Chicago-based, Taiwan-born bedroom-pop auteur Layton Wu blurs boogie, yacht rock, and sun-kissed 60s pop into a calming sound that helps dial back my anxiety when every scrap of news cranks it to “high.” He released the luxuriant Summertime Mixtape (Sunset Music) four days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and since I first listened […]
Tag: Taiwan
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Sculpting identity—and diversity—through movement
Hubbard Street dancer Connie Shiau
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Bingo knows what you need: Taiwanese cheese tea and Malaysian noodles
Resistance is futile.
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Reader premiere: No Fun, the boisterous new album from Taiwan garage group Forests
Forests delivers some hooky “garage Woo Woo Woo” and “sweater punk” on a release available for download beginning Monday.
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Taiwanese baseball collides with Taiwanese death metal
Chthonic throws out the first pitch
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Howard Goldblatt’s life in translation
Meet Howard Goldblatt, the premier English-language translator of contemporary Chinese fiction.
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Why play South by Southwest? Especially if your band’s from Taiwan?
What’s different for indie rockers in the ROC, and how a festival in Austin might help a band from Taipei
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Water Stains on the Wall offers dance in a fluid hand
A calligraphy-influenced work by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
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A Brighter Summer Day
Bearing in mind Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, this astonishing 230-minute epic by Edward Yang (1991), set over one Taipei school year in the early 60s, would fully warrant the subtitle “A Taiwanese Tragedy.” A powerful statement from Yang’s generation about what it means to be Taiwanese, superior even to his recent masterpiece Yi Yi, […]
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A Time to Live and a Time to Die
A reflective autobiographical film about Hou Hsiao-hsien’s youth in the late 40s and early 50s. Largely filmed in the same places in Taiwan where the events originally happened, this unhurried 1985 family chronicle carries an emotional force and a historical significance that may not be immediately apparent. Working in long takes and wide-screen deep-focus compositions […]