Talking Taiwan

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   In part two of my interview part two with Dr. Peter Tsai, he talks about how he was called out of retirement to help address the shortage and demand for N95 masks with the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Tsai is the Taiwanese American inventor of the N95 mask technology who has come out of retirement to figure out how to sterilize N95s for reus...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Dr. Peter Tsai is the Taiwanese American inventor of the technology behind the N95 mask, the piece of personal protective equipment that has become such a part of our everyday vernacular since the onset of the global Coronavirus pandemic. With the shortage of N95 respirators at the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Tsai was called out of retirement to fi...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Earlier this year, I spoke with Professor Scott Simon about his research on Taiwan's indigenous peoples. He is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies and Co-holder of the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa. He's done research in Taiwan since 1996, spent an accumulated 10 years of residence in th...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   In part two of my conversation with Dr. Keating, we spoke about his other books on mapping and paradigm shifts.  Dr. Keating also shared some of his favorite quotes including the one that encapsulates why he writes about Taiwan. And he talked about meeting with Trigg Brown and Josh Ku the owners of the popular Taiwanese American restaurant Win Son, wh...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Few contemporaries are more qualified than  Dr. Jerome Keating  on understanding the history of Taiwan. He has been living in Taiwan for over 30 years. Initially he came over to Taiwan to work on the MRT. He has written several books about Taiwan. We invited him on to the podcast to talk about this latest book, Taiwan The Struggle Gains Focus . Dr. Ke...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   With major league baseball playoffs soon upon us, we thought that this episode might appeal to our baseball fans. It seems like a distant memory now, when about a month into the Coronavirus pandemic, Taiwan was the only place on the planet where live professional baseball was being played. My guest on this episode is Professor Andrew Morris whose rese...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   This week's episode of Talking Taiwan features part two of my conversation with Eileen Lin-Goutier and Rolla Chng about raising Blasian kids. This was definitely the longest interview that I've done for Talking Taiwan to date, which is why we split it up into two parts. In this episode, Eileen talks about the Facebook group for Taiwanese Moms with Bla...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   My guests on this episode of Talking Taiwan are Eileen Lin-Goutier and Rolla Chng. Both are Taiwanese American women with Black partners and are parents of Blasian kids. Eileen is a relatively new parent with a two-year-old daughter and Rolla has two grown children who are 19 and 20 years old. I thought it would be a good idea to bring together these...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   September is National Suicide Prevention Month. Unfortunately, suicide is a very real issue for the Asian American community. According to the Office of Minority Health, in 2017 the leading cause of death in young Asian Americans in the US was suicide. My guest on this episode of Talking Taiwan is passionate about promoting emotional wellness and a pr...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   A relationship between mother and daughter that was so stonewalled that it took 20 years and a camcorder to make a breakthrough- this was the subject of Huang Hui-chen's first feature documentary film, Small Talk . Small Talk is one of two documentary films being screened at the Austin Asian American Film Festival's Prismatic Taiwan (September 4-13),...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Prismatic Taiwan, is a virtual, six-film series celebrating the past and present of queer Taiwanese cinema, co-presented by the Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF). I recently spoke with Hanna Huang, the Executive Director of the Austin Asian American Film Festival and Josh Martin of the special programs team about the lineup of films that spa...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Jaleea Price, spoke with me about a broad range of topics beginning with her arrival and time in Taiwan. While in Taiwan she worked on the ICRT morning news show, co-founded D.A.P. (Descendants of African Peoples) with Elissa Russell (who was a guest on episode 88), and had two daughters. Now an arts educator based in Thailand, Jaleea she had recently...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   In this episode of Talking Taiwan, we'll be sharing two different perspectives on the Taiwan quarantine experience in this time of the Coronavirus pandemic. I spoke with Diana Lee, the co-founder and president of Asian in New York and one of the founders and organizers of Hello Taiwan. She recently traveled back to Taiwan with her two young children a...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Elissa Russell and Elizabeth Williams are my guests on this episode of Talking Taiwan. We spoke about their experiences of living in Taiwan, the racism that they've experienced in Taiwan vs. the U.S. and Black Lives Matter. One thing that's abundantly clear is that Taiwan has a very special place in their hearts. Liz and Elissa spoke candidly on the t...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   July is Black, Indigenous, People of Color Mental Health Awareness Month, so I thought this would be good time to invite Dr. Ilene Wong, who writes as I.W. Gregorio on to Talking Taiwan to talk about her latest novel,  This is My Brain in Love.  Dr. Wong has described the novel as a happy book about mental illness across cultures. We spoke about how s...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   In 2015, I spoke with Gordon Chang, author and political commentator about his views on China and his books, The Coming Collapse of China, and  Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World . I recently invited him back on Talking Taiwan, to listen to that episode, check out episode 85.     Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this po...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Gordon Chang  is an author and political commentator. I first learned of him when I heard about his book  The Coming Collapse of China . Then in 2015, I met and interviewed him for the Talking Taiwan podcast. We will re-share that episode at a later time. Recently, I invited Gordon back on to share his thoughts on the Hong Kong Security Law, India's b...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Stefanie Davis and Patrick Springer are the founders of the Black Lives Solidarity Global Initiative, which organized a rally in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on June 13th in Taipei's 228 Peace Park. I spoke to Stefanie and Patrick about their experiences living as people of color in Taiwan and the U.S., the activities planned for th...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   In 2017 I interviewed Professor Wen Liu about the historic news of May 24, 2017, that Taiwan's Constitutional Court had ruled that marriage is not strictly defined as being between a man and a woman. This paved the way for same sex marriage to be legalized in Taiwan in 2019. Since the Stonewall uprising, which began on June 28, 1969, led to the intern...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   On June 28, 2020, Taiwan Pride Parade for the World will be held in Taipei at 3pm to celebrate Pride Month and the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots. While in-person Pride events have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will likely be one of the few if only in-person Pride events to be held in the world during Pride Month. I spoke wit...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   After the murder of George Floyd sparked protests in Minneapolis, here in New York, across the country, and around the world, I wanted to have a conversation on Talking Taiwan about what precipitated all of this social unrest, the Black Lives Matter movement and what we, especially non-Black people can do at this time.   This led me to invite Jalesa T...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Crushing The Myth (CTM) is an Asian American speaker series that shares Asian American stories and perspectives with a global audience. Established in January of 2019, CTM aims to connect Asian Americans and allies to each other.   I spoke with the Founder of Crushing The Myth, JD Chang about why he created CTM, and its mission.   Crushing The Myth is...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Gary Reloj is Co-founder of the PPE Relief Initiative, an entrepreneur in the tech startup and restaurant industry, a founding board member of The Promise Society, and a COVID-19 survivor.    In late March, Gary shared a public Facebook post, that was a very well-documented account of COVID-19 symptoms he'd experienced, the toll it took on his body, a...

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:  As protests and civil unrest arise across the U.S., and tension has mounted, Talking Taiwan's host Felicia Lin was reminded of a time in which she found herself in the midst of intense protests in 2014,  in Taipei, Taiwan, after the occupation of the Legislative Yuan in what has become known as the Sunflower Movement.

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   The exceptional way in which Taiwan has handled and contained the Coronavirus has thrust it into the international spotlight once again, but for a different reason. On April 11th, Taiwan's professional baseball league (CPBL) became the world's first professional sports league to open in 2020. And then it became the first to have spectators at their ga...