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Taiwan: Veggie Heaven!

Perhaps you have noticed the increasing vitality of Taiwan’s fruit and vege­table trade. Besides traditional markets and super­market chains, there are neighborhood organic food shops and weekend farmers’ markets in many locations, all displaying a huge variety of fruits and vegetables in seas......

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Life in the Post-Covid Era

The eruption of the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted social order and daily life. But it has also inspired the rise and transformation of many industries. Moreover, well-known people from all walks of life are being affected by the pandemic in ways that are causing them to rethink the links bet......

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The Flowering of Indigenous Art and Culture

In this month’s cover story, we explore traditions and innovations in indigenous music, drama, crafts, and architecture, as well as the transmission of life wisdom, offering insights into Taiwan's vibrant and fascinating indigenous cultures.......

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The Beauty of Natural Materials

Focusing on urban green spaces, this month’s cover story invites us to reconsider the relationships between humanity, nature, and space. We explore how designers make use of plants and nat­ural materials to create works that are full of meaning. Their artfully designed spaces are rooted in nat......

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Government Communication in the New Media Age

In their communications with the public, government agencies are turning away from old habits of issuing haughty pronouncements couched in stuffy officialese. Instead they are employing social media editors who are full of whacky ideas and are a match for every conceivable challenge. These edi......

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The Energy of Taiwan’s Youth

For a glimpse of the energy and vitality of young people in Taiwan, don’t miss the articles in this month’s cover story. High schoolers are portraying their own lives through school publications that they write and produce themselves. University students have worked with consultancy Kooidea to......

Taiwan’s Vegetarian Awakening

A Gathering Trend

This is a social movement without tensions and clamor. In place of accusations and criticism, you find mirth and a sense of duty. Instead of preaching and protesting, you get your message across through the watchwords “Health, Environment, and Sustain­ability.” This is the vegetarian movement,......

Meeting New Demand for Vegetarian Foods

Taiwan's Plant-Based Meat Experts

Beyond Meat, the American maker of meat substitutes, was established in 2009. Since then, Taiwan has seen the rise of a new kind of vegetarianism, one not limited to certain religious groups, but that also extends to people who adopt it for reasons related to health, the environment, or a love......

Fine Dining Beyond Meat

Fashionable Vegetarian Restaurants

These vegetarian restaurants don’t base their appeal on health or sustainability, but rather try to stimulate and dazzle the taste buds, so that patrons are bowled over by the deli­cious flavors of their fare.......

Life as a Vegetarian

My Values, My Story

Whether for health reasons, out of compassion for animals, or as a dietary exer­cise to cleanse mind and body, a person’s journey to becoming vege­tarian helps them to develop their own unique philosophy on life.......

A Utopian Vision for Nanjichang

Borough Chief Fang Hesheng

A passage in the Li Yun chapter of The Classic of Rites describes a time in which “people loved not just their own parents, nor just their own children. The aged were provided for until their death; the able-bodied had work; and the young, the opportunity to grow up. There was care for widows,......

Drawing the Mountains

Shen Enmin’s Quest for Self-Knowledge

Mountains are a treasure trove. For Shen Enmin, to go into the mountains is to dispel perplexities, to cast a fresh eye on himself, and to reevaluate his priorities. Shen’s successful professional career—from a vocational high school in Changhua to a technical university in Taipei, and from ha......

A Sweet Dream Come True

Huang Jie’s Pâtisserie of Love and Intuition

He made his first crème brûlée when he was in fifth grade. At senior high school, he made apple pies to heal his broken heart when a relationship came to an end. At age 18 he put aside his studies to start his own business. He set up shop at the age of 21. At 24 he closed his flourishing enter......

“The Mother of Libraries”

An Architect Ahead of Her Times

At the end of 2019, the National Culture and Arts Foundation announced the winners of the 21st National Award for Arts. For the architect Wang Chiu-hwa, receiving the honor was just the icing on the cake of a distinguished career. Wang, who lives simply and has an understated persona despite b......

Enabling Startup Dreams

The Startboard Incubator and Accelerator

Taiwanese brands and professionals want to go international. Foreign startup teams want to establish businesses in Taiwan. Unfortunately, starting a business in a foreign land can be challenging, with obstacles ranging from different languages, legal systems and cultures, to the availability o......