Expat Life
How to Make Learning Chinese Impossible: Taiwan's Got It Down
Hapless Chinese learners agree: the Taiwan-only useless system of ‘Bopomofo’ ought to be immediately phased out, and the agreed-upon phonetic system of…
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Taiwan history
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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…
Travel
Chiang Kai-shek's kidnapper a hero in Hsinchu village
For The Wild East Magazine A museum featuring Chang Hsueh-liang, Chiang Kai-shek’s kidnapper, has become the star attraction of Chingchuan, Hsinchu County…
News
'Woodstock' takes Taipei… 40 years on
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Despite how the U.S. was transformed by the 1969 Woodstock musical festival in upstate New York, Taiwanese filmgoers are…