A Broad and Ample Road

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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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“I'm a human first and a journalist second”: An interview with Tim Mak, reporter in Ukraine
Plus, a forum for South Asian and Southeast Asian NGOs and a magical kite festival
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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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Groaning stones, mountain ghosts, and sacred trees
On Earth justice and folk religion; plus a trip to Indigo, a utopian bookstore in Busan, South Korea and Vanessa Hope's new film Invisible Nation
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Ghost Month Is Almost Here
On worshipping the marginal and "improperly dead." Plus Melissa Fu's Peach Blossom Spring for our next book club.
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Papers, an extraordinary book that tells stories of asylum seekers in France
Plus, book club this month on Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh
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"We have a lot of assumptions about who they are": On the women of Taipei's red light district
Interview with Sinee Teo, a Singaporean missionary who works with former or current sex workers; plus, book club on Alexander Chee's Edinburgh
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Our trip to Xiluo in Yunlin County
We travel with substack readers to the rural western coast of Taiwan; plus, the June 4th commemoration and Book Club details
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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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"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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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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