On a rainy April day in an elementary school classroom in Taipei, 11 and 12-year-old students giggled and bounced on their feet with fists clenched and arms swinging, performing the action of jumping ...

On 8 May 2024, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te delivered a public address at a commemoration of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), reaffirming the importance of democracy, the free market, and human rights ...

We spoke to the man behind WeCare Kaohsiung, one of the civic groups organizing a drive to recall the city's mayor, Han Kuo-yu.

This article is by Emilie Hu, a senior at Scripps College and a GTI intern in the Fall of 2020. Originally published by the Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly ...

With the 2016 general elections right around the corner, the island nation of Taiwan will once again exercise its hard-won democracy in a contest heralding exciting political change. On January 16, ...

This piece is part of a collaboration with the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. The author would like to thank Dr. Gerald Blaney for sharing his wisdom and guiding me through the writing process.

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 9, Issue 9. Used with permission. To get the ...

“Czechoslovakia, this communist country, is composed of two ethnic groups with two languages in common use. One is Czech, and the other is Slovak.” This is how Iap tsioh-to (Taiwanese: Ia̍p tsio̍h-tô, ...

There’s a cliche popular in Taiwan that Taiwanese education is “Confucian” or based on the philosophy of Confucianism. This is used as praise where it succeeds: high standards, high societal respect ...

This article was originally published by Global Taiwan Institute in its weekly newsletter, The Global Taiwan Brief, Vol. 6, Issue 12. Used with permission. To get the ...

Kevin: Tell me about where you’re from and what brought you to Taiwan? Darice: I’m originally from Minnesota, where I was born and raised. I attended university there, and then worked in Los Angeles.