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Ketagalan Media
by Ketagalan Media
The Ketagalan Media is a media project that brings more Taiwan news and commentary to the English speaking audience. We believe that there is more room for quality coverage of Taiwan in English, and that news on Taiwan can use more historical, ideological and international context. The Ketagalan Project is named after the Ketagalan Austronesian people in Taiwan whose language has become extinct, as well as the Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei.
Episodes
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 29: Startups in Taiwan
We ask Mike Lee, the founding chairman of Entrepeneur+, a non-profit helping and training people who want to turn their ideas into a viable business. He is also the business development and marketing at a new medical venture, Toothfilm, in Taiwan. We ask him about the state of entrepreneurship in...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 28: Kano
From Cape No. 7, to Seediq Bale, the movies of director Wei Te-sheng all seem to talk about stories long forgotten since the Japanese colonial period. He has fans and detractors alike, but how does Director Wei himself see them? There is glory, pain, and blood in the past, how do we learn from...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 27: Le Flanc Radical
Le Flanc Radical, or the Radical Wing, was founded with a left-wing and Taiwan independence agenda. We ask Kaohsiung city council candidate Dr. Hsin-yu Chen about policies for Kaohsiung and the future of the organization.
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 26: Taiwan International Queer Film Festival
We chat with Victor Stevenson, coordinator of Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, about movies and the state of queer and LGBT communities in Taiwan, and why he is optimistic about Taiwan becoming more progressive.
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 25: China on the Brink
For anyone interested in Taiwan, China is the big, fat dragon in the room. We caught up with China commentator Gordon Chang right after the protests in Hong Kong two weeks ago. Gordon has written a book called The Coming Collapse of China in 2001, and writes for Forbes, World Affairs Journal, and...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 24: Tainan Cultural Capital
As part of our 2014 Taiwan mid-term local elections coverage, we caught up with the mayor of Tainan Lai Ching-te (賴清德) right before his flight while visiting the San Francisco Bay Area. He is generally seen as a potential future leader of the party, but some have also criticized him as…
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 23: Protests to Politics
We talk to the two public faces of the movement---Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆) and Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷), in this exclusive interview. We ask them just how they have been pushing for their goals, even as the student activist coalition ended; we ask them whether they will run for office; and what they thought...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 22: Yunlin Farmville
We have a special occasion to talk to Mr. Wolf Wu in his campaign headquarters in Yunlin, to find out about local politics in Taiwan. Wolf is the Democratic Progressive Party’s nominated candidate for County Council in Yunlin’s 3rd district.
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 21: The Third Son
The Third Son is an American novel that tells the story of a boy who grew up in between the Japanese colonial period, and the early years of Chinese Nationalist rule in Taiwan. Chieh-Ting Yeh and Jonathan Lee talk to the author Julie Wu in an irreverent conversation about literature, history,...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 20: Migrating to Taiwan
Migrations in Taiwan are not just historical facts, but an ongoing reality. Why are graduates of top universities moving to other countries? How does the increase of foreign spouses and laborers from Southeast Asia changing Taiwan’s local communities? Would trade agreements with China really open...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 19: Tongues of Heaven
We talk to filmmaker Anita Chang, a documentary filmmaker who has also taught in universities in Taiwan and Hawaii. Her film “Tongues of Heaven” explores the stories of four young women in Taiwan and Hawaii in search of their native languages, which are facing extinction. We talk about her vision...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 18: Upside Down Idealism
Exactly because Taiwan’s society is so pragmatic, that it sometimes worry so much on what is available and forget to see what is possible. And in a time like this when Taiwan is under pressure from all sides, when there isn’t much more available, Mr. Candle reminds us to focus instead on what is...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 17: Westerner in Taiwan
We ask guest Ben Goren, the author behind the popular blog Letters from Taiwan, about what it is like being a Westerner living in Taiwan, and just how he got into the fray of Taiwan’s controversial political scene. We also talk shop about politics—just a little bit.
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Ketagalan Project - Ep. 16: Advocacy for US-Taiwan Relations
35 years after the Taiwan Relations Act, how has the relationship between the US and Taiwan evolved, and how have people worked on shaping it? Shortly after the student protesters occupied Taiwan’s parliament in April, we talked to Coen Blaauw and Gerrit van der Wees from the Formosan Association...
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Ketagalan Project - Ep. 15: Taiwanese, Yet American
Today, Taiwanese Americans range from doctors, lawyers, engineers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, musicians, chefs, and sports players. There are organizations promoting culture, professional careers, public policy, and all sorts of issues. Helping us make sense of all this…
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 14: Past and Future of Food in Taiwan (May 9, 2014)
What do you think of when we mention “Taiwanese food?” Is Taiwanese food limited to bubble tea and stinky tofu? We ask food author Elizabeth Kao about fine dining in Taiwan, how history shaped food in Taiwan, and some thoughts on the future.
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 13: Technology and Movements (Apr. 25, 2014)
How did the Sunflower Movement gather almost 500,000 people to take to the streets, organize a month-long sit-in at the parliament, and capture the attention of an entire generation of young Taiwanese people? Technology, especially social media, played a crucial role. We talk to Sean Su, a...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 12: Sunflower Generation (Apr. 11, 2014)
We are joined by University of Toronto Political Science PhD student Ching-Fang Hsu as we ponder the end of student demonstrators' occupying Taiwan's parliament for 24 days. We think about questions such as: What is the long term meaning of the Sunflower Movement? How will this new political...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 11: Wild Lily Democracy (Mar. 28, 2014)
On March 16, right before the Sunflower Movement occurred, we interviewed Kharis Templeman, a Social Science Research Associate at Stanford University with thought-provoking questions focused on democratization in Taiwan in the 90s, how that compares with other countries' experiences, and the...
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The Debrief, Mar. 18, 2014
We follow the ongoing story of demonstrators storming and occupying Taiwan's parliamentary floor over the imminent ratifying of the services free trade agreement with China, as well as Crimea's independence and annexation by Russia, US and Taiwan's healthcare systems, pig farmers' struggles in...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 10: Teach for Taiwan (Mar. 7, 2014)
Education is the very foundation of society. Currently, Taiwan's education system is failing 1 in every 9 children, because there are not enough teachers in resource-poor communities. Teach For Taiwan’s mission is to close this achievement gap by placing talented and committed young leaders to...
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Ketagalan Project Special - Legacy
In this special episode, we reflect on the 228 Massacre.
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 9: Aboriginal Culture (Feb. 14, 2014)
We discuss Aboriginal and indigenous civilizations in Taiwan and elsewhere with Tony Coolidge, the son of a US military serviceman in Taiwan and an Atayal aboriginal Taiwanese. As the founder of ATAYAL, Tony is committed to building bridges that link indigenous communities around the world,...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 8: Crystal Boys (Feb. 2, 2014)
Crystal Boys, a classic novel about Taiwan's gay subculture in the 1970s, is also about family, authority and freedom. To find out more about an upcoming stage adaptation at the National Theater, we talk to director 曹瑞原, actors 莫子儀 and 陸一龍, and the author 白先勇 himself.
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Ketagalan Project Special - Art for a Free Taiwan
We talk to Victoria Linchong, who is the director of the documentary "Almost Home: Taiwan" in which she takes us on a family visit to Taiwan that turns out to be much more about history, identity and making these big questions personal. To promote the film, she is also hosting an art tour with...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 7: Dadaocheng (Jan. 19, 2014)
In this special episode, host Chieh-Ting Yeh and guest Jou Yi-cheng go over the history of Dihua Street in the old Dadaocheng neighborhood in Taipei. Known for its specialty shops, we take you on a journey into the 1920s, when Dadaocheng was the cosmopolitan center of Taiwan, connecting it to the...
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 6: Trade and Taiwan (Jan. 5, 2014)
For the first interview of the new year, we tackle the questions of Taiwan's economy and free trade. We ask Prof. Peter Chow of City College of New York about trade with China, Taiwan's strategy in joining regional trade blocs, and whether free trade is ultimately good for Taiwan.
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Ketagalan Project - Episode 1 (Oct. 12, 2013)
In this first episode of the Ketagalan Project, co-hosts Chieh-Ting Yeh, Jonathan Lee, and Tim Suen talk with US foreign affairs expert on East Asia Julia Famularo on current policy debate on Taiwan in Washington, the pivot to Asia, reaction from China and predictions for the future. The…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Ketagalan Media is a media project that brings more Taiwan news and commentary to the English speaking audience. We believe that there is more room for quality coverage of Taiwan in English, and that news on Taiwan can use more historical, ideological and international context. The Ketagalan Project is named after the Ketagalan Austronesian people in Taiwan whose language has become extinct, as well as the Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei.
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