Yes, this is about the power of knowledge production. And yes, the reason will go beyond your thought of exoticism. 3/

When people from Hong Kong / who are familiar with Hong Kong tell you it is not the bamboo but the corrupted system is responsible, listen. Don't shut your ear because "it is difficult to understand" or it is different from your reasoning. 2/

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By examining the influx of unregulated street vendors and arcade merchandisers, this paper illustrates how gentrification fails to address the problems regenerated neighborhoods face. 4/

These cases demonstrate that new aesthetic-oriented, creativity-related businesses, rather than existing traditional businesses and residents, are often less resilient toward rent increases. Rather than “gentrification,” rent increases affect the future of heritage remaking and community building.3/

To maintain the critical dimension of gentrification, defined by the displacement of existing poorer people by late-coming wealthier people, this paper argues for a conceptual delinking culture-led regeneration from gentrification by presenting two case studies from Taiwan. 2/

When some KMT MPs use all sorts of weird excuse to cut/freeze budgets of TaiwanPlus, I am not sure how many productions they have watched. I really doubt, given the fact that they don't even get the brand name correctly. Hey, "TaiwanPlus" is one word not two words!

3. As a UK-based academic, I use TaiwanPlus documentaries in my teaching. I used one on Taiwanese potehi (glove puppetry) in the last semester. They are in plain English, introducing Taiwanese culture from a TW perspective, and effective to introduce TW-related topics to students internationally.

2. TaiwanPlus reports are effective ways to let non-Chinese readers to understand what's going on in Taiwan.

That junction is of course super dangerous. They are telling the pedestrians to cross two roads at once without any place to stop, not to mention the (lack of) sidewalk

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