Jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo once said in a 1988 interview: In 100 years of colonialism, Hong Kong has changed to what we see today. With China being so big, …
Read MoreThe island of Lanyu lies not far off the southeast coast of Taiwan — a small, bucolic island with a population barely exceeding 4,000. Aboriginal Tao people make up nearly 60% of the population, with …
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Fast vehicles and racy women have always been the playthings of the rich. But when a car is too fast to handle, the driver may find himself and his exotic cargo just where he didn’t …
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This article also appears on the Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. A newly released survey conducted by the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan reports that the Taiwanese read only two books a year …
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Imagine a city flush with both renminbi and Taiwan dollars, one where Chinese and Taiwanese managers, designers, researchers, and officials work together to create a harmonious “home,” and where children from both sides of the …
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This article also appears on Tea Leaf Nation partner sites ChinaFile and The Atlantic. Within twenty-four hours of registration, Sina Weibo (China’s equivalent of Twitter) deleted the microblog account of Frank Hsieh, former premier of …
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One day after the Chinese microblog account was verified by Sina Weibo as belonging to Frank Hsieh, the former presidential nominee of Taiwan’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), it was stealthily erased. But the disappearance did …
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It was an interesting November for spectators on the island of Taiwan. Taiwan’s media has been paying close attention to the results of the U.S. presidential election and the recently-concluded 18th Congress of the Chinese …
Read MoreOver the past few weeks, Taiwanese legislators and citizens have engaged in an increasingly heated debate about whether or not to make Chinese students eligible for Taiwanese National Health Insurance (NHI). The controversy’s roots date …
Read MoreDemocracy isn’t just an ideological choice–it’s a lifestyle. And that, in so many words, is why Lung Ying-Tai (龙应台) believes that Taiwanese do not want to unify with China. Ms. Lung, a Taiwanese author well …
Read MoreBBC News in Taipei recently published an article celebrating one full year of Chinese student enrollment in Taiwanese universities. The widely-reposted article’s catchy headline poses the question, “Is Taiwanese democracy changing Chinese students?” Those Chinese …
Read MoreTaiwan has now joined the U.S. visa waiver program. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially announced on October 2 that beginning December 1, Taiwanese may travel to the U.S. and stay there for 90 …
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