The Silent Forest, based on real events regarding sexual assault cases in a hearing-impaired school in Tainan, is a powerful debut by a daring director...
K-Ming Chang is a Taiwanese American poet and the author of Bestiary. New Bloom editor Sheng Kao spoke with her on October 8th to discuss Taiwanese politics and identity and how they take shape in her work, as well as themes in her debut novel, Bestiary...
“A career with five great photographs would be pretty good...” said Richard Avedon, “...[Henri Cartier-Bresson has] hundreds of them!”. This emphatic statement is not an exaggeration, as Cartier-Bresson is easily one of the greatest photographers of his generation, and one of the great artists of the twentieth century. It is quite a privilege to walk through the galleries of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and be in the presence of the great master’s work....
The Good Daughter is an observational and interview-based documentary film made in the vérité tradition. The film centers on A-zhe, a mail order bride from Vietnam, and her husband A-long...
To borrow a phrase commonly used in CCP parlance, Disney’s recently released live-action remake of Mulan must have originally seemed like an instance of “win-win cooperation” to Disney and the Chinese government...
That racial discrimination against indigenous continues to be an issue in Taiwan was spotlighted late last month at the Golden Bell Awards after Luo Xiao-yun, the chair of the judging committee for the awards, made ape noises while presenting an award to an indigenous NGO...