Subscribe by Email
Pages
Blogroll
- Al Masry Al Youm (Cairo) [In English]
- AlterNet
- Ampontan
- Anna in the Winter
- AsiaEye
- Blake Carter
- Cheng History
- Crossroads Arabia
- Daily Kos
- David on Formosa
- David Simon
- EastSouthNorthWest
- Enemies of Reason
- Fear of a Red Planet
- Global Voices
- Hidden Harmonies
- Hiking in Taiwan
- Hiking Taiwan
- Iberoblog
- Jadaliyya
- Lao Ren Cha
- Laogai blog
- Laowiseass
- Mike Corsini's blog
- Mirror Signal Move
- MqVu (Exporting China's Development to the World)
- My Kafkaesque Life
- My Several Worlds
- Off the Beaten Track
- OzSoapbox
- Patrick Cowsill
- RConversation
- Rebel With A Cause
- Savage Minds
- Shanghaiist
- Steven Crook
- Taihoku 1937
- Taiwan Angler
- Taiwan Blogs
- Taiwan in Perspective
- Taiwan Matters
- Taiwanese Identity
- The Afghanistan Analysts Network
- The Battle of Fisherman's Wharf
- The Chronikler
- The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
- The Northern Light
- The Peking Duck
- The View from Taiwan
- Wayward UN Traveller
- Wendell Minnick
- Yang Tsung-hua
Categories
- Arts
- Avdullah Hoti
- Baltics
- Book reviews
- Boris Johnson
- Burma
- Business
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Culture
- Daniel Ortega
- Food
- History
- Ho Te-lai
- Karl Popper
- Kosovo
- Lee Teng-hui
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Nicaragua
- Penghu
- People
- Philippines
- Philosophy
- Places
- Poetry
- Politics and polemic
- Quest for the Golden Horns
- rants
- Sport
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Taiwan
- Tedros
- Travel
- Ukraine
- WWII
- Xi Jinping
- Yangmingshan
-
History Archive
-
Tears, disbelief, and solidarity as Taiwan’s Ukrainians speak out
The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: Solidarity and steadfastness. These qualities were evident among Ukrainians long before missiles began pulverizing their cities early Thursday morning. They were on display again on Friday and Saturday in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義), where hundreds of people gathered outside the building housing the Russian representative office. Ukrainians […] -
Globetrotting entrepreneur brings a taste of the Baltics to Taiwan
The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: Once Peter Young (楊良棟) gets going, you can’t be sure where he’ll end up. One minute, it’s eighteenth-century Baltic history, the next, the health benefits of chokeberry wine. A discussion of the current situation in his native Hong Kong kicks off a sweeping tour of Chinese history that […] -
Hidden in plain sight: the extradordinary work of Hsieh Tong-liang (Part 2)
Part 2 of a feature for Guan Xi Media: With tea and preliminary chit-chat done, Diane suggests we start our tour in the large exhibition space next door. Split into sections showcasing the various series of works that have occupied periods of Hsieh’s life spanning, in some cases, a single year, in others, decades, the […] -
Taiwan’s ‘return-to-reality’ trailblazers (Taipei Times review of ‘Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan’)
The following book review appeared in today’s Taipei Times: Discussions of identity in Taiwan are seldom clearcut. Viewed through the prism of the country’s democratization, things can be even more opaque. For those with rudimentary knowledge of these issues, this short book is no primer; indeed, even the initiated may find it challenging. But those […] -
Hidden in plain sight: The extraordinary work of Hsieh Tong-liang (Part 1)
The follow article appeared in Guanxi Magazine: For years I’d been intrigued by the peculiar house on Chang’an Rd in Taichung’s Taiping District. As with most of my best discoveries in Taiwan, I’d stumbled upon it – in this case almost literally, when a scuffed pass had sent a football trickling down a sloping, paved […] -
Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame (review for Global Asia)
The following book review was published in the December, 2022 issue of Global Asia: “To the statesmanship, vigor, and personality of this one man more than any other single factor must be the credit for having realized this ideal … of a free and democratic China,” wrote H.H. Chang in a 1944 biography of Chiang […] -
Ritual humiliation (review of ‘Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame’ for Taipei Times)
The following book review appeared in today’s Taipei Times: Few historical revisionists can have been as audacious as Grace C. Huang in comparing Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) to Mahatma Gandhi. Yet, not only does Huang attempt the parallel, she makes rather a good case for it. Previous studies of leadership, Huang writes, have “tended to portray […] -
En route to a brighter tomorrow (Médecins Sans Frontières-Magnum exhibition at Art Taipei 2021)
The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: Assorted political bigwigs turned out for the VIP opening of Art Taipei on Thursday. With projected foot traffic of 100,000-plus and a 30 percent increase in exhibitor participation, the event — which runs until Monday at the Taipei World Trade Center — was another opportunity to showcase […] -
Fictionalizing Taiwan’s White Terror (review of ‘Transitions in Taiwan’ for Taipei Times)
The following book review appeared in today’s Taipei Times: Violence and oppression, we are told in the introduction to this collection of tales, are foundational to modern Taiwan, providing “a legacy that continues to influence its contemporary society.” It is interesting, then, that an anthology subtitled “Stories about the White Terror,” offers few instances of […] -
Taiwan entwined in WHO’s history (Review of Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s ‘Mad By the Millions’ for Global Asia)
The following book review appeared in the September issue of Global Asia: Taiwan’s relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) has been problematic at best since the country was expelled from the UN agency in 1972.1 From 2009 to 2016, as then-President Ma Ying-jeou fostered a cosy relationship with Beijing, Taiwan was granted observer status […]
