Taiwan Talk: Dubbing Cartoons for a Taiwanese Audience (7/21-22/2014)
Listen Episode Description Anyone from an English speaking country who flips to Cartoon Network in Taiwan can tell you, it sounds a little different from back home: The whole thing is dubbed from start to finish into Chinese. But it’s not just a simple matter of translating straight from English to Chinese. In fact,...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Hello, Taiwan – a Photojournalist on Covering Taiwan (7/14-15/2014)
Listen Episode Description On this episode of Taiwan Talk we discuss Hello, Taiwan （台灣你好）, a new book out by Canadian photojournalist David Smith. Smith has lived and worked in Taiwan off and on since 1997. During his time here he took photos for a number of local newspapers including the Apple Daily, in the process...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: NDC Head on Push for Free Economic Pilot Zones (7/7-8/2014)
Listen Episode Description The Ma administration is currently promoting a plan to develop what it’s calling Free Economic Pilot Zones in a number of locations around Taiwan as a way of testing out economic deregulation that it says will pave the way for market liberalization and increased trade. However, key provisions of the plan have...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Wages for foreign in-home caregivers (6/30-7/1/2014)
Listen Episode Description Recently the Ministry of Labor announced it was reviewing measures that would increase the salary for Taiwan’s more than 200,000 foreign born domestic workers and caregivers to the minimum wage and mandate they be given 8 hours of continuous rest every day. To help us understand the proposals and what they could...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: The American Innovation Center in Taiwan (6/23-24/14)
Listen Episode Description Earlier this year the American Institute in Taiwan and the Taiwan Design Center partnered up to launch the American Innovation Center in downtown Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. The Center offers access to design equipment like scanners and 3D printers along with lectures, workshops, and DIY activities, all of which are...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Introducing the Tang Prize (6/16-17/2014)
Listen Episode Description The first ever winners of Taiwan’s own Tang Prize are slated to be announced later this week and on this episode of Taiwan Talk we discuss the award, which starting this year will grant bigger cash prizes than the Nobel. Endowed by Taiwanese businessman Samuel Yin, the new biennial award will grant a...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Forward Taiwan on Immigration (6/9-10/2014)
Listen Episode Description For many in Taiwan the prospect of increased immigration raises concerns of job loss for local workers. But there’s a flip side to that story as well and on this episode of Taiwan Talk we’ll be speaking to Forward Taiwan, an advocacy group that points out that foreign professionals also offer a...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Dr. Shaw Liu on Energy in Taiwan (5/27/14)
Listen Episode Description With Taiwan’s three operational nuclear plants likely to be decommissioned over the next decade or so and the fourth plant set to be mothballed, Taiwan is now facing the question of how it will secure its energy supply in the coming years. Recently about fifty Academia Sinica academicians pushed the government to...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: T.C. Locke on “Barbarian at the Gate” (4/20/2014)
Listen Episode description In this episode we speak to author T.C. Locke about his new book “Barbarian at the Gate: From the American Suburbs to the Taiwanese Army,” which recounts his experience serving in the Taiwanese military in the mid-90s as a U.S. born Caucasian. After gaining citizenship in Taiwan in 1994 Locke spent two years...Continue reading
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