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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......

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The Cool Taste of Summer

This month we take readers to ice shops in Tainan and Kaohsiung for a taste of traditional flavors, and visit innov­ative makers in places such as Hualien and Penghu who are creating ice products using distinctive flavors from local produce while also working to make the world a better place. ......

Technology, Connections, Learning

Education After the Pandemic

Around the world, the Covid pandemic has caused an upsurge in online learning. With the virus well under control, Taiwan is one of the few nations in the world to have been holding regular classes in school classrooms without interruption. Universities have even opened new courses for students......

Life During the Pandemic—Chen Fang-ming

Chen Fang-mingScholar of Taiwanese literary history, chaired professor at National Chengchi University. Works published over the last 30 years include scholarly articles, essays, and poems. His A History of Modern Taiwanese Literature offers a new vision of Taiwanese literary history.......

Restaurants Embrace the Digital Age

The Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the globe has changed our lives and made 2020 into quite a year. The disease has made close contact a thing to be avoided, and affected us all, wherever we may be and whatever work we may do. The only comparable event in modern history has been the 1918 flu pandemic.......

Back from the Brink

Taiwan’s Flower Industry Cultivates the Domestic Market

Faced with the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the people of Taiwan are doing our utmost to keep our lifestyles simple and stay at home as much as possible. This has quickly and dramatically changed our consumption patterns. One consequence of this state of affairs has been that the supply......

Challenges and Opportunities During the Pandemic

Perspectives of Southeast-Asian Creative Artists

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” These words provide an apposite description of the year 2020. Throughout this year, Covid-19 has caused econ­omies across the world to shrink. Lockdowns, social distancing rules, canceled flights, and other anti-­coronavirus m......

An Indian New Year Celebration

Marking the Friendship Between Taiwan and India

“Shubh Dipawali!” Happy Festival of Lights! Taiwanese and Indians together celebrated Diwali (or Dipawali), the Indian New Year Festival of Lights, on November 13, 2020 at the Taipei Guest House. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, rows of lamps were lit and colorful rangoli floor art was used to welc......

Scouring the Globe for Taiwanese History

The Taiwan National Treasure Foundation

Taiwan has its own group of dedicated treasure hunters! But instead of searching for riches hidden in caves, they are trawling the US National Archives for historical information related to Taiwan. This isn’t the sort of treasure that will make anyone wealthy, but it can help Taiwanese better ......

What's In a Name?

The Unexpected Charms of Japanese-Era Train Stations

When Japan’s postwar economy took off in the 1960s, young people began traveling overseas. When they arrived in nearby Taiwan, they discovered that many Taiwanese, young and old, could speak fluent Japan­ese. Even more surprising was that in Taiwan they could see the same models of steam train......

Taiwan Panorama Forum Reporters Abroad

45 Years in Images

Over the 45 years since its founding, Taiwan Panorama has experienced many changes. Looking back, we see transformations in the landscape both physical and political, but what never changes is how Taiwan brims with warmth and humanity. From here we look out at the world, while also helping the......

A Rice Renaissance

The Refinement of Rice Culture

The amount of rice eaten by Taiwanese has again hit a new low. It has fallen by nearly half from the level of 80‡90 kilograms per person per year back in the 1960s and 1970s, and will soon be outstripped by the rising consumption of wheat. Looking at the big picture, rice consumption is declin......

Art Rumah

Lighting Up Communities with Art

Art Rumah in Pingtung was founded by two individuals who wanted to inject new life into communities. One of the founders is Le Le, a Taipei girl who discovered her love for art through her work. The other is I Wayan Sadera, an artist from Indonesia who has lived in Taiwan for more than a decad......