Hearts in Taiwan
Annie Wang and Angela Yu
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What does it mean to be Taiwanese?
Hearts in Taiwan
07/08/21 • 94 min
Simple question, hard to answer! Angela and Annie share their journeys exploring their identities with respect to Taiwan, and reflect on definitions contributed by a wide variety of Taiwanese individuals in America and Taiwan. We pitch each other some thought experiments that test our hypotheses about identity, and discuss the evolution of the Taiwanese identity in relation to China and in the context of America.
Links:
Nationality, Ethnicity, & Race, by Hello Prosper (blog post, IG post)
Michelle Kwan's stories at #RecipeForChange dinner (YouTube 24:11)
Taiwan’s urban landscapes by Yun Hai Taiwanese Pantry (IG story highlight)
See the Olympic flag for Chinese Taipei (Wikipedia)
Xi Jinping remarks for CCP centennial (Reuters article)
Crackdown and closure of Apple Daily in Hong Kong, coverage by New Bloom and Taiwan Mixed (IG post)
#notsponsored: Taiwan Mixed for news in English about Taiwan (website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook)
Show notes for full credits and sources
Featuring:
Kelly Lan, Hello Prosper (IG: @hello.prosper)
Darice Dan Chang (IG: @darice_dandan)
Dr. Zonram Liao, Wellnergy Pets (IG: @wellnergypets)
Sticky Rice Sisters (IG: @stickyricesisters)
Cathy Huang, Avery & Me (IG: @averyandme)
Lulu Cheng, Bitty Bao Books (IG: @bitty.bao)
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Hearts (and ears) in Japan
Hearts in Taiwan
08/18/21 • 39 min
Japan has some of the more notable cultural influences on Taiwan due to its 50 year occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. We explore some of the marks that Japan has left and its unique approach to colonization of Taiwan. Annie's mom returns for a guest appearance.
Sources
The Empire of Japan (Wikipedia)
Kano - 2014 movie about the baseball team
Ear cleaning with mimikaki (JapanTravel)
Ear cleaning in Chengdu, China (BBC)
Ellie Yang Camp’s post on ear wax types (Instagram)
Symbolism of plum blossom 梅花 in Taiwan (Wikipedia)
The Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China in 1915 (Wikipedia)
Nanjing Massacre (Wikipedia)
Further reading
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-taiwan-japan-20171106-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/magazine/taiwan-china.html
Taiwan as part of the Japanese empire (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Longing for the Spring Breeze song history (Wikipedia)
#NotSponsored
EVA Air Hello Kitty flights
EVA Air Hello Kitty flights to nowhere in August 2020 (CNN)
EVA Air flight map draws thumbs-up sign (Scooper)
Credits
“望春風Longing for the Spring Breeze” was one of the first Taiwanese pop songs during the period of Japanese colonization.
Longing for the Spring Breeze cover by 薛詒丹 Dan Hsueh and 翁光煒 Wico Weng
Original recording of Longing for the Spring Breeze
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07/10/22 • 41 min
In this episode, we examine the dark side of the model minority myth and the “tiger mom” stereotype. Joanna Ho’s first young adult novel, The Silence that Binds Us, is inspired by a real community’s anti-Asian reaction to teen suicides. Discussing the novel also compels Annie and Angela to get real about passive and active anti-Blackness in the Asian American community.
Featuring Joanna Ho:
- Buy The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho
- @joannahowrites on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok
- Book author visits on joannahowrites.com
About Joanna: Joanna Ho is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, Eyes that Speak to the Stars, Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma, and The Silence that Binds Us. She is a writer and educator with a passion for anti-bias, anti-racism and equity work. She has been an English teacher, a vice principal, a dean, the designer of an alternative-to-prison program, and a professional development creator partnering with educational leaders around the country. She survives on homemade chocolate chip cookies, outdoor adventures, and dance parties with her kids.
More resources (primarily for US listeners):
- Gratitude giveaway details on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network, 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
- The Trevor Project for LGBTQ+ and questioning
- Asians for Mental Health therapist directory
- Resources for survivors of suicide loss
- Tiger parenting (Wikipedia), Panda parenting (Psychology Today)
- LA riots following 1992 acquittal of officers for beating Rodney King (Wikipedia)
Hearts in Taiwan in the news:
- Hyphen Magazine (link coming soon)
- Radio Taiwan International, Russian Service
- New York Times article
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Taiwanese Home Cooking with Joy Huang
Hearts in Taiwan
08/24/22 • 33 min
In this episode, we get to know Joy Huang, one of the founders and moderators for the Taiwanese Home Cooking Facebook group. She started her food blog, The Cooking of Joy, because she was inspired to document her mom's Taiwanese dishes. This hobby continued to grow and now you can find her work on Instagram at @joyosity where she is known for her artistic take on baked goods. We asked Joy to share her early influences, tips for food photography, and some of the most lively topics discussed in the Facebook group of over 35,000 people who love to make Taiwanese food.
Featuring Joy Huang:
- The Cooking of Joy blog: www.cookingofjoy.com
- @joyosity and #thecookingofjoy on Instagram
- Taiwanese Home Cooking Facebook Group
Resources mentioned:
- Joy Huang on Some Good News by John Krasinski, Bon Appetit, and Food52
- Taiwanese Restaurant Recommendations around the world (Google MyMap)
- Joy’s guide to making bread including her sourdough recipe
- Joy’s beef noodle soup (niu rou mian) recipe (original, latest)
- Joy’s recipes for various dumplings
- Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF) summer conference
- Boston Organics produce delivery
- Jocelyn Shyong’s homemade pineapple cakes in the Boston area (must be in Facebook Group), or @jjcookery on Instagram
- Eric Sze on Munchies YouTube on white pepper in Taiwanese food and five-spice too
Cover art photo credits: Joy Huang
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Can you be Chinese and Taiwanese at the same time?
Hearts in Taiwan
06/23/22 • 51 min
About 32% of people in Taiwan identify as both Taiwanese and Chinese, while diaspora from Taiwan in America tend to identify as solely one or the other. We talk about blending Chinese, Taiwanese, and American identity with Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu. Michelle and Albert moved back to their heritage country mid-career and have been sharing their Asian American observations and introspections about living in Taiwan in their weekly newsletter, A Broad and Ample Road.
Featuring Michelle Kuo and Albert Wu:
- Remembering Michelle’s grandmother in A Broad and Ample Road
- Reflecting on Albert’s mother in A Broad and Ample Road
- Is “Asian-American” a viable category? in A Broad and Ample Road
- Breaking Bad review by Albert Wu and Michelle Kuo in the Los Angeles Review of Books, their first collaboration
- Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (陪你讀下去 in Taiwan)
- Michelle Kuo: @kuokuomich on Twitter and Instagram
- Albert Wu: @albertowu on Twitter
About Michelle: Michelle Kuo is a visiting professor in the law program at National Taiwan University. She has worked with Teach for America, the Criminal Justice Institute, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Centro Legal de la Raza, the Prison University Project at San Quentin, RAICES, and the Stanford Three Strikes Project. She has started a nonprofit, Dialogue & Transformation, which works to create dialogue among formerly incarcerated people across the world.
About Albert: Albert Wu is a global historian, focusing particularly on the transnational connections between Germany and China, the history of religion, and the history of medicine. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. After studying history at Columbia University, he has taught at the American University of Paris, UC Berkeley (where he earned his PhD), and the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
Vocab:
外省人 waishengren - Family from mainland China who moved to Taiwan to escape Communism in the late 1940s
本省人 benshengren - Family who was already in Taiwan when waishengren came
Other resources mentioned:
- Changes in the Taiwanese/Chinese identity of Taiwanese as Tracked in Surveys by the Election Study Center, NCCU (1992-2021)
- The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles M. Payne
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50 shades of green (and blue)
Hearts in Taiwan
09/02/21 • 53 min
Annie and Angela tackle a taboo topic: politics in Taiwan! From dark green to light green and light blue to dark blue, we attempt to understand why each party believes what they do, and relate our observations to American pop culture. Plus, Angela asks for your recommendations for earth-friendly products that aren’t made in China.
Further reading:
- Brawls in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (YouTube: pig guts in 2020, commonplace in 2017)
- Wild Lily student movement (OFTaiwan)
- 1992 Consensus (Wikipedia)
- China interfering with Taiwan’s vaccine procurement (article)
- #FreeBritney Spears from conservatorship (freebritney.net)
- Sex and the City struggles of moving in together (clip)
- Green parties’ anti-nuclear platform (article)
- Insecure’s Thug Yoda character replacing “c” with “b” (clip, HBO homepage, Compton rapper YG explains on YouTube)
- Taiwan passport 2021 redesign (BBC)
- False comparison between US policy toward Afghanistan and Taiwan (New Bloom Magazine, Taiwan Insight)
- Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 (official text)
- Japan’s security tied to Taiwan (article)
- What Taiwanese Americans can learn from Taiwanese Politics (TaiwaneseAmerican.org)
#notsponsored:
Piico floss picks made in Taiwan (website, Instagram)
Indigenous American-owned businesses (IG Guide, Website)
Buy Nothing project for neighborhood sharing (buynothingproject.org)
Credit:
Cover photo by tomscy2000 on Flickr depicting a young protester during the Sunflower Movement
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Massacres and Cover-ups, Part 2
Hearts in Taiwan
06/24/21 • 31 min
If you didn't know that the KMT government killed about 20,000 Taiwanese people in a one-month span in early 1947 and imprisoned about 140,000 more during the 40 years after, that's no accident. In Part 2 of a 2-part series, we share the way that the 228 Massacre and White Terror were handled since these events ended and the parallels to how governments handle similar events like the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Trigger warnings: violence, police/military brutality, totalitarian government.
Invitation:
Tells us how you define Taiwanese! Send us a voice message on Instagram, Facebook, or at heartsintaiwan.com/voicemail and we'll send you a Hearts in Taiwan sticker.
Credits:
"Making the Banned" by Jason Chu and Alan Z
"Ronny's Outro" feat. Ronny Chieng from Face Value by Jason Chu and Alan Z
Alan Z's Instagram: www.instagram.com/alanzmusic
Alan Z's YouTube: http://bit.ly/alanz-youtube
"Close to Home" by Vienna Teng (Spotify)
Cover image: modification of a photo by Hung Jui-chin for Taipei Times
See our show notes for links to further reading about the events described in this episode.
heartsintaiwan.com/blog/massacres-and-coverups
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Learning our parents’ love languages through their stories
Hearts in Taiwan
08/04/22 • 13 min
Angela’s mom shares a memory from her college days and Angela learns more about her mom as a person through this story. Let us know if you do a similar exercise recording the stories your parents tell you behind their old photos!
Resources:
instagram.com/cutfruitcollective
instagram.com/asiansformentalhealth
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What does the Presbyterian Church mean to Taiwanese Christians?
Hearts in Taiwan
06/13/22 • 47 min
The mass shooting at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, CA has sparked conversation about the significance of the Presbyterian Church for many Taiwanese individuals. Annie and Angela interview Christine Lin, a lawyer and expert on the history and influence of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan who also conducts research on Taiwanese American identity. The hosts also share their own experiences with Christianity.
Featuring Christine Lin:
- Respond to Christine’s current research: “Survey of Taiwanese Americans on Identity Issues”, 2022
- “The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy” (PDF) by Christine Louise Lin for Sino-Platonic Papers, 1999
- “What Impacts a Taiwanese Americans' Political Identity?” by Christine Lin for Chinese America: History & Perspectives–The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America, Special Issue: Taiwanese Americans, 2017
- Christine Lin quoted in “Gunman Targets Taiwanese Faith With Long Pro-Democracy Link” (Associated Press)
- Contact Christine Lin on LinkedIn
About Christine: Christine Lin is a Taiwanese American lawyer. Her research on the topic of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan inspired her to pursue a career in human rights, refugee, and immigration law. Currently, she is the Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies based at UC Hastings College of the Law where she has taught the Refugee & Human Rights Clinic. Previously, she was the Legal Director of Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre and taught refugee legal assistance clinics at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
More resources:
- Major branches of Christianity (Wikipedia)
- Presbyterian Church USA allows same-sex marriages (NPR, 2015)
- Related episode: “Taiwanese by the Numbers” (Hearts in Taiwan, August 5, 2021)
- New York Times interview that consulted Christine Lin and interviewed Annie and Angela: "Coming From Separate Worlds in Taiwan, They Collided at California Church" (https://nyti.ms/3mDXG2q)
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Reliving Loveboat with Abigail Hing Wen
Hearts in Taiwan
01/17/22 • 56 min
Hosts Annie Wang and Angela Yu kick off Season 2 with an interview of Abigail Hing Wen, author of New York Times bestseller Loveboat, Taipei which is currently being filmed in Taiwan starring Ashley Jiao, Ross Butler, Nico Hiraga, and Chelsea Zhang. The Young Adult novel’s sequel Loveboat Reunion hits bookshelves January 25.
We learned how Abigail's family background has shaped her worldview, got a realtime account of what it's like to run around Taiwan with movie stars, and talked frankly about how bamboo and glass ceilings are very real for Asian women in tech. From references to The Baby-Sitters Club and Bridgerton to Angela quoting Abigail's books back to her three times, this conversation is unique to say the least.
Featuring:
Follow @abigailhingwen on Instagram
Subscribe to Abigail's newsletter on abigailhingwen.com
Where to buy:
- Loveboat, Taipei
- Loveboat Reunion
- Serendipity featuring "The Idiom Algorithm", a short story by Abigail Hing Wen
If you're interested in a similar immersive cultural camp for the current generation of Taiwanese American youth who have completed grades 4 through 12, look into Leading Youth Forward (LYF) Camp organized by the Taiwanese American Citizens League and held in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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How many episodes does Hearts in Taiwan have?
Hearts in Taiwan currently has 33 episodes available.
What topics does Hearts in Taiwan cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Documentary and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on Hearts in Taiwan?
The episode title 'Learning our parents’ love languages through their stories' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Hearts in Taiwan?
The average episode length on Hearts in Taiwan is 38 minutes.
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Episodes of Hearts in Taiwan are typically released every 10 days, 2 hours.
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The first episode of Hearts in Taiwan was released on Apr 30, 2021.
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