The Juming Museum was whimsical, thoughtful, and grand. Still strumming with life and a sense of purpose.

The world’s only truly scaly mammal is being poached to extinction due to unsubstantiated claims of the therapeutic properties of its famed exterior plates. Fact: pangolin scales are made of the same keratin as human hair and finger/toe nails. …

A glance at their friendship through select transcripts, photographs, letters, and a seating chart or two At his 1995 Cornell address, the late Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui addressed a crowd of 5,000 by quoting the words of a great Czech thinker: Czech president Vaclav Havel said, “The salvation of this…

What did Dr. Peng Ming-min (1923–2022), a leviathan of Taiwan’s self-determination movement, think about the Taiwan Relations Act in 1986? Dr. Peng, as president of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA), testified before the US House of Representatives in 1986, during his 22-year exile from Taiwan, regarding the implementation…

For 2.5 years, Shih Shui-huan’s (施水環) morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete with the flavors of her hometown, Tainan. The odd thing was, the bachelorette lived alone in employee lodgings as a Taipei postal worker. She was also severely malnourished — weighing 38kg upon arrest. Shih, who…

Shih Ju-chen (施儒珍) spent 17 years behind a brick wall inside a firewood shack. The secret chamber was just as wide as his shoulders, so he could lay or sit, but never stand. …

This is the script for Season 2, Episode 18 of “小鬼登島 In Training” from Ghost Island Media, a fabulous podcast company based in Taiwan. Episode debuts on Feb. 19, 2021! Listen here: Spotify Google Podcast Apple Podcast Episode title inspired by the poem, “a tsunami of movement — mihi to…

This is the script for Season 2, Episode 13 of “小鬼登島 In Training” from Ghost Island Media, a podcast company based in Taiwan. Listen to the episode on Spotify here! https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IKfH5R2mLNDpAj6H6Ox2w Cast TV Anchor (NYC): J. Wong Correspondent (NYC): A. Chow Reporter (Taiwan): Tân î-kun (陳怡君) President (Taiwan): Synan Amumubu …