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It's cool that the Taiwan Literature Base, a lovely place where I was once writer in residence, is now commemorating Kafka, yet we all know that Taiwan's more powerful, artless, and terrifying agencies like MOFA, NIA, and the courts do him so much better focustaiwan.tw/culture/202409…

Talking about Translating Taiwanese Eco-literature with 156 people in 156 minutes on Zoom for NTU Singapore Master of Arts in Translation and Interpretation and the general public. Register and tune in today Thursday 9/19 at 12pm Taiwan/Singapore time soh.school/mti-rowen

Who is this Mr. Lin? Taiwan in Time: How a mysterious old man helped construct an ancient canal taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch…

Global Reflections on "Taiwan" by UCSB Prof Sabine Fruhstuck, a talk this Fri Sep 27 15:30-17:30 @ NTNU about her efforts as past interim director of UCSB Taiwan Studies to institutionally and intellectually reconceptualize Taiwanese culture in regional and global terms. Welcome!

🪷 Om Mani Padme Hum ⚡ The jewel is in the lotus 🪷 scmp.com/news/china/sci…

A few small howlers in this piece notwithstanding (eg "They [the KMT] later joined Taiwan’s evolution into a democracy"), the historical detail and accuracy of this CNN article would have been completely unimaginable a few years ago edition.cnn.com/2024/10/07/asi…

The best Ma can do to justify flaking on ROC National Day is scrape the bottom of the international pundit barrel and coin a new term for a not-new policy stance. 天佑馬英九！Hope he had a nice brunch. I wouldn't have wanted to watch all that cartoony halftime show stuff either

Perfect National Day reading , this sparkling new book by Catie Lilly and @mhar4

Inspiring newscientist.com/article/245069…

Truth as synonym for liberty isn’t a collectible. It is the joyous discovery of the enlarged sense and state of being that is the change of heart induced by the presence, incomprehensible and usually unannounced, of the lady in the veil. - Lewis Lapham laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/l…

Thrilled to welcome Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) Michelle Kuo tomorrow morning 18 Oct 10:20am to my NTNU 台師大 undergrad class The Representation of Taiwan World Culture, with support from NTNU International Taiwan Studies Center. Do please give a heads up if you're going to come.

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"rational and pragmatic" ftw

TIL Kazan, Russia is in the Global South

Looking forward to giving this talk at SOAS Taiwan Studies next Monday 4 November from 11am-1230pm, which will present two recent journal articles about the People's Republic of China's digital and bureaucratic simulations of Taiwan a part of China

JUNO x Hyper-Kamiokande x DUNE = "useless science" 真好玩哦 ！ nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…

很期待明天11月4日之演講 Looking forward to speaking about Simulating Territory at SOAS Taiwan Studies University of London tomorrow Monday 4 November 2025 at 11a