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Bonus Mini-Episode: Eryk Calls John for a Chat About Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
Season 1 Episode 27
When did people first get to Taiwan? Was there a land bridge? Plus... a few interesting legends. A short phone call that's a fun intro to Taiwan’s pr…
4 years ago
Bonus Episode 01 - What Were the Dutch Doing in Formosa Anyway?
Season 1 Episode 26
The Dutch were expelled from southwestern Taiwan by pirate warlord and Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662. Their relatively brief stay of 38 years was mar…
4 years ago
S1-E25 - From Russia With Love: ROC First Lady Faina Chiang
In 1933, on a winter’s night in the Russian town of Yekaterinburg, Faina Vakhreva -- then 17 years old -- was walking home and became the unwanted su…
4 years, 1 month ago
S1-E24 - Taiwan's Awesome National Health Insurance System
Season 1 Episode 24
In the mid-1990s Taiwanese politicians got together, and, after much wrangling, settled on a national health insurance system that today is the envy …
4 years, 1 month ago
S1-E23 - Walls of Death
Season 1 Episode 23
In the 1980s, Japan's, South Korea's, and Taiwan’s massive fishing fleets gained notoriety for their destructive driftnet fishing. The use of giant d…
4 years, 1 month ago
S1-E22 - The Cruel Sea
Season 1 Episode 22
Despite the failed attempt to create a myth of a Pacific Ocean "Bermuda Triangle" near Taiwan, the seas around this island are indeed cruel... ships …
4 years, 2 months ago
S1-E21 - The "Best" Hijacking in History?
Season 1 Episode 21
The word "stalemate" defined relations between Taiwan and China in the 1970s and early 1980s. Neither side wanted to legitimize the other with "offic…
4 years, 2 months ago
S1-E20 - The "Iron Man of Asia"
Season 1 Episode 20
Maysang Kalimud, better known by his Chinese name C.K. Yang (楊傳廣), is arguably the greatest Taiwanese athlete of all time. In 1960, this native Taiwa…
4 years, 2 months ago
S1-E19 - The End of the Qing
Season 1 Episode 19
War in northern Vietnam spills over into Taiwan, with French troops occupying several ports. This wake-up call for the Qing prompts an upgrading of t…
4 years, 2 months ago
S1-E18 - Shipwreck Savagery and Clandestine Colonization
Season 1 Episode 18
After native people in the far south of Formosa kill survivors from the wrecked US merchant vessel The Rover in 1867, the Americans send a punitive e…
4 years, 2 months ago