When a stray dog with two or three untreated illnesses and no medical history walks into Feng Zong-hong's clinic, he tells his staff the same thing every time: this animal is the t......
Jeannie Cho Lee spent years preparing to become Asia's first Master of Wine while working full time as a journalist and raising four young children, squeezing her studying into nap......
Yoshida Masako became toji — master brewer — of Yoshida Sake Brewery at 24. In Japan's sake world, the title raised eyebrows. Some doubted she was truly the one behind the fermenta......
For nearly two decades, Jason Wu's name has been synonymous with precision. But for a new collection created in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Wu set aside the sketchbook and stood at the mannequin with his hands.
A 19-year-old recently placed an orange-and-white traffic cone on the equestrian statue of Zheng Chenggong outside the Yanping Junwang Shrine in Tainan — and the photograph, once i......
Every May, the skies over Miyazaki, Japan, receive travelers that have crossed an ocean. Chestnut tiger butterflies ride the seasonal winds from Taiwan to Kyushu, rest for about a ......
Lyda Chen Argerich walked into the recording studio in Taipei and asked for an espresso. When the marketing manager offered American coffee instead, she shook her head with quiet s......
Taiwan's most influential fashion designer spent most of her life doing things the industry considered irrelevant — and that was precisely the point.A Pioneer Who Refused Her Own T......
Five centuries after Chinese traders first settled along the Strait of Malacca, their descendants — the Baba Nyonya, or Peranakans — continue to preserve one of Asia's most distinc......
Taichung's flagship art fair ended its 14-year run in hotel rooms this June, opening inside a purpose-built convention center for the first time and rebranding as ART TAICHUNG in t......
When Marie Kristine Schmidt arrived at a showroom in Taipei recently, she had to make a quick detour — she had forgotten to bring socks. She ducked into a nearby mall, bought a pai......
Fumio Yonezawa (米澤文雄) has a motto he returns to often: Food is the greatest tool for building the future. It sounds like the kind of thing chefs say. In his case, it is an operatin......
Early in our conversation, Lee Kuo-min (李國民) stopped mid-sentence, pulled out several sheets of A4 paper, and said with a small smile, "Wait — let me check my crib sheet."The hand......
Stepping into Kuo Yen-fu(郭彥甫)'s latest solo exhibition feels disorienting at first. There is no fixed vantage point. Lines surge across the canvases without settling into tidy form......
When I arrive at the café, Xun Wang (王尋) is still mid-conversation with someone else — unhurried, almost sealed off from the room. Then something catches him. His eyes sharpen for ......
Soprano Nadine Sierra on discipline, heartbreak, and the performance that changed her life — before her Taipei debut.The video call connects late on our end — but on Nadine Sierra'......
At a photo shoot in Taipei's Ximending district, Kuo Hong-chih (郭泓志) arrives dressed simply, relaxed but unmistakably focused. Years after his retirement, his movements still carry......
For more than a decade, Tseng Ya-ni(曾雅妮) lived with a question few elite athletes ever escape: Was her greatest chapter already behind her?Once the youngest player in history to co......
