I don't have a good cover photo, so here's a relaxing picture I took of a beach in the Maldives.  A pretty strong content warning on...

One cold morning in 2004, I walked into work to find my colleagues congratulating each other. We're talking clinking coffee mugs, back p...

Consider these two facts: There are more foreign women than men in Taiwan . Mostly, they're from Southeast Asia or China and either marr...

Over the past few months I've been gearing up to write my dissertation, and was feeling a bit blue about having lots of reading to do be...

I've had a hard time writing this, because I don't want to sow further discord among feminist activists and various feminist grou...

In part because Lao Ren Cha' s initial goal was to write about life as a female foreign resident in Taiwan, and in part because I just c...

My new queen Joanna Chiu hits the nail so perfectly on the head that the nail goes straight through the wood, through the table and right in...

I borrowed this photo from here , but hey, go ahead and buy their sticky rice sausages! Free marketing! Those sausages sure look good. I ...