The cover of one of these horrid books A few days ago, news broke that some "supplementary textbooks" available in many Taiwanese ...

Honestly, I don't really care about the whole salmon sushi marketing gimmick. However, it bears a little investigation. A little over a ...

This is a good time to announce that Brendan and I have been slowly working through a project: we’ve each been reading a selection of the va...

After reading about the occupation near the presidential office by Indigenous activists asking for the return of their ancestral land rea...

A few weeks ago, we decided to escape the scathing summer heat and check out the history museum at Academia Sinica. It's a little ...

From Jerome Keating's book,  The Mapping of Taiwan . p. 76-77. I have seen (reprints of) maps that spell it as "Tayovan" bu...

That's not the actual title, of course, and it covers more ground than that. I'm just happy that the fine folks at Ketagalan let me ...

Greetings from San Francisco! Lao Ren Cha has been silent these past two weeks because I've been traveling in the US visiting family a...

A History of Agonies alongside symbols of some Taiwanese social movements I have been here to witness and participate in. It all ties t...