The complete account of last month's Ministry of Education occupation from New Bloom editor Brian Hioe, who was present for most of the occupation from the beginning....
In early April, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe interviewed the Social Democratic Party's Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔) by Skype. Although several months have passed since then, we still believe the interview still to be insightful about the Social Democratic Party and its political positions in the present. This was our second interview with Jennifer Lu, we first interviewed her in August of 2014....
Is it possible that China's recent economic woes may lead to both increasingly aggressive foreign policy as well attempts to crack down on perceived domestic dissidence?...
How was it that the Tianjin explosions became an object of international media spectacle? And what are implications going forward based on Chinese government responses?...
What were the differences between last year's Sunflower Movement and this year's Anti-Textbook Revision Movement? On the other hand, what was shared?...
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....
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.
