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The Interminable Bento
Noon came, and with it the sound of plastic rustling outside my door. I waited for the footsteps to grow faint as they padded down


When Home and Economics Collide: The Opaque Market of Foreign Domestic Work in Taiwan
Although I have lived most of my life in China, my Fulbright scholarship was the first time I had been to Taiwan. I


Green Space in the Heart of a Bustling City
During the 2016-2017 academic year, I am honored to have spent ten months at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Modern History while on a


An Excuse to Get Started: Reflections on My Taiwan Fulbright Fellowship Experience
I once listened to an interview with a famous artist, who when asked if she cared whether people knew something about the original


Storytelling, Trash-chasing & Break-dancing: An Inside Look at an Iranian-American Girl’s Journey through Taiwan
September 4, 2017. Taipei. 12 hours over the Pacific, and I felt invincible. “This is it,” I told myself, pushing three pieces of


A Year of Weaving in Taiwan
It is astonishing to me how quickly these nine months have gone by in Taiwan. This semester in the remote hills of Tainan,


Bilingualism in Science and Engineering Education in Taiwan
The Basic Question As an American scientist in Taiwan, what language should I speak? I am a US-educated chemical engineer who


Bringing a Piece of Kentucky to the Taiwanese Classroom
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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Inside Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement
“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