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      • Happy Birthday Teresa Teng
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    • Taiwan
      • The Four Stages of Life (as experienced through Taiwanese cuisine)
      • Wind Warriors of The Pescadores
      • From Yilan: A Culinary Quartet
      • The Winding Road to Smangus
      • A Glimpse at Taiwan’s Bike Racing Scene
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    • Bicycle Journalism
    • Political Columns
      • Yahuda Bangs
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      • Two Taiwan Temple Audio Tours
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      • Stephanie Huffman’s Puppet Radio Theater Sketch Characters
      • Puppet Radio Theater Full Episodes
      • Bad Baby Orphange
      • Cinema Analysis With Clarissa Rothminder
      • The Foppish Prince
      • Talkin’ Tunes One
      • Sleuth Of Thrones
      • Hipster Coffee
      • Patchouli Moonbow, Hippie Time Traveler (Episode One: Warsaw)
      • Eddie Vedder Psychotherapy Sketch
      • Lou Reed’s Christmas Album
      • Waiting for Who’s On First
      • The Po’Lympic Games
      • That’ll be the Day
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      • Michael Jackson: Unlistenable
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Month: September 2018

The Famous Doctor Ho
The Famous Doctor Ho. Illustration by David Lee Ingersoll
China Stories, Stories

The Famous Doctor Ho

josambro Sep 11, 2018 Tagged with China, Doctor Ho, Lijiang, Yunnan

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 …

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Wind Warriors of the Pescadores
Windsurfing competition in Penghu, Taiwan
magazine articles, Taiwan, Taiwan Journalism

Wind Warriors of the Pescadores

josambro Sep 10, 2018 Tagged with Taiwan, Windsurfing

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 …

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