First, a quick life update: I have COVID! So, depending on how that turns out, you can either expect lots of posts as I don't have much ...

It sure looks traditional but they've also got bags on their heads. Happy Teachers' Day! I happen to be off today for reasons comple...

Taipei, City of Displacements Joseph R. Allen During Taiwan's Level 3 restrictions, I've been enjoying diving into books that have b...

I bought the anniversary edition of Taiwan's 400-Year History  at Su Beng's 100th birthday celebration on Ketagalan Boulevard a f...

This is talked about in Chinese, but not so much in English.  Everyone agrees that the Japanese era was a colonial one and nobody dispu...

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