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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...

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...

Asian history

Disgraced former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian turns 70

Flying Dutchman - October 12, 2020

Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was born on October 12th, 1950 into a poor farming family in Tainan County in southern Taiwan. His identification...

Culture

21st century Chinese food in Taiwan

Flying Dutchman - July 15, 2020

Due to the influx of people from all over China in 1949, Taiwan became a heaven for lovers of very diverse Chinese food.

Asian history

125 years ago, Taiwan became a Japanese colony

Flying Dutchman - April 18, 2020

Shortly before the turn of the 19th century, taking advantage of China’s weakness, Japan took over Taiwan for 50 years.

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