The New York Times interviews Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai about her new book, “Big River, Big Sea — Untold Stories of 1949”: Ms. Lung, who was born two years after the family moved to Taiwan, is a leading cultural...
The latest banned word on the Chinese Internet is the name of celebrated Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai, China Media Project reports: The web censors responsible for this recent action were the usual suspects from Beijing’s web...
This is professor Lung Ying-tai‘s public speech on May 17, 2007 at Cambridge University, England. The full text was published on China Times (in Taiwan) and translated by Roland Soong on his EastSouthWestNorth blog: We all know that the Taiwan strait is one of the “danger zones” in the world. Five to six hundred missiles […]
From The China Times blog, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: After the publication of “The Proceedings of Lung Ying-tai’s Speeches at Harvard University and Washington DC”, the netizens responded powerfully and enthusiastically. Some agreed with her, some admired her, some rebuked her, some cursed her and all that. Pro-Taiwan independence, pro-unification … one label after another was […]
From Business Weekly (Taiwan,) via T-Salon blog: Prolific Chinese writer Lung Ying-tai was recently interviewed by Taiwan’s Business Weekly about the experience she went through before she issued an Open Letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao titled “Please Use Civilization to Convince Us”, wherein she criticized the Chinese authorities’ order to shutdown Bingdian (Freezing Point), […]
From The China Times (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: This afternoon, at the international forum titled “The Road To Democracy: Global Perspectives on Democratic Experiments” sponsored by the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation and held at the Zhongshan Hall, the invited guest Shi Ming-teh (ÊñΩÊòéÂæ∑) said in his speech that many people have told him that […]
During the Spring Festival gala on CCTV, viewers were asked to vote via SMS for the names for the pair of Pandas that the Chinese government has offered to Taiwan. Below are three news reports on the voting, followed by some critical comments from Chinese netizens: From The Shanghai Daily: Tuantuan and Yuanyuan are two […]
From The China Youth Daily, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: On October 30, for the first time ever, Chinese Kuomintang chairman Ma Ying-jeou appeared as party chairman to attend an autumn memorial service for the...
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