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Maybe it’s our vantage point from @taiwaneseam_o

Maybe it’s our vantage point from @taiwaneseam_org that allows us to appreciate every product and project – especially a mainstream one like this – as a hard-won triumph, as a member of a lineage where people had doors opened for them, and in turn opened doors for others. As much as “representation” is a buzzy and flashy accomplishment, “opportunity” is its accompanying, more profound feat. We get to celebrate friends who have worked hard, who have overcome doubt and rejection, who have waited patiently for a difficult industry to catch up to their own imaginations.⁠
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I think when you’re in lifelong community with other Taiwanese Americans, you see the circumstances that have shaped and challenged them. You know their parents (or know of them), and the concessions they may have made as a family so they could pursue a career in the arts. Or you know how their dads were their best champions, shielding them from the harshest criticisms and patiently chauffeuring them with home-cooked snacks to and from auditions.⁠
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We know these stories because we know and love and have been cheering for these people. We celebrate their work for exactly the same reasons.⁠
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Cheering on our friends as @ambornchinese premieres today on @disneyplus⁠
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Writing by @internetkelvin + @geneluenyang + @whsuleonard + Charles Yu⁠
Directing by @dennisaliu⁠
Cast including @rosaliecchiang + Jimmy Liu⁠ @jimmm___0504
Music by @wendywangmusic + Annlie Huang of @shigwastudio⁠
+ More⁠
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To our friends who are a part of this magnificent show: we are so proud of you. We hope you feel seen, that your long road here has felt worthwhile, that you have more ahead to look forward to. We hope your successes open doors for others, that you become predecessors for the next generation of curious and creative people.⁠
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Linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2023/05/american-born-chinese-disney/

The World Health Assembly has again rejected Taiwa

The World Health Assembly has again rejected Taiwan’s request to join its annual gathering amid routine objections from China and despite strong support from a coalition of countries including the US, UK, France and Australia.⁠
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Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs said its participation in the WHA was a matter of global public health. “Politics should not be allowed to take precedence over professionalism. It is not only unfair and unjust to shut Taiwan out due to Chinese political pressure, but also poses a serious threat to global health."⁠
01 / The Guardian (src: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/outcry-as-world-health-organization-locks-out-taiwan-under-pressure-from-china)⁠
02 / @tafnc1 crowdfunded to place an advertisement in the Washington Post advocating for Taiwan's meaningful inclusion in the World Health Assembly. The illustration, commissioned from Taiwanese American artist Alicia Chen, was also sent as postcards to US representatives last week.⁠
03 / The Taiwanese diaspora in Geneva has designed a #TaiwanCanHelp installation at Place des Nations⁠
04 / Pres Tsai Ing-wen Twitter (src: https://twitter.com/iingwen/status/1656503343479668736)

While the days of confusing Thai and Taiwanese are

While the days of confusing Thai and Taiwanese are (hopefully) behind us, we love any opportunity to think about, talk about, read about, and enjoy food - for its own sake (duh) and as a framework to think about our histories, stories, challenges, and triumphs.⁠
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Swipe through for just a few examples of recent writing on Taiwanese cuisine that we've enjoyed. You can also find more personal essays on how Taiwanese food has shaped identity and community on TaiwaneseAmerican.org.⁠
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The data won't show it (yet), but we know our community's culinary tastemakers are here to stay - tag your favorite Taiwanese or Taiwanese American restaurants below!⁠
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Interestingly, according to the methodology for this research, restaurants with “bubble tea shop” tags are included in the “Other Asian/Unspecified” category unless the restaurant is already tagged with a more specific category.⁠
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#taiwaneseamerican #asianamerican #taiwanesefood #taiwanese

We are pleased to announce the 2023 cohort of hono

We are pleased to announce the 2023 cohort of honorable mentions, finalists, and grand prize winners of the Betty L. Yu & Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes, established in partnership with TaiwaneseAmerican.org in honor of Yu’s parents, who are longstanding Taiwanese American community leaders. In its third year, the prize has expanded to include adult writers of all life stages. Selected work will be published on TaiwaneseAmerican.org throughout the year.⁠
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After a blind deliberation period, the judges have selected the following writers. Please join us in congratulating them and all participants!

(CLOSED) We’re thrilled to see a growing body of

(CLOSED) We’re thrilled to see a growing body of research on Taiwan studies and Taiwanese Americans. @lynettemeliki is a fourth year at @ucsantabarbara — her research aims to capture and document diverse experiences of growing up in Taiwan. If you meet the criteria, please consider reaching out directly in her DMs.

Time for another #TaiwaneseAmerican community roun

Time for another #TaiwaneseAmerican community roundup!⁠
01 / New Jersey, don't miss @aapijazzfest AAPI Jazz Fest, produced by Taiwanese American jazz trombonist Peter Lin @the_lintet -- we're longtime fans of Peter and so in awe of his longtime efforts championing and contributing to the diversity of the pan-Asian jazz community. Free admission! (For those who can't make it, Peter Lin had a great interview with @talkingtaiwanpodcast you can check out!) + amazing poster design by Taiwanese American designer/illustrator @kel.ster Kelly Lin⁠
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02 / Happy book birthday to "The Rachel Experiment" by Lisa Lin, a sequel to the delicious "The Year of Cecily." Lin's debut series, "From Sunset Park, With Love" is all about delicious food, meddling families, girl squads, and of course falling in love! Taiwanese American author @laforesta1 writes "light contemporary romantic comedies with a liberal dash of snark and banter. She enjoys delving into the complexity of Asian and immigrant family experiences, and celebrates female friendships in her trademark dry, witty style." Find the series at our bookshop!⁠
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03 / New York City's "Passport to Taiwan" festival is next Sunday, May 28! Featured performers include College of Performing Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts; Islanders: Compound Playground (a musical project merging old-school elements with modern cultures); the Liu Sisters; @jilliyeah Jilliyeah 紫音; Spring Folk Dance from the Jersey Shore Chinese School; lion dancing; and the Taiwan Republic Ban. Check out their website @ p2tw.org for a full list of vendors and participating organizations.

Lucilla Pan would not consider herself an aggressi

Lucilla Pan would not consider herself an aggressive person, but she does tend to find herself getting into petty arguments with her friends, including one on whether a fantuan 飯糰 needs to contain a youtiao 油條 to be considered a "fantuan."⁠
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The heated debate takes this philosopher through a quantitative study (an Instagram poll), a survey (Subtle Taiwanese Traits), and hours of intersectional consideration (family ties, gender, and geographic location). ⁠
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Finally, she arrives at the real question that matters -- not what is necessarily for a fantuan to be a fantuan but what is the Taiwanese diaspora identity? ⁠
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Don't miss Lucilla Pan's earnest, funny essay on "Fantuan Discourse," linked here and in bio: https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2023/05/fantuan-discourse/⁠
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#taiwaneseamerican #fantuan #taiwanesefood #apahm

We had a great time chatting with our friend Eric

We had a great time chatting with our friend Eric Tsai, a reporter at @taiwanplus, about why and how we’ve built TaiwaneseAmerican(.)org, and just how special this community is to us. Happy Taiwanese American Heritage Week to you all. We are so grateful to serve you in any small way. Linked here and in bio: https://youtu.be/s4Fjb2C68fo

Part 2 of @tafestival — we LOVED having kid lit

Part 2 of @tafestival — we LOVED having kid lit authors (and illustrators) Margaret Chiu Greanias; Nicole Chen, Eugenia Yoh, and Crystal Z. Lee join us for live storytelling!! And thank you to our amazing volunteers for reading fan favorites, including I DREAM OF POPO by Livia Blackburne (ill Julia Kuo) and NIGHT MARKET RESCUE by Charlotte Cheng (ill Amber Ren) 💓

Part 1 of @tafestival — Overjoyed to present our

Part 1 of @tafestival —
Overjoyed to present our #TaiwaneseAmerican storytelling exhibit, featuring the growing catalog of books across all genres by Taiwanese American authors.

Taiwanese American Hua Hsu has won a 2023 Pulitzer

Taiwanese American Hua Hsu has won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his memoir “Stay True” (Doubleday, 2022). The Pulitzer Prize jury called Stay True “an elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.” Hsu is the inaugural winner of the Pulitzer Prize’s newest book prize category for Memoir or Autobiography, which was announced as part of the 2023 competition. More: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/hua-hsu

We are THRILLED to join @tafestival with our #Taiw

We are THRILLED to join @tafestival with our #TaiwaneseAmericanLit experience featuring ✨LIVE AUTHOR READINGS✨ and a browsable display of the flourishing canon of books by Taiwanese American authors. Come hang out with authors @margaretgreanias @ncheny @crystal.z.lee @eugeniayoh and get book recs from our volunteers/#TAlit book nerds 🤓💓 Posted @withregram • @tafestival For those with little ones, bring your kiddos to the "Hualien" area, where they'll get a chance to hear Taiwanese American stories told by the storytellers themselves! Presented by @taiwaneseam_org, "Our Taiwanese American Stories & Storytellers" will showcase the flourishing canon of Taiwanese American literature, from picture books to historical novels to contemporary fiction (some of which has been or is being developed for film!).
Swipe to meet this year's storytellers!

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So many exciting things to share this week --⁠
01 / "Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism" by Wendy Cheng is now available for preorder. Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination. Raising questions about historical memory and Cold War circuits of power, Island X is a testament to the lives and advocacy of a generation of Taiwanese American activists.⁠
Pre-order through our Bookshop here and in bio: https://bookshop.org/a/6825/9780295752051⁠
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02 / Congratulations to Elaine Hsieh Chou on "Disorientation" being named a finalist for the @nypl 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award.⁠
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03 / New Yorkers, don't miss #TaiwaneseAmerican artist and photographer @kaarinamackenzie at her upcoming exhibit THE NIGHT MARKET at @bobblehaus - the opening reception is May 3 and runs for 6 weeks⁠
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04 / Bay Area, @tafestival is back in Union Square on May 13! This year, their theme is #takeofftotaiwan - join them on IG as they "visit" different cities in Taiwan and share what you can expect at this year's festival!⁠
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05 / New Yorkers, @p2tw.nyc will be on May 28 this year - learn more at https://p2tw.org/⁠
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We are so excited to be a community partner for STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF and the star-studded AMERICAN BORN CHINESE at #CAAMFest2023, celebrating Asian American Stories May 11-21, 2023, presented by @caamedia. For tickets and info here: caamfest.com. ⁠
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Both STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF and AMERICAN BORN CHINESE will be screened on Saturday, May 13, 2023.⁠
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Use the promo codes in the graphics for $2 off each screening!⁠
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#taiwaneseamerican #asianamerican #caamfest #caam ⁠

As we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander He

As we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, TaiwaneseAmerican.org recommends “Ten Thousand Things,” a new podcast from Seattle’s Civic Poet Shin Yu Pai and KUOW. “Ten Thousand Things” focuses on the ordinary objects that tell extraordinary stories of Asian Americans living in the pacific northwest. It’s a treat for the ears and the heart. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Our favorite episode might be “Dakin Drooper Dog” 🐶 ❤️ Spotify link here and in bio: https://open.spotify.com/show/7ETsrwemYsplVtIGLVxHGa?si=UB5vpHVwRoWs3vdi92TGpw

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Founded in 2006, TaiwaneseAmerican.org is a web portal site highlighting many of the interesting people, events and organizations that make up Taiwanese America. It is both a volunteer-driven website and a non-profit organization that intends to connect and promote those who identify with the Taiwanese identity, heritage, or culture. By establishing our niche within the broader Asian Pacific American and mainstream communities, we hope to collectively contribute to the wonderful and diverse mosaic that America represents.

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