Our next issue of New Bloom will focus on the referendum campaign to rectify Taiwan’s name, as well as matters of transitional justice! /《破土》下期的主題將會關注於台灣正名連署／公投和轉型正義！...
The #MeToo campaign has exploded across the Chinese Internet in the past month. This was prompted by an outpouring of anger regarding a twenty-year-old sexual assault case involving university student Gao Yan, who killed herself in 1998...
With a meeting between Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Xi Jinping of China taking place in last month in Beijing, this represents that at least publicly, North Korea and China will continue to present somewhat of a united front in the face of America under Donald Trump...
Controversy has broken out regarding the Tsai administration’s appointment of Huang Huang-xiong as head of the transitional justice promotion committee...
The KMT has probably learned little from its authoritarian past with the choice of Hou You-yi as its mayoral candidate for New Taipei City, given Hou's actions during the authoritarian period. However, the DPP has also attempted to recruit Hou in the past...
Electoral politics in 2018 elections and beyond stand to be shaken up by the recent formation of the “Formosa Alliance”, which intends to push for reform of the Referendum Act in order to allow for a referendum on amending the name of the nation and settling long-standing issues regarding independence/unification. This referendum push could pose a challenge to the DPP in terms of seizing its traditional base...
Claims by the Executive Yuan last month that it intends to realize Taiwan’s first unicorn company in the next two years would simply another case in point in which Taiwan desperately chases after what it perceives to be “international trends”, but has considered little of what that would mean, nor has taken the concrete steps to realize its claimed aspirations...
China lifting caps on the number of Taiwanese films allowed into China, the banning of the film "Missing Johnny," and controversy regarding the Man Booker Prize are recent incidents in which film and literature continue to be sites of contestation regarding Taiwanese identity...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je continues to come under fire for the eviction of protest occupations around the Legislative Yuan. However, Ko is accused of selective policing practices in evicting occupation encampments with closer ties to pro-Taiwan civil society while allowing pan-Blue occupations to remain...
