History
2-28 Massacres: Remembering the dark side of Taiwan’s history
Feb. 28, 1947. A confrontation occurs between agents of the Monopoly Bureau and a woman cigarette vendor; in their view she is…
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Chiang kai-shek in Taiwan
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Arts
‘Keeping up with the War God’: BOOK REVIEW
Keeping up with the War God, by Steven Crook (Yushan Publications, 2001) Buy it on Amazon.com here This is a fantastic read…
History
'LONG LIVE THE TAIWANESE PEOPLE’ (Requiem for 2-28 Victims)
The following is an excerpt from the recent anthology of poetry, “The War on Sleep” (2010), by Trista di Genova. The 228…
Culture
Taiwan Architecture: A Festival of Junk
How and why the island’s modern-day architecture evolved into such a sad state – an aesthetically offensive living museum of bile-inspiring monstrosities…
Arts
Will Tiao on 'Formosa Betrayed': ‘I can defend my movie to the T”
Wild East senior correspondent At a speaking engagement jointly sponsored by Prof. Jerome Keating’s Breakfast Club and the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club…
Politics
Study explores the "Kinmen Identity"
See original article in the China Post here. By Trista di Genova The history of Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Island, known in the…