A Reflection on 228, from Taiwanese America in 2026

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Dear community, Some of my earliest work for TaiwaneseAmerican.org (indeed, ten years ago to this date!) was published in commemoration of the 228 Incident and the period of White Terror that followed. In 2016, I wrote: I urge us to reaffirm our own agencies in the patchwork of the Taiwanese American experience... to be the involuntary ambassador of a threatened identity is both a privilege and an exhausting responsibility. But personal pursuits of disorientation, investigation, and storytelling — wanting…

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The Overlooked Japanese Roots of Taiwanese Americans

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[embed]https://open.spotify.com/episode/6s3umRithl6eQr9trOdCYk[/embed] Ever wonder why old Taiwanese people pick Japanese songs at karaoke (shouldn’t they be picking Chinese songs)? Or perfectly line up their shoes with toes facing out? How about a general affinity for Japanese culture, and their inability to speak Mandarin despite being from Taiwan?  That’s because they’re more Japanese than Chinese, and they should be, if they were born and spent formative years in Taiwan before 1945…

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