China’s recent bullying of Taiwan in the Paralympics is yet another incident in which an international sports event became a matter of contesting national identity for Taiwan...
Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla would be an attempt to grapple with not only post-Fukushima Japan, but also the present moment of uncertainty in Japan with constitutional reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution on the table...
When the giant panda was recently reclassified as a “vulnerable” rather than an “endangered” species thanks to Chinese conservation efforts, far from the jubilant, the Chinese State Forestry Administration criticized this downgrading...
With the blockade of Wukan village by 2,000 police officers and use of violence against townspeople, it would be that China’s Wukan village is once again under siege...
Controversy has erupted in Japan concerning half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese politician Renho Murata, a frontrunner for president of the opposition Democratic Party...
A demonstration by tourist industry groups against the Tsai administration took place yesterday. Between five thousand and ten thousand were in attendance...
Whether in Taiwan, Vietnam, or elsewhere, Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics has a long history of environmental scandal. With recent fish deaths in Vietnam caused by a Formosa-owned plant raising the issue of Formosa's history of environmental wrongdoing, we might take a look at this history...
Regarding the present state of Taiwanese-American politics, one often sees a gap in political understanding between Taiwanese-Americans and Taiwanese first generation immigrants...
A meeting between New Power Party legislator Freddy Lim with the Dalai Lama took place recently, raising questions of whether Taiwan would be open to a visit by the Dalai Lama....
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.