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https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1464024563868737546Back in high school, his Waishengren (post-49 Chinese-Taiwanese) backgrounds did set him apart. His parents have great family connections in China & they have settled in Shanghai for business. Despite being good friends, we'd have arguments on TW's status & Taiwanese history. 2/
https://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1447035723551440902Published in 1946, Orphan of Asia depicts a Taiwanese student who got caught in conflicting identities. Feeling marginalised & abandoned, the protagonist disappears w a mental breakdown. It's a powerful depiction of the psychological impact of colonialism. toolkit.culture.tw/en/literaturei…
https://twitter.com/catielila/status/1442747744645386241Like a lot of working-class Taiwanese in the 50s, my grandma migrated to Taipei from the south in search of better opportunities for her family. Even though they settled in Taipei, she never had the chance to learn Mandarin due to her age, social circle & economic hardship. 2/
https://twitter.com/lnachman32/status/1299002036873121793These five HK asylum-seekers include 21y 文家健 & 24y 吳仲謙, both have been indicted for protest-related activities. According to the report, the Tsai admin keeps this info confidential because the asylum-seekers could be further persecuted due to the HK national security law.
https://twitter.com/dtbyler/status/1299151305823281152All this became even more problematic when the Han-centric successors ROC/PRC decided to "pretend to be a nation-state" (Pyle, 1990). While decolonisation discourse thrives in other parts of the world, the Chinese continental & settler colonisation remains largely unchallenged.
https://twitter.com/CassyOConnorMP/status/1297276435468414976Ex: Chinese students defended Aus as a friendly place on SBS & that got them horrible online abuses from Chinese netizens calling them "Han-race traitors". So these voices get shut down. Chinese citizens that think differently often don't feel safe here.
https://twitter.com/EYlin20177490/status/1283430880237678592We visited the Tainan Art Museum earlier this year. We were also reminded of how the massacre took the lives of numerous Taiwanese intellectuals. My mum commented that it's tragic that it was "our own people" that inflicted such misery on the Taiwanese people. I was shook. 2/
https://twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1277482639964831744The undetermined status of Taiwan is a direct result of 20th century American & Chinese imperialism, thinking that superpowers could decide the fate of millions for their own security benefits. And if we don't talk about Taiwan, the same tragedy would happen to the people again.
https://twitter.com/catielila/status/1260612734019870725This seems to mirror the idea of "the persistent pressure to soften identities and avoid confrontation" described in @catielila's "Andrew Yang is #TaiwaneseAmerican". Sadly, this might be the reality for Taiwanese diaspora in political participation.
https://twitter.com/cloudleviathan/status/1258119443768467456If he/she is from Brisbane, it is also likely that the family came from Kaoshiung. Absurd but people say it's the similar climate. The Taiwanese community, along with the HK migrants, were some of the earlier non-white migrants after the abolishment of White Australia policy. (2)
https://twitter.com/iingwen/status/1254709675976585216(1) The necessity of cooperation & reconciliation in a multi-cultural settler society & new-world frontier. This is comparable to #Australia where settlers came together, put their old-world conflicts (ex. Irish vs English) & hierarchy behind, to build a more egalitarian society.