The View from Taiwan

J Michael Cole's autobiographical book Officially Unofficial is now out on Amazon  (no Kindle version yet). From the blurb: In this ...

Baby Golden Orb Spiders, newly hatched, struggle to get out into the world. Bill Hayton (author of  The South China Sea: the struggle fo...

A bike path near Dahu in Miaoli. My friend Mark Roche, who is one of the most knowledgeable and active foreigners on cycling, camping, a...

Today Drew of Taiwan in Cycles and I rode up the 3 through Miaoli and climbed the 124, then rolled down to Nanzhuang and followed the riv...

Lorand Laskai announces that the first issue of the new magazine New Bloom is out. From Facebook: ++++++++++++ Friends-It's with...

Picked up this sturdy overview paper  Comprehensive overview of renewable energy development in Taiwan  (H.H. Chen, A.H.I.Lee/Renewable a...

Beetle larvae crowd a leaf in my backyard jungle. The Economist actually took the Zhang visit as a serious event, and not a PR campaign ai...

Aboriginals pulled off a brilliant stunt to show the Tourism Bureau how obnoxious -- and deeply racist -- their plan is to commodify abori...

Too tired to blog. Enjoy some links. Yeah!!! Taipei Times says obstacle to foreign nationals taking out local citizenship may be removed...

Farmers inspect their pepper plants. A Canadian news agency reported that Taiwan is not wanted by Canada at celebratory events.... Accor...

A monkey inspects a vehicle on the 23 near Donghe. The visit of China's Taiwan Affairs Office head Zhangzhijun ended ignominously as ...

Kitteh is unhappy with Zhang. I've been busy putting together a presentation so enjoy Taiwan Voice's reporting on the visit of Z...

An east coast river gorge. NYT's Austin Ramzy on the Zhang visit to Taiwan . He cites Titus Chen of Political U, the old KMT politic...

Taiwan Voice posted this to Facebook. Thanks for the hard work, Taiwan Voice. Click on READ MORE to finish... ++++++++++ Industrial de...

The pear market in Dongshih. Taiwan's political commentators were working overtime today with the dramatic announcement by current ...