Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white The Taiwan “Olympics” - Article for Israeli Calcalist Love Kaohsiung Music Festival at Sizihwan : A Night of Old Taiwanese Songs Taiwan’s street food : the “food trucks”
Rare stamp : China’s “The entire nation is red” but Taiwan is white Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari Chinese perception of Israeli media coverage of the China Olympics
Want more Taiwanese music? don’t know where to start? I don’t either, but following my previous attempt at “Taiwanese music - Recommended Mandarin Chinese artists from Taiwan” I’ll continue to share my limited experience with some great Taiwanese music I get from some of my Taiwanese friends and classmates. This time I’ve got two more [...]
I can’t get enough of the Tainanese temple celebration madness. I previously mentioned “Taiwanese culture : Temple Parade in Tainan-Taiwan” and “Temple action in Taiwan - Longshan Taipei and Confucius Tainan“, but what I saw today was, hands down, the most spectacular of the temple celebrations I’ve seen. Yep, still have absolutely no clue what [...]
Taiwanese academics is very different than what I’m used to back home. I’m still trying to get around some of the challenges I’m facing while studying in Taiwan. The teaching methods, the homework and class assignments, the interaction - or lack of - between students and professors, the interaction - or lack of - between [...]
The Taiwanese students are just adorable. Somehow, they make me feel even older than I really am, and that’s old enough when it comes to university students.
Part of the Taiwanese student life is belonging to a club. My receptionist has invited me and another IMBA student for a "club-night", which I thought might be a Ministry of Sound kind [...]
At 03:00am the alarm goes off. I just went to sleep not too long before that, so - being a bit fuzzy - I make my way into some cloths and out on the motorbike. The streets are quiet, with just a few 24 hours convenience stores, restaurants and pubs running in street corners. I [...]
Nobody has so far been able to explain to me how it was that the Mid-Autumn Festival turned into the national holiday for BBQing, after making a stop at Hotpoting, but there it is - Moon Festival in Taiwan, as well as in other East-Asian countries like China, Korea, Vietnam etc. is usually celebrated with [...]
