The rally for migrant workers' rights which took place in Taipei this past Sunday points to how the role of migrant workers in Taiwan remains precarious...
South Korea may be poised on the brink of a general strike. We can situate current events in South Korea within broader regional trends of neoliberal economic conditions and the actions of resurgent authoritarian governments in East Asia...
Irrespective of its content, Petrus Liu’s Queer Marxism in Two Chinas probably would have found success on the basis of its title containing the words “Queer,” “Marxism,” and “China”. That may be the point...
With the recent arrests of Guangzhou labor activists, we see where the authoritarian Chinese state acts in defense of capital, with workers thrown under the bus by a state which nonetheless claims an ideology centered around worker rule...
Persistent smog in Beijing for the past week have made international news. Air pollution is a prominent example of the issues which loom large in China concerning issues of people’s health and livelihood sacrificed in favor of economic development. We see this elsewhere as well....
China's establishment of its first overseas military base in Djibouti has provoked some anxiety. Is this beginnings of a world-spanning imperialist base-building project by China in the future?...
What are the politics that undergird Hou Hsiao-Hsien's "The Assassin", which has been much fêted on the film festival circuit? Are they ultimately the politics of Taiwan's pro-unification Left?...
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, as well as board member of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club.
