2021/02/08 |
Is the Success of PUI PUI Guinea Pig Cars Because of Capitalism?
The appeal of the children’s show PUI PUI Guinea Pig Cars cannot be denied. It may be a sign of discontent with capitalism in Taiwan.
2021/01/11 |
“Boys’ Love” Hits Push the Dial for Progress Across Asia
'Because We Belong Together', a Thai TV series, has become a phenomenon across Southeast Asia.
2021/05/27 |
An Elegy for Tehpen Tsai
The life of Tehpen Tsai, a teacher, writer, playwright, and former political prisoner provides a different kind of insight — as valuable as figures of wider renown — to Taiwan’s history.
2021/01/18 |
Boys’ Love Brings Edgy Drama To China, and a Backlash
As a genre, gay fiction has leapt from words to the screen with enormous popularity in China, but not beyond the censor’s reach.
2021/03/17 |
No Saviors, No Satisfaction in ‘Promising Young Woman’ — and Why That’s a Good thing
‘Promising Young Woman’ offers up no simple answers or victories, rather the sad reality in which there is no justice without acknowledging harm. The Oscar nominated thriller is an entertaining take on a time old tale.
2021/01/14 |
“Our Labyrinth” by Lee Mingwei: Meditation Grain By Grain
“Our Labyrinth,” a performance installation by Taiwanese American artist Lee Mingwei, took on a multitude of new meanings in New York.
2021/05/03 |
‘Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet’ A Solid Entry in a Stellar Series
‘Scarlet Bullet’ is the latest in the Detective Conan crime manga film series. Its action, humor, and formulaic plot are the main draws.
2021/05/05 |
Queer East Film Festival, Only of Its Kind, Seeks To Forge Global Connections
The inaugural Queer East Film Festival launched in the late fall of 2020, with ambitions to forge transnational connections between queer communities.
2021/03/25 |
National Center of Photography Opens With ‘Hold the Mirror up To His Gaze’
“Hold the Mirror up to His Gaze” explores the “first page of Taiwan’s photography” in the mid-20th century.
2021/06/16 |
A Taiwanese Mural Artist’s Journey Home
For his solo exhibition in Taiwan, Wang Liang traveled to cities and towns he had never set foot upon, on the lookout for images characterizing the people and their surroundings in the place he had come to feel, in some sense, that he had never left.
2021/01/28 |
“Heaven on Fourth” Arrives in Taiwan Amid Controversy and Tragedy
Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih’s installation comes to Taipei’s Double Square Gallery as the latest contribution to the mythicization of Chinese American sex worker Song Yang.
2021/04/21 |
How a Student Movement Gave Birth to Postcards of Taiwan’s Past
The postcards of Little Grass Art Academy, on the surface tributes to an older, colonial, or authoritarian Taiwan, can be traced to a radical student movement.
2021/01/12 |
One Foot in the World of Black and White: An Interview With ‘Westworld’ Writer Charles Yu
Charles Yu speaks on the influences that formed his latest novel 'Interior Chinatown.'
2021/12/16 |
Taipei’s First Vegan Drag Brunch Aims To Bring Christmas Cheer to All
“This drag show is a first. We love to push the boundaries of drag, expanding on the typical consecutive lip syncing battle to bring in more real storytelling.”
2021/11/11 |
Fisherman’s Friend? Film Festival Documentary Fails To Lift Lid on Industry Abuses
The films on migrant workers at the Taipei International Labor Film Festival represent progress. But their unrealized artistic and political potential makes their flaws all the more disappointing.
2021/09/13 |
‘Blue Bayou’ Achingly Dramatizes Plight of US Transnational Adoptees, but Will it Resonate Today?
Asian American director Justin Chon’s latest film offers an artistic take on a tragic loophole in U.S. immigration law—but how will Biden-era America receive it?
2021/05/12 |
Japan: Johnny Depp Film ‘Minamata’ Brings Industrial Disaster to the Fore
The film revisits the ongoing legal and health struggles of residents affected by an industrial mercury spill. Photographer Aileen Mioko Smith told DW she hopes the movie will reignite dialogue around the disaster.