As with much global summits of its kind more generally, the G20 summit held in Hangzhou has been an object of mass spectacle. But what does this reveal about China?...
Issues of urban eviction in Kaohsiung under Chen Chu’s mayorship are back in the news, with the recent demolition of a housing complex adjacent to a fruit and vegetable market in Sanmin District in northern Kaohsiung...
A rally of reportedly over 100,000 took to the streets of Taipei yesterday in order to protest against the Tsai administration's planned pension reform plans...
Prometheus Unbound: When Formosa Reclaims the World would primarily be an argument for a Left Taiwanese nationalism that advocates for independence, as distinctively colored by the Sunflower Movement...
If recent warnings that China may be caught in a Japan-style liquidity trap are any indication of anything, with China’s economic slowdown and the failure of state stimulus to generate new returns, such developments such not really be so surprising...
On July 30th, the Taichung-based arts magazine White Fungus held Depopulate 06, the release party for the fifteenth issue of the magazine at Korner in Taipei. After the party, New Bloom interviewed White Fungus editor Ron Hanson on August 6th...
The overwhelming loss of DPP candidate Chang Mei-hui to KMT candidate Wei Chia-hsien in a by-election for mayor of Hualien has left many in the pan-Green camp in shock and disbelief...
A recent music video titled “Oh My God” by Malaysian rapper Namewee and well-known Taiwanese hip hop group 911 has drawn controversy for its depiction of Muhammad, gambling, drinking, and carrying a toy gun...
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.