It was a colder night than usual in Kaohsiung. For me, it was mildly warm, but the locals all had to wear coats because they
It is not an easy task to think back to a time before Taipei was home. Over the past two years, Fulbright Taiwan and National
Taiwan is a nation without a country. This small island the size of Maryland is endowed with few natural resources, was a colony of Imperial
As a master’s student at National Chengchi University, I took a class on cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan. For my final essay, I became
Admiring this living room in this guesthouse in Xincheng, minutes from the gate of Taroko Gorge, I am forced to consider what a villager from, say, northeastern Tibet/Western China would do with such space!
When I arrived in Taipei two years ago, I knew relatively little about local Taiwanese culture or issues. With an undergraduate background in
This past year has been a whirlwind of changes for me. When I first landed in Taiwan, I only had a surface-level understanding
Long before I was selected for a Fulbright Scholarship to Taiwan, I spent most of my life on a different island across the
Familiar city, new lens I landed at Taoyuan International Airport in late August 2017. Fresh out of university, I had arrived in Taipei
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Introduction Since the 1980s, North Korea’s nuclear program has been a persistent source of international concern.1 These concerns gained renewed importance during the 2017-2018 North
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