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Playing the Buddhist stock market

In Taipei, and most likely in all of Taiwan, there are few flea markets like we have them in Europe, or the op shops...

A simple indigenous wedding ceremony

A very good female Taiwanese friend, who is ethnically half Indigenous and half Chinese, over the years became like the younger sister that I...

A new Lunar Year experience

After leaving my native Berlin for good and return to Taipei in the spring of 1999, during almost all Chinese New Year celebrations I...

The younger brother that I never had

Christianity´s most relevant holiday isn't celebrated here in Taiwan, and even less so after the first pro-independence government lead by Chen Shui-bian (born in 1950)...

Mixed feelings about the TES Christmas Market

As I had previously announced, in my capacity as a food vendor I finally participated for the first time in a big event, a...

Desert World Cup

Probably the most controversial FIFA World Cup in history, since the first was hold in 1930 in Uruguay, started on November 20th in the...

A bicultural requiem

This article was supposed to be published on July 12th, a week after my obituary of Spanish Father Andrés Díaz de Rábago. Unfortunately, an...

Dealing with the dead in Taiwan and Germany

According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, Tomb Sweeping Day, also known as Ching Ming Festival, one of the most important holidays in Greater China...

Auguste Chapdelaine, French martyr of China

Auguste Chapdelaine was the French Christian missionary whose violent death at the hands of Chinese authorities on February 29th,1856 became the casus belli for...

No elevator during a forgotten holiday

Yesterday, while we were smoking on our balconies, my neighbor had to remind me that today, March 19th, Saint Joseph's Day, is a public...

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