The Mountain
For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under different colonial rules. Each regime left their footprints on this island. Only the indigenous people of this island experienced them all. They were...
The Taste of Apple
Through deconstructing the development of Next Media in Taiwan, The Taste of Apple reflects the abnormal development of Taiwan’s media and the casual adoption of self-censorship in the face of China...
Rolling on the Stage, Rolling for Life
Twenty years ago, CHEN Wan-tsong set up ‘Zhuang San Xin Liang-le Opera Troupe’ to pass on the soon-to-disappear art of ‘local Taiwanese opera’. After his decease, his son CHEN Mao-yi took over and...
Cloud Nation
Yonaguni is an island on the far western end of Japan, bordering Taiwan. One day, the people of Yonaguni decided they wanted independence and to establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. These two...
Realm of Reverberations
Losheng Sanatorium was established in 1930 to forcibly house and quarantine sufferers of leprosy. More than a decade ago, the Losheng Preservation Movement began as a result to the government’s...
Once Upon a Time When Robin Hood Grew Old
For decades, WU Le-tien had been telling the story of the ‘Taiwanese Robin Hood’, LIAO Tian-ding, on his pirate radio show. The government tried to stop its broadcast, but it became the accompaniment...
Jade Miners
In the end of 2012, when the Burmese army waged a war on Kachin Independence Army (KIA), many corporations working with the government on jade mining in the area were forced to stop their operation....
Southland Soldiers
A group of guerrillas retreated from Burma to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War in 1961. They settled down and lived in virtual seclusion in four villages in the south of Taiwan. Now, fifty years...
HEBEI TAIPEI
LI was born in Hebei Province in China, and the war brought him to Taiwan where he has spent six decades. He never returns to his hometown but has revisited it countless times in his dreams. At the...