Jerome Keating

Mapping Taiwan: A journey through history

The Mapping of Taiwan by Jerome F. Keating
Beautiful Island History 
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By Kwangyin Liu / Taiwan Today Taiwan may be Asia’s most vibrant democracy, but this lofty status masks a colonial past that continues to impact local society and the identity of the people. For Jerome F. Keating, a U.S.-born academic, documenting the island’s history through the cartographic lens is a

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'Woodstock' takes Taipei… 40 years on

Taiwan News 
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By Dan Bloom Special to The Wild East TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Despite how the U.S. was transformed by the 1969 Woodstock musical festival in upstate New York, Taiwanese filmgoers are only now able to see what the fuss was all about. In those days, Taiwan was still under martial law.

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