For those of us who lived through the Sunflower Movement and its aftermath, Joshua Wong’s announcement of his intent to run for legislator in Hong Kong would strike as eerily familiar...
What are the foreign policy implications of Tsai's recent trip to Japan? Morevoer, can we raise questions about what political forces is it that Tsai is seeking to ally herself with in Japan?...
On August 6th, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe interviewed Huang Kuo-Chang of the New Power Party. Huang Kuo-Chang, formerly a professor at Academica Sinica, was one of the lead figures of the Sunflower Movement....
Is the bizarre spectacle of KMT members demonstrating in front of KMT headquarters this past Wednesday revealing of new and significant splits within the KMT?...
James Soong recently draw controversy after an ad lashing out at DPP and KMT presidential candidates Tsai Ing-Wen and Hung Hsiu-Chu on the basis of their both being unmarried women. Can we draw broader implications?...
With the possibility of Hung's replacement as KMT presidential candidate, is it time to start speaking of Hung in past tense? We might look back on her meteoric rise and fall....
As we reach the one year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement's beginning, we might look back on Hong Kong and Taiwan after the year of the Umbrella Movement and Sunflower Movement...
In early August, New Bloom interviewed Wuer Kaixi, longtime democracy activist and Chinese dissident about his run for legislator in Taichung as an independent....
Recent attempts by the Bureau of Consular Affairs to crack down on a campaign to place "Republic of Taiwan" stickers on ROC passports has foregrounded questions about Taiwan's displacement from the international community....
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.
