BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, ...

Chris Horton, a freelance journalist who has lived in Taiwan for ten years, discussed his new book “Ghost Nation,” which provides a comprehensive account of Taiwanese history and how journalists’ ...

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall could easily be mistaken by the unfamiliar tourist for a religious shrine of preeminent sanctity. Massive and tastefully ornate, it sits within a sprawling square of ...

BEIJING (AP) — As China staged live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches, the Chinese foreign minister reiterated Beijing’s aim to achieve “ complete ...

Installation view of There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves at Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (all photos Christopher Whitfield/Hyperallergic) TAIPEI — There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves at the ...

Two narratives dominate discourse on Taiwanese identity. The first is the “Free China” view — an idea that Taiwan is historically and culturally Chinese, and that its non-communist values and free ...

The inaugural address of Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te late last month attracted international attention. The speech prompted a barrage of criticism from Beijing, which ramped up the pressure on ...

In his inauguration speech last May, Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, evoked the year 1624—when the Dutch East India Company established a fort on the island—as the year that “marked Taiwan’s ...