The View from Taiwan

"     ...But we have crossed millions of miles of nothingness. We have visited another world. And our Locar had said `Why bother? ...

Yesterday was first nice day in weeks. I hit the mountains. It was wonderful. This week brought us a sloppy and potentially libelous headl...

An address sign in Guocuoli Time once again for our regularly irregular feature on a scholarly paper about Taiwan... While I was looki...

A KMT candidate dominates a Taichung intersection. Another day, another collection of colorful election posters. Rode around in Changhua...

Where cultures mingle... American Citizens for Taiwan has published my latest piece for them.... Taiwanese food products have done mu...

Bullying, threatening letter sent to U of Salamanca by PRC Embassy @Xiani_PCh Today I decided to go public with the email #China’s em...

From: Ptak, R. "From Quanzhou to the Sulu Zone and Beyond: Questions Related to the Early Fourteenth Century" Journal of Southe...

Some vids of the disaster unfolding down there as the storm sits over southern Taiwan. In Taichung it is gray and raining, very depressing,...

The carbon footprint chart I put on Flickr . If you mouse over it you can zoom in on it. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't mis...

These really should be weaponized. No one can resist their power. Dammit, El Salvador. I had hoped to avoid writing a blogpost today, bu...

Who lives here... Hokkien immigrants to Taiwan originated from Quanzhou prefecture (44.8%) and Zhangzhou prefecture (35.2%). --  Wiki ...

An overgrown monument to a more romantic past... My 12th for American Citizens for Taiwan on the possibility of the US adopting China'...

Morning at Fengyuan train station BBC's report on the 85C mess ... is a mess itself. The LA branch of Taiwanese-owned 85C Bakery C...

All roads lead to home Hardly had I posted last week on how the Taipei election was giving me the sadz when that selfsame day the venera...

Had a little quake of 4.0 in nearby Nantou, but it felt big. During the quake, which went on for a few seconds, I got this "presi...