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End of an era: Cartier-Bresson and the cross-strait diaspora
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Seeing past Taiwan’s identity politics: a review of ‘The Great Exodus’ for Global Asia
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Finding compassion for refugees: a review of ‘The Global Exodus’ for Taipei Times
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Anger with focus
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Flight of the Aztec Eagles: When Mexico bombed Taiwan
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The glorious contradictions of Lee Teng-hui
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Not quite Chinese (Taipei Times review of Russia’s Chinese Princess)
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In Trump we trust
06 January 2021 12:19 AM | No Comments -
End of an era: Cartier-Bresson and the cross-strait diaspora
04 January 2021 1:12 PM | No Comments -
Seeing past Taiwan’s identity politics: a review of ‘The Great Exodus’ for Global Asia
29 December 2020 1:21 PM | No Comments -
Finding compassion for refugees: a review of ‘The Global Exodus’ for Taipei Times
08 October 2020 12:15 AM | No Comments -
Anger with focus
27 August 2020 4:01 AM | No Comments -
Flight of the Aztec Eagles: When Mexico bombed Taiwan
21 August 2020 12:07 AM | 2 Comments -
The glorious contradictions of Lee Teng-hui
18 August 2020 12:22 AM | No Comments -
Not quite Chinese (Taipei Times review of Russia’s Chinese Princess)
06 August 2020 12:11 AM | No Comments
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Chang Hsueh-liang (張學良) in Da HouseGordon Levine
Chang Hsueh-liang (張學良) in Da HouseJames
Flight of the Aztec Eagles: When Mexico bombed TaiwanPeter Wilson
Flight of the Aztec Eagles: When Mexico bombed TaiwanJames
The Tao of Stephen Cheng: How a ‘Taiwanese’ folk song became a rocksteady classicNikki
The Tao of Stephen Cheng: How a ‘Taiwanese’ folk song became a rocksteady classicJames
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Despite Covid-19 success, Taiwan still struggles for international legitimacy
The following article appeared in the June 2020 issue of Global Asia: Two recurring themes in Western media analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic have been the inherent untrustworthiness of China and the near unparalleled success of Taiwan in tackling the disease. Strangely, few commentators have expressly connected these strands. The West, we are repeatedly told, […] -
Mature response to WHO required
The following op-ed appeared in today’s Taipei Times: It is hardly surprising that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is on the defensive. He is taking hits from all angles — the most recent and high-profile example is a broadside from US President Donald Trump, who attacked Tedros’ organization for moving too slowly and being “China-centric.” […] -
Shadows at Yangmingshan
The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: On the 45th anniversary of his death, Chiang Kai-shek’s footprints can be found all over Taipei’s national park Nowhere are the effects of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) postwar Sinification campaign more visible than in the toponymic revisions that the regime undertook after assuming power. Taipei’s streets […] -
Mask claims fly in face of science
The following op-ed appeared in today’s Taipei Times. In June 1918, as it became evident that a deadly strain of influenza was spreading through military cantonments in the US, a group of the nation’s premier medical scientists visited Camp Grant to conduct an inspection. Constructed just the year before, this huge army training center was […] -
James Soong: The end of an (authoritarian) era in Taiwan
The following piece appeared in The Diplomat today: Amid the coverage of Tsai Ing-wen’s resounding victory and re-election as president of Taiwan last week, scant attention was given to political veteran James Soong’s showing. The former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) heavyweight finished a distant third place with just 4.25 of the vote. This represented a […] -
LGBT activists cautious ahead of elections
The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times If anything has been predictable about Kaohsiung Mayor and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu’s (韓國瑜) election campaign, it has been its unpredictability. From urging supporters to “confuse” polling organizations by pretending to back his opponent President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to proposing daily flag-raising ceremonies […] -
The Tao of Stephen Cheng: How a ‘Taiwanese’ folk song became a rocksteady classic
An version of the following piece appeared in today’s Taipei Times. First recorded in 1949, shortly after the Nationalist (KMT) government took power in Taiwan, Alishan Maiden (阿里山的姑娘 ) is among the best-known of Chinese songs. It’s a lyrically simple ode to a beautiful indigenous girl and her strapping beau, presumably members of the […] -
Letting Off Steam (DestinAsian Magazine)
The following feature on Beitou District, my home for most of the past 13 years, appeared in the October issue of DestinAsian magazine. It’s not available online, so I’ve embedded the pdf. -
Bursting the bubble: a taste of Taiwan in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter
The following piece appeared in today’s Taipei Times. When Jorge Cheng (陳賢文) set up shop in Barcelona in 2013, he had no idea he was riding a Taiwanese wave. “There were already eight drinks shops, which we didn’t know initially,” says Cheng, owner of Zenzoo, a Taiwan-style bubble tea drinks store just off Las Ramblas, […] -
A little bird in the hand
Folk taxonomy in Taiwan is marked by genericism. Rodents of all shapes and sizes are mice; the most diminutive of raptors ascends to the rank of eagle; and, bound by their spots, leopards are branded cheetahs (“hunting leopards”). One such catch-all that has perennially confused me is xiao niao – literally ‘little bird’. In my […]