A recent discussion with some Taiwan bloggers about the state of the Taiwan expat blogosphere resulted in an idea to try and build a comprehensive Taiwan blogger directory that would allow bloggers to get to know each other and potentially bring in new readership. Sure, we got the “Bloggers in Taiwan”, “Taiwanfeed” and Michael [...]
Visiting the Israeli city of Ra’anana today I was surprised to see a sign on the entrance to the city with “Tainan, Taiwan”. Seems Ra’anana, one of Israel’s youngest most livable cities is Tainan’s sister city.
I think it’s kind of strange since I’m quite sure that only a few in Raanana would be able [...]
This is the 6th post on the topic of Taiwanese music and musicians. Previous posts include :
Mandarin Chinese music - More great singers I listen to in Taiwan - Wong Faye, 陳綺貞
Pop Chinese music in Taiwan continued : Joi Chua (蔡淳佳) and Jay Chou (周杰倫)
Taiwanese music - Recommended Mandarin Chinese artists from [...]
Comparisons between Israel and Taiwan seem to get a very wide variety of comments and I’m well aware this is a controversial issue. Still, I’ll mention an article I came across the other day titled “The Three Nos–What do Israel and Taiwan have in common?” by one John G. Adams.
This article makes what I’m sure [...]
Before the previous elections - when I asked Taiwanese I know down at Tainan DPP land what they were going to vote, most of them were saying “The Taiwanese economy is doing so bad, we need to change to a KMT president”. It is ? this usually made me wonder “What’s so bad about [...]
It was a while ago that I attended a speech at NCKU given by an American diplomat in Taiwan. The speech title was “An American Diplomat: A Life of Service in the Global Village” as part of an EAGLE lecture series “Envision the World”.
It was a very interesting speech, and I was quite impressed [...]
This is the 5th post on the topic of Taiwanese music and musicians. Previous posts include :
Mandarin Chinese music - More great singers I listen to in Taiwan - Wong Faye, 陳綺貞
Pop Chinese music in Taiwan continued : Joi Chua (蔡淳佳) and Jay Chou (周杰倫)
Taiwanese music - Recommended Mandarin Chinese artists from [...]
Surely, it isn’t the only aspect, and reverse culture shock keeps coming at me everytime I come back to Israel. Most things I can deal with, I just take a deep breath and find refuge in happy happy thoughts (:P), but it still surprises me everytime that I need to readjust to things I [...]
