Social Movements

In Spontaneous Protest, Hundreds Demonstrate Outside of Legislative Yuan Against KMT Actions

Brian Hioe
A spontaneous protest took place outside of the Legislative Yuan tonight, drawing hundreds of young people. Overnight spontaneous demonstrations on the scale of today’s protest have been rarely seen in the ten years since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, with such protests mostly fading after the Tsai administration took office...
EnglishFeaturedMay 2024Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements9 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Brian Hioe
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...
Arts and CultureEnglishJuly 2021Literature and Poetry8 min read

Interviews

Politics

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

Brian Hioe

What Can We Expect from Lai’s Inauguration Address?

Brian Hioe

Ko Wen-je Faces Scrutiny Over Taipei Development

Brian Hioe

KMT Takes Aim at Ukraine-Related Issues

Brian Hioe

What Do Some Clamor for Removing the DPP Party Charter’s Independence Clause Ahead of the Inauguration?

Brian Hioe

Israel/Palestine Conflict: Over 100 Americans in Taiwan Send Letter to AIT

Laura Moye

International Affairs