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Formosa Betrayed, a powerful story
Published on 2010-08-08 10:20:00
This can't possibly be the same film Ian Bartholemew reviewed FridayThe film Formosa Betrayed, whose screenplay amalgamates the tales of the 1980s murders of Carnegie Mellon University professor Chen Wen-chen (陳文成) and writer Henry Liu (劉宜良, AKA Chiang Nan [江南]), has been discussed publicly for almost four years, and it finally made it to general release at cinemas in Taiwan on Friday, August 6, 2010.Yet Taipei Times movie critic Ian Bartholemew seems to think it was based upon t
Taiwan round-up, July 2010; plus Ma Ying-jeou's nonsense
Published on 2010-07-31 10:51:00
First, a bit of catching up is necessaryA lot has been going on in July -- and I'm not just talking about the extra work that I get during this time of the year. Here are just a few of the more prominent news items I should have been writing about in more detail over the past month:* Despite not being in possession of the land titles, the Chinese Nationalist Party-led (KMT) Miaoli County government destroyed the rice paddies of several farmers in the Jhunan Township (竹南) borough of Dapu (大
DPP Adverts warn of ECFA dangers to Taiwanese
Published on 2010-06-29 12:19:00
The DPP have produced these two videos below as criticism of the ECFA trade agreement and what they argue are its likely effects on Taiwanese. In the first we see a new well qualified graduate lose a job to a competitor from China and in the second we overhear a conversation by two businessmen celebrating ECFA's benefits for them. Interestingly, given recent discussion on the Taiwan blogsphere about the use of 'Dalu' or mainland by Taiwanese (indicating their internalisation of China as a bigg
