“In 2008, when I first stood on the stage in France [for the Bakery World Cup], I let the Taiwanese flag wave in my own way,” pastry chef and baker Wu Pao-chun (吳寶春) said.
The Master Baker, who used dried lychees in his winning pastry at this year’s Bakery World Cup, was one of 99 Taiwanese selected by the Chinese-language Global Views Monthly magazine for bringing world recognition to Taiwan.
With a cover story titled “New Pride of Taiwan 100,” (新台灣之光100), the magazine featured 99 Taiwanese whose recent achievements won them awards and recognition on the world stage and allowed the world to see that Taiwan is a land of many talents.
Other Taiwanese featured in the article include Jeff Lee (李佳峰), who won the Merlin Award, which has been called the “Oscar for magicians,” Billy Chang (張逸軍), a member of the Cirque du Soleil who put on a dance performance waving the Taiwanese flag, and Hsiao Ching-yang (蕭青陽), whose album cover designs won him three nominations for the Grammy Awards.
The magazine said the 100th person who will represent the pride of Taiwan will be selected from a series of online campaigns, in which the public will be able to nominate individuals whose accomplishments deserve to be widely known.
Global Views Monthly co-founder Charles Kao (高希均) said the magazine chose to introduce 100 people who have brought pride to the country because it wanted to “tell stories with a human drive.”
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