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Claiming Taiwanese American Identity: A Third-Generation Perspective

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Being a fresh-out-of-undergraduate 22-year old is not fun in the current U.S. job market. Luckily, I've decided to leave the country for a year, delaying the mundane process of the job search—or as I like to call it, “delaying adulthood”—to spend a year in Taiwan as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. It sounds like a laissez-faire dream, but I didn’t stumble upon this opportunity by happenstance. Bicultural Upbringing I come from a family that takes immense pride in their Taiwanese…

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Keng-lâm Su-iⁿ: Writing A New Chapter for Tâi-gí

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Meet the educator-activists turning the tide on Mandarin hegemony to nurture a new generation of Taiwanese speakers and storytellers. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2048"] From L to R: Hô Phè-chin, Lûi Bêng-hàn, Tīⁿ Têng-têng, Ong Úi-pek[/caption] Founded in 2024, Keng-lâm Su-iⁿ (The Mosei Academy of Taiwanese Language and Literacy) has quickly become a dynamic and influential forces in Tâi-gí (Taiwanese) language revival. Rooted in a pragmatic praxis, the collective’s…

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Light as Insistent: Alvin Lu (“Daydreamers”) in conversation with Shawna Yang Ryan

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Alvin Lu’s second novel, Daydreamers, was released on July 15th. It’s a dreamy, unsettling book that radiates intelligence and beauty. Difficult to summarize, I will rely on this line from the publisher’s description, though even that cannot capture the many layers of this book: “Cycling between San Francisco, Los Angeles, China, and Taiwan, the novel unfolds across generations of Chinese immigrants and diaspora artists, linked by tenuous friendships, publishing feuds, and the obscure…

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Winnie M Li’s “WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID” and California Book Tour!

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WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID By Winnie M Li Excerpt from p.102 - 103 In this passage, Bonnie and Alex, two Taiwanese-American sisters in their 40s, are sharing a hotel room on a cross-country road trip. They stop to reflect upon their mother.  ‘I guess Mom must have been like that with us.  Like, we were her whole purpose or living?’ ‘Yeah,’ Bonnie answers after a moment, releasing Alex from the hug. ‘And then we all moved away.’ They sit side by side, stewing equally in their…

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Where we come from, who we stand with: A Conversation with Professor Hsin-I Cheng (Part 1/2)

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Part 1: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Emotional Legacies of Immigration This interview has also been translated to Mandarin Chinese (Hanzi) and can be viewed here.  Editor's Introduction: As political crises unfold, they rarely do so in a vacuum—and neither do our responses to them. I have been thinking fervently of how the different reactions to statements like this within our own community illuminate a lack of common ground for understanding. While I do not expect or want everyone…

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To Speak in Many Tongues Is to Fight on Many Fronts: Bonnie Jin on Labor, Diaspora, and the Politics of Belonging

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Taiwanese American Bonnie Jin is one of the most brilliant voices of our generation, lucidly alchemizing identity into strategy as a multilingual union organizer and storyteller. In a conversation for TaiwaneseAmerican.org, we talk about how diasporic experiences can inform a labor movement rooted in empathy and collective care, and the kind of Taiwanese American stories we want to tell – and for whom.  When asked about her Taiwanese American lineage, Bonnie begins with an ancestral origin…

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Walking through the Forest with Artist Szu-Chieh Yun: A Conversation Between Sisters

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On Friday, May 16th, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston unveiled Into the Forest, a large-scale mural installation created by Taiwanese American Fine Artist and Arts Educator Szu-Chieh Yun (雲思婕), in collaboration with nearly 200 local youth. The mural — a vibrant landscape alive with curiosity, chaos, and the texture of rushing water and flowing trees — was the culmination of the Museum’s Community Arts Initiative, a program that invites young people to co-create with a professional artist…

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Taiwanese American Book Fair: TaiwaneseAmerican.org at the 2025 Taiwanese American Cultural Festival

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This past weekend, we were so pleased to gather nearly a dozen local Taiwanese American authors and illustrators for our largest-yet "Taiwanese American Book Fair" at the 2025 Taiwanese American Cultural Festival in San Francisco's Union Square, hosted by TAP-SF. This year, we partnered with On Waverly, a new and already-beloved Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) centered shop and creative space located in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown. Founded in 2023 by sisters Cynthia and Jennifer…

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A Tradition of Gathering: Taiwanese American Writers at AWP 2025

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[gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="23842,23843"] For the third year in a row, TaiwaneseAmerican.org founder Ho Chie Tsai and editor-in-chief Leona Chen hosted a Taiwanese American Writers’ Dinner during the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP). This time, we gathered at Pine & Crane DTLA, and immediately began chatting —first in the queue, then at a long table where we rotated seats to ensure new connections. These conversations could happen anywhere,…

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