The first year of my Fulbright in Taiwan has made me extremely grateful that I will have
a second. Already, I feel that I’ve learned and grown immensely—but if I had to leave Taiwan now,
I arrived in New York as a Fulbright scholar with a suitcase full of notebooks and a naïve ambition: to decode the “secret sauce” behind this global cultural capital. I assumed there must be a formula—a replicable,