Lin Fei-fan writes about his support for the sit-in protest that demands private land be included in the delineation of traditional lands for Taiwan’s indigenous peoples...
New Bloom presents the second installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! Our interview guest for this installment is Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who wrote "Black Lives Matter, Taiwan’s ‘228 Incident,’ and the Transnational Struggle For Liberation" in the Black Youth Project, reflecting on the parallels between Taiwan's 228 Incident and the policing of black populations in the United States...
The bizarre news that China plans on commemorating Taiwan’s 228 Massacre is representative of Chinese attempts to assert claims over Taiwan by incorporating Taiwanese history in Chinese history writ large. This is nothing new...
On May 6th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Shawna Yang Ryan through Skype. Ryan is most recently the author of Green Island, which depicts Taiwan’s White Terror and authoritarian era...
Some ask, why the need for transitional justice in Taiwan, anyway? The answer lay in the unresolved issues of the authoritarian period which linger in the present...
An interview with Yeh Jiunn Tyng, one of the founders of Gongsheng Music Festival, currently the largest event commemorating the 228 Massacre in Taiwan...