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Engaging the World Through Culture:

Taiwan’s Value-Added Diplomacy

How is Taiwan understood by the world? As a silicon chip island? As a model of pandemic response? As a gender-friendly society? Or as a symbol of democracy and freedom? There is no one single answer. This is because under the world’s gaze, Taiwan is continually being reexamined and reinterpreted.......

Sending Blessings to the Vatican:

Hsieh Sheng-Min’s Religious Art Exhibit

Auspicious paintings use images as visual metaphors to herald good fortune, attract blessings, and avert evil, delighting viewers with a mixture of the sacred and the secular. The Catholic Church has declared 2025 a Jubilee Year, and Hsieh Sheng-min, an expert in auspicious painting, was invit......

Stir-Fries are Served!

Fun Drinking for Joe Sixpack in Taiwan

It’s hard to say how Taiwan’s rechao (“hot stir-fry”) style restaurants got started, but they emphasize high heat and the resultant “wok hei” effect. With the rise of industrial society, people in Taiwan began eating less at home and ate out with increasing frequency, or turned to low-cost tra......

Kil’n It!

Yingge’s 200 Years of Ceramics History

Ceramics making is an ancient set of skills that have long been the basis of an industry. In Taiwan, the most important bastion of world-class ceramics manufacture is New Taipei City’s Yingge District, known as “Taiwan’s Jingdezhen.” (Jingdezhen, China’s “porcelain capital,” has been a center ......

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On the Right Track:

The Delights of Taiwan’s Tourist Trains

Eiji Mitooka, known as the father of specialty trains in Japan, once said: “Riding the train can itself be the purpose of a journey.” In recent years, a number of special tourist trains have been launched in Taiwan, with stylish carriage interiors, exquisite meals, and cordial, professional st......

Protecting the Rainforests of the Sea:

Coral Conservation and Restoration in Taiwan

Do you remember the coral reefs where Nemo swam in Finding Nemo? In real life, these “rainforests of the sea” are home to enormous marine biodiversity. But in the wake of climate change, ocean warming, pollution, and overfishing, these beautiful yet fragile homelands are facing severe threats.......

Architectural Beauty:

Interplays of Lines, Light, and Space

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Protecting Taiwan’s

Stone Fish Weirs

There are 609 stone fish weirs in Penghu County alone, their dikes extending over 133 kilometers. In particular, Jibei Island has 101 existing fish weirs, giving it the highest concentration of such structures in the world. Groups of fish weirs that date back over 300 years in places like Peng......