February/March 2016 (#12) What is ROC Independence versus Taiwanese Independence? ‘Open Data = Transparency?’: Ma’s Ludicrous Statement on Open Data Interview: Linda Gail Arrigo (艾琳達) China’s Recent Attempts to Crack Down on Press Freedoms What Was The Fishball Revolution About? What Are the Questions We Should Be Asking After the Tainan Earthquake? Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan’s Year of the Female Politician? 蔡英文與台灣年度女性政治人物 籽:維冠大樓。筆記,二月十二號,地震7天後。 Seeds: Notes from Earthquake Relief Efforts At the Site of the Disaster on February 12th Interview: Tuhi Martukaw (洪簡廷卉) 專訪:Tuhi Martukaw(洪簡廷卉) 籽:在維冠大樓災區的日本志工 Seeds: Japanese Volunteers at the Tainan Earthquake Site A Game of Thrones? Will China’s Upcoming Ban on Foreign Press Backfire? 梁警員與「華裔族群團結」背後的種族爭鬥:少數族群典範與反黑情結 The Peter Liang Trial and Questions of Race and Politics in America Lee Teng-Hui, Tsai Ing-Wen, and Questions About the ROC Framework Accusations of Fascism Against Hong Kong from the Pro-Unification Left? 誰出賣了台灣? The 228 Massacre, The New Legislature, and Unresolved Issues of Transitional Justice in Taiwan What Would Transitional Justice in Taiwan Mean? Peter Liang in China 歲有榮枯,以身證道 ——關於台灣左翼革命家史明(施朝暉,1918- ) 什麼是中國「新左派」:介於左派思想與民族主義之間? 中國新左派:中國國內的反資本主義者,出了境外卻是帝國主義者? 從葉宜津到余宛如,從人口危機到性別危機──談幼托政策 Perhaps There’s A Third Narrative on the Death of Akai Gurley and Conviction of Peter Liang 我們該怎樣看待 Peter 梁 的案子? Eagles of Revolution: A Tribute to Women in Marxism The Keelung Massacre: The Day the KMT Occupied Taiwan 重申「同性戀國家主義」與「粉紅清洗」:超越冷戰結構的帝國慾望? Who’s Afraid of Taiwanese Independence, Anyway? What is the Chinese New Left?: Between Leftism and Nationalism? The Chinese New Left: Anti-Capitalist Within China, Imperialist Outside of China? Mass Mining Workers’ Demonstration in Heilongjiang Coal Mine Town 國民黨真倒了嗎?軟禁在China體制裡的Taiwan命運 Why The Ban on Depictions of Homosexuality in Chinese Media And Silence from Critical Voices? 318 Two Years On The Sino-Thai Railway: Conveying of Chinese Hegemony? Taiwan and India Lu Su-ling’s Political and Legal Gaffes 專訪:艾琳達 What Do Recent Shifts in Taiwanese Identification Mean? Open Letter from Hertencia Petersen Regarding Peter Liang The DPP and ROC Independence 何天夏・彼得森對於紐約亞裔警官梁彼得槍殺一案的公開信 Although His Years Are Now Withered, Continuing to Struggle Hung Hsiu-Chu Strikes Back Does Taiwan Need a Founding Father? There Will Be Blood: Taiwan’s Rancorous Discourse On Capital Punishment Chicken or Egg? Questions of Political Transition of Power in Taiwan During the Ma-Tsai Meeting Why is Taiwan Thought of as a Small Country? The Controversy Over the Cross-Strait Oversight Bill 雞生蛋還是蛋生雞?臺灣大眾媒體處理殺害兒童事件的議題設定 Why Does Everyone in Taiwan Want To Be Chinese After A Massacre Happens? The Panama Papers and China’s Power Elite? Why Has Ko Wen-Je Seen a Drop in Popularity As Of Late? Questions of Art and Politics In The Controversy Over Ten Years 臺灣為什麼被看成一個小國? The Possibilities for Multiparty Politics in Taiwan Chinese Kidnappings of Taiwanese Nationals in Kenya Provoke Fears, Outrage, Questions The Formation of Demosistō in Hong Kong and Comparisons to 2016 Elections in Taiwan Chinese Media in Revolt? From Populism to Localism Mysteries Remain in Kenya Deportations A Pardon for Chen Shui-Bian? Questions of Justice in the Kenya Deportations? Bipartisan Politics and Conflicts of Interests for the Tsai Administration Differing Political Responses to the Kumamoto Earthquake From Taiwan Backlash Against The Cross Straits Oversight Bill From Activists Review: Green Island The Hong Kong Airport Demonstration and Issues of Labor and Class in Hong Kong Is Taiwan A Third World Country? 多黨政治在臺灣的可能性 專訪:黃之鋒 Interview: Joshua Wong (黃之鋒) A Sign Of Future Attitudes From The DPP Towards Taiwanese Activists? The TPP, American Pork Imports, And The Geopolitical Realities Of Free Trade The Real Black Box?: Taiwan and the TPP What Happens Once Ma Ying-Jeou’s Presidential Term Ends? Okinawa, Taiwan, and Japan Continued Provocations by Ma Ying-Jeou Regarding Disputed Island Territories A Decline In Pan-Green Media? Restrictions on Foreign NGOs in China To Target Domestic Chinese Civil Society? What Would An Expansion in the Definition of ‘Chinese’ Citizenship To Be Ethnic in Nature Mean? The WHO Debacle and Implications for the Upcoming Tsai Presidency Political Motivations for the Execution of Subway Killer Cheng Chieh? December/January 2016 (#11) The Unexpected Recognition of Taiwan Imperialism with Chinese Characteristics? Interview: Miao Poya (苗博雅) 為什麼醉‧生夢死打不贏聶隱娘 中國進入非洲:具有中國特色的帝國主義? The Past Week of Smog in Beijing and Smog Conditions as an International Problem The Arrest of Guangzhou Labor Activists and the Chinese State’s Defense of Capital When the Pro-Unification Left Tries to Proselytize Abroad: Petrus Liu’s “Queer Marxism in Two Chinas” “Taiwan No. 1” Becomes a Symbol of National Pride for Taiwan Gamers Interview: Chiu Hsien-Chih (邱顯智) Interview: Chen Wei-Ting (陳為廷) Is a General Strike in South Korea on the Horizon? The Past Weekend’s Migrant Workers’ Demonstration and Broader Issues of Migrant Workers in Taiwan The Case of Talum and the Plight of Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan 當左統試圖向境外佈道:劉奕德的《兩岸酷兒馬克思主義》 Will 2016 Elections Be The End of Taiwan’s Year of Protest? 2016年總統大選會是台灣抗爭年的盡頭嗎? The Taiwanese Television Series Bao Qingtian in Context of Thailand’s (Un)Democracy 統獨左右之外的社會想像——社群主義是否可能?(一)從兩名抗爭者之死談起 Shinsuke Ogawa and Kidlat Tahimik’s Confluence of Image 統獨左右之外的社會想像——社群主義是否可能?(二)獨派與台灣民族主義想像 侯孝賢的《聶隱娘》與左統:侯導由政治遁入美學 統獨左右之外的社會想像——社群主義是否可能?(三)新的社群想像 統獨左右之外的社會想像——社群主義是否可能?(四)第三種社會想像 When Heavy Metal Meets Activist Politics Hong Kong’s Sporting Rivalry Turned Political? Empty Talk, Bad Rhetoric, Followed By a Social Media War Eric Chu and the Ghost of Ma Ying-Jeou Tsai Ing-Wen and the Long Shadow of Chen Shui-Bian Why Has There Been an Upsurge of Labor Demonstrations Before 2016 Elections? Three Things Western Commentators Have Missed About the KMT in 2016 Elections More Empty Rhetoric at the Second Presidential Debate Aesthetics and Politics in 2016 Presidential Campaign Ads The KMT Attempting to Stir Up Intergenerational Conflict? Lessons for Taiwan 2016 from Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Soldiers”? Ma Ying-jeou Stickers are Ruining the KMT’s 2016 Election Campaign The Last Presidential Debate 那些背對我們的男人:五年級與七年級的「世代對立」 Why Is the Voting Age in Taiwan So High? Which Way Forward for the Third Force? The Race for Party Votes The Third Force and the Question of Taipei-Centric Politics in 2016 Elections 勇武E台灣郎,再加點油 Aesthetic and Political Experimentalism in 2016 Election Campaigning by the DPP and Third Force Parties The TPP, RCEP, and the Question of Free Trade Agreements for Taiwan Under a Tsai Presidency Where Did Identity Politics Go in the 2016 Presidential Elections? Leftism First or Independence First in 2016 Elections? The Time is Now SDP’s Chen Shang-chih Election Ads Go Viral 時候到了:台灣總統大選的最後階段以及大型勞動政黨的迫切需要 蔡與朱政策對比 Policy Comparison Between Tsai Ing-Wen and Eric Chu 高潞。以用 Kawlo Iyun:為原住民及花東議題發聲的立委候選人 國族霸凌與國旗謊言:周子瑜的蒼白與憔悴 Last Words on 2016 Elections What Happens Now That Tsai Ing-Wen Is President? Hard Choices for Tsai on Foreign Affairs Seeds: Su Beng 籽:史明 Who are the Winners and Losers of 2016 Elections in Legislature? Is the Narrative About Taiwan Changing After Tsai Ing-Wen’s Presidential Victory? The Fall of the KMT? Tsai and the Sunflower Generation How Will the US and China React to a Tsai Presidency? The Chou Tzuyu Incident and Entertainment as a Site of Conflict About National Identity Implementing a Criminal Jury Trial System in Taiwan What To Do With The KMT’s Party Assets? Mass Cyber-Trolling and Cross-Strait Relations In Taiwan, Dreams Change From the KMT’s ’1992 Consensus’ to the DPP’s ’Spirit of the 1992 Consensus’? 2016 Taiwan Elections in Public Dialogue on BBC Thai The Issue of Comfort Women and the Formation of an East Asian Bloc Why are Students at Hong Kong University On Strike? Marxist Basics with Parson: What Does the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” Actually Mean? Why Would Ma Ying-Jeou Visit Taiping Island? 阿進教你馬克思:「無產階級專政」真正的意義是甚麼? Calls for Reform by Young People Within the KMT? October/November 2015 (#10) 專訪:苗博雅 卡式台胞證3大觀察點:矮化台灣,對中系統失能,資安疑慮 The Rise and Fall of Hung Hsiu-Chu Tsai Ing-Wen, Hung Hsiu-Chu, and the Confucian Discourse of the Family and the State in Taiwan Is the KMT Devouring Itself? 專訪:黃國昌 不受歡迎的中國人與越南移工:論物種歧視及排他主義 Interview: Huang Kuo-Chang (黃國昌) When Tsai Goes to Japan On the Significance of the Umbrella Movement The Link Between Taiwan’s Third Party Forces and New Political Forces Around the World 從中國畫復興看強國人玻璃心 開往南方的慢船:「新」「舊」南向政策與菲律賓 連結台灣第三勢力與全球新政治 Unwelcome Chinese and Southeast Asian Immigrants Is Fault For the KMT’s Debacle Not With Hung But the Leadership of the KMT’s “Non-Taiwanese” Leaders? Youth Politics in Hong Kong and Taiwan Sun Yat-Sen: Personification of China Taiwan and the TPP 小資女孩前進國會--洪慈庸專訪 Ma Ying-Jeou’s Ghost 第三勢力新竹市立委參選人邱顯智律師與陳為廷總幹事專訪(下) 無意識旅程:張作驥的《醉‧生夢死》與其抵抗空間 The Transformation of Modern Chinese Landscape Painting 雨傘運動一周年,回顧變遷的香港與台灣 The Taipei Pride Parade: Not Yet a ‘Gay Utopia’? The Ma-Xi Meeting of the Century: Why on Singaporean Grounds? 世紀馬習會,為會選在新加坡? The Legislative Yuan Should Impeach President Ma Immediately Before the Ma-Xi Summit, Did Commonwealth Magazine “Harmonize” my Article? Article on Impeaching President before Ma-Xi Summit Censored 馬習會之後,「維持現狀」何去何從─2016 大選是解藥嗎? It’s Not About Taiwan, It’s All About Xi 破除馬習會的「一中各表」:原住民族獨立 馬習會後,你還在以為台灣就等於中華民國嗎? 其實非關台灣,只和習近平有關 Facebook Suddenly Unblocked in China, Tsai Ing-Wen’s Facebook Page Flooded by ‘Fifty Cent Army’ Is No News Good News? Singles’ Day and the Commercialization of Holidays From Regional to National Movement: The Thailand Democracy Movement in Isan After the Ma-Xi Meeting, Do You Still Think Taiwan Is Under the ROC Framework? The “Subway Racist” Viral Video and Questions of the “Other” in Taiwan Current Demonstrations in South Korea and Asia’s Past Year of Protests 專訪:樹黨 Interview: Tree Party (樹黨) The Power of Anti-Ma Ying-jeou and KMT Facebook Fan Pages 韓國最近的示威與這一年來亞洲的抗爭 A Young Woman’s March Towards the Legislative Yuan: Interview with Hung Tzu-Yung (洪慈庸) The Knight, the Fairy, and the Cult Leader 部落觀看的方式:《太陽的孩子》 China, The End of One Child Policy, and the Demographic Trends of East Asian Capitalism 專訪:希臘人民團結黨員奧列斯提斯‧多羅斯 Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “The Assassin” and The Pro-Unification Left Recent Food Scandals and Taiwan’s Crony Capitalism Problem Interview with Orestis Doulos of Greece’s Popular Unity Party August/September 2015 (#9) Five Days of Struggle Against Black Box Education In Taiwan Why Are Self-Proclaimed Members of the Taiwanese Radical Left Afraid of the Anti-Textbook Revision Movement? 台灣激進左派為何害怕反課綱運動? 要擁有民主的教育,台灣人需要推翻資本主義! For Truly Democratic Education, Taiwanese Must Overthrow Capitalism! The Crisis of Taiwanese Politics as Expressed Through the Anti-Textbook Revision Movement? From the Sunflower Movement to the Anti-Textbook Revision Movement 上海發生的五萬人示威抗議,國際媒體怎能不報導? Revisiting Jackie Chan: Man of the Chinese Communist Party? 採訪:Freddy Lim (林昶佐) Interview: Freddy Lim (林昶佐) The Tianjin Explosion, Chinese Government Responses, and Media Spectacle Singapura Mon Amour Interview: Tsay Ting-Kuei (蔡丁貴) Yearning for Home: An Internal or External Threat? China, “Black Monday”, and Future Implications for Domestic and Foreign Policy CNEX 執行長陳玲珍訪談 左統到底在害怕什麼? 台灣前副總統連戰參加中共抗戰七十週年閱兵引發爭議 Interview: Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔) 專訪:堅持做對的事—時代力量邱顯智與陳為廷(上) The Ministry of Education Occupation From Beginning to End Nostalgia for Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore and Its Role in Upcoming Elections 中國與「黑色星期一」:國內外政策的蛛絲馬跡? Can We Understand Article 9 Protests in Japan Alongside Other Asian Social Movements? Interview: Lee Hsing-Chang (李幸長) Marxist Basics with Parson: How Did Stalin and Mao Betray Marxism? Part II China and the Opiate of the Masses 李惠仁導演《蘋果的滋味》專訪 Mr. Xi Goes to Washington 新加坡,吾愛:李光耀與新加坡的關係 RCA Taiwan and Its Victims What’s In A Passport? Interview: Wuer Kaixi (吾爾開希) A Changed Hong Kong and Taiwan One Year after the Umbrella and Sunflower Movement? 專訪:苗博雅 卡式台胞證3大觀察點:矮化台灣,對中系統失能,資安疑慮 The Rise and Fall of Hung Hsiu-Chu Tsai Ing-Wen, Hung Hsiu-Chu, and the Confucian Discourse of the Family and the State in Taiwan 專訪:黃國昌 July 2015 (#8) 阿進教你馬克思:史達林和毛澤東如何背叛馬克思主義?(上) At Heart, What are the Fears of the Pro-Unification Left? How Could A Demonstration of 50,000 in Shanghai Not Be Reported in International Media? Marxist Basics with Parson: How Did Stalin and Mao Betray Marxism? Profile: FoxCarn & the Betel Store Ethno-Cultural Conflict of Uyghurs and Hans, Repatriation of Thai Government 山形影展、小川紳介和 Kidlat Tahimik 的烏托邦影像合流 Neoliberalism and Queer Cinema Lessons from the Greek Referendum for Referendum Reform in Taiwan? 曾和楊關於馬克思主義的辯論 June 2015 (#7) Marxist Basics with Parson Fresh Off The Boat in Retrospect 電影筆記:男權主義份子的哀嚎,女人的憤怒道 The South Korean Hydis Workers and Taiwanese International Capitalism What was the Other Side of Tsai Ing-Wen’s Visit to the United States? Beyond Targeting Hung Hsiu-Chu In Search of Lost Time 希拉蕊和她的彩虹旗:符號的力量與虛構 籽:詹姆斯・雷恩 Seeds: James Lane May 2015 (#7) Seeds: Kiki L. Park 籽:李翌琦 走不出世界的中國原住民,在世界漂流的台灣少數民族 九二共識是國民黨的鴉片 Looking Back on the Chu-Xi Debacle How the KMT Still a Thing? Film Notes: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten The Pro-Independence Left versus the Pro-Unification Left in the Sinophone World 阿進教你馬克思:什麼是社會主義? 華文世界中的「左獨」與「左統」 國民黨如何陰魂不散至今? Electoral Politics for 2016 in the US and Taiwan April 2015 (#6) How to Become a Meaningful New Party in Taiwan? 《菜鳥新移民》與文化再現的限度 太陽花一年 太陽花運動期間的警察暴力 Film Notes: 太陽,不遠 Sunflower Occupation 解放乳頭、大眾媒體、以及「後性解放」女權運動的困境 這是「高度警惕」台獨分裂傾向的時刻?還是台灣獨立的天賜良機? Why Socialism is Taiwan’s Only Hope for Independence Neoliberalism, Ethnocentrism, and Taiwanese Independence 第三勢力成與敗,扯了民進黨後腿?或是推了民進黨一把? 新自由主義、民族中心主義與台灣獨立 March 2015 (#6) Interview: I Have It Maid (快跑三十六小時) Interview: Tsay Ting-Kuei (蔡丁貴) Against Both KMT and DPP? Interview: Ian Rowen Film Notes: Red Sorgum (紅高粱) Twilight of the Idols? A Time for “High Vigilance” Against Taiwanese Independence? Or High Time for Taiwanese Independence? Fukushima Four Years on in Taiwan and Japan A Year of Sunflowers? Seeds: Hertencia Petersen Police Violence in the Sunflower Movement The Significance of 330 for Taiwan How to Become a Meaningful New Party in Taiwan? 《菜鳥新移民》與文化再現的限度 太陽花一年 February 2015 (#5) America and the History of Taiwanese Independence Who Betrayed Formosa? Profile: Gongsheng Music Festival (共生音樂節) Film Notes: The Search for General Tso Fresh Off the Boat and the Limits of Cultural Representation January 2015 (#4) 2014 in Review: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement 年終回顧:太陽花運動 2014 in Review: Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement 年終回顧:香港雨傘運動 2014 in Review: Nine-in-One Elections 年終回顧:九合一選舉 2014 in Review: Gender/Sexuality 年終回顧:性別認同/性傾向 2014 in Review: Labor 年終回顧:勞工 2014 in Review: Land Struggles 年終回顧:土地抗爭 2014 in Review: The Anti-Nuclear Movement 年終回顧:反核運動 Chen Shui-Bian’s Release and the Question of Taiwanese Independence 一場缺乏性權利的性別化運動 Anti-Nuclear Activism in Taiwan and Japan December 2014 (#3) Seizing the Election Momentum to Place Human Rights at the Top of the Agenda in Taiwan Sunflower Seeds in Bloom? Hong Kong’s “New Normal” A Month of Labor Demonstrations in Taiwan How Involved was Ko in the Chinese Organ Trade? 柯文哲到底是怎麼涉入中國器官買賣的? Storming the Legislature a Second Time? 遊戲規則 把握大選衝力,將人權放上台灣首要議題 A Sexualized Movement Without Sexual Rights November 2014 (#3) When We Talk About Beyond “Blue” and “Green”, Is this Moving Forward or Marching in Place? Have the Rules of the Game Changed? Profile: Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy 當我們談起超越藍綠,是一種進步,還是原地踏步? Profile: Taiwan Alliance for Victims of Urban Renewal October 2014 (#2) Eye of the Storm: Lucetta Kam Storm Clouds over Hong Kong Interview: Ian Thomas Ash 物理空間與社會運動 Film and Interview: Bait / 誘餌 Profile: Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association Eye of the Storm: Dian Dian An End to Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Revolution”? Occupying Identity? On Democracy and Context with Larry Au Profile: Green Citizens’ Action Alliance September 2014 (#1) The Impossibility of Democracy in Hong Kong? 回顧三二三之夜 Looking Back on 323 Interview: Hung Chun-Hsiu (洪淳修) Interview: Chen Guangsheng (陳光誠) Hong Kong in Crisis August 2014 選舉掃描 Review: Wanted: Dean I-Mei: A Retrospective From Out of KMT Party Education, Towards the Path of Justice 從黨國教育走出,追求轉型正義 帝國主義暴力 Interview: J. Michael Cole, Part II Imperialist Violence Interview: J. Michael Cole, Part I July 2014 Social Movements from an International Perspective 社會運動的國際觀 Civil Revolt in Miaoli County? Review: Meeting Dr. Sun (行動代號孫中山) Japan, the Jadeite Cabbage and the KMT’s Regime of Truth Taiwan Minus the KMT? 從星洲觀看太陽花 最公平的升學制度 Music Video: 灰色地帶 / Grey Area Where Have All the Sunflowers Gone? Gendered Politicians 媒體下的政治人物伴侶形象 太陽花運動揭示的台灣現狀 Film: 戒不了癮 / Can’t Quit You TPE→HKG→TYO? Power and Discourse 無政府主義 What the Sunflower Movement unveiled for Taiwan Photos: Sunflower Retrospective by Justim Pam