Tag Archives: ROC

2026: Lithuania, Taiwan and the PRC — Case Study of the 2021 Sino-Lithuanian One China Dispute

Posted on 02/27/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A study of the PRC attempt to strong-arm Lithuania about the presence of a Taiwan representative office in the country. This article appeared in the February 2026 issue of the Norwegian language journal Internasjonal Politikk. Internasjonal Politikk is the leading … Continue reading →

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1930: A Ying on Writer Bing Xin 冰心/Xie Wanying

Posted on 06/19/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Her exact contemporary A Ying 阿英/Qian Xingcun 钱杏村 (1900 – 1977) wrote an appreciation of poet and writer Bing Xin 冰心/Xie Wang Ying (1900 – 1999). A Ying’s 1930 article on Bing Xin from Volume II of A Ying’s Collected … Continue reading →

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1920s-40s: Contemporary Chinese Sources on Wang Jingwei 汪精衛; Literature as History

Posted on 06/15/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A distinguished sinologist recently shared a list of Chinese works, some many decades old, relating to the career of Wang Jingwei, the prominent KMT figure and later collaborator with the Japanese during World War II — as Wikipedia notes president … Continue reading →

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1998 WONG Wang Chi: Why Lu Xun Became a Target in the 1928 Revolutionary Literature Debate

Posted on 06/06/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

What happened to Jiang Guangci? He was a very popular ‘revolutionary’ writer on the 1920s, one of the earliest members of the Chinese Communist Party, a co-founded of the Sun Society in early 1928. Jiang was a founding member of … Continue reading →

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2025: In Taiwan the KMT Legislator Recall Rap

Posted on 01/26/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

A rap song calling for the recall of KMT legislators has just appeared on YouTube. Taiwan is in a constitutional crisis. Opposition parties seeking to rein in the powers of DPP president through legislation, including the KMT, are blocking the … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XLVII: 2010 Perspectives on China’s Corruption and Forgotten Republican Era Heroes

Posted on 07/12/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find Blood Chronicle Table of Contents and chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Chapter Twelve: From 2010 a Perspective on China’s Prospects After Mao Zedong’s … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XLVI: What Became of My Labor Camp Comrades

Posted on 07/07/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Find Blood Chronicle Table of Contents and chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  3.  Wang Dabing and His Daughter After returning to Chongqing, I … Continue reading →

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2024: Taiwan/India MOU; Migrant Workers in Taiwan

Posted on 03/04/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

With Signing of MOU Minister of Labor Hsu estimates that a Few Workers From India’s Northeast Will Come to Taiwan 簽移工MOU 許銘春估初期印度東北小額引進 February 29, 2024 Central News Agency Reporter Yang Shu-Min Taipei, 29th, Taiwan Taiwan and India signed a Memorandum of … Continue reading →

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1994: Lee Teng-hui Interviewed by Japanese Novelist Ryotaro Shiba “The Grief of Being Born a Taiwanese”

Posted on 02/20/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Reading lately about the Taiwanese-Japanese writer Chiu Yong-han (aka Qiu Yonghan 邱永汉）lately, I came across this Japanese novelist Ryōtarō Shiba interview with then Republic of China (on Taiwan) President Lee Teng-hui that Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski inserted into the Congressional … Continue reading →

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2013: Everything for the Common Good Tianxia weigong “天下為公” — Sun Yat-sen’s Lifelong pursuit of Ideals and Putting Them into Practice

Posted on 07/30/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs website now feature a famous quote from the classics Igor Denisov noted on Twitter. Sun Yat-sen is revered on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Both the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party claim … Continue reading →

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