Taiwan re-elects Pres. Tsai Ing-wen — by another landslide!

Tsai Ing-wen & Trista di Genova-CHANG

Political Beats

January 31, 2020October 16, 2021 Trista di Genova 0 Comment cross-strait ties, Democratic Progressive Party, DPP, KMT in Taiwan, Lee teng-hui, ma ying-jeou, Taiwan history, Taiwan politics, Tsai Ing-wen, White Terror

Tsai’s entire career trajectory could be described as a ‘Rampage of Firsts’, shattering glass ceilings as she rose through the ranks of Taiwan society By Trista di Genova-CHANG, The Wild East magazine Foreign observers & Taiwanese alike view Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen as a BIG POSITIVE! That must be why

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Taipei graveyard may hold key to White Terror

April 8, 2012March 1, 2019 Trista di Genova 0 Comment Chiang Wei-shui, Chinese Civil War, 蔣中正 / 蔣介石 Chiang Kai-shek, human rights, Linda Gail Arrigo 艾琳達 Ài Líndá, martial law, political prisoners, White Terror, White Terror era in Taiwan

By Trista di Genova / Originally published in The China Post [China Post no longer exists: broken link removed] Barely a stone’s throw from Taipei 101 and overlooking one of the more scenic views of the city, a small group of foreigners, one Taiwanese and I clamber up the side

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2-28 Massacres: Remembering the dark side of Taiwan’s history

February 28, 2012March 1, 2019 Trista di Genova 2 Comments 2-28 incident, 2-28 Massacre, Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Taiwan, Chen Yi, Chiang kai-shek in Taiwan, City of Sadness, Formosa Betrayed by George Kerr, Kuomintang, Lee teng-hui, Linda Gail Arrigo 艾琳達 Ài Líndá, Taiwan martial law, White Terror

Feb. 28, 1947. A confrontation occurs between agents of the Monopoly Bureau and a woman cigarette vendor; in their view she is illegally selling cigarettes, and they try to confiscate her life savings. Onlookers intervene on her behalf and one officer opens fire as they flee, killing one of the

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Taiwan’s Unsung Hero: A Tribute to Linda Arrigo

American Taels Expat Chat

July 18, 2011March 1, 2019 Trista di Genova 4 Comments 2-28 incident, aboriginal culture in Taiwan, aboriginal naming rights, Amnesty International, chen shui-bian, DPP, Formosa Kaohsiung incident, human rights, Kaohsiung, KMT, Lee teng-hui, Lin family murders, Linda Gail Arrigo 艾琳達 Ài Líndá, Lynn Miles, martial law in Taiwan, Political Beats, political dissidents, pro-Taiwan independence movement, Shih Ming-te 施明德, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan history, Tien Chao-min, US military in Taiwan, White Terror

One of the most underappreciated intellectuals around, for decades Linda Gail Arrigo has stuck to her guns and stood up for human rights in Taiwan. She should be thanked for always being a truth-teller, and providing authorities with at times a much-needed cattleprod to their conscience [Note:Other publications have declined

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Will Tiao on 'Formosa Betrayed': ‘I can defend my movie to the T”

Arts & Entertainment

August 8, 2010 Trista di Genova 11 Comments 2-28 incident, 228 massacre, Chiang kai-shek in Taiwan, Chinese Civil War, Formosa Betrayed, Formosa Kaohsiung incident, Henry Liu, meilidao, Taipei Times reviews, Taiwan history in film, White Terror, Will Tiao

By Trista di Genova Wild East senior correspondent At a speaking engagement jointly sponsored by Prof. Jerome Keating’s Breakfast Club and the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club (TFCC) and held at Central News Agency’s headquarters in Taipei Saturday, Will Tiao, the American-born Taiwanese writer/actor/producer of a controversial new independent film, “Formosa

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