When I first came to Taipei, I thought this city was very bike friendly. There were designated cycling lanes on the road and sidewalks which looked inviting. YouBike stations are dotted all over the city and they are so reasonably priced. Hell, in Taichung I didn’t even get charged for using YouBike. Of all the […]
Before I came to Taiwan, I never heard the phrase white straight male used naturally in a conversation or even in news reporting. To me and most people, it was a phrase that emanated what was happening in contemporary American race relations. I never judged the phrase until I came to Taiwan because I felt that even […]
I can’t find any statistics on what percentage of foreigners (Westerners) speak Mandarin in Taiwan, but by simple observation I wouldn’t expect that number to be quite low. When I say “speak Mandarin” I am setting the standard to be able to work in an office with a decent amount of Mandarin or to be […]
I recently went to the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei to see a fantastic exhibition. Being : In / Voluntary Drift ─ Li Chen Solo Exhibition is not to be missed. I had never heard of Li Chen before seeing the exhibition, but his work is extremely impressive. A lot of what he has done is influenced […]
In June 2015, it was a year since I graduated from DIT with a first class honours in Chinese and International Business, and I was depressed. I know a lot of people use the word depressed to exaggerate their own melancholy, but I was genuinely in that bad place. I didn’t turn to alcohol […]
1# Laboratory of Fragrance & Perfume 2# Fulong Beach Sand Sculpture Festival
1.Introduction The ‘dark continent’ is a metaphor used by Western perspectives to view Africans as a people who need to be civilized and modernized. Modern Western discourse of Africa is affected by the colonization era, and more recently, by the post-colonial economic development of the continent. (Jarosz, 1992). It was Golan (2008) that found between […]
