As acts of protest and repression in Hong Kong are back in the news, I’ve been thinking once more about the extraordinary verses and prose poems that Tammy Ho Lai-Ming has written documenting the ongoing struggle in the city she lives in and loves...
With much international praise of Taiwan’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in avoiding expansive lockdown measures and avoiding domestic transmission of the coronavirus, a major factor in Taiwan’s successes has been the ability of the government and society to communicate information about measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As such, examining the aesthetics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwanese society may be instructive...
Alan Yang's Tigertail ultimately proves a disappointing film, having all the elements of what would otherwise make a good film, but these elements failing to cohere together in any meaningful way...
The time has come for long-held societal views on older people’s search for companionship to be reexamined, and acclaimed film director Ray Yeung is here to herald in the change with his newest film, Suk Suk...
As with the past several elections since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, young candidates continued to be the source of much creativity during 2020 election campaigning, where aesthetics were concerned...
The Living Mall, also known as the Core Pacific City, the sphere-shaped mall in Songshan district, is shutting down on Saturday, November 30th. The mall, auctioned for $38 billion earlier this year, will be destroyed and replaced with office buildings less than 20 years after opening its doors...
Just north of Taipei Main Station, a black mannequin stands in an open plaza. Emerging from torrents of white medicine bottles, the mannequin wears sheets of white plastic threads that cling to its body like a second skin...
Detention, the film adaptation of the surprise indie horror video game hit of the same name, proves an unusual candidate to engage with the history of Taiwan’s White Terror...
