Cultural Insights
文化洞見
Facebook, Busy Weekends, and Young Startups in the Sharing City
I arrived in Taipei in late June of 2015 to begin my sabbatical leave and my Fulbright research focusing on the “sharing city,” part
A Unique Edition of Shishuo Xinyu
My research is primarily concerned with texts produced and circulated in the early medieval period from roughly the second to the seventh centuries
The Afterlife of Women Workers – Gender, Space, and Feminist Intervention in Contemporary Taiwan
Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan. It is also Taiwan’s hub of heavy industry and a world-class port. The Twenty-five Ladies’ Tomb was
An Exploratory Study on Tourist Personality and Travel Preferences
Introduction Although the classic marketing idiom says that marketing is “the battle for your mind” (Ries and Trout, 1981), research on tourist
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema in the 21st Century: from Wong Fei-hung to Huang Fei-hong
( This manuscript is NOT a formally written paper and is NOT FOR CITATION in any form. ) The real Wong Fei-hung (WFH)
What the Taotao Means to Me
On Orchid Island, the Taotao is a ubiquitous symbol. It can be found inside churches, outside of 7-11, adorning many a tourist trinket, and most
My Fulbright Journey in Taiwan: Language-Discordance as a Social Phenomenon
Social worlds and social relationships are created, maintained, and resisted through human communication. The best of communication scholarship emerges through researchers’ willingness and
A renewed look at “New Qing History”－Seeking the opportunity of discussion with U.S. scholars of Manchu
As an individual with Manchu and Sibe language skills and an interest in the development of Manchurology, I am following closely a situation in which
For What Can We Hope? Concrete Houses and Hopeful Indigeneity in ‘Amis Country
Where is This Stairway Going? Nearby my residence in ‘Atolan, a Taiwanese Indigenous Communityon Taiwan’s East Coast, there is a simple, flat-roofed
