‘Keeping up with the War God’: BOOK REVIEW

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February 3, 2012January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 0 Comment aboriginal, aboriginal culture in Taiwan, aboriginal peoples, Chiang kai-shek in Taiwan, 蔣中正 / 蔣介石 Chiang Kai-shek, expat literature on Taiwan, expat writers, folk religion, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 蔣中正 / 蔣介石, ghost money, headhunters in wulai, Keeping Up With the War God, Koxinga, Koxinga 國姓爺, MacKay in Taiwan, presbyterian missionaries, Steven Crook, tribal religion, writers groups

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

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'Why Taiwan Matters': A Book Review

Expat literature History

August 14, 2011January 11, 2015 Trista di Genova 3 Comments Aboriginal languages, Free China, hokkien, Japanese in Taiwan, KMT in Taiwan, Koxinga 國姓爺, linguistic rectification campaigns, linguistics, Qing history in Taiwan, Taiwan consciousness, Taiwan history, taiwanese language

By Owain Mckimm, Special to The Wild East Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse. Shelly Rigger Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (29 April 2011) ISBN: 978-1442204799 Pages 232 (Hardcover) Why Taiwan Matters is a strange title for a book. No one would write a book called Why America Matters, because

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Taiwan Architecture: A Festival of Junk

Arts & Entertainment Beautiful Island Culture Shock Wild Comedy

November 19, 2010 Trista di Genova 5 Comments architecture, Chiang kai-shek in Taiwan, Dutch in Taiwan, Fort Zeelandia, George H. Kerr, Koxinga 國姓爺, Linda Arrigo, Madame Chiang Kai-shek Meiling Soong, tainan, Taiwan history, Travel in Taiwan, Treasure Hill

How and why the island’s modern-day architecture evolved into such a sad state — an aesthetically offensive living museum of bile-inspiring monstrosities By Trista di Genova The Wild East A few years ago, when producer Will Tiao and his crew were scouting locations for the film ‘Formosa Betrayed’, they discovered

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