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Fragments from a Country Under Threat

It’s October in Taipei, and we’re having friends over for tea. Z. and his girlfriend are a Taiwanese couple in their mid-twenties; Z has started…

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These Losers are Going Places

Michelle on the trials of marriage, status anxieties in and beyond the West, and discovering your heritage through your partner

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"Things aren’t in their right place anymore."

On Little Burma in Taipei and campus controversies across Taiwan; plus, our trip to Xiluo and Huwei

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"Ukraine is Not Giving Up": On The Hope for A Free, Democratic, Multiethnic Ukraine

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Reading, or Something Like It: Guest Essay from Catherine Chou

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Michelle goes to intensive language school

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"You will be reunited in the fullness of time"

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"Aller Anfang ist schwer." (All beginnings are hard.)

Readers respond to Michelle's essay on language learning, with an aside on divers in Jeju; plus events next Saturday and book club details

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Plus, Jeremy Lin scores 50 points in an amazing game and a book drive to support women's prisons in Taiwan

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Forgetting How to be Closeted

A guest essay from Jeffrey Weng on coming out, or failing to come out, in Taiwan; plus, a book drive for mothers incarcerated in Taiwan & book club…

Apr 15 •

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"So basically, you were the person who introduced Game of Thrones to Taiwan?"

Interview with Gray Tan, Taiwanese translator and head of the Grayhawk Agency. Plus: upcoming events, a trip to Yunlin in May, and book club on My Name…

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American Shtetl: An Interview with Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers

Plus, 2-28 commemoration in Taiwan, solidarity rally with Ukraine, and book club details

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Controversial hotpot, giant carrots, and a tofu-eating cat!

A light (har har) missive from the Taiwan Lantern Festival. Plus, this week: book club on American Pastoral and an outing to see City of Sadness.

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Scenes from a Book Fair in Taiwan

A Polish bear carries a rocket, a cosplayer hunts monsters, and more; plus, book club on American Pastoral and an outing to see Cloudgate

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A Broad and Ample Road

Based in Taiwan, we're interested in acts of creation and solidarity, in liberation struggles and art, in poetry and protest.

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