June 1, 2020

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:The exceptional way in which Taiwan has handled and contained the Coronavirus has thrust it into the international spotlight once again, but for a different reason. On April 11th, Taiwan’s professional baseball league (CPBL) became the world’s first professional sports league to open in 2020. And then it

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May 25, 2020

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: A-Doc, the Asian American Documentary Network was established in 2016 by one of the Co-founders, Grace Lee (known for the award-winning The Grace Lee Project and other documentary films) and is a resource and network for nonfiction filmmakers at all different stages of their career. Grace also

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May 18, 2020

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:What a fun, spirited conversation I had with my guests Valerie Soe and Kristina Wong! We could certainly use more conversations like this in this post-COVID-19 world. We talked about the Auntie Sewing Squad, a sewing circle formed during the global Coronavirus pandemic, that has taken on making

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May 11, 2020

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Since I’ve stepped into the role of Producer of this podcast, in addition to being the host, we’ve been working on consistently delivering quality content, and on releasing previously unreleased episodes. In doing so, it’s allowed me to revisit some of our previous guests like Peter Lin

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May 4, 2020

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:Peter Lin, is a trombone player, leader of the jazz band, The Lintet, and music teacher. He is a man who wears a lot of different hats! In March of 2018, Peter talked about his career as a professional musician, the difference between being a bandleader versus a

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April 27, 2020

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Scott Simon, Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies and Co-holder of the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa spoke with us about an article he wrote for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute which served to sound a warning to the global community

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