Desmond Sham

Writing about PRC military threats against Taiwan is difficult, because it’s bad to overstate (invasion isn’t happening, they’re drills) but it’s worse to understate (conflict could genuinely happen, these drills are serious).

Accurate wording has never been more important.

When some KMT MPs use all sorts of weird excuse to cut/freeze budgets of TaiwanPlus, I am not sure how many productions they have watched. I really doubt, given the fact that they don't even get the brand name correctly. Hey, "TaiwanPlus" is one word not two words!

3. As a UK-based academic, I use TaiwanPlus documentaries in my teaching. I used one on Taiwanese potehi (glove puppetry) in the last semester. They are in plain English, introducing Taiwanese culture from a TW perspective, and effective to introduce TW-related topics to students internationally.

2. TaiwanPlus reports are effective ways to let non-Chinese readers to understand what's going on in Taiwan.

TaiwanPlus is important in at least three ways:
1. While I read both Chinese and English, I still have difficulty to follow Taiwan media in Chinese, due to loads of irrelevant "news", from car cam, neighbour quarrels, to some random ads. In Eng, TaiwanPlus picks the more important news.

We were told that the lecture hall at the University of Florence was previously a church. Thus, @evacyli.bsky.social and I did present our paper under the Heavenly One.

That junction is of course super dangerous. They are telling the pedestrians to cross two roads at once without any place to stop, not to mention the (lack of) sidewalk

Heritage sector diversity: report suggests workforce is 90% White - Museums + Heritage

News | The first report of its kind, conducted for Historic England, also reveals low social mobility in the sector

museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

Here!

as said many times before, campism is incredibly West-centric bc it's never concerned in the slightest with the agency of non-western peoples, reducing struggles elsewhere and everywhere to a fake anti-imperialist analysis centering US foreign policy

Conference program Conference program Day 1 – Friday, December 13, 2024 @ La Colombaria 09:00 Welcome & Intro 09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Literature I Hong Kong Writings in Cold War Paris: Cross-Racial Ide…

Dr Eva Li (Lancaster) and I will be presenting a paper at the Sinophone Europe conference at the University of Florence on 13/14 Dec.

Programme: sinophoneeurope.com/conference-p...

I will be presenting at the Symposium: 'Law, Economy and Society in NSL-era Hong Kong: 40 Years After the Sino-British Joint Declaration' at SOAS on 5 Dec.

Registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...