New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with Gideon Welles and Pratik Suketu, the producer and director of At Road’s End, on November 29th, 2017. At Road’s End is an independent film set in Taiwan currently running a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGogo, the film touching on issues such as the RCA incident and the history of developmentalism in Taiwan...
With the sentencing of Taiwanese NGO worker Lee Ming-che to five years in Chinese prisons for charges of seeking to "subvert" the Chinese government and encourage multiparty democracy, few are surprised. But what now for efforts to secure Lee's release? And will the effects on Taiwan be?...
Outrage has ensued in China following the death of nineteen individuals in Daxing District in southern Beijing after a fire. 17 of these individuals were migrants from other parts of China and seven were children. But government responses have largely consisted of evicting migrant workers, a form of prioritizing public image over the welfare of migrant workers even after such a tragedy...
Responses by Coolloud leading figure Wang Haozhong to criticisms by New Bloom against its republication of statements by the “Protect The Family Alliance” and its pro-unification stance have been facile. We might here offer some responses to Wang’s criticisms...
A press conference to raise legal funds for four Sunflower Movement demonstrators facing charges related to the encirclement and blockade of Zhongzheng First Police Precinct by demonstrators on April 11th, 2014 was held on Wednesday...
Issues of land evictions and land appropriation have once again seen protest as of late in Taiwan, with increasing calls that the Tsai administration take action to prevent another wave of land eviction cases from sweeping Taiwan, as occurred under the Ma administration...
Was today a victory for organized labor in Taiwan and a defeat for the DPP? In the end, following a grueling day of protest which began at 9 AM and saw no less than three attempts to storm the Legislative Yuan, the committee meeting in which planned changes to the Labor Standards Act were to be reviewed was cancelled. But what now for attempts to stop these changes from being passed into law?...
It has been a chaotic day of protest both inside and outside the Legislative Yuan. With the review of planned changes to the Labor Standards Act scheduled for today and the changes set to take effect in the next few months after passing this review, it was anticipated by many that today would be a day of intensive protests against the DPP attempting to force these changes into law. And indeed, protests today have been intensive, seeing multiple attempts to storm the Legislative Yuan, with more protests planned for night...
Outrage has ensued against the DPP’s compromise of its values with the passage of new changes to the Labor Standards Act, particularly following conflict between DPP legislators and Hsu Yung-ming of the NPP in the Legislative Yuan, during which DPP legislator Chiu Yi-ying lashed out verbally at Sunflower Movement activists...
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.
