Demonstrations involving thousands the Chinese city of Lianyungang, located near the coast of the Jiangsu province in China, have led authorities to call off the building of a planned 15 billion dollar nuclear fuel reprocessing facility...
Recent incidents of urban demolition or evictions in Taichung and Kaohsiung have led to resistance from youth activists and others. We might take a look...
Of great mystery to observers of Taiwanese politics in recent days and weeks would be the strong stance the Tsai administration has taken on the disputed island territory of Itu Aba...
What has been dubbed the first directly pro-independence rally in Hong Kong history took place Friday after the banning of six candidates for legislature for pro-independence, localist views...
Recent backlash by Asian-Americans against The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon, for “whitewashing” Asians from a movie ostensibly set in China, have unfortunately generally missed the point...
With the recent barring of candidates for legislature in Hong Kong on the basis of pro-independence views, does this mean that any remaining semblance of democracy in Hong Kong is dead?...
The much anticipated apology by President Tsai Ing-Wen to Taiwanese indigenous took place today, but not without much protest by Taiwanese indigenous...
One year after the suicide of Dai Lin and the occupation of the Ministry of Education, the issue of history textbooks in Taiwan has not yet been fully settled ...
After a resounding victory by Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Upper House elections, it would appear that the ground has been cleared for Abe to push for the reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. What next, then, for the student movement opposed to constitutional reinterpretation?...
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.