Épisodes

  • Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen

    Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
    Mar 20 2025
    In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited one of her co-editors, Dr Ian Rowen, to talk about their forthcoming book publication, A Taiwanese Eco-literature Reader, soon to be published by Columbia University Press. This anthology brings together translations of nine compelling stories from Taiwan, examining Taiwan’s most vibrant literary genre and its resonance to the theme of HOME. While this podcast series has featured interviews with some of the anthology’s authors, Ian speaks from the perspective as an editor, showing why it is critical to work on translating Taiwanese eco-literature for global readers. On a personal note, Ian also reflects his own sense of belonging, and the evolving sense of HOME, and how Taiwan has played a key role in that journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 min
  • Art Chat: Home and Cetacean Photography, with Ray Chin

    Art Chat: Home and Cetacean Photography, with Ray Chin
    Feb 28 2025
    In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Ray Chin金磊, a Taiwanese wildlife photographer who pioneered in the field of underwater and cetacean photography. In the last two decades, Ray has travelled from Taiwan to the Pacific islands, then to the Galapagos islands and the Nordic seas to capture breathtaking photos of whales and dolphins. Today, not only he is passionate about marine wildlife photography, but also very committed in using art and photography as a medium to raise awareness for educating the younger generation about our ocean home. In this episode, we freely chatted about how Ray started his journey of photography, and how he perceives cetaceans as the neighbours of our Home, Taiwan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 min
  • Book Chat: The Life Story of Father Nguyễn, a Vietnamese Refugee Who Migrated to Taiwan, with Lin Shu-fen

    Book Chat: The Life Story of Father Nguyễn, a Vietnamese Refugee Who Migrated to Taiwan, with Lin Shu-fen
    Jan 26 2025
    In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, introduces a book she co-edited with Dr Polina Ivanova (University of Bremen) titled Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia: Perspective from Japan and Taiwan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), and she interviews one of the authors of the book, Dr Shu-fen Lin, at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. In this chat, Shu-fen Lin explores the life story of a Vietnamese refugee, Father Nguyễn Văn Hùng, who escaped Vietnam via boat in the late 1970s and arrived in Japan, and then went to Australia and, eventually, Taiwan. The story of Father Nguyễn Văn Hùng intersects with the immigration and refugee policies of Japan, Australia and Taiwan, his fight for justice in Taiwan as well as Vietnam, and his future ambitions and goals. For those who are interested to know more about this conversation, here you can find the link of the book and here the link of the specific chapter. The book is available open access, so feel free to share it with your network! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 min
  • Professional Chat – Working with the most marginalised people in Taiwan, AIDS/HIV and undocumented migrants, with Yi-Fan Feng

    Professional Chat – Working with the most marginalised people in Taiwan, AIDS/HIV and undocumented migrants, with Yi-Fan Feng
    Jan 10 2025
    In this episode, our host Lara Momesso interviews Yi-Fan Feng (馮一凡), the Deputy Chief Executive at Harmony Home Taiwan, to discuss the work that Harmony Home has done with some of the most marginalised people in Taiwan: people living with HIV/AIDS and undocumented residents and their children. In this chat, Lara and Yi-Fan explore how more than 40 years of activities by Harmony Home have contributed not only to help people living with HIV/AIDS and undocumented residents but also to change the way the Taiwanese government and society approached these groups. If you want to know more about Harmony Home, what they do and how to support it, follow this link: www.twhhf.org If you want to watch the documentary movie mentioned in the interview, Mimi’s Utopia, follow this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjVfVEl58WU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 min
  • Book Chat: Home and Island Writing in "Bubble War" with Kao Yi-feng

    Book Chat: Home and Island Writing in "Bubble War" with Kao Yi-feng
    Dec 31 2024
    In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited a renown Taiwanese sci-fi writer, Kao Yi-feng, to talk about his fictional writings. Yi-feng is known for his way of combining elements of fantasy and magical realism with specific “linguistic features” of Hakka. In our conversation, Yi-feng recounts how his background of living in a Hakka-speaking community influences his lifelong creativity, and how spatial and bodily movement also allows him to shape and reshape the sense of “home” in his own novels. The podcast interview focussed in part on his work, Bubble War 泡沬戰爭 (2014), but it also links with how Yi-feng conceives Island Writing for Taiwan today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 min
  • Academic Chat – From Academic Work to Social Impact: A Scholar’s Commitment to Raise Awareness on Migrant Experiences in Taiwan

    Academic Chat – From Academic Work to Social Impact: A Scholar’s Commitment to Raise Awareness on Migrant Experiences in Taiwan
    Dec 20 2024
    In this episode, our host Lara Momesso interviews Dr Isabelle Cockel, an academic based in the UK, to discuss the wider impact of her academic work. Isabelle’s extensive research on marriage and labour migrants in Taiwan has evolved into efforts to raise awareness of migrant issues beyond the academic sphere both in Asia and Europe. She has written blogs featuring migrant voices, translated and promoted films about migrants, and, whenever possible, she has worked to assist migrants in Taiwan. For those who are interested to know more about Isabelle’s work, here you can find some links: University of Portsmouth profile Migrant Biographies, series on the Blog at Leiden University: Movie translation: The Lovable Strangers by Tsung-Lung Tsai and Nguyễn Kim Hồng Taiwan Insight at the University of Nottingham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 min
  • Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen

    Book Chat: Home & Queer Writing – "Ghost Town," with Kevin Chen
    Dec 3 2024
    In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese Queer author, Kevin Chen, to talk about his LGBTQ novel, Ghost Town (Europa Editions, 2022) 鬼地方 and its fever worldwide. In our conversation, Kevin shared with us how he first “come out” as a gay writer in Taiwan in the 90s, and how his writings was influenced by key Taiwanese LGBTQ authors and continue to be shaped by his migratory experiences in Berlin. He also told us how he thinks translation and the transability of a literary work can be useful in terms of authors’ impacts on society. If you’re a fan of Kevin’s writing, you certainly can’t miss this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 min
  • Book Chat: Home, Folk Religion and Indigeneity in “Zebra Finch Rain" 斑雀雨”and "New Gods" 新神 單車失竊記,

    Book Chat: Home, Folk Religion and Indigeneity in “Zebra Finch Rain" 斑雀雨”and "New Gods" 新神 單車失竊記,
    Nov 19 2024
    In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese author, Chiou Charng-ting, to talk about her novel writing, which blends in elements of religious folklore and indigenous mythologies. In our conversation, Charng-ting told us how her hometown, Taitung, inspired her with its amazing sceneries and cultural landscapes. She further shared with us how folk and mythological tales can be powerful means in shaping an author’s creativity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 min