Migrations in Taiwan are not just historical facts, but an ongoing reality. What policies should Taiwan’s government pursue? We talk to Professor Ji-Ping Lin, of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, to answer questions about professionals, laborers, and immigrants.
We talk to filmmaker Anita Chang about her film Tongues of Heaven, which explores the stories of four young women in Taiwan and Hawaii in search of their native languages, which are facing extinction.
Because Taiwan’s society is so pragmatic, it sometimes worry so much on what is available, and forget to see what is possible. And in a time like this when there isn’t much more available, Mr. Candle reminds us to focus instead on what is possible.
We ask blogger Ben Goren, the author of the blog Letters from Taiwan, about what it is like being a Westerner living in Taiwan, and just how he got into the fray of Taiwan’s controversial political scene. We also talk shop about politics, just a little bit.
35 years after the Taiwan Relations Act, how has the relationship between the US and Taiwan evolved? We talk to Coen Blaauw and Gerrit van der Wees from the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) to find out.