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
June 29, 2022
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: There are still struggles for couples of same sex marriage in Taiwan. It’s been three years since Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same sex marriage in 2019. My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is Joyce Teng, the Deputy Executive Director of
June 22, 2022
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Edouard Roquette talks about today’s challenges facing foreign entrepreneurs in Taiwan. Edouard Roquette was at the beginning of his experience as an entrepreneur when he was previously interviewed for Talking Taiwan, as you may have heard in the previous lost episode of Talking Taiwan (episode 191) featuring
June 17, 2022
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: This lost episode of Talking Taiwan features Edouard Roquette, a member of the French Chamber of Commerce talking about entrepreneurship and Taiwan’s foreign entrepreneur community. Next week we’ll be bringing Edouard back on to find out what he’s been up to since then. For the month of
June 14, 2022
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: May 15th to June 15th is Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. To learn more about what Tourette syndrome is, I encourage you to listen to the episode that we did last year with Peter Zhao, episode 129. Peter is a Tourette Activist and has been a guest on
June 8, 2022
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A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Why should you care about the Taiwan Fellowship Act? In this episode of Talking Taiwan, my guests are Richard Pearson, the Executive Director of the Western Pacific Fellowship Project and Professor Shelley Rigger. We will be talking about the Taiwan Fellowship Act, a bill which has been
June 3, 2022
A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: This lost episode of Talking Taiwan features blogger Michael Turton. At the time Michael had written over 5000 blog posts for his blog The View From Taiwan. Michael began writing his blog in 2005 and I remember how popular Michael’s blog was. That’s how I learned about
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