On December 25th, 2021, just two days after the University of Hong Kong plastic-wrapped and removed the Pillar of Shame from its campus, Taiwan’s New School For Democracy held a press conference at the Legislative Yuan in response to the university administration’s actions...
Civil society groups marked the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre today, as normally takes place in Taiwan annually. As with past years, the commemoration took place in Liberty Plaza...
The Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan protested outside of a McDonald’s earlier this month to call on the fast-food chain to transition toward using cage-free eggs, rather than from chickens raised in cages...
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....