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

I don't blog quite as often as I used to, but that doesn't mean I'm not writing. I thought I'd add a post with a general red...

I spend so much time critiquing the media that sometimes, I like to point out pieces that are worth reading. The well-written (or spoken), t...

Taking a bit of a risk with my weird graphic, but I like it.  I don't think of the Economist as an accurate source of news on Taiwan. Th...

A Majolica tile from a long-gone Taiwanese farmhouse with pomegranate-themed jewelry and ornaments from Armenia (the beaded necklace is my o...