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2022 Taiwanese American Gift Guide: Shop your community! 2022 Taiwanese American Gift Guide: Shop your community!
Tyler Tsai: Furikake Gohan Tyler Tsai: Furikake Gohan
Yakuza Baby: Mooncakes Yakuza Baby: Mooncakes
Josephine Cheng: The Best Day Josephine Cheng: The Best Day
Anastasia Yang: Crosswalk・Catwalk Anastasia Yang: Crosswalk・Catwalk

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“How We Say I Love You”: Nicole Chen on her picture book & middle grade debuts

Author Nicole Chen (photo credit to Sarah Deragon) "How We Say I Love You," with illustrations by Lenny Wen, features a Taiwanese American girl who shares how her family expresses their love for one another through actions rather than words. If "How We Say I Love You" is, as Nicole Chen writes,…

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Hannah Han: Rusted Dawn

Laopopo: great-grandmother Laogongong: great-grandfather In Shandong, mountains rise like fists from the earth, and pagoda trees blossom, releasing wild fuchsia plumes between the ancient fingers. Beneath the mountains, two rivers melt into a vein pulsing with grass carp, silver bream, and…

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Political intrigue, romance, danger: Meet Judy I. Lin, fantasy author of A Magic Steeped in Poison & A Venom Dark and Sweet

Welcome back to another interview in our “New Creatives” series at TaiwaneseAmerican.org! With August and the end of summer coming around, avid readers will know that this month brings a plethora of new book releases. One of our most highly-anticipated reads of the summer is A Venom Dark and…

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It’s gifting szn! Shop your community. Full #Tai It’s gifting szn! Shop your community. Full #TaiwaneseAmerican gift guide in profile and bio ❤️ #giftideas #giftguide #asianamerican #smallbusiness
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, we dropped the trifecta: coffee, chocolate, and jewelry (and then way, way more). Shop the full guide on https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/11/2022-taiwanese-american-gift-guide-shop-your-community/ Happy #MBTA shopping!
PART TWO COMIN IN 🌶️HOT🌶️ LIKE @mamalian PART TWO COMIN IN 🌶️HOT🌶️ LIKE @mamaliangs - coincidentally one of our featured small businesses! Full gift guide now up, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/11/2022-taiwanese-american-gift-guide-shop-your-community/
This year’s Made by #TaiwaneseAmericans gift gui This year’s Made by #TaiwaneseAmericans gift guide was SOO JUICY we had to make it a trilogy 😮‍💨 We are so in awe of our community and all of the creative ways each of you have found to offer something indelible — we hope this guide adequately showcases that there’s something here for someone you love, from someone we love. Pictured on the cover: 01 – HOW WE SAY I LOVE YOU, a debut picture book out now from @ncheny 02 – The ultimate carryall tote from @notebooksandhoney⁠ 03 – 14K Gold Filled Hand-Hammered Pearl Earrings from @a_touch_of_hue⁠ 04 – NY-based pearls, stones, & recycled gold jewelry from @occasionally.sweet⁠ 05 – The first specialty Taiwanese coffee roasted in the US – @theformosacoffee⁠ 06 – Award-winning, evidence-based educational game “Empower Empathy” for social/emotional/life skills by @mytinysprouts⁠ Shop the full gift guide, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/11/2022-taiwanese-american-gift-guide-shop-your-community/
We are pleased to share a finalist selection, coll We are pleased to share a finalist selection, college category of the 2022 Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes.⁠ ⁠ "People die too, but only rarely. And when they do, it is always a topic treated with caution, pity, and oddly enough, grudging respect, for in a world where everyone is given the cure, death is no long a matter of life, but a matter of choice."⁠ ⁠ Cheng's piece praised for "an interesting conceit with ample ideas and emotion."⁠ ⁠ Read the full piece, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/11/josephine-cheng-the-best-day/
Loved this piece by @dearclarissa for @afarmedia - Loved this piece by @dearclarissa for @afarmedia - ⁠ "For the past 26 years, Indigenous Taiwanese educator Dongi Kacaw has been an advocate for wild, edible greens in Taiwan. Through her work, Kacaw is broadening the public’s perception of Taiwanese cuisine—which tends to be focused on the food cultures of its major cities and the cuisine of the Chinese diaspora who make up the majority of the island’s population. But long before the first waves of Chinese settlers arrived in Taiwan in the 16th and 18th century, there was a vibrant and diverse population of Indigenous Austronesian inhabitants on the island.⁠ ⁠ 'I am Amis,' she says, referring to one of 16 recognized Austronesian linguistic groups in Taiwan, of which there are many subsets. 'We are a matrilineal society and back then, grandmas and moms would bring wild vegetables back after they came home from work. Eating wild greens is just a part of our culture.'"⁠ ⁠ Linked here and in bio: https://www.afar.com/magazine/in-taiwan-dongi-kacaw-works-to-save-indigenous-plant-knowledge
We are pleased to share an honorable mention selec We are pleased to share an honorable mention selection, college category of the 2022 Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes.⁠ ⁠ "I’ve come to realize that Taipei is a city that expects you to be sure of who you are. It has no mercy for fragile almost-divorced families, or self-conscious average-weight girls; it has no mercy for the hesitant. The city doesn’t hold back its interrogation, jabbing at your most vulnerable sides, daring you to push back. People tend to walk on eggshells around me, perhaps because I’m a quiet person by nature, and they think my softness is something that needs to be shielded from harm; but Taipei respects me in a way few people do, treating me like an adult, throwing the punches one by one with the expectation that I will be able to handle them."⁠ ⁠ Read the full piece by Anastasia Yang, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/11/anastasia-yang-crosswalk-catwalk/
Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of Interior Chinatown Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of Interior Chinatown, a drama series from 20th Television and creator/exec producer #TaiwaneseAmerican Charles Yu, who wrote the 2020 bestseller of the same name. Jimmy O. Yang (Crazy Rich Asians) will star, and Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) will direct pilot and executive produce. Src: https://deadline.com/2022/10/hulu-orders-interior-chinatown-series-jimmy-o-yang-star-taika-waititi-directs-1235143665/
Love this from @ourlittlemando for 👶🏻👧🏻🧒🏻 ⁠ 🌟A little Book of Taiwanese Eats is a lovable rhyming book celebrating the tastiest Taiwanese dishes following Bopomofo, our phonetic alphabet! ⁠ ⁠ ✏️An English rhyming book with Chinese, Zhuyin, and Pinyin for dual language learning!⁠ ⁠ ⁠These amazingly adorable illustrations are all thanks to @laiberry.art !
❤️‍🔥 LOS ANGELES ❤️‍🔥 Future Nos ❤️‍🔥 LOS ANGELES ❤️‍🔥 Future Nostalgia is a one night only pop-up gallery showcasing digital and physical art by Asian and Asian American artists, including 9 Taiwanese American creators. The event will feature amazing art accompanied by DJs, a popup bar by Taiwanese-born bartender William Fahn, and Asian-owned beverage brands and food vendors together to highlight the global Asian experience in Historic Filipinotown, deep in the heart of Los Angeles. Info and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-nostalgia-tickets-420109086587
For the fourth year, the annual Taiwan Film Festiv For the fourth year, the annual Taiwan Film Festival of Boston @tffboston is excited to present four documentaries, one animation and one drama playing off the theme of Crack & Light, screening at AMC Boston Common during the weekend of October 1 and 2. The theme of TFFB 2022 is “Crack & Light”. We are sincerely inviting you to join us in enjoying movies and sharing the shadows and lights throughout our individual journeys.Perhaps it was a moment of remorse that gave us the endless power to move on. Perhaps it was a setback that inspired us to never let go. What does it take for us to see the bright light at the end of the tunnel? What kind of imperfection makes lives unique and complete? 🎟Get tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taiwanfilmfestivalofboston/742152
We were so excited to have author Nicole Chen @nch We were so excited to have author Nicole Chen @ncheny join us to talk about her debut picture book, HOW WE SAY I LOVE YOU and middle school chapter book, IT'S BOBA TIME FOR PEARL LI. ⁠ ⁠ "My hope," says Chen, "is that this book illuminates the beauty—and legitimacy—of acts of service as a love language. I hope kids and families who read this will be inspired to talk about and recognize those small, special ways that they show their love to each other, because they count as much as big, more occasional acts of love."⁠ ⁠ Read our full interview, linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2022/09/nicole-chen-picture-book-interview/⁠ ⁠ Pre-order wherever books are sold or through our Bookshop affiliate link in article!⁠ ⁠ #middlegrade #picturebook #asianamerican #taiwaneseamerican #authorinterviews
Loved this beautiful op-ed by @brownu student Chri Loved this beautiful op-ed by @brownu student Christopher Chang. “While I am still searching for answers, I’ve come to realize that the Taiwanese identity cannot be defined by its homeland’s history or politics. Instead, I feel it is defined by our unabashed love and care for everyone. Taiwanese people have such an impressive capacity for love even though we are constantly beleaguered by threats of war and messy global politics.” https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/09/chang-23-what-it-means-to-be-taiwanese
Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang (黃心健) will present his solo exhibition titled "The Data We Called Home" at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York from Sept. 23, 2022 to Feb. 28, 2023. More info: https://www.pratt.edu/events/hsin-chien-huang-the-data-we-called-home/
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