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 Taiwan - 張惠妹, 張懸, 楊乃文 A-Mei Zhang Hui 張惠妹 : Aboriginal Taiwanese Mando-Pop music Male Taiwanese singers …
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 is an even more controversial comparison between Israel and Taiwan’s political status: […] Israel and Taiwan are small democracies facing serious threats from totalitarian ideologies. …
People have been asking me what I think of this show, and till yesterday I didn’t get a chance to see it. “New World” is an Israeli TV show from Channel 10 and nana with the wonderful Nitzan Horovitz who tries to envision the new world we’re going into, and the first episode – yeah, you guessed it, is about China with the explosive title “The Chinese Century”. It’s really neat that all the episodes of the show were placed on the net, encouraging reader interaction : …
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 the Taiwanese economy?”. This is where things became a bit more blurry. In courses I’m taking in NCKU we are sometimes asked to pick our …
No, not mine. I’m not a Christian so I’ve never been to a baptism ceremony before, as odd as that may be as someone who lives in the religious center of Christianity - Jerusalem. Through a Taiwanese friend who studies here I visited the Chinese-Taiwanese Christian community again this last Friday to try and know them and learn more of their traditions. I’ve been to the Chinese-Taiwanese Christian community before, but didn’t have my camera with me. This …
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 with the speaker – his clarity, flow, experience and perspective. As he studied in Taiwan during the KMT rule and now serves as a diplomat in Kaohsiung he’s made a strong point about the impressive change Taiwanese society has gone through from being under martial law to a full democracy. I’ll quote the “Impressions of Taiwan” part from his slide show …
