Taiwan Is Celebrating 100 Years of What?

Originally published in the Taipei Times, “Not all 100 years warrant revelry”, Jan. 8, 2011, with permission to reprint here. Photo by Trista di Genova By Jerome Keating This year has been designated a centennial year for Taiwan, but as the nation gears up for celebrations, Taiwanese need to examine

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Tip-toeing around the Centenary of the Republic of China

According to vice-chairman of the ROC Centenary Foundation, S.P. Tsai, the logo is free to be used by anyone and associated with other symbols as one likes. This sounds like a politico-marketing version of ‘copyleft’. Open Source politics in the age of democracy.

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Study explores the "Kinmen Identity"

See original article in the China Post here. By Trista di Genova The history of Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Island, known in the West as Quemoy, goes back 1600 years. When the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan after the Chinese civil war of 1949, the battles didn’t stop there for the residents

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