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New Arrivals: “Taiwan in the Mind's Eye: Stories and Images of Taiwan”

Taiwan’s charm does not lie in any one building or landmark. Come with Taiwan Panorama on a journey of local culture and customs, industries and entrepreneurship, ecology and environmental protection, to get close to this land and enjoy a vision of Taiwan in the mind’s eye.

Expanding Paper’s Possibilities

Old and unique, this paper both serves a practical purpose and is a charming work of art. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Knowing the Biddings of Heaven

Akira Higashiyama (photo by Kent Chuang)

A Synchronic Resonance of Kindred Spirits

The Chair, YSC Shuinandong Residence 2019 Giclée print on Canson Baryta Prestige 340 gsm paper, ironwood and mineral pigment stained frame 94 x 124 x 5 cm

Mountain Ridges, Autumn Leaves

Cycling Provincial Highway 7A (photo by Kent Chuang)

A Crafty Way to Revisit Childhood

In a crafts class, students study the special characteristics of their materials and cultivate a sense of exploration. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

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Entrepreneurship

Straddling Fiction and Reality

Jack Hsu’s Immersive Entertainment

Jack Hsu is always busy. Still just 28 years old, with hair combed back on top and cut short on the sides, a pair of round, Hsu-Chih-mo-style glasses on his nose, he doesn’t carry himself in the tentative way of so many people of his age. He has a quick mind, a well-developed perspective on fi ...more

Overseas Chinese

The Premier 12 Baseball Tournament

Taiwan Back in the World’s Top Five

The 2019 Premier 12 baseball tournament, organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, served as a qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Though initially not favored to do well, Taiwan’s national team, Chinese Taipei, played with discipline, intelligence, and indomitable w ...more

Cultural Trends

Expanding Paper’s Possibilities

The Suho Museum and Its Fenko Catalysis Chamber

Since the invention of paper, traditionally credited to the Han-Dynasty eunuch Cai Lun, humanity has been tightly bound to the medium. Together they have written the story of human civilization. But recently these bonds have been weakening amid a decline of paper culture. Unwilling to surrender to t ...more

Around Taiwan

Railway Bento

New Flavors for a Nostalgic Travel Icon

Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) offer a traditional pork chop boxed meal, but they also feature a new series of mouthwatering combos with ingredients sourced from all over Taiwan; the railroad-fan owner of Fu Jing Restaurant sells lunchboxes in his hometown; and the Satoyama Animal Train b ...more

Cultural Trends

Knowing the Biddings of Heaven

Akira Higashiyama Is Done Fleeing

Akira Higashiyama made a big splash with his very first novel, Turd on the Run, winning the grand silver and reader’s choice awards as part of the Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! (“This Mystery Novel Is Excellent!”) awards that were handed out by Japan’s Takarajimasha publishing house ...more

Around Taiwan

DoGoodHouse

Doing Good Things

Cars whiz past Tiaoshi in New Taipei City’s Jinshan District, on the coastal highway linking Jinshan with Danshui. Beside the road, a desert-colored, anthill-shaped home draws the eye. Viewed from above, the unusual structure looks a bit like a sea turtle crouched near the shore. Neither ...more

Communities

Art as a Cultural Movement:

Opening a Window on Southeast Asia

To many Taiwanese, Southeast Asia is a faraway land of different languages, cultures and religions. But viewing Taiwan through the lens of contemporary Southeast-Asian art, with its depictions of the cultural body blows inflicted by colonial rule and later transition to more democratic governance, c ...more

Around Taiwan

Saving the Sea

Wang Ming-hsiang and His Squid Birthing Suites

While many people make a living from the sea, there are few who speak out on its behalf. Many people know how to exploit the sea, but don’t understand the problems of overfishing and marine trash that are making the once beautiful oceans a scene of devastation. Wang Ming-hsiang loves the ...more

Cultural Trends

Skills to Change the World

—“Craftsmanship Insights” and “Skills for U”

Taiwanese society has long put academic education on a pedestal, while undervaluing vocational skills. This bias is not only evident in the education system, it also appears in all corners of the job market. But in truth people with professional skills are the foundation and central pillar of s ...more

Communities

A Home Away from Home

Mosques Provide a Sense of Belonging

… truly pious is he who believes in God, and the Last Day; and the angels, and revelation, and the prophets; and spends his substance—however much he himself may cherish it—upon his near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and the beggars, and for the freeing ...more

Taiwan Panorama

Column

The curious fourth graders visiting Sheng Yang Leisure Farm from Yilan’s Liming Elementary School are making “bottle ecosystems” and asking questions as they learn. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Entrepreneurship

Players “paddle” around the Dongmen Creek pedestrian area to get a taste of a time when the locals would cross the creek here by boat. (photo by Kent Chuang)

Leisure and Travel

Fu Jing Restaurant, a railroad-themed eatery. (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Overseas Chinese

The 2019 Premier 12 baseball tournament (photo by Jimmy Lin)

Trendy Issues

Jack Hsu and his young team are hoping to change the world via his three companies. (photo by Lin Min-hsuan)

Moments in Time to Last an Eternity

The Taiwan Panorama Photo Collection is a visual record of this land of Taiwan and of its people, from the exalted to the ordinary. It includes a rich variety of images, covering local life and customs, holidays, folk rituals, and portraits of individuals, as well as pictures taken by our photojournalists on assignment abroad. These images tell the true story of the emotional attachment people this land and its people. In this ever-changing world, these moments, frozen in time by our cameras, will last forever.