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Tomorrow morning, Wen Jiabao, the premier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), will speak at Harvard as part of his first official visit to the United States. When he spends time in the White House, one can be sure that Taiwan??officially, the Republic of China (ROC)—and the PRC’s efforts to maintain their stranglehold over its people, will be at the top of Wen’s agenda. The premier plans to once again reassert the PRC’s right to use military force...
...falsely claims it as a “renegade province” of the “sacred motherland,” and intends to eventually “liberate” the island at any cost. Wen and his officials consistently tout the threat of war and suppress Taiwan??s international activities. The PRC’s tactics of intimidation and intentional manufacturing of fear are not only unwarranted, but could themselves constitute formal aggression of the regime against a democratic and sovereign nation...
...absolutely stunned,” said Meredith L. Schweig ’03, who—along with her thesis adviser, Watts Professor of Music Kay Kaufman Shelemay—won for her project “Made in Taiwan: Hybrid Voices and the Performance of Cultural Plurality in Taiwan??s Popular Music from Teresa Teng to Samingad...
...Harvard Seers Project is the first part of a busy summer that will have Lee at two of contemporary art’s most prominent venues. He will be Taiwan??s representative at the Venice Biennale—one of the world’s major art exhibitions—where he will show “The Sleeping Project,” which fosters intimacy between the artist and his viewer by having both sleep in the same room. In September, as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Projects series, he will exhibit...
...imitation meat with suspicion, unable to identify it by texture or taste. The menu had also proclaimed something called “vegetarian ham” and “vegetarian scallop.” Tony dismisses my apprehensions. “Here we cook the way Buddhists from Taiwan??s Fo Guang Shan sect cook,” he says. “The food is purely vegetarian. No dairy products, garlic or onions are used.” The omission of garlic and onions, a custom also practiced in strict vegetarian Hindu households, as those ingredients...