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independent #Taiwan writer and rights advocate • researcher @ghostislandme (2020-2023) • founding editor @culturaltaiwan (2013-2020) • #TaiwanResources 📚
Mar 4, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
For 2+ yrs, Shih Shui-huan's morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete w/ the flavors of her hometown, #Tainan. Oddly enough, the bachelorette lived alone in employee lodgings as a Taipei postal worker. She was also severely malnourished—weighing 38kg upon arrest. Shih, who was secretly sheltering her wanted brother, evaded suspicion by buying single-household groceries. He spent daytime in the ceiling, and slept below the wood floors at night, according to accounts theorizing the KMT soldiers had little knowledge of Japanese architecture.
Dec 22, 2020 • 13 tweets • 10 min read
Why PTT, #Taiwan's largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS), will remain an experimental battleground for CCP #disinformation campaigns, esp. given its Mandarin user base: "A Pilot Study on PTT in the Context of Influence Operations" via @INDSRTW indsr.org.tw/tw/News_detail… "The initial quest of this research began with the question: Is there CCP influence in PTT?

PTT is the world's largest non-commercial, forum-based, open-source online bulletin board system in the Chinese language. It was created here; it is unique to #Taiwan."