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Several Taiwanese entertainers such as Jam Hsiao (蕭敬騰), Angela Chang (張韶涵), Aska Yang (楊宗緯), Michelle Chen (陳妍希) and Lee Li-chun (李立群) took to the stage on China Central Television’s Lunar New Year Gala. Its online guest list showed them them as coming from “Taiwan, China,” a flagrant move portraying Taiwan as an inseparable part of China. It is an open secret that the Lunar New Year Gala is far from a normal variety show, but one steeped in political propaganda. After Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) came to power, the program was rendered an instru...

I’m starting off the new book year and looking back to share some of my 2021 reading highlights with you. Maybe you’re looking for a short book or a long...

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I was a six-foot-two-inch rake whose strongest muscle was my mouth: at college I once talked down a mugger pressing a knife against my gut, and twice lost fistfights after telling off racists. I never felt big, but in China my size usually made me the largest person in the room. On this bus I was a head taller and two weight classes above the other riders. Yet, with my