Years ago, reading Taiwan-focused journalism in most international news outlets was a kind of torture. Most were sludge, positioning China...

I don't know why this photo resonates vis-à-vis this post, but it did. It doesn't matter if they're locals or immigrants -- more...

Sometime around 1916, my great-great grandfather converted to Islam.  Five generations later, nobody in the family knew about it. It wasn...

From Wikimedia Commons I like to read old books about Taiwan, and it doesn't get much older than this. In 1704, a man named George Psalm...

A scarlet ibis at Taipei Zoo Even before the Taiwanese media began whaling on JK Rowling for stating female Taiwanese Olympic boxer Lin Yu...

He deserves an unflattering screenshot I recently read with interest Donovan Smith's analysis of the continued relevance of former pres...