The View from Taiwan

Lots of stuff flowing out of the Taiwan blogs today... Wulingren blogs on a sneaky marketing tactic by a beer maker in Taiwan Dragon Well Be...

One of the most important developments of the last few years has been the steady movement of Taiwan and Japan toward each other, impelled by...

Taiwan Review offers a review of China-Taiwan relations over the years ....ending with a comparison of the respective positions of Chen and...

The new blog Initechnology has a great collection of old Taiwan pics taken from all over the web. He writes: Welcome to my collection of T...

I know you've been starved for some critter pics as I laze the summer away in front of the computer....so here are a few I've shot r...

Burakov: You think that a man is what he says. Fetisov: He is, if he talks for a living. There are times I wish ESWN would stick to his usua...

A still day on the internet. Lots of fun up in Taipei with protest and counterprotest. The Bushman gets up close and personal with some wind...

Sweet and creamy stuff today.... Hardly did I complain yesterday about the possibility of violence arising over the Shih Ming-te protest ,...

Syd Goldsmith emailed me to say that his first novel is now available in Taiwan through Bookman Books . Bookman's blurb notes: When Taiw...

" ...They imagine they are the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill" I have to admit there is absolutely ...

Wulingren, posting at Taiwan Matters! , pointed to this review of a new novel about a US-China clash over Taiwan . That's what you get i...

A Canadian social scientist has assembled a virtual Taiwan temple on the web, with text and videos. Are you moved by the spirit? +++++++++++...

A meaty selection today... Soft-core porn on Pepsi cans? Jon Benda says Guess I'll have to stop drinking Pepsi for a while... The Levita...

I did it. I handed down my old Fuji S5000 down to my daughter. That was hard. Really hard. To commemorate it, here are some of the last pics...