The firing of Taiwanese actress Irene Chen from the cast of the upcoming Chinese film GF Vending Machine for pro-Sunflower movement political views would be nothing new, regarding identity struggles in the Sinophone entertainment industry...
The International Design House Exhibition caps off Taipei’s time as World Design Capital 2016, but ultimately presents a vision of the city as an aestheticized consumer capital through an overemphasis on designer consumer products...
A recent debate about Taiwanese literature that took place largely on social media in September is illustrative of the unification/independence divide in Taiwanese literature circles and academia. But in this debate, can we also see a shared logic between the pro-unification Left and KMT apologists?...
Not exactly a documentary nor exactly a historical film, recently released experimental film Le Moulin hones in on the lives of Le Moulin Poetry Society, a group of Taiwanese poets active during the Japanese colonial period who were influenced by French surrealism...
Jocelyn Ford’s 2014 Nowhere to Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing details the life of Tibetan migrant Zanta as she struggles to provide a living for herself and her child in Beijing...
Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla would be an attempt to grapple with not only post-Fukushima Japan, but also the present moment of uncertainty in Japan with constitutional reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution on the table...
Prometheus Unbound: When Formosa Reclaims the World would primarily be an argument for a Left Taiwanese nationalism that advocates for independence, as distinctively colored by the Sunflower Movement...