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Remembrance & Resources: Learning About 228 Remembrance & Resources: Learning About 228
National Book Award Winner Charles Yu establishes prize for young Taiwanese American creative writers National Book Award Winner Charles Yu establishes prize for young Taiwanese American creative writers
On Clubhouse, '臺kanda': Taiwan's Wakanda Fantasies On Clubhouse, '臺kanda': Taiwan's Wakanda Fantasies
What to Watch: Taiwanese Shows & Movies on Netflix Now What to Watch: Taiwanese Shows & Movies on Netflix Now

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I DREAM OF POPO is the Taiwanese American story of all generations

"When a young girl and her family emigrate from Taiwan to America, she leaves behind her beloved popo, her grandmother. She misses her popo every day, but even if their visits are fleeting, their love is ever true and strong." "I Dream of Popo," published in January of 2021, was shaped by a triumvirate…

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The Best of the “Best of 2020” Lists

Feature photo from the Office of the President aka "Taiwan #1" All year long, we enjoy showcasing the best and most promising of Taiwanese America (and Taiwan). It has been our proud mission to highlight the amazing stories and people of our community. During this most challenging year in the midst…

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For a Better Life, Move to Taiwan: My Taiwanese American Story

When my mom was twenty, she moved from Taiwan to the United States. Now I’m twenty, and I’m doing everything I can to get back.  There are practical reasons for this, of course. I applied for dual citizenship in high school, and since coronavirus has pushed everything, including my college…

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What was more exciting, seeing a NEW BOBA DELIVERY What was more exciting, seeing a NEW BOBA DELIVERY FORMAT (dairy-free, guess they know their audience 👀) or seeing it specifically identified (on the packaging, too!) as a Taiwanese treat? Whatever your thoughts on boba, there’s no doubting its cultural cachet and we are so 👏🏼 excited 👏🏼 for 👏🏼 this! Posted @withregram • @traderjoes 🧋If you know #boba, you know it’s a Taiwanese-tea-based drink that includes chewy, #tapiocaballs that can be sucked up through an oversized straw. What a great idea! Our latest #frozendessert is a #bubbletea spin-off that’s sure to please, even if you’ve never imbibed a boba beverage… • We use #coconutmilk to create the non-dairy base, to which we add authentic #coffee flavor, using real, cold-brewed coffee. Then, we crown this coconut and #coldbrew concoction, not with jewels, but with “pearls” made from tapioca starch—for a soft & chewy contrast to the cool & “creamy” #dessert. — • Product of Thailand 🇹🇭 • Non-dairy • Vegan • • 1 Pint • Find It In Our Freezers •
It has come to our attention (belatedly, but impor It has come to our attention (belatedly, but importantly) that @tiffcooksalot (winner of @netflix “Crazy Delicious”) serves her daughter the following 蛋餅 variation: “My kid loves how versatile this is and she can add her own twist in the fillings. She likes hers with guacamole, Taiwanese pork floss and smoked mozzarella.” Drop your fav and/or fantasy dan bing combo in the comments, WE NEED TO HEAR MORE 👇🏼 @angelahuii for @huffpost - here and in bio: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-taiwanese-egg-pancake-is-an-ideal-no-fuss-breakfast-for-kids_uk_5f48c9ffc5b697186e346589
Posted @withregram • @tw.mixed How can we view T Posted @withregram • @tw.mixed How can we view Taiwan through the lens of decolonization to achieve transitional justice? Talk to us on Clubhouse this weekend! Linked here and in bio: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/MRn2A9Wb WHEN: 3/5 (Friday) 10pm EST & 7pm PST 3/6 (Saturday) 11am Taipei Time Our featured panelists are Brian Hioe of New Bloom @newbloommag , Chieh-Ting Yeh of Ketagalan Media @ketagalanmedia , and Leona Chen of TaiwaneseAmerican.org @taiwaneseam_org .
China has suspended imports of Taiwanese pineapple China has suspended imports of Taiwanese pineapples beginning March 1. The #FreedomPineapple campaign was suggested by @mofa_taiwan Minister Joseph Wu and inspired by efforts supporting Australian wine producers, who in late 2020 faced the imposition of steep tariffs by China. In addition to encouraging support for Taiwanese pineapple farmers and products, the campaign has sparked debate about the need to diversify Taiwan’s agricultural exports (97% of 🍍 exports were to 🇨🇳) • Caption content h/t @nextgentaiwan — check them out for more info!
As we approach the anniversary of the February 28 As we approach the anniversary of the February 28 Massacre in 1947, we're revisiting some important contributor works from past years. From editor-in-chief Leona Chen: ⁠ ⁠ "Today, my remembrance will look like learning, leveraging the memories of others when my own feels incomplete. Every year, we ask each other to “remember 228.” Let this be our collective tender, gentle reminder that the prerequisite of this is knowledge, of bearing witness to the scholarship and works of others." ⁠ ⁠ Read through compiled resources, including articles and videos, about 228 here and in bio: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2020/02/remembrance-resources-learning-about-228/⁠ ⁠
As we approach the anniversary of the February 28 As we approach the anniversary of the February 28 Massacre in 1947, we're revisiting some important contributor works from past years. Today, from Professor Chung-Chih Li in 2018: ⁠ ⁠ "In 1981, Professor Chen Wen-Cheng (陳文成), assistant professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, was taken for interrogation by Taiwan’s secret police under allegations of sedition. Despite official reports of a friendly and cordial interview, he was found dead the next day at National Taiwan University.⁠ ⁠ Thirteen broken ribs. Three fractured vertebrae. A one-year old son. The government ruled it a suicide and blacklisted anyone who hinted otherwise.⁠ ⁠ A year prior, the North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association (NATPA) had been formed in response to the violence of Taiwan’s militarized government – specifically, the Meilidao Incident (Kaohsiung Incident, 美麗島事件) in 1979 and the murders of former DPP chairperson Lin I-Hsiung’s elderly mother and twin daughters (林宅血案 ) in 1980. Many of its founding members were scholars exiled for their beliefs in a democratic future. American citizenship would not protect them. The Kuomintang (KMT) routinely employed diasporic gang members to execute those who dared testify to crimes committed in their home country." ⁠ ⁠ Read more, linked here and in bio: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2018/02/green-island-secrets/
As we approach the anniversary of the February 28 As we approach the anniversary of the February 28 Massacre in 1947, we're revisiting some important contributor works from past years. Today, from Professor Catherine Chou in 2019:⁠ ⁠ "You will not find the Taiwanese Revolution named in history books or identified in newspapers. Indeed, it is assumed that this revolution has yet to occur – or rather that it never will. Yet to occur, because there is no internationally-accepted Taiwanese Republic and never to occur, because the leaders of the People’s Republic of China may use military force to prevent it from happening.[1] Having failed to follow a particular revolutionary blueprint – armed rebellion, prolonged war – this line of thinking goes, Taiwan has rightfully been denied the full benefits of statehood.⁠ ⁠ What if we wrote a different history for Taiwan instead?"⁠ ⁠ Read more, linked here and in bio: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2019/02/the-228-inheritance-taiwans-revolution-is-here/
Historian Yang Cui will be the keynote speaker at Historian Yang Cui will be the keynote speaker at the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California's annual 228 commemorative event, hosted virtually this year. She is the Chairperson of the Commission for the Promotion of Transitional Justice. ⁠ This free event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien. ⁠ ⁠FB event info here and in bio: https://fb.me/e/blr99Tp8Z?ti=icl
MARS LANDING: SEVEN MINUTES OF TERROR! Did you cat MARS LANDING: SEVEN MINUTES OF TERROR! Did you catch a glimpse of Taiwanese American Allen Chen--the EDL team leader--who guided a brilliant team of engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the breath-taking Perseverance rover landing on Mars? What an amazing and inspiring performance! We’re so proud of you! Elements of Success: His mother is a chemical engineer with a graduate degree from MIT—which is also Allen’s alma mater. His father is a polymer chemistry scientist who attended NTU before they immigrated to the US. (photo screen captures from NASA video) Video linked here and in bio: https://youtu.be/lFiTjZDOekg
He sure did! Read more about this contest and how He sure did! Read more about this contest and how to apply here: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2021/02/national-book-award-winner-charles-yu-establishes-prize-for-young-taiwanese-american-creative-writers/
Thinking about this interview with Michelle Kuo fr Thinking about this interview with Michelle Kuo from 2017 on her debut memoir, "Reading with Patrick," and especially her frank notes on the often-clumsy relationship between upwardly mobile Asian Americans and the Black community: ⁠ ⁠ "More recently I’ve wondered if our invisibility as Asian Americans is a freedom in addition to a handicap. Part of my teaching failure, as I explore in my book, is how I tried to force-feed “classic” African American texts that I loved to my students, who were all African American. Not all of them liked Malcolm’s autobiography or Baldwin’s short story or Obama’s speech, or believed that these men represented them. What a classic—and idiotic—mistake." ⁠ ⁠ For everyone else, this is an inspirational story about literacy as a form of resistance; about the power of educators; a critique of systemic and institutional racism. For [Taiwanese Americans], "Reading with Patrick" is this and more. It is equal parts an affirmation that we belong in the conversation and a reminder of our own privileges: our ability to leave, to play both sides, to have been both broken body and parasite. Kuo gets our hesitant neutrality, our imperative to be both filial and civic.⁠ ⁠ Interview linked here and in bio: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2017/07/interview-michellekuo/⁠
Love this from @tsai_ingwen — we’ve got the ro Love this from @tsai_ingwen — we’ve got the roundup of Taiwanese movies and shows available on US Netflix, linked here and in bio: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2021/02/what-to-watch-taiwanese-shows-movies-on-netflix-now/
In partnership with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, Nationa In partnership with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, National Book Award winner Charles Yu (“Interior Chinatown”) has established a Taiwanese American creative writing prize for college and high school students in honor of his parents, Betty Lin Yu and Jin-Chyuan Yu, for their longtime service to the Taiwanese American community. American Book Award winner Shawna Yang Ryan (“Green Island”) joins him in the inaugural judging panel. View full announcement and submission details at https://bit.ly/3tBHIIs.
Welcoming year of the ox with @bikhimhsiao energy Welcoming year of the ox with @bikhimhsiao energy ⚡️
Field notes from a Clubhouse conversation titled " Field notes from a Clubhouse conversation titled "TAIKANDA: Why is 臺灣 Asian Wakanda?" -- ⁠ ⁠ "Unlike Wakanda, whose obscurity is a strategic calculation against outside influences, Taiwan exists, for the most part, in that latter space of being deliberately and systematically ignored. For the Taiwanese people, the aspirational elements of Wakanda may not be superior technology (besides, we kind of already have that covered) or superpowers; they are agency, power, institutionalized legitimacy. Wakanda hides its innovation until compelled otherwise by T'Challa's resolve to help the world at large; Taiwan suffers the indignity of having to beg to help, of openly and willingly proving its own competence over and over, only to be denied membership to the United Nations and the World Health Organization." ⁠ ⁠ Linked here and in bio: http://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2021/02/on-clubhouse-%e8%87%bakanda-taiwans-wakanda-fantasies/ #taiwanese #taiwaneseamerican #clubhouse #joinclubhouse
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