Taiwan – Page 3 – Frog in a Well

Happy 2,557th Birthday to you!

Posted on September 26, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Yes, on September 28th Taiwan will be celebrating the 2,557th birthday of Confucius. The date may be a bit off (he is getting a bit forgetful in his old age), b...

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Chinese in Motion

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 13 Comments

Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...

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Thank you for not smoking

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Today is 6-3 anti-opium day in the Nanjing period and Anti-Smoking Day on Taiwan. It commemorates Lin Zexu’s destruction of the British Opium at Humen. In...

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Chasing Emperors

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

My wife found this pin in her collection, and has no recollection of how we got it. I did a little digging and found that the “Civil Air Patrol” was...

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Taiwanization?

Posted on November 19, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

When President Bush cited Taiwan as a model for mainland China, though he wasn’t quite as aggressive as the headlines suggest, he raised some interesting ...

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51st State?

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From a formal legal standpoint, the United States never ceded possession of Taiwan [via Simon World], which it took from Japan in 1945, to the Nationalist gover...