The View from Taiwan

Just to let you know... excellent critique of the Confucius Institutes at, of all places, The Nation . So rare to read criticism of China...

When I was on Kinmen in August I didn't see any Burmese Pythons. How depressing. Taiwan Today ran a piece on the discovery that t...

Caught in mid-flight, early morning dew on its back. The MaWangMess continues to blow back on the President, as Taipei District prosecut...

October was the busiest I have ever been; swept away on an avalanche of work. My most abject apologies for the light blogging the last thr...

Pic shamelessly stolen from link below, some other great pics there. It's like something out of science fiction, reverberating aroun...

Betel nut stand. Courtesy of Cary Broder. Swamped. It will be two more days, so until then, puzzle over this strange betel nut stand my ...

SOAS Taiwan Studies News New Deputy Director, Film Screening Programme, New Cooperation Agreement with Council for Indigenous Affairs, ...

The Ministry of Economic Affairs put out the numbers on FDI. From Digitimes : Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved...

The other reason I haven't been blogging, aside from the massive workload, is another shoot with FTV, this time atop Wuling and Hehuan...

Corey Sanderson fortifies himself for the Suao Mackerel Festival Saturday and Sunday, courtesy of the fine folks at the China Productivity...

Cold springs, Suao. I've been out for the last week running madly about Taiwan on various trips. Apologies for the blogging lack... ...

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The Taipei Times gave this fellow front page headlines : President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) statement that cross-strait relations are “not int...

The Taipei Times printed the text : As international SCHOLARS and writers who applauded the transition to democracy, that began in the lat...

Rare clear night here in Taichung. So happy with this picture. TISR published a very interesting poll this week picked up by the Taipei ...