An interview with Hualien restaurant owner Jason Delickta on the effects that the recent 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit Hualien on February 6th has had on businesses...
An interview with Zhang Zheng, founder of the Brilliant Time Bookstore. Brilliant Time is a bookstore and community center in New Taipei City oriented towards Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan...
New Bloom presents the fifth installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! For our fifth installment of Radio New Bloom, we spoke to Dana and James from HCT Regenerative, the first organ and tissue bank in Taiwan...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with Gideon Welles and Pratik Suketu, the producer and director of At Road’s End, on November 29th, 2017. At Road’s End is an independent film set in Taiwan currently running a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGogo, the film touching on issues such as the RCA incident and the history of developmentalism in Taiwan...
Maggie Shen King is a Taiwanese-American author living in the San Francisco Bay area whose debut novel An Excess Male has garnered attention from audiences and critics for its imaginative take on the long term effects of the Chinese One Child policy. The following is an interview with King conducted over email with New Bloom writer Garrett Dee...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe had a conversation on October 12th with Kevin Ko-wen Chen and Andrea “Chuey” Chu, who, along with Albertine Wang, are the editors of Chrysanthemum: Voices of the Taiwanese Diaspora, an upcoming anthology of print collection of visual and written work by North American members of the Taiwanese diaspora...
Two interviews with Ku Teng-ju of the Homeless Taiwan Association and Chu Yi-jun of the Wanhua Social Welfare Service Center, a division of the Taipei City Government’s Department of Social Welfare...
On February 22nd, Brian Hioe and Ferran Pérez Mena interviewed Yvonne Leung Lai Kwok through Skype regarding the state of Hong Kong, regarding both electoral and social movement politics. As part of our new collaboration with Yuanfang Magazine, a Spanish translation of the interview is available on Yuanfang Magazine...
New Bloom presents the fourth installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! For this installment, we spoke with members of Indivisible Taiwan regarding the formation of their group after the election of Donald Trump, and actions of theirs such as the Women's March, March for Science, and other coordinated group actions...
New Bloom presents the third installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! Our interview guest for this installment is Jennifer Lu, who is one of the leading figures of the marriage equality movement in Taiwan and currently a research fellow at the Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association...
