On October 5th, mainstream media outlets reported on a Chinese woman carrying her child who was defecating in front of Burberry. How was reporting revealing of colonial discourse and discrimination against Chinese in the age of globalization?...
While there are many analyses that insist on highlighting the disconnection between Taiwan’s unusual political tremors and those of the world’s, comparisons must be drawn regarding the rise of third parties after the Sunflower Movement and across the world....
More than a year since the Umbrella Movement took the world by storm, the debate over its significance remains shrouded in a cloud of propaganda, censorship, or worse, a distorted form of leftist Orientalism...
What are the foreign policy implications of Tsai's recent trip to Japan? Morevoer, can we raise questions about what political forces is it that Tsai is seeking to ally herself with in Japan?...
On August 6th, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe interviewed Huang Kuo-Chang of the New Power Party. Huang Kuo-Chang, formerly a professor at Academica Sinica, was one of the lead figures of the Sunflower Movement....
Is the bizarre spectacle of KMT members demonstrating in front of KMT headquarters this past Wednesday revealing of new and significant splits within the KMT?...
James Soong recently draw controversy after an ad lashing out at DPP and KMT presidential candidates Tsai Ing-Wen and Hung Hsiu-Chu on the basis of their both being unmarried women. Can we draw broader implications?...
With the possibility of Hung's replacement as KMT presidential candidate, is it time to start speaking of Hung in past tense? We might look back on her meteoric rise and fall....
