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
December 31, 2024
Activism, Art & Culture, Asian Hate, Asian International Affairs, Asian mental health, Crowdfunding, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Films, Taiwan Food, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan Life
In this episode of Talking Taiwan, I started off speaking with Taiwanese American documentary filmmaker Hsuan Yu Pan about how she got interested in documentary filmmaking. As we talked about her films, we covered a broad range of topics from the COVID-19 pandemic to parallels between the 2017 travel bans that barred people from seven
December 19, 2024
228 Incident, Art & Culture, Asian International Affairs, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Films, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan Life, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Travel, Writers
NATWA (the North America Taiwanese Women’s Association) has been around since 1988 and for this episode about NATWA I interviewed Elena Ling, one of NATWA’s founding members, Hui-Na Lin, a past NATWA national president, Susan Liao, two-time president of NATWA’s Toronto chapter, and Sue Kuo NATWA’s current vice president and president elect for 2025. It
December 9, 2024
Academics, Activism, Art & Culture, Asian International Affairs, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, Indigenous Taiwan, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Baseball, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan Life, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Sports, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, Writers
After hearing about Team Taiwan’s historic gold medal baseball win at the Premier 12 on November 24th I reached out to Richard Wang who I previously interviewed in 2020 about how Taiwan was the only place on the planet where professional baseball was being played during the COVID pandemic and since the entire world was watching,
November 27, 2024
228 Incident, Academics, Activism, Art & Culture, Asian International Affairs, Entrepreneurship, Indigenous Taiwan, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Self-Empowerment, Sunflower Movement, Taiwan, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Citizenship, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Elections, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan Life, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, Writers
In July we brought Talking Taiwan to the 53rd annual Taiwanese American Conference, East Coast (aka TAC-EC) at West Chester University where we set up an on-location podcast studio and I interviewed 12 people in 3 days. It was pretty nonstop but it was well worth it. One thing we strive to do with Talking
November 15, 2024
Academics, Activism, Asian International Affairs, Asian mental health, Current Events, Diseases and Disabilities, Entrepreneurship, Medical Professionals, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Elections, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, World Health, Writers
Last year in August of 2023 I interviewed Dr. Jung Tsai about the medical mission to Ukraine that he had organized. If you haven’t already had a chance to hear my first interview with Dr. Tsai about his medical mission to Ukraine, check out Episode 251: Dr. Jung Tsai: On His Courageous Medical Mission to Ukraine
October 31, 2024
228 Incident, Academics, Activism, Asian mental health, Current Events, Entrepreneurship, LGBTQ, New York, Notable Taiwan Guest, Podcast, Politics, Racism and Diversity, Same Sex Marriage, Self-Empowerment, Taiwan, Taiwan Books, Taiwan Community, Taiwan Geography, Taiwan History, Taiwan Independence, Taiwan Life, Taiwan News, Taiwan Organizations, Taiwan Travel, Taiwan vs China, White Terror, Writers
In July I sat down with Dr. Hsiao-Wen Lo (駱筱雯) who spoke at the Taiwanese American Conference- East Coast about Psychological Defense for the People of Taiwan. Since 2020 Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has been reporting the number of incursions China makes by sea and air into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone. These incursions
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