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Albert Wu 吳孟軒

@albertmwu.bsky.social
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Historian. With Michelle Kuo, a newsletter on #Taiwan: ampleroad.substack.com

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
One week from today, first @ucirvine.bsky.social book event on The Milk Tea Alliance, my latest @columbiagr.bsky.social book, a joint event that will be moderated by @amywilentz.bsky.social & feature Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow talking about her new book Atomic Dreams www.humanities.uci.edu/events/art-i...
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The Art of the Interview and the Craft of the Profile: A UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public Book Launch
An in-person event, open to the public, no rsvp needed
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Earlier I shared the story of the “TL branch”—a group accused of sedition during Taiwan’s White Terror in the early 1950s. What more do we know about them? For context, see here: bsky.app/profile/albe...
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The government accused Wei of participating in a group called the “TL Branch.” (More on them in the future.) The court said he attended meetings where members were warned to keep their printing…
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Jesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Taiwan isn’t as susceptible to invasion as one would think www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
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Taiwan isn’t as susceptible to invasion as one would think
The island’s coastline is remarkably unsuited for amphibious operations and an invasion would demand a fleet comparable in size to that used by the Allies on D-Day.
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Rainbow before the typhoon.
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
In our latest post, we show how arguments that cast Taiwan as a "destabilizer" are troubling and flatly untrue. Taiwan isn't the one bending the world order. Taiwan's story deserves to be seen in its own right, not as a scapegoat. ampleroad.substack.com/p/a-sense-of...
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A Sense of Dread: Isolationists under Trump Lay the Groundwork for Abandoning Taiwan, Marking a Radical Departure in Foreign Policy
Hello everyone,
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
What more do we know about Wei Wenxian (魏文賢)?
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Lovely exhibition on comparative histories of manga/manhua publishing in pre/post WW2 Taiwan and Japan at the National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung. Lots of items on loan from Japan, reprints one can flip through, and thoughtful curating around issues of censorship and visual culture.
Exhibition poster: "A Century of Manga Culture: An Encounter of Taiwan and Japan's Youth"
Lawn with a huge banyan tree in the background, clear skies.First issue of the 1946 Manga Man and 1947 The Elephant's Kindness, both in Japanese, on display.Case display featuring a 1966 licence for comic censorship by the National Institute for Compilation and Translation in Taiwan
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Near 白崇禧’s grand tomb stands a White Terror memorial.
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The most famous figure in the Muslim cemetery is Pai Ch’ung-hsi, the Guangxi warlord and Nationalist general, whose son Pai Hsien-yung became a leading modernist of Chinese literature. Pai’s gravesite includes a domed pavilion with Islamic-style arches.
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Another reason I love this route: it passes Taiwan’s largest Muslim cemetery. Hajji Shi Wen-Ting from Xinjiang rests here, among Hui, Uyghur, and other refugees — reminders that Taiwan itself became a land of refugees after 1949.
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Foreigners in Taiwan 🇹🇼 外國人在台灣 @foreignersintw.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The 99 Peaks Trail is one of the most unique and beautiful places in Taiwan. It features extremely steep grassy hills that look unworldly. This is due to the fast eroding sediment that they are made out of, creating what looks like 99 peaks on the horizon. youtu.be/uh3KL6q-YQE
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99 Peaks Forest Trail 九九峰森林步道
YouTube video by Foreigners in Taiwan 外國人在台灣
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A small shrine I pass often on my favorite ride in Taipei. Dedicated to the “holy mom,” it is likely a yin 陰 shrine—a place where the wandering spirits of women without descendants can rest and be remembered. Just around the bend, the holy mom keeps watch with an open view of the mountains.
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Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In our latest newsletter, @michellekuo.bsky.social and I write about two dazzling graphic novels that grapple with the afterlives of Japanese colonization in Taiwan. ampleroad.substack.com/p/underdog-s...
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Underdog Stories in the Shadow of Empires
Two Taiwanese Graphic Novels about Memory and History
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Opposition fully liquidated. Hong Kong has become the world's most radical effort to combine free markets and political unfreedom. To the extent that they succeed, we will all suffer hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/b...
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Powerful statement from journalist turned activist Gwyneth Ho on her FB, published after she was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Hong Kong court today: "we rose above fear and emerged as a genuine civil society."
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William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Breaking: #HongKong High Court has sentenced former HKU law professor Benny Tai to 10 years in jail, the longest sentence so far under the Beijing-imposed national security law.
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James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Created a Taiwan Studies Starter Pack for folks coming from Twitter. Let me know if you ought to be on here! go.bsky.app/TG2GBbz
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formosajmac @forjay.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Really dig these colorful bathrooms I saw in military dependants villages in Gangshan 岡山
old bathroom with blue tile old bathroom with pink tile
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Xander ✺ @spectralcodex.com · 17/11/2024
Just added a bunch of new accounts to my Taiwan starter pack. Lots of people are joining Bluesky so I'll try and keep up and add journalists, academics, official accounts, informative people, etc. Would also love to add more Chinese/Taiwanese language content. Feel free to make relevant suggestions!
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Xander ✺ @spectralcodex.com · 18/11/2024
A brief write-up about an old rice mill and granary in a small town in rural Miaoli. The farmers' association is generally pretty good about preserving heritage sites (even those without official status), and this one was pleasant to visit on the way to Nanzhuang. spectralcodex.com/shitan-grana...
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Shitan Granary (獅潭老穀倉) - Spectral Codex
An old warehouse converted into a small shop and museum space by the local branch of the farmers’ association. The formal name of this business is Shitan Township Farmers’ Association Community Shop (...
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