Take Two: Taiwan Television in the Streaming Era

The Public Television Service’s On Children is Taiwan’s first serial to be released simultaneously as a “Net­flix original.” Since it began airing in July of 2018, it has garnered rave reviews both in Taiwan and abroad. On Children examines social values, the education sy ...more

Crosstalk for Ever!

Liu Zengkai's 30-Year Performing Career

Standing on stage in a long robe, with no other props than the fan in his hand, the performer brings the audience to laughter or tears simply by his words and the expressive movements of his eyes. “Cross­talk” (xiang­sheng, or comic dialogue), an Asian performance art based on sp ...more

National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts

Think Global, Act Local

With a façade that resembles a spacecraft from an alien planet, the design concept of the National Kao­hsiung Center for the Arts was inspired by nearby groves of old banyan trees with interwoven aerial roots. The center not only looks avant-garde, but the ambitions its management team ha ...more

Hope on the Wind

Two Taiwanese NGOs in Cambodia

Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “In our world we tend to be blind to our connection until times of great disaster. We find we start caring about people in Timbuktu, whom we’ve never met… and yet we pour out our hearts. We give resources to help them because we realize that we a ...more

The Future of the Data Economy

Open Data

With the digital revolution still in full swing, technologies such as ultra-wideband, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, e-commerce, big data, and the Internet of Things are changing our lives. Artificial intelligence is one key to this revolution, but information and data are even more impo ...more

The Beauty of Creation

Gentle Birthing in Taiwan

Have you ever asked your mother about the circumstances of your birth, or asked other family members about theirs? We are taught all our lives that the day we were born was a great trial for our mothers. Certainly it takes a heroic effort for a mother to give birth. But aside from the physical suffe ...more

Oldsters at the Height of Fashion

The Confidence to Be Yourself

“Trendiness” is not the exclusive province of the young, and recently a number of golden-agers have shown themselves in the public eye. We take it to be true that these “grandpas” and “grandmas” have taken back their right to express themselves, using their attitu ...more

Making Beauty Part of Life

An Alternative Classroom Landscape

If a classroom contained a sofa or its exterior became a cave, what kind of scene would that be? These are examples of the classroom landscapes created for children by teacher ­Huang Kuo­ping of New Tai­pei City’s ­Chong De Elementary School. When textbooks have boxes to fill ...more

Green Island Reflections

After 50 minutes bobbing through mighty waves, the ferry from Tai-tung’s Fu-gang Fishing Harbor finally brings us to Green Island, which stands alone out in the Pacific Ocean. This is a place where political prisoners were once confined, and the hillsides still retain patriotic slogans carved ...more

Creating a "Tranquil" Lightscape

The Taiwan Light Environment Award

The selection process for the first Taiwan Light Environment Award, whose results will be revealed at the end of 2018, has a special significance. Organized by the Coretronic Culture and Arts Foundation, the scope of entries includes all public cultural facilities completed within the past five year ...more