Radio New Bloom is a podcast covering topical events and interviewing Taiwanese social activists, artists, public intellectuals, and others in order to make Taiwanese voices better known in the international world. Radio New Bloom is a project of New Bloom Magazine, an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific, founded in Taiwan in 2014 in wake of the Sunflower Movement. We seek to put local voices in touch with international discourse, beginning wit ...
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Radio New Bloom #22 x NATSA Podcast S2 ep.3: Wen Liu and Wendy Cheng on Taiwan and the (New) Cold War
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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 (NATSA) to co-release an episode featuring a moderated conversation between Professors Wen Liu and Wendy Cheng on “Taiwan and the (New) Cold War.” This episode is a recording of the first event of NATSA’s 2022 Online Festival…
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Radio New Bloom #21: Ethical Supply Chains and Labor Practices with Dr. Bonny Ling
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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 dist…
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Radio New Bloom #20: Taiwan’s Localized Lesbian History
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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. Radio New Bloom is a podcast covering topical events and interviewing activists, artists, public intellectuals, and others, in or…
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New Bloom Happy Hour #2: Award-Winning Millennial Nostalgia
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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 …
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Radio New Bloom: Next Season after the Lunar New Year!
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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 hop…
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Radio New Bloom #19: Coen Blaauw on Thirty Years of Pro-Taiwan Advocacy in Washington
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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 (FAPA), 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 t…
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New Bloom Happy Hour #1: The Loneliest Number
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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 t…
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Radio New Bloom #18: SueAnn Shiah on HuanDao
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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, and was conducted in both English and Mandarin. The film follows the story of two young women embarking on a two-week…
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Radio New Bloom #17: Savungaz Valincinan on the Five Year Anniversary of Tsai’s Apology
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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…
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Radio New Bloom #16: Namoh Nofu Pacidal on Pangcah Feminisms
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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 anniversa…
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