Brian Hioe

Few Reactions To Wang Ping-Chung Arrest Indicate That Taiwanese Society Accepts Veracity Of Spying Charges

Brian Hioe
With Wang Ping-Chung, his father Wang Ching-Pu, and fellow New Party officials Ho Han-ting and Lin Ming-cheng indicted on charges of espionage for spying on China earlier this month, this has prompted few reactions from Taiwanese society. This likely indicates that Taiwanese society has largely come to accept the veracity of charges against them...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJune 20185 min read

人權之恥：台灣的諾魯難民秘密協定

Brian Hioe
台灣與澳洲簽署的秘密協定中，對待那些澳洲滕博爾（Turnbull）政府拒絕入境的諾魯難民的方式，證明了台澳兩國共謀侵犯人權，可恥至極。然而，蔡政府卻試圖將此事件美化為台灣對國際人權的貢獻，以及和國際間關係密切往來的里程碑。《雪梨先驅晨報》揭露了這則新聞之後，台灣和澳洲政府先後證實了報導的確屬實。...
InternationalJune 2018Regional Tensions中文陳黃金菊2 min read

Debate About Two-Stroke Scooters, Plastic Straws Point To Challenges Facing Environmental Legislation

Brian Hioe
Demonstrations by two-stroke scooters owners as well as recent controversy regarding plastic straws illustrate some of the difficulties facing efforts to introduce environmental legislation in Taiwan. As with elsewhere in the world, efforts at environmental legislation will meet resistance when they infringe upon long-held social habits...
EnglishEnvironmentalJune 2018Social Movements6 min read

After Huashan Murder, Attempts To Scapegoat Creatives On PTT And In Taiwanese Media

Brian Hioe
The conservatism of Taiwanese social morality can be observed in reactions to a recent murder case that occurred in the 120 Grassroots Self-Autonomous Zone, involving the dismemberment of a 30-year-old woman surnamed Gao by a 37-year-old archery teacher surnamed Chen. What is visible through such reactions are attempts to displace blame onto a small group of young people while avoiding addressing deep-rooted problems of toxic masculinity in Taiwanese society. Much reactions have been centered on the Internet, particularly through PTT, including doxxing, harassment, and the posting online of personal information of Grassroots organizers by way of the "human flesh search engine"...
EnglishGender/SexualityJune 2018Social Movements15 min read
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Brian Hioe

Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.

丘琦欣，創建破土的編輯之一，專於撰寫社會運動和政治的自由作家偶而亦從事翻譯工作。他自哥倫比亞大學畢業，是亞洲語言及文化科系的碩士，同時擁有紐約大學的歷史，東亞研究及英文文學三項學士學位。