My debut book, Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence, is officially on sale today! Today, I am an author and a book mom. Thanks to everyone who believed in this project and who encouraged me to keep going. It’s been a long time coming. 💕💕

Sadly this happened in Taiwan mainly in the 1970s and 1980s. taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar…

Naturalized Taiwanese citizen Sam Khan on need for better access to dual nationality: "I sincerely hope that one day Taiwan will recognize the value of allowing immigrants to embrace both parts of their identity, especially in the case of children." youtube.com/watch?v=BiKU6c…

Eight countries have sailed through the #TaiwanStrait to uphold #FreedomOfNavigation rights and to challenge Beijing's unilateral claims that the Strait is "internal waters" belonging to China: 🇺🇸 USA 🇨🇦 Canada 🇦🇺 Australia 🇬🇧 UK 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇳🇱 The Netherlands 🇹🇷 Turkey

Thanks TaiwanPlus News for reaching out: China accused Taiwan of malicious cyber operations(Anonymous 64) and Taiwan already denied these allegations. This is the first case based on the legal guidelines targeting "Diehard Separatists" publicized by China earlier this year.

🧵 #Taiwan #ConstitutionalCourt #DeathPenalty. TCC's much-criticised decision issued last Friday is a quasi status quo call to consolidate the judicial acquis on freezing the DF application, under heavy pressure from the population fiercely against the abolition. (1/16)

This is an absolutely magisterial account of the Taiwan semiconductor industry in the context of history, colonialism, and empire. His critique of the costs imposed by the state/TSMC technological colossus serving US interests is perhaps overstated though. bostonreview.net/articles/semic…

Good to hear--hopefully Taiwan sees more migrant worker unions, going forward taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar…

Have watched “Invisible Nation” documentary about Taiwan this afternoon in London. A very comprehensive and compact summary of the political history in Taiwan, at time emotional like when Chen Chu (former Kaohsiung mayor) talks about her prison time during the White Terror.

Really buried the key point: "...the government has set a goal for the domestic industry of a monthly production capacity of 15,000 drones and an overall industrial output value of NT$30 billion (US$935.62 million) by 2028, around 10 times the current levels."

A remarkable person who found the integrity and courage during 1000 days of interrogation and solitary confinement to overcome all the abuse Beijing's torturers could inflict on him. And by doing so he confounded the lies from Beijing's Canadian agents. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

A very thorough report by David Frazier in the Taipei Times on the context, goals, and challenges for the dual nationality movement. 'this is foremost an issue of “economic security, national security and national development.' taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch…

終於有中文的報導了，感恩。 rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2…

Love Clarissa Wei's writing here: "Golden apple snails lay these really vibrant Pepto-Bismol pink eggs. This farmer makes art inspired by the snail eggs and she sells a premium Japonica variety called Tainan 16 台南16." Rare free issue and a lot of fun. dearclarissa.com/p/where-to-buy…

This sounds very promising. It's a wonder to see all these books being written and published in Taiwan by academics, journalists, and other kinds of authors.

"NGOs, government at odds over migrant fisher care as 'forced labor' list looms - Focus Taiwan" ( focustaiwan.tw/society/202407… )

過番歌 are “migrant songs” written in Hokkien that circulated in Fujian, Taiwan and Southeast Asia in mid to late 19th & early 20th centuries. These songs tell the cautionary stories of early migrant laborers* and their fate abroad *龜里 (ku-lí) = coolie

'The blue (KMT) and green (DPP) frame, which everyone hates, is imposed on Taiwan by the PRC. ...Since no party can be neutral towards a death threat, inevitably any new party will become caught up in the blue-green structure.' taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch…

Support for dual nationality petition from all over Taiwan. 3,910 signatures here. See Linktree in profile for petition and related content in English and Chinese.

A Japanese map from just after Japanese annexation of Taiwan. A reminder of how long it took the Japanese to fill in the red area there -- indigenous resistance remained powerful well into the Japanese era.