David Reid
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I am an Australian living in Taichung, Taiwan. I am currently a research assistant at Providence University. I blog about Taiwan at David on Formosa.
Latest posts by David Reid
1 August 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
The Taiwan pink dolphin known as TW-36 was entangled in a rope in September 2008. Save the Taiwan Humpback Dolphins reports the dolphin has recently been sighted again and is free of the entangling rope.
Taiwan (ROC)
OzSoapBox gives seven reasons why bicycle commuting doesn't work in Taiwan.
9 July 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
There were fights in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan yesterday over the procedure for reviewing ECFA, a trade agreement between Taiwan and China. Brennpunkt Taipeh has some comments from Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), the chairperson of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, about some of the reasons for the opposition party's tactics.
8 July 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
Yushan (玉山) or Jade Mountain is the highest mountain in Taiwan at 3,952 metres. Neil Wade and Stu Dawson have great photos and description of climbing to the peak.
5 July 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
The Daily Bubble Tea has some photos of Formosan Rock Macaques in Changhua County. The macaques are endemic to Taiwan and can often be seen in forest areas.
23 June 2010
China
Michael Turton analyses a paper by Jeremy Taylor which looks at how a personality cult was built around Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan and China.
21 June 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
Tim Maddog at Taiwan Matters discusses the use of the word “mainland” by people in Taiwan to refer to China. He argues it is part of an indoctrination effort by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). He has translated an article which discusses how the use of the word affects people's ability to form their own clear national identity.
14 June 2010
China
Letters from Taiwan writes about the Chinese nation meme and how this is used by President Ma Ying-jeou to imply that both Taiwan and China are part of the Chinese Nation. However, this meme is just one of two competing memes about national identity in Taiwan.
11 June 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
Life in Taiwan reports on an international conference for indigenous peoples held in Taiwan. The conference brought together people from Austronesian-speaking countries to discuss issues such as health, education and endangered languages. Austronesian languages are spoken in the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and parts of Southeast Asia.
24 May 2010
Taiwan (ROC)
Michael Turton blogs about income inequality in Taiwan and analyses some of the factors causing rising inequality.
I want to ask, there is not software to change from letter to letter Latin...