Chhiū-ông-kong 樹王公
@shuwanggong.bsky.social
People 65+ are now 19.99% of the population. Taipei City is the oldest jurisdiction in Taiwan--24.1% of the capital's population is 65+. The populations of Taoyuan, Hsinchu County, and Taoyuan grew slightly. Taiwan indigenous population continues to grow +14,484 YoY and +78k over last decade.
December 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
People 65+ are now 19.99% of the population. Taipei City is the oldest jurisdiction in Taiwan--24.1% of the capital's population is 65+. The populations of Taoyuan, Hsinchu County, and Taoyuan grew slightly. Taiwan indigenous population continues to grow +14,484 YoY and +78k over last decade.
'In 1921, they built a new clinic and residence. They later expanded it...collecting stones and cultivating plants together. Their friends visited frequently, and ink and paper were always on hand for guests to paint or write calligraphy.'
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December 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
'In 1921, they built a new clinic and residence. They later expanded it...collecting stones and cultivating plants together. Their friends visited frequently, and ink and paper were always on hand for guests to paint or write calligraphy.'
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
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Formosa Betrayed (traditional Chinese version) spotted on bookshelf of reading room in a rural Yunlin elementary school. Slightly surprised. Things have changed a lot in Taiwan.
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Formosa Betrayed (traditional Chinese version) spotted on bookshelf of reading room in a rural Yunlin elementary school. Slightly surprised. Things have changed a lot in Taiwan.
Reminder for this Saturday: Connecting Taiwan to the World Through Books.
A panel discussion with @brianhioe.bsky.social, @michellekuo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hsinyin Lee, and me.
Date: 2025-11-22
Time: 7pm
Place: Daybreak Cafe/破曉咖啡 in Bangka
More details:
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A panel discussion with @brianhioe.bsky.social, @michellekuo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hsinyin Lee, and me.
Date: 2025-11-22
Time: 7pm
Place: Daybreak Cafe/破曉咖啡 in Bangka
More details:
www.facebook.com/events/29449...
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Reminder for this Saturday: Connecting Taiwan to the World Through Books.
A panel discussion with @brianhioe.bsky.social, @michellekuo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hsinyin Lee, and me.
Date: 2025-11-22
Time: 7pm
Place: Daybreak Cafe/破曉咖啡 in Bangka
More details:
www.facebook.com/events/29449...
A panel discussion with @brianhioe.bsky.social, @michellekuo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Hsinyin Lee, and me.
Date: 2025-11-22
Time: 7pm
Place: Daybreak Cafe/破曉咖啡 in Bangka
More details:
www.facebook.com/events/29449...
Here is the notice sent out by the organizers. In addition to identifying Wu Shi as a martyr, it characterizes Wu and the other 'martys' as having paid the ultimate price for 'opposing the civil war [between the KMT and CCP], demanding peace and peaceful reunification of the Chinese nation.
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Here is the notice sent out by the organizers. In addition to identifying Wu Shi as a martyr, it characterizes Wu and the other 'martys' as having paid the ultimate price for 'opposing the civil war [between the KMT and CCP], demanding peace and peaceful reunification of the Chinese nation.
Before tea, indigo.
'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.'
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'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.'
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
July 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Before tea, indigo.
'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.'
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
'During the town’s heyday in the late 1800s, more than 80 ships traversed these waters [from Sanxia to Bangka), transporting not just indigo but local tea, camphor, timber, furniture, coal and rice noodles.'
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
The Taiwanese papers are reporting the same and also think it is bad for trade talks with US. They point out that Taiwan's trade surplus with the US has suddenly exceeded its surplus with China/Hong Kong. By a lot.
udn.com/news/story/7...
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July 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The Taiwanese papers are reporting the same and also think it is bad for trade talks with US. They point out that Taiwan's trade surplus with the US has suddenly exceeded its surplus with China/Hong Kong. By a lot.
udn.com/news/story/7...
udn.com/news/story/7...
New Taipei City's population of people aged 15-34 declined from about 954,000 to around 877,000 between 2020 and 2024. Most of this decline is simply demographic--there are just fewer young people around these days.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
New Taipei City's population of people aged 15-34 declined from about 954,000 to around 877,000 between 2020 and 2024. Most of this decline is simply demographic--there are just fewer young people around these days.
udn.com/news/story/7...
udn.com/news/story/7...
Here's a good photo of him from his day job at the Cifu branch of the New Taipei City fire department in the heart of Sanchong. They don't play in Sanchong.
July 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Here's a good photo of him from his day job at the Cifu branch of the New Taipei City fire department in the heart of Sanchong. They don't play in Sanchong.
Taiwan in Time's fourth article on the fierce Hakka resistance to Japan's invasion of Taiwan in 1895. This one recounts the final Hakka stand in the deep south centered around Liudui in Pingtung.
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July 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Taiwan in Time's fourth article on the fierce Hakka resistance to Japan's invasion of Taiwan in 1895. This one recounts the final Hakka stand in the deep south centered around Liudui in Pingtung.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
So it was pretty inspiring to see about eight or ten enthusiastic pro-recall activists/volunteers out one evening earlier this week in Taipei's Da'an District. But once again I am puzzled by the constant need for police. They also have a camera set up recording the activists. Is this necessary?
June 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
So it was pretty inspiring to see about eight or ten enthusiastic pro-recall activists/volunteers out one evening earlier this week in Taipei's Da'an District. But once again I am puzzled by the constant need for police. They also have a camera set up recording the activists. Is this necessary?
This farrago of nonsense is a transparent attempt to blur some of the very negative optics created by Ma's latest trip. In addition, Taiwan long ago set up a second track called the Straits Exchange Foundation that recently averred that back channels are open.
vip.udn.com/vip/story/12...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This farrago of nonsense is a transparent attempt to blur some of the very negative optics created by Ma's latest trip. In addition, Taiwan long ago set up a second track called the Straits Exchange Foundation that recently averred that back channels are open.
vip.udn.com/vip/story/12...
vip.udn.com/vip/story/12...
I feel compelled to once again strongly recommend Dominic Yang's Great Exodus from China for compassionate context on what I have said about Cheng's paradoxical life and sensibilities. Ably reviewed here.
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June 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I feel compelled to once again strongly recommend Dominic Yang's Great Exodus from China for compassionate context on what I have said about Cheng's paradoxical life and sensibilities. Ably reviewed here.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
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'The footage was filmed during the [annual ] Wanan Air Raid Drill....practicing civilian response to an assault from mainland China. The angle and smoothness of these shots adds to their uncanny nature,... the banality of surveillance states and the increasing insidiousness of drone warfare.'
June 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
'The footage was filmed during the [annual ] Wanan Air Raid Drill....practicing civilian response to an assault from mainland China. The angle and smoothness of these shots adds to their uncanny nature,... the banality of surveillance states and the increasing insidiousness of drone warfare.'
Why? 86.4% who prefer squat toilets think they are more sanitary because of no contact with toilet seat. About 57% say business can be done on a squat toilet with less exertion. 23% say they are simply more accustomed to them while 11% think they are cleaner.
June 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Why? 86.4% who prefer squat toilets think they are more sanitary because of no contact with toilet seat. About 57% say business can be done on a squat toilet with less exertion. 23% say they are simply more accustomed to them while 11% think they are cleaner.
Breaking frontpage news from Taiwan: 63% of all Taiwanese prefer squat toilets in public bathrooms. That figure falls to 52% for Taipei City residents though.
udn.com/news/story/7...
udn.com/news/story/7...
June 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Breaking frontpage news from Taiwan: 63% of all Taiwanese prefer squat toilets in public bathrooms. That figure falls to 52% for Taipei City residents though.
udn.com/news/story/7...
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Four independent bookstores in Miaoli County are profiled in today's Liberty Times. Qianshanlu (Green Foothills) is near Yuanli.
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June 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Four independent bookstores in Miaoli County are profiled in today's Liberty Times. Qianshanlu (Green Foothills) is near Yuanli.
art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...
art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...
An internet cafe in Taipei offering free access from home screen of every computer to play PRC game Black Myth: Wukong. Infiltration? Just marketing? Does it need to be free to get Taiwanese to play it? Is this even legal?
June 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An internet cafe in Taipei offering free access from home screen of every computer to play PRC game Black Myth: Wukong. Infiltration? Just marketing? Does it need to be free to get Taiwanese to play it? Is this even legal?
While Taiwan's total population is declining, the number of indigenous Taiwanese has been increasing steadily over the last 25 years.
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www.cip.gov.tw/zh-tw/news/d...
June 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
While Taiwan's total population is declining, the number of indigenous Taiwanese has been increasing steadily over the last 25 years.
www.cip.gov.tw/zh-tw/news/d...
www.cip.gov.tw/zh-tw/news/d...
Today’s Liberty Times reports that Taiwan recorded just 8,433 births in May—the lowest single-month figure on record. Deaths outnumbered births for 53rd consecutive month. Taiwan needs a new demographic strategy including equitable access to dual nationality.
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news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/pa...
June 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Today’s Liberty Times reports that Taiwan recorded just 8,433 births in May—the lowest single-month figure on record. Deaths outnumbered births for 53rd consecutive month. Taiwan needs a new demographic strategy including equitable access to dual nationality.
news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/pa...
news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/pa...
495,601 Taiwanese have died since Jan. 2023 while only 316,834 births have been recorded in same period. Taiwan's population peaked in 2019 at 23,603,121 but has since declined to 23,355,470. That's - 247,651 people in less than three years. In other words, lost equivalent of Keelung.
June 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
495,601 Taiwanese have died since Jan. 2023 while only 316,834 births have been recorded in same period. Taiwan's population peaked in 2019 at 23,603,121 but has since declined to 23,355,470. That's - 247,651 people in less than three years. In other words, lost equivalent of Keelung.
Taiwan recorded 8,433 births in May. That's a decline of about 3% from April and -24% YOY (!). Here's a chart showing monthly births and deaths since 2023. Source Ministry of Interior.
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
June 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Taiwan recorded 8,433 births in May. That's a decline of about 3% from April and -24% YOY (!). Here's a chart showing monthly births and deaths since 2023. Source Ministry of Interior.
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346
The political oracle at Academia Sinica speaks:
'...my understanding of how recalls work has changed quite dramatically...'
'I now believe that the social groups are the more important of the two and that parties simply can’t do this by themselves.'
frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2025/06/
'...my understanding of how recalls work has changed quite dramatically...'
'I now believe that the social groups are the more important of the two and that parties simply can’t do this by themselves.'
frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2025/06/
June 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The political oracle at Academia Sinica speaks:
'...my understanding of how recalls work has changed quite dramatically...'
'I now believe that the social groups are the more important of the two and that parties simply can’t do this by themselves.'
frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2025/06/
'...my understanding of how recalls work has changed quite dramatically...'
'I now believe that the social groups are the more important of the two and that parties simply can’t do this by themselves.'
frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2025/06/
Too many second-class 'permanent' residents without political and social rights. Too few births. Do we really want a growing class of unintegrated permanenet residents in Taiwan to keep increasing like this? There are more PRs than most indigenous peoples.
June 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Too many second-class 'permanent' residents without political and social rights. Too few births. Do we really want a growing class of unintegrated permanenet residents in Taiwan to keep increasing like this? There are more PRs than most indigenous peoples.
And here is a remarkable picture of Longshan Temple with a lake in front of it big enough so that someone in poling a boat around it. One wonders whether this could have been a banka, the Pasay word that gave 艋舺/Wanhua its real name.
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June 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
And here is a remarkable picture of Longshan Temple with a lake in front of it big enough so that someone in poling a boat around it. One wonders whether this could have been a banka, the Pasay word that gave 艋舺/Wanhua its real name.
ncpi.ntmofa.gov.tw/News_Content...
ncpi.ntmofa.gov.tw/News_Content...