David on Formosa

Over the weekend I visited some of the areas affected by Typhoon Morakot in Kaohsiung County with a group of law students from Providence University. It is now more than eight months since the typhoon hit Taiwan. While there has been so much reported about the event in the media visiting these places provides a [...]

I recently completed my Master’s thesis, about two and half years after I began studying for a Master’s degree in Taiwan Studies at NCCU (國立政治大學). Although I still have a few administrative matters to complete before I can get my degree certificate. My thesis is titled “Indigenous Rights in Taiwan and the Smangus Case”. It [...]

A cycling carnival (生活單車市集嘉年華) organised by the Thousand Mile Island Trail group (千里步道籌畫中心) was held in Taipei yesterday. It began with a bike ride starting at NTU and then going around Da’an Park. The ride finished at Yongkang Park where there was a variety of activities.

最近我搜集幾篇中文文章開個中文blog。其實我不太會寫中文，只有兩篇我自己寫的文章，其他的文章是別人翻譯的或別人寫有關於David的。謝謝Mart Ho的幫助。連結以下。 http://davidtaiwan.wordpress.com/ Translation: I have collected together a number of articles written in Chinese to start a Chinese-language blog. I can’t write Chinese very well and only two of the articles were written by me. The other articles are translations of my English-language articles or articles written by other people about me. Thanks to [...]

Au Revoir Taipei (一頁台北) is a fun, romantic comedy directed by Arvin Chen (陳駿霖). The story revolves around Kai and Susie. Kai spends long nights in a bookshop studying French in the hope of going to Paris to be with his girlfriend. Susie works in the bookshop and takes an interest in Hong. An ensemble [...]

The first edition of The Big Issue (大誌雜誌) hit the streets of Taipei on Thursday. Vendors are selling the magazine at exits of MRT stations in Taipei City and Taipei County. There was a concert at Huashan Arts Park this afternoon to promote the magazine. Nylon Chen (陳乃榮), tomodachi (偷摸大雞), Staycool and 1976 performed to [...]