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  • What does TaiwanCentric mean?
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    What does TaiwanCentric mean?

    The Evolution of a Blog Welcome to TaiwanCentric, my new magazine-style blog, consisting of carefully researched, human-written articles. It is a makeover of my previous blog, the Culture Shack, which was started over a decade ago and originally focused on expat life in Taiwan. But my vision of what to write about evolved over time.…

  • SIGNS OF TROUBLE: The Story Behind the Anti-Tibetan-Buddhist Slogans

    SIGNS OF TROUBLE: The Story Behind the Anti-Tibetan-Buddhist Slogans

    They are hard to see now, as they are blocked from view by a new building under construction, but for almost 15 years those eccentric signs on the side of a 10-story building next to Yuanshan Station caught my eye as I rolled past on the Taipei MRT.  “The Highest Yoga Tantra cultivated by lamas…