August 17, 2022

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Shu-Ying Chung is a indie filmmaker based in New York. Her short film Removable has been making the rounds at film festivals. It’s won several awards for best story, best short, best actress, and best director, to name a few. I spoke with Shu-Ying about what motivated

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August 11, 2022

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Today Talking Taiwan hits a major milestone with episode 200! We think it’s especially meaningful that the topic of this interview is TAIWANfest, an annual Taiwanese Canadian event that dates back to 1990. Nowadays, TAIWANfest is held annually in Toronto and Vancouver. And my guest on this

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August 2, 2022

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: In June I spoke with Gerrit van der Wees about an article that he wrote about U.S. President Biden’s remarks about U.S. Taiwan relations when he was in Tokyo in May. Just last week, Gerrit wrote a very timely article about the controversy over the U.S. House

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July 28, 2022

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Emily Wu Truong is a motivational mental health speaker. She is affiliated with NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and has been involved with this organization for the last 8.5 years speaking on mental health awareness. I’ve invited her on to Talking Taiwan as a guest

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July 12, 2022

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Ed Lin is a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent. He is the first writer to win three Asian American Literary Awards. The last time we had Ed on Talking Taiwan (in 2014) we spoke about “Ghost Month” his first book in the Taipei Night

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July 12, 2022

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: July is BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) Mental Health Month, which is also known as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, named for the mental health advocate who brought awareness to the unique struggles that underrepresented groups face in regard to mental illness

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