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A pretty interesting hockey card.

Notes from Central Taiwan: Recall as resistance - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

The recall movement has old roots in spontaneous local resistance
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Taiwan is held up as a bastion of liberal values. But migrant workers report abuse, injury and death in its fishing industry | CNN Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers.

Honestly, quite outraging to hear that cases of abuse, untreated injuries, and death continue to occur for migrant fishermen in Taiwan’s fishing fleet

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Before tea, indigo.

'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.'
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they are extending the HSR to Pingtung, but by the time they're finished, there will be no one there that'll use it.

#Taiwan Sensibility: The Gritty, Retro Appeal of Taiwan’s Walkups Koreans traveling in Taiwan often post photographs of Taiwanese street scenes on social media with the hashtag #대만감성—Daeman gamseong or “Taiwan sensibility.” The hashtag is often att...

#TaiwanSensibility: 'The hashtag is often attached to shots of walkup apartment buildings built at least 40 or 50 years ago, or lush greenery, or colorful neon signage...They say that this kind of urban scenery is charming, retro, and relaxing.'
www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/Articles/...

賴清德強調「中共從未統治台灣」 盧秀燕稱「個人史觀」挨轟 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報 首次上稿 00:00更新時間 07:52相關新聞請見：

After a speech by Lai in which he stated that the "CCP has never controlled Taiwan", Lu Shiow-yen responds to him by stating that it's "Only his personal historical viewpoint." Er, but it's true the CCP has never controlled Taiwan?

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A mysterious reinforced concrete building recently unearthed in the back alleys of Taichung. It is square and minimalistic with a Buddhist swastika carved over the entrance. Debris is all around in the foreground.

A crowd of onlookers in the alleyway leading to a mysterious building in Taichung.

Taichung city councilors conferring outside a newly unearthed building.

The newly rediscovered structure from the nearby rooftops. A lone photographer is capturing the scene down below.

On the scene at a surprise discovery in the back alleys of Taichung. Just yesterday demolition workers revealed this old Zen Buddhist structure previously hidden behind metal sheeting. Some pretty intense public interest here this morning; city councilors are inspecting, media reporting.

Imbault Huart, Formose, Illustrations : Imbault-Huart, Cordier : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Detailed description to comeThis series of 51 pages, many with two photos on each, is a precious reminder of this set preserved at France BNF Estampes...

Collection of old maps and illustrations of Taiwan.
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headstones of Qing era soldiers among small grass with blue sky, clouds and mountains in the background

Cemetery of Zhenghai Army
甲仙鎮海軍墓

Graves of soldiers sent (mostly Hubei Province ) to guard and "open up" this area of Kaohsiung in the mid 1880s.

scooter slogan We reach for the sky Neither does civilization on a green red and black scooter

We reach for the sky
Neither does civilization

Scooters used to cool

The "From Edo to Modern Times - Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Ukiyo-e Collection Exhibition"

A cool art thing ends Sunday
in Kaohsiung

Location
台灣創價學會 創價美術館

This is such an excellent article: 'Your Convenience, My Overwork', how Taiwan's ubiquitous and justly famed convenience stores replaced traditional ga-ma-diam (柑仔店) in a form of gentrification, and the advent of foreign national clerks--normal in Japan but still a radical idea in Taiwan.

The Cost of Convenience: Precarity in Taiwanese Franchise Markets | New Bloom Magazine Employees at iconic Taiwanese diners work long hours for low pay. Major diner chains are run by large and powerful conglomerates with close ties to the government…

"The Cost of Convenience: Precarity in Taiwanese Franchise Markets" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Please don't recall us powerplay

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network Riding The Length Of Taiwan Blew Our Minds

Nice Biking Taiwan video.
Even with all the rain

youtu.be/6ciMLC8-z8E?...

That sound you hear is a few thousand nerds constantly hitting refresh on the Carleton riding results

view of Wutai Vedai 霧台 village with blue sky, mountains, and clouds

View of Vedai Wutai 霧台 in Pingtung County.

Guys, JD Vance did NOT kill the Pope and it’s stupid and immature to imply he did. The Pope killed himself after meeting JD Vance.

"Anything I ever did wrong," #Hollywood icon #SteveMcQueen once said, "I paid for in #Taiwan. I just hope something good comes out of it."

All about the 1966 war #epic that garnered McQueen his only Oscar nomination in his career, The Sand Pebbles 聖保羅砲艇" — wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/from-the-arc...

Guobin Commercial Building (國賓商業大樓) - Spectral Codex A commercial building with a theater and cabaret in the heart of Zhongli. Demolished around 2020.

This dilapidated entertainment complex was destroyed years ago but these photos preserve something of the memory of what transpired there over the decades... come take a tour of an abandoned karaoke club, movie theater, and adults-only cabaret in Zhongli, Taiwan. spectralcodex.com/zhongli-guob...

Absolutely essential reading for these dark days.

Screenshot of the Spectral Codex website showing off the search bar and search results dropdown.

My site now has a search feature! You can also filter by region or theme to narrow results.

Technical details: this is a Pagefind implementation, completely static, using the astro-pagefind integration. Overriding parts of the default UI with Tailwind feels like a bit of a kludge but hey, it works.

For Taiwan’s Small Exporters, the Uncertainty’s as Bad as the Tariffs The island’s many small factories have thrived by being frugal — and flexible. But President Trump’s unpredictability is testing their limits.

This is the best reporting I have seen in Chinese or English on the effects of US tariffs in Taiwan. It is focused on 'traditional' manufacturers of lathes, plumbing hardware, cutting tools, and bicycle parts who export directly or indirectly to US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/w...

Linfengying Station (林鳳營驛) — Josh Ellis Photography I was born an intolerant, at least, when it comes to lactose type things, and throughout my life, I’ve never really been able to enjoy anything made with dairy, without having to suffer the consequenc...

Linfengying Station (林鳳營車站), an eighty-two year old train station in northern Tainan that dates back to the early years of the Japanese-era, and amazingly still remains in operation today.

www.goteamjosh.com/blog/rinhoei

Ovi breaks Gretzky’s record

Alexander the Great and the Fates, by Bernardino Mei, 1667, 📸 by Sarah Stier

Abolish April Fool’s day. Society has moved past the need for April Fool’s day

All hail God-Emperor Lai!

Some fascinating artwork for the latest PRC military exercise around Taiwan by the Eastern Theater Command.
The one on the left superimposes the word "Pressure-- in the sense of closing in--over a map of Taiwan. Ships surround Taiwan while aircraft point at Yilan and Kaohsiung.

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