2018 - Joshua Samuel Brown

Year: 2018

To Boldly Go Where Tour Busses Fear to Tread

Posted on December 9, 2018 by

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An article on alternative methods of travel by Lonely Planet Author Joshua Samuel Brown

Tagged with: Alternative, Hitchhiking, Travel

A Nihilist’s Guide to Sun Moon Lake

Posted on October 14, 2018 by

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A Nihilist’s Guide to Sun Moon Lake is a story that didn’t make it into Formosa Moon, and probably for good reason. Stephanie and I traveled to this fabled tourist destination for the book, and actually had a wonderful time. …

Tagged with: Formosa Moon, Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

Formosa Moon Launch Party!

Posted on October 6, 2018 by

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Joshua Samuel Brown (Vignettes of Taiwan, Lonely Planet Taiwan) and Stephanie Huffman cordially invite you to a book launch party for their latest book, Formosa Moon, at Taipei’s Red Room! Published by Things Asian Press, Formosa Moon is a romantic…

Tagged with: Book Launch Party, Formosa Moon

The Famous Doctor Ho

Posted on September 11, 2018 by

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The Famous Doctor Ho. Illustration by David Lee Ingersoll

Unable to sleep (damn this insomnia,) I woke up and checked my email to find that the Famous Doctor Ho has, as the Naxi people of Yunnan, China say, “Gone to the Mountain.” I wrote about the good doctor for…

Tagged with: China, Doctor Ho, Lijiang, Yunnan

Wind Warriors of the Pescadores

Posted on September 10, 2018 by

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Windsurfing competition in Penghu, Taiwan

On the subject of windsurfing in Taiwan, one of the strangest years of a life with no shortage of strange years was spent living on an archipelago called Penghu, halfway between Taiwan and China. It’s a remote, beautiful and extremely…

Tagged with: Taiwan, Windsurfing

Memoirs of a Dog Meat Man

Posted on July 28, 2018 by

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Author’s Note: Outside of my work for Beijing Scene in 1999, Memoirs of a Dog Meat Man was probably my first serious bit of journalism. The brief backstory is that in 1998 I was hired by a company called Cal…

Tagged with: China, journalism, Sweatshop

I Get Interesting Gigs (Follow Alana)

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

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I get interesting gigs here in Taiwan, and since I already can tell this is going to be a series I’ve decided to go with the format “I Get Interesting Gigs” (Name of Gig in ellipses, in this case Follow…

Tagged with: Cycling in Taiwan, Follow Alana, Hsinchu, Tour Guide

Alpacas and Kitties and Coffee (Oh My)

Posted on July 8, 2018 by

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Taiwan’s Alpaca Cafe was someplace we’d been meaning to visit for almost a year but hadn’t made it to for a variety of strange reasons. We’d heard about it last year, a large cafe and restaurant in Sanzhi, a town…

Tagged with: Alpaca, Animal Stories, Taiwan, Taiwan Journalism

Taiwan Fight Club

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

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“Calling into the ring…Joshua!” It’s a hot August night in Taipei, and I am about to be beaten up in public. Standing across the ring (if you can call a cement square taped on a cement barroom floor a ring) stands…

Does Humor Belong in Diplomacy?

Posted on June 8, 2018 by

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Humor is a tricky thing to translate, which is a pity since humor is also such a good icebreaker. Last week I gave a talk on promoting tourism in Yunlin (an agricultural county in Taiwan), and while they didn’t bring…

Tagged with: Taiwan, Taiwan's diplomatic allies

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