Travel
Mysterious Concrete Coffins in Tainan
In a southern district of Tainan, farmers carefully till their fields, working their way around ancient concrete sarcophagi that sit on the…
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Culture
Expat Chat: On being a Western wife, part 2 of 2
What it’s like being a Taiwan xifu – daughter-in-law…? Curious about other foreign women’s experience of marrying Taiwanese, I interviewed Serina from…
Expat Life
Steven Crook: Taiwan's consummate cultural notetaker
(Pick up a copy of next month’s ‘Centered on Taipei’ magazine to see this interview in print.) Steven Crook, a Briton who’s…
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…
Travel
An Adventure 'round the Island: Couchsurfing, Hitchhiking, and Island Hopping
The Wild East As soon as I had secured myself a teaching position in Taipei, I decided to take a couple months…