An Interview with “A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities” actor Denny Huang When Denny Huang decided to move to
Taipei in 2005 as a young adult, he had no idea what he was going to do. As a
Taiwanese American born in Houston, he barely spoke Mandarin at the time, and
when he started pursuing acting roles, he realized his American-accent would be
an issue. To manage, as he was slowly building
his film & TV career (with roles in TV dramas like “Bull Fighting” and
“Across the Ocean to…
Come and hear Shawna Yang Ryan read from her brand new novel, Green Island. Green Island is a story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan in the twentieth century. February 28, 1947—Trapped inside the family home amidst an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of Green Island. In the following weeks, as the Chinese Nationalists act to crush the opposition, Dr. Tsai becomes one of the many thousands…
