Taiwan Talk: Wei Jiade gives a fresh take
Listen to the podcast version of the show at the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE! We speak with Italian expat Wei Jiade (韋佳德, aka Riccardo Moratto), who covers a lot of ground in Taiwan working as a TV Host and academic. His new Chinese language book “Mei Zai Pa”《沒在怕！》 draws on that broad perspective to...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s one in forty
The One-Forty Foundation points out that Southeast Asian guest workers now number in the hundreds of thousands in Taiwan, making up a large and important segment of the nation’s society; in fact, their name is a winking reference to the fact that one in forty people living in Taiwan today are themselves a part of this group....Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Boardgames in Taiwan with Swan Panasia
Click HERE for the audio! Board games are enjoying something of a boom in popularity in Taiwan and venues to play these games seem to be popping up everywhere. The L.A. times reports that in just the last 5 years about 50 game cafes have opened in the Taipei area, with another 50 opening elsewhere...Continue reading
HereSay Episode 3: “Lost and Found”
Listen This episode features four stories told at Taipei Story Slam’s June event, all on the theme “Lost and Found.” It was broadcast Thursday November 20th at 9pm, but you can still catch it online. So there’s the embed on this page right up top. You can also stream the show through the Taiwan Talk...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Brook Hall on performing and producing in Taiwan (8/4-5/2014)
Listen Episode Description In this interview we speak to an American expat who’s been working in Taiwan for more than ten years as a performer, director and producer; in the process he’s built up an impressive resume of film and stage work, and even launched his own production companies. Most recently he established the experimental...Continue reading
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