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Great to see in-depth coverage by
@guardian
on
#TaiwanElections
, including this solid piece on
#Taiwan
's cat warrior
@bikhim
. Honored to have my humble blog cited 😸🥹
Taiwan’s ‘cat warrior’: former US envoy Hsiao Bi-khim hopes to be next vice-president
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Kuo Hsueh-hu #郭雪湖 was actually a pioneering gouache painter in
#Taiwan
who grew up under Japanese colonial rule. "Festival on South Street" is currently part of the
#Taipei
Fine Arts Museum's collection. Watch a PTS documentary on the beloved 🇹🇼 artist:
Dihua Street, Taipei, 1930, gouache, by Guo Xuehu.
The oldest street in Taipei, known as Centre Street (中街), was constructed during 1850s, and throughout the rest of the 19th century, Dihua Street has been an important centre for commerce in Taiwanese products and produce .
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For 2+ yrs, Shih Shui-huan's morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete w/ the flavors of her hometown,
#Tainan
. Oddly enough, the bachelorette lived alone in employee lodgings as a Taipei postal worker. She was also severely malnourished—weighing 38kg upon arrest.
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RIP Ju Ming (1938-2023), who took his own life today. A
#Taiwanese
sculptor whose artistry started with an apprenticeship to an acclaimed Matsu temple carver, Ju was famous for his minimalist sculptures portraying scenes from everyday life. He also painted and practiced Tai Chi.
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President
@iingwen
looking lovingly at a Tatung rice cooker at
@yunhaishop
is my fave photo from her New York visit, find out more about this
#Taiwanese
pantry shop in Queens from culinary entrepreneur Lillian Lin on
#TaiwanGameChangers
, now on YouTube!
When China banned 🇹🇼 pineapples in 2021 to flex its economic might, food entrepreneur Lillian Lin and her team crowdsourced US$110K to bring 14 tonnes of fresh fruit — about 40,000 pieces packed in a 20-foot container — to the US as part of the global
#FreedomPineapples
movement.
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The widow of late artist Ouyang Chien-hua (1927-2011) has donated 12 illustrations to the National Human Rights Museum. The couple first fell in love on Green Island as political prisoners. Their aim is to preserve the history of what transpired under martial law in
#Taiwan
.
#Taiwan
's National
#HumanRights
Museum releases third volume of its serial publication "Facing the Sun (向光)," themed on
#WhiteTerror
abuses that targeted
#women
ahead of
#HumanRightsDay
.
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😸 Her father was an adopted 🇹🇼 reverend who was raised by Christian parents, for his birth father had to give the 2-year-old up for adoption after his wife died. Her mother came from
#Mayflower
descendants. Fun facts about
#Taiwan
's cat warrior
@bikhim
:
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The number of
#WhiteTerror
victim names etched on
#Taiwan
's Human Rights Memorial will be updated from 8,088 to 17,941. The site was first unveiled at the 2015 launch of the National Human Rights Museum; more victims have been identified since. Full list:
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Shih Ju-chen spent 17 years behind a brick wall inside a firewood shack. The secret chamber was just as wide as his shoulders, so he could lay or sit, but never stand. Accompanying him was a chamber pot and a kerosene lamp too risky to use at night—it was lit during daytime only.
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"My daughter's birth certificate lists a 2nd name next to 美琴—that of her grandmother's. But she opts not to use this non-
#Taiwanese
name. She wanted a name that would embody her unique background."
@bikhim
's
#dad
on how this cat warrior chose her
#name
:
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Branded
#EasyCards
are all the rage these days, and some are pretty darn cute/outrageous 😆
#Taiwan
's celebrated train
#bento
(note how several rice grains stick to the plastic bento cover!)
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Thanks
@Harvard_Press
🙏
@wordsfromtaiwan
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We’re updating the country code listing. Our site was pulling code from the International Organization for Standardization country codes:
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#Eslite
's largest branch in Asia opened last month at Yulong City in Xindian,
#Taipei
—an elegant, sprawling eight-level complex housing about 250 luxury and lifestyle brands, restaurants. The
#Taiwanese
carmaker's mall has great crowd flow design to handle the influx of visitors.
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This is a guide to Formosan
#mythology
encompassing documented
#lore
and historic testimonies from indigenous cultures, transplanted beliefs (both Han and Japanese), as well as many, many locally sprung and uniquely
#Taiwanese
creatures, spirits, and deities. 💯
#Taiwan
#Formosa
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Jaw Shaw-kong #趙少康, the KMT vice presidential candidate in the 2024
#TaiwanElection
, is also the oldest son of a military official who has witnessed most of the destructive moments that came to define the waning years of
#Nationalist
China.
My primer:
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Here are 5
#TaipeiMetro
lines as manga characters, re-imagined by artist TaaROO
@taro27723
:
The orange line is represented by a gangster-inspired personality who looks out for his community and works as a social worker. Cat lover.
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#Taipei101
will light up with a message of support to all
#Taiwanese
medical professionals working to curb the
#coronavirus
on Feb. 5 and 6, from 6.30 to 10pm.
"Frontline defenders, thank you for your loving care, and please look after yourselves too. Don't give up,
#Taiwan
❤️."
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This
#WhiteTerror
feature is based on:
Read the de-classified military documents from
#Taiwan
's Transitional Justice Commission, another gem of a
#TaiwanResources
:
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#SmithsonianOpenAccess
Map of China with single design error, 1968
The most famous rarity of the Cultural Revolution proclaims "the entire nation is red." But
#Taiwan
is white, a fact that caused the
#stamp
's hasty withdrawal. Very few examples survive.
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There's a march for
#pedestrian
rights on AUG 20 in
#Taipei
calling for 5 major reforms:
1. Update pedestrian infrastructure
2. Revamp driving test
3. Train law enforcement
4. Update traffic laws in line with 3E (education, engineering, enforcement)
5. Mobilize local governments
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Good news for the global pangolin
#conservation
movement — a new baby pangolin was born last month under the care of
#TaipeiZoo
, the world's leading expert in pangolin breeding and dietary research. She was fathered by a Formosan
#pangolin
rescued in 2020.
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In today's
#TaiwanPizzas
, Domino's has paired up with
@HakkaAffairs
to launch 2 limited pizza flavors — classic Hakka stir-fry 客家小炒 (bean curds, celery, pork strips) and
#Hakka
braised pork belly 梅干扣肉 (
#Taiwan
hog, fermented mustard greens). Half-n-half is also available.
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🧐
NEW: We asked voters to find Taiwan on a blank map after 56% said they were familiar with the China-Taiwan relationship in a previous survey.
Only 34% could identify it, and the share that said they were familiar with the relationship fell to 49%
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To promote
#Taiwan
's epidemic prevention policies during the ongoing
#coronavirus
pandemic, Chunghwa Post is offering a special set of two
#stamps
featuring the text: "All out against the pandemic;
#COVID19
we shall defeat.
#TaiwanCanHelp
."
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"President Tsai's PhD was valid and properly awarded by the University," states ICO, the UK's independent body for upholding information rights, on disclosure requests re the Taiwan President's LSE degree and "the subsequent whereabouts of her PHD thesis."
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Taiwan's oldest natural science museum launches new permanent exhibition -- "Exploring
#Taiwan
," on the cultural and nature stories of our land.
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Who's having
#hotpot
for
#Christmas
? 🌽🥟🥬🌶️🍥💚
Found a 30-year-old supermarket dedicated to
#vegetarian
#Taiwanese
food! (Yes, those are
#vegan
prawns and sea cucumbers; not-pictured, a plant-based imitation softshell turtle...)
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🕊️
#Taiwanese
fashionista Hsu Sho-er, one half of the silver-haired duo who ran a laundrette in
#Taichung
and modeled clothes that were never picked up by customers, passed away yesterday, aged 87.
The story of viral Instagram models Chang Wan-ji & Hsu Sho-er is so pure. Was a joy to interview them and their grandson, Reef, who helps behind the scenes. A super sweet Taiwanese family sharing love with the world. (Great photos, as always, by
@Anrizzy
)
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#Taiwan
's plant-based culinary diversity is a
#vegetarian
's dream spread (that's
#vegan
squid made from coconut meat and drizzled with Taiwanese five-flavor seafood sauce!) 🌴🥥
#TaiwanIsOpen
🥢
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#SushiExpress
is a Taiwanese conveyor-belt sushi brand. Its new
#Taiwan
-style special menu offers traditional roadside banquet dishes with a twist, such as oyster omelet, roast corn, basil conch, black pepper beef, sous vide chicken with pickled peppers, and bubble tea
#sushi
🧋🍣
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Pro-democracy Taiwanese activist
#NylonCheng
died by self-immolation in 1989. His life was spent in pursuit of
#FreedomOfSpeech
. A reproduction of the
#FreedomEraWeekly
editorial headquarters that he founded and died in, now stands within Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
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Did you know that
#TaipeiMetro
has bespoke
#stamps
for each MRT station?
🟥Tamsui-Xinyi:
#Tamsui
stamp, based on "the reconstructed relics of Taiwan's long-ago Dutch colonists"
#Xinbeitou
stamp draws from "its history as a resort area… when
#Taiwan
was under Japanese rule"
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Stoked to have seen the vivid and intricate
#plushie
animals and
#birbs
by artist
@icecream80810
(she specializes in
#Taiwanese
endemic species!) at the 25th
#Taipei
International Birdwatching Fair at Guandu Nature Park 🪶
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The National Museum of
#Taiwan
#Literature
has created a
#boardgame
as an educational tool for teaching
#WhiteTerror
(1949-1992) history through a literary vantage.
#Taiwan
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Both women were gunned down at Wanhua's Machangding execution grounds on July 24, 1956. Their fabricated crimes were attempting to overthrow the KMT gov through recruitment + sheltering dissidents. Many have stated that their membership were to a fictitious org that never existed
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Shih, who was secretly sheltering her wanted brother, evaded suspicion by buying single-household groceries. He spent daytime in the ceiling, and slept below the wood floors at night, according to accounts theorizing the KMT soldiers had little knowledge of Japanese architecture.
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"Formosan Chinese girl slicing pith into paper in Taihoku,
#Taiwan
"
She tends to a long strip of pith with a long stick. In the background, tall stacks and bundles of an unidentified material can be seen.
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The award for investigative reporting in Mandarin goes to
@tw_reporter_org
for "its reportage on human trafficking of African students by
#Taiwanese
universities. The journalists uncovered a criminal network that led to the Taiwanese gov pressing charges against the offenders."
📣 We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Human Rights Press Awards!
Winners include reporting on: Covid in Hong Kong, the Myanmar military’s abuses against the Rohingya, and human trafficking of African students by Taiwanese universities️.
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#Taiwan
's National
#HumanRights
Museum releases third volume of its serial publication "Facing the Sun (向光)," themed on
#WhiteTerror
abuses that targeted
#women
ahead of
#HumanRightsDay
.
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Hi
#TaiwanTwitter
! Here is my first
#podcast
project as an intern with
@ghostislandme
— a politically charged absurdist skit set in the year of 2049. It is my tribute to this
#IslandOfResilience
and a cheeky call to
#DefendDemocracy
💪
🎧
#WhereIsTaiwan
??
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A
#Taiwanese
#temple
offered up
#Pokemon
-themed dough figurines as
#GhostMonth
offerings
This temple 👉
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Starting Nov 1,
#Taipei
Metro will offer menstrual products for free at 20 MRT stations:
#EndPeriodStigma
#ItsAboutBloodyTime
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Ting was able to leave a letter and lock of hair to ex-flame Kuo Chen-chun who was also arrested. She told him when + where to find a certain cigarette box. Kuo spent 22 yrs as a prisoner before release; he buried Ting's hair under a tree at her school, Tainan Girls' Senior High.
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#Taiwanese
convenience stores upping their
#vegetarian
game: this 7-11 dedicated a whole corner to plant-based versions of popular local + western snacks, including beef noodles, sausages, bawan (stuffed glutinous meatballs), and a grand variety of vegan-friendly instant noodles.
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#Taiwan
CDC invokes traditional
#mythology
in its public
#health
campaigns: enterovirus ("always on the lookout for kids"), bubonic plague (the little "ghost" mouse bride), viral gastroenteritis (loo ghouls), and dengue fever (“nowhere for you to run") 😂
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Her brother was never found. It is said that Shih Chih-cheng (1st row, 1st right) froze in the ceiling while the secret police came to take his sister away (she had a pre-arrangement w/ colleague to find him an escape car). He was last seen walking down Taipei's Zhongshan N. Road
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Did you know that the earliest financial institutions in
#Taiwan
were so-called "merchant houses (媽振館)" that handled loans and currency exchanges for
#Taiwanese
#tea
traders and international buyers? The term "媽振" is derived from the English word "merchant" during the 1860s.
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🍻 "a betel nut treat that won't stain your lips" —
#Taiwanese
brewery Taihu unveils betel nut IPA
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Coming in Jan!
ㄙfor Sanxia, New Taipei🥐
一 for Yilan🍊
ㄨfor Wenshan, Taipei🦒
ㄩfor Yuchi, Nantou🚵
ㄚfor Alishan🌸
ㄛfor Zhuolan, Miaoli🍇
ㄜfor Emei, Hsinchu🌉
ㄝfor Qieding, Kaohsiung (Black-faced Spoonbill)
ㄞfor Baisha, Penghu (Jibei)
ㄟfor Beinan, Taitung (sugar apple)
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Commemorative
#stamps
in memory of the late
#MrDemocracy
Lee Teng-hui to be released July 30, the date of his passing last year. The backgrounds have largely been left blank in deference to the character "hui 輝," or "splendorous light," in Lee's name.
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In today's
#Taiwan
eats, a
#Kaohsiung
patisserie has created a cheese puff with century egg and pork floss fillings.
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Shih wrote 68 letters to her sister and mother in Tainan when she wasn't working at the prison's sewing factory. Her last letter delivered 2 days before their execution didn't read like a will; she asked for two yards of patterned fabric so she could make Ting's kid a new dress.
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But a spurred admirer repeatedly tried to get her friend in trouble. Ting Yao-tiao cautioned Shih re her suitor's unsavory character, and in return, he reported Ting's book collection — but his letters were intercepted by Ting's friend Wu Li-shui, who worked at the postal office.
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National Film Archive of Japan has made 97 silent documentaries (1904-1937) available online! This one, titled "Oil in
#Taiwan
(1931)", provides an overview of Taiwan's crops and sightseeing sites of Taipei + Tainan, as well as how oil was mined in Miaoli.
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To upend the outdated notion of "a girl's virtue is having no talent," the
#Taipei
-based
#NationalPalaceMuseum
's "She & Her" exhibition is offering a wealth of art on the subject of ladies as well as a number of exceptional works by
#women
artists.
#Taiwan
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"Railway Hotel, Taihoku"
Located where the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi tower now stands, the
#Taipei
hotel started its business on November 1st, 1908, holding many important meetings and conferences. It was bombed by Allied airplanes during the second world war.
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Hello
@CulturalTaiwan
readers!
I'm leaving after 7 years as managing editor and lone copyeditor on the Ministry of Culture's and Twitter. It has been an incredible journey, and I just want to reiterate that support from readers really helped us going. 1/
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Over 5,000 people, comprising locals and international participants, took to the streets to support trans rights tonight in
#Taipei
🏳️⚧️
The
#Taiwanese
and many amazing international allies showed their support for 🏳️⚧️ rights at
#Taiwan
's fifth annual Trans March — themed "Walk Tall, Walk Proud: Your
#Transgender
Path Awaits!"
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The Ministry of Culture
@CulturalTaiwan
also offers a trove of digital resources and online
#archives
for people who are interested in learning more about
#Taiwan
#culture
, here are some of my favorite
#TaiwanResources
:
We are curating a list of online exhibitions and digital
#archives
from
#Taiwan
during the time of the
#coronavirus
#COVID19
, please follow along!
#MuseumFromHome
Natural History:
Visual Arts:
Literature:
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Pingtung County government rolls out new
#postcard
-esque business cards for public servants. Available in 14 elegant
#designs
that reflect the southern
#Taiwanese
region's cultural heritage and bountiful nature.
#Taiwan
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#Taiwan
will be marching with
#Pride
for the rest of the year 2020!
#lovewon
🇹🇼
#loveislove
❤️09/05: Taoyuan
🧡09/19: Hualien
💛09/20: Yilan
💚10/02: Miaoli
💙10/31: Taipei
💜11/14: Taichung
🖤11/28: Kaohsiung
🤍12/12: Tainan
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To spotlight the beauty of
#Taiwan
's city
#sunsets
, Chunghwa Post will release a two-stamp set on Oct. 28:
#Taichung
's Gongyi Road forms the backdrop for the spectacle of the setting sun in the NT$8 stamp, whilst Qingnian 1st to 2nd Road in
#Kaohsiung
is seen in the NT$35 stamp.
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In his 2004 visit to
#Taipei
, the late Czech President
#VaclavHavel
reiterated his support for our
#UN
seat bid: "I believe
#Taiwan
should join the UN. I supported Taiwan's entrance to the UN in the past. I still support its participation in the UN and will do so in the future."
“We do not shy away from discussing our relationship with Taiwan with Beijing”
“Our government is reviving the legacy of Vaclav Havel. Tibet remains on the top of our agenda. It might seem it has less attention. This is not the case.”
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Why PTT,
#Taiwan
's largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS), will remain an experimental battleground for CCP
#disinformation
campaigns, esp. given its Mandarin user base: "A Pilot Study on PTT in the Context of Influence Operations" via
@INDSRTW
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#Vegan
baos! Tsaoshanbao 草山包子 offers steamed + frozen 🌱-based buns ranging from veg editions of traditional
#Taiwanese
flavor combos like fermented cabbage; taro and purple rice; and mala, peanut powder, and cilantro to novelties like truffle mushrooms, sauerkraut, taters.
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