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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 10/09/2026

Excited to be a part of this cohort 💪🏻

Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 03/07/2026

Really sad to hear the passing of Lam Wing-Kee. In April 2021 he welcomed our team into his bookshop. He talked about his jailing by the CCP, relocation considerations, Hong Kongers in exile, and the reading books to combat disinformation. ghostisland.media/zh/shows/5-s...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 02/07/2026

Registration is full, but they're taking stand-by's. Just show up! See you then!

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 02/07/2026

Women's experiences under White Terror is a central theme in our podcast Z色派對 this year. Today, Rita Jhang & Zoe Lee discuss the life of Tan Sian-cha (1922-2020) whose husband Wang Yu-lin was taken then killed by KMT police March 14, 1947. Listen (in Mandarin): ghostisland.media/en/shows/gre...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 30/06/2026

Starting today, Taiwan's permanent residents (APRC holders w/10+ years of total residency as foreign professionals) are now eligible for disability care. Listen to my conversation with David Chang from Crossroads who began this advocacy work 3 yr ago: ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 19/08/2025

New on #TheTaiwanTake pod: I spoke with the producer of "Zero Day Attack" TV series about an imagined Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Hsin-mei CHENG talks about what it's like developing this series: Listen: Spotify: gimpod.me/zero-day-spo... Apple Pod: gimpod.me/zero-day-apple

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Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC) @taiwanfcc.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Please read the full statement on our website: taiwanfcc.org/20250819-gaz...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 23/07/2025

Here's a look at the recall thresholds for this Saturday's recall referendum in Taiwan. Listen to our interview with political scientist Nathan Batto on Great Recall - available on "The Taiwan Take" wherever you get your podcasts.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 18/07/2025

We caught up with political scientist Nathan Batto on Taiwan's upcoming recall referendum. Listen to "The Great Recall of 2025": gimpod.me/recall-listen The Taiwan Take podcast: Apple Pod: gimpod.me/recall-apple Spotify: gimpod.me/recall-spotify YouTube: gimpod.me/recall-youtube

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 20/06/2025

I caught up with @mcaster.bsky.social and I-Chen Liu of @article19.bsky.social on their 2025 report on China's Digital Digital Silk Road: "Cybersecurity with Chinese Characteristics". We talked about UN, ASEAN, the upcoming Hanoi Convention. Have a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5a...

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Digital Silk Road: how China's reshaping the global digital norm

YouTube video by 鬼島之音 Ghost Island Media

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 06/06/2025

Nous parlons à nouveau cinéma dans le podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises" - cette fois en compagnie de Wafa Ghermani, professeure et autrice. "Histoire du cinéma taïwanais avec Wafa Ghermani": ghostisland.media/zh/shows/fra...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 21/05/2025

🥳 Z GREEN PARTY our pod on feminism & gender has been nominated for an International Women's Podcast Awards! Congratulations to hosts Dr. Rita Jhang and lawyer Zoe Lee.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 20/05/2025

Today marks 1,601 days in prison for Jimmy Lai. I recently spoke to @thecfhk.bsky.social 's Mark L. Clifford on his Lai biography, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic". Watch here: youtu.be/nBOfFkXU9XQ?...

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Who is Jimmy Lai: Mark L. Clifford (Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, CFHK)

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 06/05/2025

We first interviewed Jessica J. Lee in 2020 for "Waste Not Why Not" podcast. Five years later we finally got to meet her in person. Thank you @yehaoqin.bsky.social at the Czech Hub in Taiwan for co-organizing this great talk. Moderated by the amazing Esther Kim.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 08/04/2025

Join us for a talk this Friday, April 11, with British-Canadian-Taiwanese author Jessica J. Lee, whose works offer one of the most unique reading experiences about Taiwan. RSVP: gimpod.me/LeeApr11

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 07/04/2025

Kaitlyn Chen is the first Taiwanese American to win an NCAA basketball championship! She was previously the captain at Princeton where they won the 2024 Ivy League tournament. 🏀🏆

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 21/03/2025

We sat down with Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Taipei this week for a conversation on support for Taiwan, warning against collective failure, and a new world order. Rasmussen is chairman @aodemocracies.bsky.social, former NATO Sec Gen, and former PM of Denmark. Listen: ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 14/03/2025

Earlier this week, Mariia Makarovych of Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine joined me in a podcast to discuss peace negotiations, role of CSO the past three years, society preparedness pre-2022, Russian propaganda, and China. Listen on Spotify/Apple/YouTube: ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 11/03/2025

I caught up recently with Jonas Parello-Plesner (Executive Director of Alliance of Democracies Foundation) on his book "The Battle for Taiwan". Published first as “Kampen om Taiwan” in 2023, this was the first book on Taiwanese politics aimed at a Danish audience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uL...

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“The Battle for Taiwan” by Jonas Parello-Plesner (Live on Feb 19, 2025)

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 24/12/2024

For those looking for translations of the Abe Shinzō memoir, a Mandarin version was published by 八旗文化 in Sept 2024. I hear an English translation is underway: www.bookrepclub.com.tw/index.php?md... www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

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President-elect Trump hosts Akie Abe at Mar-a-Lago estate | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Akie Abe, the widow of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dined with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Dec. 15.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 20/12/2024

Just heard about this Taiwanese tennis player 🎾 Ranked 75th in the world by ITF for junior boys (#1 in Taiwan), 陳冠守 CHEN Kuan-Shou is qualified for the Australian Open (Jan 12, 2025) but he needs funds to travel. Chen started playing at age 5 in Tainan. Campaign: www.gofundme.com/f/empower-ku...

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Donate to Empower Kuan-Shou Chen's Tennis Journey to Australia, organized by Mark Hsu

From Taiwan to the World: Support Kuan-Shou Chen's Journey to the Austra… Mark Hsu needs your support for Empower Kuan-Shou Chen's Tennis Journey to Australia

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 20/12/2024

In this Aug 2024 survey on French attitudes on international conflicts, respondents are on ave responsive to Taiwanese narratives (vs China's). W/ higher sensitivity from politically center, consumers of national/reg media, environmentalists, or aged 65+: www.fondationdescartes.org/2024/11/pene...

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Michael Danielsen - Taiwan Corner @taiwancorner.org · 19/12/2024

Agreed and the same story every year. A trade agreement between EU and Taiwan is an obvious choice but historically both sides see problems in e.g. financial services.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 19/12/2024

Great visualizations by @asiasociety.org Asia Society Policy Institute. Compiled from near-2,500 survey results over the years 2000 to 2024. View by territory/GDP/population. Toggle between map/table modes. Filter by BRI/Global South. Track changes over time: asiasociety.org/policy-insti...

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Global Public Opinion on China

Global Public Opinion on China (GPOC) aggregates worldwide polling data to better inform public debates and support China-related decision-making among the world’s governments and policy communities, ...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 19/12/2024

Taiwan is EU’s 13th largest trading partner. EU is Taiwan's 4th largest trading partner (after China, US, Japan) and the largest source of Foreign Direct Investments (w/ majority in offshore wind). Summaries: EU: policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-rel... Taiwan: www.trade.gov.tw/english/Page...

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 02/12/2024

A must visit if you're in DC! Really impressed by the scale of JF Books at Dupont Circle. Closed in Shanghai in 2018, 季風書園 reopened here in 2024. There's a great selection of history, politics and literature books in English, complex Chinese, and simplified Chinese.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 01/12/2024

Thank you! And we're really loving our mini interview-series on Netherlands, Taiwan, and South Africa - each country is the first of its continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Featuring so far NL senator Boris Dittrich & TW former legislator 尤美女: zparty.tw

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《Z色派對》PODCAST

《Z色派對》PODCAST 特別專題「歡慶台灣同婚五週年：世界各地的第一！」

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 29/11/2024

And for more Taiwnsese literature happenings in France, choose "文學" from this list from Centre Culturel de Taiwan à Paris: fr.taiwan.culture.tw/ch/News_Phot...

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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Merci @emilyywu.com! Thanks to Ghost Island Media for providing the opportunity of this in-depth exchange (in French) with Aurélien Rossanino on Taiwan literature and its French translations!

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 28/11/2024

New podcast episode 🚨 ! We spoke to @pybaubry.bsky.social about Taiwanese literature in this French-language podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises". I'm told this is the most comprehensive interview in the French language on Taiwanese lit past and present: ghostisland.media/en/shows/fra...

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Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises（法台漫遊） - Ghost Island Media

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 28/11/2024

Some great contributors here like Harry Wu and @chongjaian.bsky.social.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 26/11/2024

I learned from @audreyt.org's profile that we can set our own domain here as handles. Thanks, Audrey! =D

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 24/11/2024

"100 years ago we learned baseball from Japan. Today, we won global championship at Tokyo Dome," said the Taiwanese commentator. #Premier12 "We have all read so much Japanese comics about baseball. We have learned so much about this sport from Japanese."

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 24/11/2024

Another first for Taiwan 🥎 Congratulations to Taiwanese baseball for this epic win at WBSC #Premier12!!! As Taiwanese commentators keep saying, "November 24, 2024, this is a date that will be in Taiwan's history books forever!"

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Chhiū-ông-kong 樹王公 @shuwanggong.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This will be at fembooks near NTU.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 21/11/2024

"I write in order to answer the question of: What is a Taiwanese person. I write about Taiwan’s past as a step into its future," says Yáng Shuāng-zǐ in her acceptance speech the 2024 National Book Award ceremony.

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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ecrivaine et actuelle directrice du Centre Culturel de Taiwan à Paris, Hu Ching-Fang 胡晴舫 (Lolita Hu) est interviewée par Aurélien Rossanino pour le podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises" de Ghost Island Media, réalisé par @emilyywu.bsky.social. ghostisland.media/en/shows/fra...

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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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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 18/11/2024

These book covers are amazing.

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Will Buckingham @willbuckingham.com · 18/11/2024

Just bought the complete set of these wondrous looking things. And you should probably do the same. For the next month, I’ll be waiting by the mailbox with feverish anticipation. #Taiwan #literature #translation

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 18/11/2024

Excited to see this beautiful collection of new Taiwanese literature by UK's Strangers Press. English translations by Jenna Tang, Lin King, Yu Teng-Wei, Shengchi Hsu, Wen-chi Li. Stories by Qiu Miaojin, Sabrina Huang, Lâu Tsí-û, Lamula Pakawyan, and Lulyang Nomin: www.strangers.press/k%C3%A1-si%C...

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ká-sióng | strangers-press

A new series of five exciting short stories from Taiwan available as a set from Strangers Press.

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 18/11/2024

Taiwan's former legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng embarked on an ancestor-worshiping tour in China over the weekend and is to meet with the Taiwan Affairs Office today: www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

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Former speaker Wang begins China tour - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com · 16/11/2024

Taiwan is considered 'patient-zero' of PRC information operations. In this interview, election observer Ben Graham Jones spoke about his 2024 @doublethinklab.bsky.social report “Taiwan POWER" on learned lessons that may be applicable to the world. 🎧 Listen : ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai... /1

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