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The View from Taiwan: Taiwan and Cocaine in the Japanese era

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The View from Taiwan. Commentary from Taichung, Taiwan. Riding for Pingtung Gov. Earlier Picture Posts and Bike Rides. Kondo among the Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930. Big Page of Sunflower Movement Links. Picture Posts on Cycling. Friday, August 07, 2015. Taiwan and Cocaine in the Japanese era. There's a blurb in George Kerr's immortal Formosa Betrayed. Gootenberg writes in another paper. In yet another work. Gootenberg says that by the late 1920s Taiwan was producing 3 tons of cocaine per year (Colu...

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The View from Taiwan: Aug 30 Rally blows away expectations

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The View from Taiwan. Commentary from Taichung, Taiwan. Riding for Pingtung Gov. Earlier Picture Posts and Bike Rides. Kondo among the Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930. Big Page of Sunflower Movement Links. Picture Posts on Cycling. Saturday, August 30, 2008. Aug 30 Rally blows away expectations. I just got back from the Aug 30th rally marking Ma Ying-jeou's first 100 days as President, where I walked with thousands of Taiwanese dissatisfied with the direction of the nation. We got 150,000. Who spent t...

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The View from Taiwan: Chen Nan-jung, Yeh Chu-lan, and the Presidency

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The View from Taiwan. Commentary from Taichung, Taiwan. Riding for Pingtung Gov. Earlier Picture Posts and Bike Rides. Kondo among the Atayal/Sedeq peoples, 1896 to 1930. Big Page of Sunflower Movement Links. Picture Posts on Cycling. Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Chen Nan-jung, Yeh Chu-lan, and the Presidency. Last week saw another anniversary of the death of a major opposition figure, Cheng Nan-jung. Mr Cheng was born in Taipei in 1947. he was actually half Taiwanese, half mainlander: his father came fr...

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Dpp - David on Formosa

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Commentary on all things Taiwanese Taiwan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Election results reflect deep concerns of Taiwan’s citizens: Bruce Jacobs. The following commentary by Bruce Jacobs, Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University, was originally published on The Conversation. Voters assert themselves as Taiwanese in a warning to KMT. Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party. DPP) has won an unprecedented landslide victory. In addition, parties ...

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Election - David on Formosa

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Commentary on all things Taiwanese Taiwan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Taiwan needs absentee voting. Was published in the Taipei Times today. In the letter I suggest that Taiwan should adopt pre-poll and absentee voting to reduce the level of disenfranchisement in elections. On the same day that voters turned out for the nine-in-one elections in Taiwan, there was also a state election in Victoria, Australia. This leads to significant disenfranchisement of military and emergency se...

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Kmt - David on Formosa

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Commentary on all things Taiwanese Taiwan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Election results reflect deep concerns of Taiwan’s citizens: Bruce Jacobs. The following commentary by Bruce Jacobs, Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University, was originally published on The Conversation. Voters assert themselves as Taiwanese in a warning to KMT. Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party. DPP) has won an unprecedented landslide victory. In addition, parties ...

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Taiwan Studies - David on Formosa

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Commentary on all things Taiwanese Taiwan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Taiwan Studies. Taiwan Studies takes centre stage at ANU. I’ve just spent the past week in Canberra attending a Taiwan Studies conference at Australian National University (ANU). The conference titled “Taiwan: The View from the South” was hosted by the Australian Centre on China in the World. The conference brought together scholars from Australia, Taiwan and other countries. While it is grea...

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David on Formosa - a blog about Taiwan - Part 2

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Commentary on all things Taiwanese Taiwan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Homophobia must be condemned. I had a short letter. Published in the Taipei Times today. The letter was written in response to a group of so-called religious leaders in Taiwan campaigning against same-sex marriage. The Taipei Times have also made the issue the subject of its editorial. At Hongshi Buddhist College last year. That is a true example of religious leadership. To Australia’s Depa...

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Social Media - David on Formosa

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Commentary on all things Taiwanese Taiwan. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Tag Archives: social media. Ten years of blogging at David on Formosa. A decade is quite a long time in the relatively short history of the internet. So I thought it was worth noting that this blog’s first post, The Ugly Isle. At the time I started the blog I was inspired and encouraged by Michael Turton. Who continues to write at what is probably Taiwan’s longest running blog. Fili. Tim Maddog started off with...