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February 3rd, 2012 Keeping up with the War God, by Steven Crook
(Yushan Publications, 2001)
Buy it on Amazon.com here
This is a fantastic read for anyone who’s already perused all the guidebooks and now wants to delve into some of the deeper historical contexts behind important people, places and mind-bending customs in Taiwan.
Seasoned travel writer Steven Crook, who has written for basically every magazine and newspaper in the region, first penned this memoir with the subtitle “Taiwan, As It Seemed To Me” in 2001. War God is a classic for sure, a compact, 133-page treasure for hard-core… Read more…
November 17th, 2011 What: The Wufong Project Fundraiser Auction Event
When: Saturday, November 19th, 2011 (2:00pm- 5:00 pm)
Where: The Pavilion of Aroma of Flowers, Pavilion of Aroma of Flowers 風味館, No.181, Sec. 3, Zhongshan N. Rd., Zhongshan Dist Taipei. Website: www.taiwanpaf.org
The Atayal Tribe in Chingchuan Village, Hsinchu County is the site for The Wufong Project. This project is a joint International effort to raise funds for a long needed Community Center. Photographers, artists and the Atayal children have worked in concert to create a cohesive spirit through photography and painting workshops designed for the renewal of… Read more…
July 18th, 2011 One of the most underappreciated intellectuals around, for decades Linda Gail Arrigo has stuck to her guns and stood up for human rights in Taiwan. She should be thanked for always being a truth-teller, and providing authorities with at times a much-needed cattleprod to their conscience [Note:Other publications have declined to publish this article, as for some Arrigo is a political and controversial figure.]
By Trista di Genova, The Wild East
I heard about Linda Arrigo (艾琳達; pinyin: Ài Líndá) through a friend of mine, who said that Linda lived a quiet life these days — comparatively speaking… Read more…
July 9th, 2011 Review: Trista di Genova, The Wild East
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Ghost Friends
ISBN : 978616-2220661
Category : Asia Travel
Pages : 215
Price
from : 4.99 US$ (ebook)
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This deeply metaphysical adventure picks up where Steppenwolf leaves off, reading as if Hermann Hesse himself had spent a few decades of his life as a Jesuit priest in a remote aboriginal mountain village. The scope of this unorthodox work… Read more…
June 13th, 2011 By Trista di Genova, The Wild East
(Pick up a copy of next month’s ‘Centered on Taipei’ magazine to see this interview in print.)
Steven Crook, a Briton who’s been in Taiwan since 1991, is an amazingly versatile freelancer. He’s worked as a government project consultant, copy editor for Taiwan News and the Government Information Office’s Taiwan Headlines website, and as managing editor of the now-defunct FYI SOUTH magazine.
His resume by no means stops there. He’s penned over 600 articles for an astonishing variety of media outlets, as well as three books about Taiwan: ‘Keeping Up… Read more…
May 18th, 2011 If the Tao people of Taiwan’s Orchid Island can overcome some modern-day challenges while celebrating and sharing their rich heritage, the future looks bright for this amazing but remote haven
Check out this link at Travel & Culture magazine to read AmCham’s version of this article.
By Trista di Genova, The Wild East
Before the 19th century, Orchid Island was almost unknown on Taiwan, or Formosa as it was then known. It was also known as Botel Tobago to the first explorers; Lanyu (蘭嶼) was the name given only in 1946. Eight hundred years ago, people emigrated there… Read more…
November 15th, 2010 The Legend of the Pasta’ay in my own words
By Sean Kaiteri
[Editor's note: This exclusive aims to lend historical insight into the Pasta'ay Festival of the Little People, taking place this coming weekend. Permission to reproduce this copyrighted material in any form lies with the author.]
No one is really sure exactly when these events transpired. Some say only a hundred years ago or so, while others put it at thousands of years ago.
One thing all agree on is that the Saisiyat were in trouble as they had been forced to flee to the mountains far from their… Read more…
November 4th, 2010 AiR, The Fourth Season Residency Artist Group Exhibition will exhibit in Taipei Artist Village & Grass Mountain Artist Village during the middle of November. The art pieces in TAV are based on video installations & paintings exploring issues related to “Life and Death” “immigrant culture” & “equal rights of aborigines”.
Life and Death
Taiwanese artist Ya-chu Kang will research the Taiwanese funerary paper sculpture culture, and the relationship between the burning ceremony and the values of society. The “unknown gifts” project will ask for participators to share their memories or feelings about death, and imagine a gift for themselves if… Read more…
October 26th, 2010 Trista di Genova
The Wild East
The juicy inside story of what went down in the making of this year’s music festival
“Nice one! Rock on!” – Post-fest text message from Peace Dave
What an incredible weekend. After being postponed three weeks, and wisely rescheduled for Taiwan’s Birthday, Triple Ten weekend (10-10-10), the weather was fairly perfect, local and expat bands were more ‘haoting’ than ever, and by almost all reports everyone had a GREAT TIME in the historical, aboriginal mountain village of Chingchuan, Hsinchu County for the seventh annual Peacefest Music Festival.
I drove there from Taipei… Read more…
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