We're told that China has a 5,000 year old civilization, but from walking down the streets of most cities the country appears to have been founded … [Read more...]
While China Destroys its Historic Buildings Taiwan Saves Them
China, Taiwan One Country Two Governments is Happening
Two giant signs separate the two Chinas. Or, more precisely, the two governments of the one China. One is on Xiamen Island, PRC, the other on an … [Read more...]
Religion in Kinmen, Taiwan
IT COULD BE SAID that religion on Taiwan's Kinmen Island is ubiquitous. Indications of spirituality are everywhere. Artistically ornate, incredibly … [Read more...]
Kinmen Island: China Without Communism?
This is what China may have been like without Communism, I though to myself as I rode a public bus into Jincheng, the largest city on Taiwan's Kinmen … [Read more...]
Kinmen Island, Taiwan: What Is This Place?
In 2006, I listened as one of my professors at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou told me a story of how he spent his military years sitting on the … [Read more...]
