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Showing posts with label roc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roc. Show all posts
Friday, April 14, 2023

Get Your Independences Straight

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I'm done with intentionally obfuscatory discourse Because I'm super fun at parties, I want to have a little rant about rhetorical la...
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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Chiang Kai-shek did not save Taiwan from the CCP: Part 2 - what did stop China from taking Taiwan?

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This is from a post for some movie I've long forgotten the title of. This is Part 2 of a longer post. For Part 1, which discusses the wa...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

The anti-infiltration bill doesn't go far enough (plus, the KMT trying to be tricky and failing!)

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Please enjoy this sculpture of a pig cavorting with a rat. You know why. So, there's a lot to talk about in politics this week. E...
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Friday, March 22, 2019

You can't force patriotism, so stop blaming Taiwanese for not caring enough about the ROC

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The National Interest has some of the best journalism on Taiwan out there (among media sources not dedicated to Taiwan, that is). So as e...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Book review: Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan

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When talking about Taiwanese history, it's quite common to come across a belief that modern Taiwanese beliefs have their roots in th...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Rectification of Colonial Names

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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...
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Monday, March 19, 2018

Carry On, My Wayward Sun

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Took me awhile to realize this: the choice of a light sea green for many pieces of pro-Taiwan merchandise wasn't made for merely aesth...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

A review of Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters

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Every Saturday I tutor the younger daughter in a family I've known for many years. We get along well and I mostly facilitate extens...