NEW ON FORMOSA FILES: Tales of Taiwan from 1997-1998 via the Lonely Planet travel guidebook (4th edition), written by the late Robert Storey -- enjoy this little "time capsule!" Formosa Files Dot Com

LAST WEEK IN TAIWAN HISTORY: The somewhat STRANGE story of how Kenting became Taiwan's FIRST National Park - SEPT. 1, 1982 instagram.com/p/C_pupmPv0z2/…

Bloomberg: By some estimates, the world’s second-largest economy is on track to have the biggest population of Christians by 2030. The pope has been keen to engage with the CCP...(paywall) - I think there's a strong possibility the next Pope will switch to China :(

COMING SOON!!

Part ONE of a series of mini videos to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of "Dutch Taiwan" & begin promotion of Dr. Yao-Chang Chen's English version of "Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa." ENJOY, hopefully :) and pls. share!

LAST WEEK IN TAIWAN HISTORY 45 YEARS AGO - Local Doctors Perform a Medical Miracle (National Taiwan University Hospital)

Did you know that when the United Nations voted to admit “Red China” in 1971, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan called up President Richard Nixon and suggested that the United States quit the UN and become an “observer” in protest? go to: FORMOSA FILES DOT COM

25 years ago today -- the 921 Earthquake :(

These are some STRANGE images! But while AI might not understand what I mean when I ask it to "make historical images of footbinding in China/Taiwan," AI can now create a podcast with "human" voices -- prepare to be surprised. TRUST ME! Go to FORMOSA FILES DOT COM

LAST WEEK IN TAIWAN HISTORY 341 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1683 - The short-lived Kingdom of Dongning ends and Koxinga's grandson surrenders Taiwan to the Qing Empire.

Following local journalistic protocol :)

The poor fallen trees of Zuoying... And reports show this is the situation all across Kaohsiung.

A big THANK YOU to Kaohsiung City authorities, the police, the military, and other volunteers who've been LITERALLY working around the clock to get power back on, stop traffic chaos, clear fallen trees, and do so much more to help this city get back on its feet.

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Via Quartz: TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance is "scraping" the web 25 times faster than OpenAI. Like OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s bots, Bytespider ignores instructions from robots.txt, a non-legally binding line of code that tells web scrapers which data they can and cannot access.

Cool image shows the epic journey of so many precious ancient Chinese pieces of art and artifacts that now sit safely in Taipei (many likely would've been destroyed in the so-called "cultural revolution")

Companies try to get me to buy fake "likes" or reviews, but we have 5 stars on Apple, and they are REAL ... a recent example (edited): "Every episode I've listened to has jaw-dropping moments of hidden history. Informative and inspiring, thank you!"

Fun fact. Did you know that Mao Zedong actually supported Taiwan independence? Censored history is still history.