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Remembering the 2011 Japan earthquake

Flying Dutchman - March 14, 2021

Not the deadliest, but by far the costliest natural disaster in world history happened on March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the...

Features

Some reflections on the occasion of my 300th article in less than a year

Flying Dutchman - March 11, 2021

While I was still living in Taiwan, some people asked me to start writing a blog because they thought that I had many interesting...

Culture

The Taiwan Lantern Festival 2021, also affected by COVID-19

Flying Dutchman - February 26, 2021

The Lantern Festival is a Chinese cultural tradition which dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25) and is celebrated on the fifteenth day...

Features

Valencia made me appreciate my cats even more

Flying Dutchman - February 20, 2021

I feel very relieved, as yesterday I finally received the notification from the competent quarantine authorities that next week I will obtain the permit...

Customs and traditions

Attending my first wedding in Taiwan

Flying Dutchman - February 15, 2021

The big cultural gap between East and West also became evident to me when shortly after my return to Taiwan in May 1999 I...

Culture

Festive money in Chinese culture

Flying Dutchman - February 13, 2021

First of all, I would like to wish my readers a very happy Year of the Ox, which hopefully will be significantly better than...

Asian Politics

Progressive Taiwanese politician survives recall vote

Flying Dutchman - February 7, 2021

Huang Jie (born 1993) is a independent female councilor in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s biggest port and third largest city, and a former member of the...

Asian history

Impressions from Taiwan in the 1970s

Flying Dutchman - January 30, 2021

Today I watched a short documentary about Taiwan from the 1970s with a quite charming selection of what could be called Asian elevator music,...

Asian Politics

Japanese Don Quixote plans to conquer Taipei

Flying Dutchman - January 18, 2021

Japan’s biggest discounter Don Quijote, named after the most famous novel about a crazy nobleman (spelled Don Quixote in English) by the greatest writer...

Asian Politics

A chat with long-term Chinese residents in Spain

Flying Dutchman - December 22, 2020

Yesterday I went to deliver some of the many oranges that I had picked on Sunday at a friend’s little orchard just outside of...

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