Eindrücke und Meinungen einer jungen Europäerin
Before I started to study Chinese (knowing that I would live in a Chinese speaking country) I was terrified, because Chinese is commonly known to be one of hardest languages to learn. I am about half a year into my studies and I must – not so humbly – say that I am impressed. Yes, …
When I came to Taiwan for the first time last January which feels like an eternity ago, I couldn’t but fall in love instantly. I visited the city of Taipei during the Chinese New Year celebration and got quite a wrong impression at first sight: so many closed stores and empty streets. But I loved …
When I came to Taiwan for the first time last January which feels like an eternity ago, I couldn’t but fall in love instantly. I visited the city of Taipei during the Chinese New Year celebration and got quite a wrong impression at first sight: so many closed stores and empty streets. But I loved …
Everyone travelling to Asia can relate: The scenery is stunning, the food is amazing, the history is thrilling and the people are welcoming and friendly. Besides, East Asia is known to be safe and clean. But there is more to Taipei than just that.
This text is about a part of Chinese-Taiwanese history, without making a claim for academic quality, but simply being based on my seven weeks experience and the exchange with people in this wonderful, but politically very controversial country. Taiwan is a country with its own history and its own identity which is obviously created upon …
How I ended up in Kanazawa, Japan I moved to Japan when I was 20 years old and (rather) madly in love with a lovely Irish man whom I had met a couple of months before in Krakow where I spent some time for a European Voluntary Service. He had always been fascinated by the Japanese …
The protest in Taipei goes into the second week. On Tuesday one week ago, the 18th of March, a group of activists stormed into the legislative Yuan, the parliament, of Taiwan. Since one week they barricade themselves in the congress. Their protest is supported by people occupying the streets around the building.
At the 6th day of the sunflower revolution the sun finally shows up above Taipei. The protest attracts more and more journalists, more and more onlookers – and more and more protestors. Still, they are mostly young people, high school and college students and parents with small children. They gather together in small groups at the …
About the Taiwanese Way to Protest for Democracy, Participation and Independence On Tuesday the 18th of March 2014, Taiwanese students occupied the legislative Yuan, a governmental building, in Taipei. The root cause of this was a trade contract between China and Taiwan planned over the last couple of months, which simplifies investment policies in the …