Me Too-style sexual harassment allegations continue to embroil Taiwan. Accusations remain mostly centered on the political world, though there have been accusations more related to the academic or art worlds...
Indonesian migrants in Taiwan are exploited as cheap labor and racially marginalized. To support each other, they form subcultures, for example around the metalcore band Jubah Hitam...
Taiwanese civil society groups demonstrated in Liberty Plaza tonight to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Several hundred were in attendance, despite bouts of rain. The event began at 10 AM and was larger in scale than commemorations in preceding years...
A public outcry has ensued after a number of incidents at the National Taiwan University involving racism and sexism among the student body. NTU is traditionally thought of as Taiwan’s most prestigious university...
The International Journal of Taiwan Studies, one of the flagship journals of the discipline, published an unusual piece several months ago by Flair Donglai Shi. Though framed as an attack on Shih Shu-mei’s concept of the Sinophone, the crux of the piece’s argument is effectively that Taiwan studies is insufficiently Sinocentric...
For the nineteenth episode of Radio New Bloom, we feature an interview with Coen Blaauw, a Dutch lawyer and Senior Policy Advisor to the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, a US non-profit promoting Taiwan’s right to self-determination. He joined FAPA in 1989 and has since become a central figure in the Taiwan independence movement in the United States. He specializes in connecting with members of the U.S. Congress, drafting Taiwan-related legislation, and recruiting support for these legislations....
