Once again as with last year's Sunflower Movement we find ourselves in the situation where a small segment of the self-proclaimed Left backs away from a mass uprising of Taiwanese society, claiming it to be right-wing populism....
We have seen five days of occupation in the Ministry of Education courtyard. What have been international responses and what future prospects are there for the movement now?...
The Greek crisis has been the talk of all the world lately, Taiwan included. But there has been little commentary regarding what lessons the Greek referendum can offer Taiwan in terms of lessons....
With protests against the repeal of Article 9 in Japan, we once again find ourselves in the situation where tens of thousands of individuals gather on the streets in an Asian metropolitan area, but the situation is not reported on globally....
FoxCarn & the Betel Store will be the China and Taiwan regional project for Burning Man 2015. New Bloom caught up with project team member Ian Rowen....
Shanghai in the last month has seen massive mobilizations, some reports of which claim that up to 50,000 participated in environmental demonstrations against the building of a chemical plant....
Yesterday afternoon, demonstrators marched to the Ministry of Education to throw paper airplanes into the Ministry of Education courtyard to protest planned textbook revisions....
Are there lessons to be learned from the disproportionate influence of international media on Taiwan as evidenced in Tsai Ing-Wen’s appearance on the cover of Time Magazine?...
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.
