If Taiwan is on borrowed time, why do Taiwanese keep calm and carry on?
news If Taiwan is on borrowed time, why do Taiwanese keep calm and carry on? Taiwanese soldiers training at Liuluo Beach, Kinmen. Photo: Facebook When I was a child in Taiwan, my mother introduced me to the art of xiangsheng or traditional Chinese stand-up comedy. In a 1991 show titled Strange Tales of Taiwan, the famed performer Lee Li-chun described Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s. "In that era, everything was temporary," he said. One "worked a temporary job in a temporary office. The names of the streets were temporary, so was the city plan. The government was temporary, the capital was tem...
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