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For the twenty-second episode of Radio New Bloom, we are proud to partner with the North American Taiwan Studies Association to co-release an episode featuring a moderated conversation between Professors Wen Liu and Wendy Cheng on “Taiwan and the (New) Cold War"

For the twenty-first episode of Radio New Bloom, we present a recording of our event from last year on December 15, 2021 with Dr. Bonny Ling. The event discussed the crucial place that Taiwan plays in global supply chains, whether in terms of semiconductors—of which Taiwan produces over half the global supply—or its fishing fleet—with Taiwan's distant water fishing fleet ranked as the second-largest in the world. Yet Taiwan's supply chains are highly dependent on migrant labor, as in the use of migrant fishermen on Taiwan's near and distant waters fishing fleet, as well as migrant workers in factories for semiconductor manufacturing lines. The talk, then, sought to discuss the various levers possible to push for reform regarding this very pressing issue

For the twentieth episode of Radio New Bloom, we feature an interview with musicologist Heidi Dai by New Bloom member SueAnn Shiah on her research into queer musicology and the history of the lesbian community in Taiwan

For the first episode of our new podcast season, join New Bloom members Sueann Shiah, Wen Liu, and Brian Hioe to discuss award-winning film American Girl (美國女孩), as part of our New Bloom Happy Hour series. American Girl won Audience Choice Award, Best New Director, and Best Cinematography at the 2021 Golden Horse Awards. American Girl is available to watch on Netflix globally on March 2nd

Hello! 新年平安 and happy holidays from New Bloom! We wanted to let you know that Radio New Bloom is going to take a little break for Lunar New Year. We hope that you've enjoyed this last season of our podcast and we're looking forward to share more content, conversations, and recordings that we've been working on with you in this next upcoming season. We hope that wherever in the world you are listening that you're staying healthy and we wish you a happy new year, and we'll catch you all in the Year of the Tiger.

For the nineteenth episode of Radio New Bloom, we feature an interview with Coen Blaauw, a Dutch lawyer and Senior Policy Advisor to the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, a US non-profit promoting Taiwan's right to self-determination. He joined FAPA in 1989 and has since become a central figure in the Taiwan independence movement in the United States. He specializes in connecting with members of the U.S. Congress, drafting Taiwan-related legislation, and recruiting support for these legislations.

Welcome to another episode of Radio New Bloom! Today we're excited to debut a new program, that we're calling New Bloom Happy Hour where New Bloom members get together to discuss a topic. Today we'll be discussing Jay Caspian Kang's new book, The Loneliest Americans, with a focus on the New York Times' excerpt of the book and the first chapter of the book. Participants in the discussion are SueAnn Shiah, Daniel Yo-Ling, Wen Liu, and Eathan Lai

For the eighteenth episode of Radio New Bloom, we present the recording from the discussion and Q-and-A that followed our event last month screening New Bloom member SueAnn Shiah's documentary HuanDao at our space in Wanhua, Taipei

For the seventeenth episode of Radio New Bloom, which is primarily in Mandarin, we present the live recording for our event last month on the five year anniversary of Tsai Ing-wen's apology to Taiwanese Indigenous. The event asked the question: Five years later, have conditions improved for Indigenous in Taiwan? Has Taiwan become a more pluralistic and inclusive country five years after Tsai's apology?Our featured speaker is Savungaz Valincinan, a member of the Indigenous Youth Front who is currently a graduate student in law

For this installment of Radio New Bloom, we present a live recording from our talk with Namoh Nofu Pacidal on April 16, 2021, "On Pangcah Feminisms." This episode is primarily in Mandarin and is the fourth episode of our current season, coming one day after Indigenous Peoples Day in Taiwan and before our talk on Sunday about the five year anniversary of Tsai Ing-wen's apology to Indigenous on behalf of the ROC state

For the latest installment of Radio New Bloom, Sheng Kao spoke with Chi Ta-wei, a teacher and scholar of queer literature at National Cheng Chi University. We speak with him about his introduction to Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and the recent English translation of his novel, The Membranes. This is the third episode of our current season

For this installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Sheng Kao spoke with Jiaqi Kang, founding Editor-in-Chief of Sine Theta Magazine, a creative publication by and for the Sino diaspora

New Bloom is re-launching our podcast, Radio New Bloom! This marks episode 13 and will be the first episode of the new season. Episode 13 of Radio New Bloom features an interview conducted by Nick Haggerty of the News Lens International with Singaporean political activist Roy Ngerng

Radio New Bloom is re-launching and beginning a new season! Check out this trailer of what we have in store for you, featuring SueAnn Shiah!

For this week’s installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Gatherine Chou, a professor of medieval and early modern history at Grinnell College, and a prominent online advocate for Taiwan. We spoke about perceptions of the American presidential election in Taiwan and among Taiwanese diasporic communities and the effects of misinformation about the election on individuals of different generation

For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Lev Nachman. Lev Nachman is a Fulbright Research Fellow in Taiwan and a Ph. D candidate in political science at UC Irvine currently conducting fieldwork in Taiwan

For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with William Yang. William Yang is East Asia Correspondent for Deutsche Welle and Vice President of Taiwan's Foreign Correspondent's Club

For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Vincent Wong. Vincent is a lawyer and research associate at the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, and a member of the Lausan Collective

For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Na Young about the effects of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ community in South Korea. Na Young is one of the co-founders of the SHARE (center for Sexual rigHts And Reproductive justicE) and the Queer Action Against COVID-19 Coalition

For this special installment of Radio New Bloom, hosted by New Bloom editor Garrett Dee, we spoke with Palau-based journalist Bernadette Carreon about responses to COVID-19 in Palau, and aid from Taiwan to Palau regarding efforts to fight COVID-19, particularly regarding attempts by the Taiwanese government to export its model of dealing with public health issues to other countries

New Bloom presents a special installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom, focusing on the current COVID-19 pandemic

New Bloom presents the fifth installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! For our fifth installment of Radio New Bloom, we spoke to Dana and James from HCT Regenerative, the first organ and tissue bank in Taiwan

New Bloom presents the fourth installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! For this installment, we spoke with members of Indivisible Taiwan regarding the formation of their group after the election of Donald Trump, and actions of theirs such as the Women's March, March for Science, and other coordinated group actions

New Bloom presents the third installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! Our interview guest for this installment is Jennifer Lu, who is one of the leading figures of the marriage equality movement in Taiwan and currently a research fellow at the Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association

New Bloom presents the second installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! Our interview guest for this installment is Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who wrote "Black Lives Matter, Taiwan’s ‘228 Incident,’ and the Transnational Struggle For Liberation" in the Black Youth Project, reflecting on the parallels between Taiwan's 228 Incident and the policing of black populations in the United States

New Bloom presents its first ever podcast! "Radio New Bloom" will be a bimonthly podcast covering topical events and interviewing Taiwanese social activists, artists, public intellectuals, and others. Our first interview guest is Shawna Yang Ryan, the author of Green Island