September 4, 2017. Taipei. 12 hours over the Pacific, and I felt invincible. “This is it,” I told myself, pushing three pieces of
It is astonishing to me how quickly these nine months have gone by in Taiwan. This semester in the remote hills of Tainan,
The Basic Question As an American scientist in Taiwan, what language should I speak? I am a US-educated chemical engineer who
For the 2017-18 academic year, my alma mater, Western Kentucky University (WKU), hosted a Taiwanese Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) to help tutor
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“Say goodbye to Taiwan,” wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest.1 Threatened by China’s rising
I arrived on the “beautiful island” with my wife, originally a native of Taiwan, and five children nearly ten months ago. That
I spent my Fulbright year engaged in ethnographic research on Taiwan’s indigenous communities and their practices, and the ways in which these practices
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In 2016-2017, I conducted research for my dissertation on early medieval Chinese literature in Taipei as a Fulbright Fellow. Upon arriving in Taipei
During my 2016–17 Fulbright fellowship in Taiwan, I had the opportunity to visit the Taoyuan factory of Sheng Kuang 聖光 (Sacred Radiance), a leading
In my language, we say “I love you” a lot. Think about that sentence for a minute. Really think about it. Does it strike you
