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S2-E19 - Golf in Taiwan: A Surprisingly Long History
Season 2 Episode 19
Some might think golf came with U.S. troops after WWII, but the origins of this sport in Taiwan actually go much further back. Listen to this episode…
3 years, 7 months ago
Teresa Teng 鄧麗君 - "Asia's Eternal Queen of Pop" - S2-E18
Season 2 Episode 18
Teresa Teng (Deng Lijun 鄧麗君) was arguably Asia's first pop superstar, a singer from Taiwan who won hearts across the continent and the world. Teng go…
3 years, 8 months ago
S2-E17 - The Brief and Often Forgotten Kingdom of Dongning 東寧王國
Season 2 Episode 17
Koxinga's eldest son, Zheng Jing, -- the ruler of the short-lived Kingdom of Dongning (1661-1683) -- almost lost his head in his late teens. Daddy Zh…
3 years, 8 months ago
S2-E16 - Ang Lee in the Spotlight: His Story from Pingtung to Hollywood
Season 2 Episode 16
Two-time Academy Award winning director Ang Lee (李安) is probably the most globally famous person from Taiwan. But this Pingtung-born movie master act…
3 years, 8 months ago
S2-E-15 - "123 Freedom Day" Taiwan's Shadowy Involvement in the Korean War - Part Two
Season 2 Episode 15
The Korean War would almost certainly have ended much earlier but for the tricky question of what to do with Chinese POWs. The 21,000 Red Chinese sol…
3 years, 8 months ago
S2-E14 - Taiwan's Shadowy Involvement in the Korean War - Part One
Season 2 Episode 14
It's 1950 and a war-weary world is at it again. Communist China pours fuel on the conflict in Korea by sending in a quarter of a million soldiers. RO…
3 years, 8 months ago
S2-E13 - A Cruise on an Opium Clipper to Takao (Kaohsiung)
Season 2 Episode 13
Kaohsiung Harbor was, in the late twentieth century, one of the world's busiest ports, but back during the time of the Opium Wars, it was still a rat…
3 years, 9 months ago
S2-E12 - "The National Game" -- Taiwan Falls in and out of Love with Baseball
Season 2 Episode 12
After the Americans introduced baseball to Japan in the late 19th century, Japan took the game John Ross might call "a corruption of cricket" to thei…
3 years, 9 months ago
A Formosa Files INTERVIEW: ICRT General Manager Tim Berge
Taiwan's only English radio station, International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT) has been a part of millions of Taiwanese -- and many an expat in Tai…
3 years, 9 months ago
S2-E11 - Taiwan's Nearest Neighbors - the 1,000+ Kilometer-Long Ryukyu Island Chain
Season 2 Episode 11
Taiwan lies at the heart of what's called the "first island chain," a boring name for a long line of amazing islands that stretches from Borneo to Ru…
3 years, 9 months ago