Vickie Wang (王宇平) is a writer, interpreter, and stand-up comedian born and raised in Taiwan. She’s lived in Shanghai, China for nearly a decade, where she started doing stand-up comedy under censorship. Last year I sat down to interview Vickie. in part one of my interview with Vickie, we talked about the perceptions and attitudes ..Read More
January 12, 2024
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This episode is about the background of Taiwan Presidential Candidates in 2024 for the upcoming election. Talking Taiwan is taking the show on the road back to Taiwan on the Talking Taiwan Election Tour and we traveled down to Taichung on January 7th to meet up in person with political commentator Courtney Donovan Smith, to do some pre-election coverage.
January 7, 2024
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Taiwan Presidential Debate 2024 with insights by political analyst Courtney Donovan Smith. On December 30th there was a debate held between Taiwan’s three presidential candidates Lai Ching-te (賴清德), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) nominee Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜), the Kuomintang (KMT) nominee and Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) nominee. The three candidates started
December 31, 2023
228 Incident, Academics, Activism, Art & Culture, Asian Hate, Asian mental health, Coronavirus, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Elections, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Studies, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, World Health
Here we are again… at the end of another year and we’re getting ready to reveal the top 5 Talking Taiwan episodes of 2023! We want to take a moment to especially thank all those who have supported and donated to the Talking Taiwan Election Tour. So far we have raised 40% of our overall
December 30, 2023
Academics, Activism, Asian International Affairs, Coronavirus, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Citizenship, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Elections, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan Life, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Studies, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, Taiwanese Census, Writers
With the presidential election in Taiwan fast approaching (on January 13, 2024). We thought it would be a good time to discuss disinformation related to Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election with Summer Chen, the Editor-in-Chief of Taiwan FactCheck Center and Wei-Ping Li, a research fellow at Taiwan FactCheck Center. We also talked about disinformation that circulated
December 21, 2023
Academics, Activism, Asian Hate, Asian International Affairs, Coronavirus, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Elections, Taiwan Films, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan Life, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Studies, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, White Terror, Writers
I spoke with Wei-Ping Li about the laws and mechanisms of the censorship from Taiwan’s martial law era and the impact it had on Taiwan’s media environment, and how Taiwan’s media environment had changed since then. These days Taiwan is known to be the most free and democratic country in Asia, but it wasn’t always
December 17, 2023
This is the apology episode. Our deepest apologies. Listen to find out why. And looking ahead to 2024, we are making some changes. Help us Get the Show on the Road by Supporting the Talking Taiwan Election Tour! Support Talking Taiwan: https://talkingtaiwan.com/support/ GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/building-talking-taiwans-legacy/donate PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/zn3zm9ux Zelle: talkingtaiwanpodcast@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/talkingtaiwan
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