When the National Museum of Taiwan History opens in Tainan next year, the artworks and manuscripts of renowned Taiwanese comic artist Liu Hsing-chin (劉興欽) will be on display.
Liu, an inventor and artist known for his humorous comic strips that depict life in Taiwan in years gone by, yesterday gave 180 original artworks and manuscripts to the museum.
Among the works is a 5m-long ink-painting scroll that shows how local people moved house in the past and a painting featuring 100 children playing with handmade toys and games.
Liu, the son of a tea farmer, has strong roots in the rural culture of Taiwan and often rode a buffalo to school as a child. The artist has created a number of endearing comic characters such as Ah-San (阿三哥) and Big Auntie (大嬸婆), big hits in the 1960s. Liu’s work has made him a household name across Taiwan and in other Chinese-speaking countries.
In addition to working as a comic artist, he is fond of inventing things. He holds 138 national and 43 international patents.
Liu moved to the US in the 1990s to develop his skills as an inventor and to spend more time with his children, but soon found that he lacked a challenge.
He returned to Taiwan and has spent the last 10 years working on paintings that feature cultural themes and strong Taiwanese personalities.
“A person does not fully appreciate the beauty of his homeland until he has lived outside his country,” Liu, 76, said.
Starlux Airlines, Taiwan’s newest international carrier, has announced it would apply to join the Oneworld global airline alliance before the end of next year. In an investor conference on Monday, Starlux Airlines chief executive officer Glenn Chai (翟健華) said joining the alliance would help it access Taiwan. Chai said that if accepted, Starlux would work with other airlines in the alliance on flight schedules, passenger transits and frequent flyer programs. The Oneworld alliance has 13 members, including American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas, and serves more than 900 destinations in 170 territories. Joining Oneworld would also help boost
A new tropical storm formed late yesterday near Guam and is to approach closest to Taiwan on Thursday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. Tropical Storm Pulasan became the 14th named storm of the year at 9:25pm yesterday, the agency said. As of 8am today, it was near Guam traveling northwest at 21kph, it said. The storm’s structure is relatively loose and conditions for strengthening are limited, WeatherRisk analyst Wu Sheng-yu (吳聖宇) said on Facebook. Its path is likely to be similar to Typhoon Bebinca, which passed north of Taiwan over Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and made landfall in Shanghai this morning, he said. However, it
Taiwan's Gold Apollo Co (金阿波羅通信) said today that the pagers used in detonations in Lebanon the day before were not made by it, but by a company called BAC which has a license to use its brand. At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously across Lebanon yesterday. Images of destroyed pagers analyzed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo. A senior Lebanese security source told Reuters that Hezbollah had ordered 5,000 pagers from Taiwan-based Gold Apollo. "The product was not
COLD FACTS: ‘Snow skin’ mooncakes, made with a glutinous rice skin and kept at a low temperature, have relatively few calories compared with other mooncakes Traditional mooncakes are a typical treat for many Taiwanese in the lead-up to the Mid-Autumn Festival, but a Taipei-based dietitian has urged people not to eat more than one per day and not to have them every day due to their high fat and calorie content. As mooncakes contain a lot of oil and sugar, they can have negative health effects on older people and those with diabetes, said Lai Yu-han (賴俞含), a dietitian at Taipei Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. “The maximum you can have is one mooncake a day, and do not eat them every day,” Lai