglishLife
·April 15, 2024·1 min read
No Man is an Island presents a political cartoon on China's recent claims over Taiwan after the earthquake earlier this month Read More

Chinese Indie Band Stokes Outrage After Social Media Post Referring to Taiwan as Part of China

EnglishLifeMusic
·April 3, 2024·3 min read
Chinese indie band YOUNG DAN stoked outrage after an Instagram post on Monday that referred to Taiwan as part of China. The offending text in the post read, “From Guangxi to Taiwan, China" Read More

The Metamorphosis in Hong Kong

EnglishLife
·March 31, 2024·4 min read
I prodded something wet, like a mucus or slug, but with some thin fur. My eyes widened in horror and spent a few seconds clearing my mind. Then I slowly turned my head and caught a glimpse of a long elephant’s trunk, which was lying next to my pillow. Its two nostrils still trembling, as if it had something to tell me Read More

Is Post-Truth Discourse on the Rise from Influencers?

EnglishLife
·February 20, 2024·3 min read
A number of recent incidents in Taiwanese society involve influencers behaving badly, in faking incidents of violent crime for hits Read More

Aesthetics and Politics in 2024 Elections

EnglishLife
·January 13, 2024·5 min read
The 2024 campaign season largely continued the aesthetic tropes of previous election cycles Read More

Why Would Jaw Shaw-kong Urge China to Deny Reports of Pressure on Mayday?

EnglishLifeMusic
·December 29, 2023·3 min read
A Reuters report stating that Taiwanese band Mayday was pressured by Chinese authorities, citing an anonymous source, has become an object of political contestation in Taiwan Read More
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