We talk with former NTU student president Ching-Fang Hsu about how this new political generation from the Sunflower Movement will answer Taiwan’s important questions on governance, China, and globalization.

On March 16, right before the Sunflower Movement occurred, we talked to Stanford’s Prof. Kharis Templeman about democratization in Taiwan in the 90s and the future of democratic consolidation in Taiwan.

Teach For Taiwan is closing Taiwan’s education gap by training young teachers for remote schools. We talk to founder Anting Liu about the organization, education for remote areas and some ideas on education direction.

In this special episode, we reflect on the 228 Massacre, from the isolated event in Dadaocheng that set off the entire incident, to the psychological effects of the trauma on individuals and on the nation as a whole.

We discuss Aboriginal and indigenous civilizations in Taiwan with Tony Coolidge, the son of a US military serviceman in Taiwan and an Atayal aboriginal Taiwanese, and the founder of the NGO ATAYAL.

Crystal Boys, a classic novel about Taiwan’s gay subculture in the 1970s, is also about family, authority and freedom. We talk to director 曹瑞原, actors 莫子儀 and 陸一龍, and the author 白先勇 himself about an upcoming stage adaptation.

We talk to Victoria Linchong, who is the director of the documentary “Almost Home: Taiwan” in which she takes us on a family visit to Taiwan that turns out to be much more about history, identity and making these big questions personal.

We take you on a journey into the 1920s, when Dadaocheng was the cosmopolitan center of Taiwan, connecting it to the rest of the world in the Roaring 20s. We also ponder what that means for Taiwan going into the 2020s and beyond.

We tackle the questions of Taiwan’s economy and ask Prof. Peter Chow of City College of New York about trade with China, Taiwan’s strategy in joining regional trade blocs, and whether free trade is ultimately good for Taiwan.

We take up two countervailing American views on China’s East China Sea air defense identification zone and discuss escalation versus appeasement. The co-hosts also ponder what all this means for Taiwan.

Co-hosts Chieh-Ting Yeh, Jonathan Lee, and Tim Suen talk about a few pop singers in Taiwan and their encounters with political and social questions, including Deserts Chang, Mayday, Amei, Wang Lee-hom, Dua G and Chthonics.

In this third episode of the Ketagalan Project, we explore the various issues surrounding the government’s expropriation of land, student activism and economic factors in places like Dapu, Shihlin, and Huaguang in Taiwan.

In this second episode of the Ketagalan Project, co-hosts Chieh-Ting Yeh, Jonathan Lee, and Tim Suen chat about the histories of Taiwan, founding myths and how conflicting national identities affect politics in Taiwan today.

In this first episode of the Ketagalan Project, we talk with US foreign affairs expert on East Asia Julia Famularo on current policy debate on Taiwan in Washington, the pivot to Asia, reaction from China and predictions for the future.