Taiwan's top diva Chang Huei-mei (
Fans were out in force on the Net in support of A-mei, raising their own accusations against the Ministry of Finance of a sinister plot against the singer for refusing to play any show organized by the government after the last time she did so in 2000 got her cut off from the China market for a year.
The race is on in China to uncover whether, and if so, where, Faye Wong (
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Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is starring in a musical titled Perhaps Love (如果愛) currently in the works by Peter Chan (陳可辛), told C'est Moi magazine in its latest issue that he's no longer the handsome young man he once was. Granted, he's still very handsome at 31, but in the new film his role as a 20-year-old has become a bit of a stretch, he said. Chen had previously said that making over Zhou Xun (周迅), who also stars in the film, to perform her role as a 20 year old wasn't particularly difficult, but Takeshi no longer makes for a convincing young buck and that maybe he should just act his age.
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Actor Chen Bo-lin (
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Always one to raise eyebrows, Little S (
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Mongolian influencer Anudari Daarya looks effortlessly glamorous and carefree in her social media posts — but the classically trained pianist’s road to acceptance as a transgender artist has been anything but easy. She is one of a growing number of Mongolian LGBTQ youth challenging stereotypes and fighting for acceptance through media representation in the socially conservative country. LGBTQ Mongolians often hide their identities from their employers and colleagues for fear of discrimination, with a survey by the non-profit LGBT Centre Mongolia showing that only 20 percent of people felt comfortable coming out at work. Daarya, 25, said she has faced discrimination since she
April 21 to April 27 Hsieh Er’s (謝娥) political fortunes were rising fast after she got out of jail and joined the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in December 1945. Not only did she hold key positions in various committees, she was elected the only woman on the Taipei City Council and headed to Nanjing in 1946 as the sole Taiwanese female representative to the National Constituent Assembly. With the support of first lady Soong May-ling (宋美齡), she started the Taipei Women’s Association and Taiwan Provincial Women’s Association, where she
It is one of the more remarkable facts of Taiwan history that it was never occupied or claimed by any of the numerous kingdoms of southern China — Han or otherwise — that lay just across the water from it. None of their brilliant ministers ever discovered that Taiwan was a “core interest” of the state whose annexation was “inevitable.” As Paul Kua notes in an excellent monograph laying out how the Portuguese gave Taiwan the name “Formosa,” the first Europeans to express an interest in occupying Taiwan were the Spanish. Tonio Andrade in his seminal work, How Taiwan Became Chinese,
More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t read the novel recognize it. That phrase has now been given a new look by amateur translator Tsiu Ing-sing (周盈成), who recently completed the first full Taiwanese translation of George Orwell’s dystopian classic. Tsiu — who completed the nearly 160,000-word project in his spare time over four years — said his goal was to “prove it possible” that foreign literature could be rendered in Taiwanese. The translation is part of
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