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Ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year of 2015, Liang Yuming prepared lunch at his home for a special guest -- President Xi Jinping.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks have become an all-too-familiar sight across the nation. On Dec. 28, 1988, thousands of Hakka marched through Taipei carrying a picture of Republic of China founder Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙) adorned with a mask, in a protest called “Restore My Mother Tongue,” satirically pointing out that the government would deny even the Father of the Nation the right to speak his mother tongue. Today, 32 years later, the nation has a Hakka Affairs Council and Hakka TV. Hakka is one of the official languages and there are three national universities that have a colle...

Winner of Beijing’s Peace Award Is Also Absent Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 9, 2010 In response to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to dissident Liu Xiaobo, a group of Chinese created an alternative prize called the Confucius Peace Prize, which the Global Times heralded as, “a weapon in the battle of ideas.” Yet the recipient, Chairman Emeritus of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party, Lien Chan, did not attend the ceremony and announced no intention of receiving the RMB100,000 award. The New York Times reports from the question and answer portion of the ceremony,m during which organizers were peppe...