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Sun Moon Lake: A peculiar mingling of love and death

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Chapter excerpt and video from Formosa Moon by Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman

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Early rejected works : An Open Letter to Beijing Starbucks

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Early rejected works : An Open Letter to Beijing Starbucks

An early rejected story of mine concerning Beijing Starbucks in 2002 and having to listen to The Eagles on continual replay. Gonzo journalism at its finest!

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A Nihilist’s Guide to Sun Moon Lake

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Nihilist Sun Moon Lake

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. …

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The Famous Doctor Ho

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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…

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Taiwan Fight Club

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MMA Fighting in Taiwan

“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…

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The Four Stages of Life (as experienced through Taiwanese cuisine)

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The four stages of life as experienced through Taiwan food

SEO-destroying, algorithm-annoying preamble: A lot of my stories have stories of their own. This one about Taiwanese Cuisine (chew on that, WordPress SEO monitor) has two or three, so…read on or not. One of the pleasures of establishing a long-term working relationship…

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Grace versus brute force: Mixed Martial Arts in Taiwan

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MMA in Taiwan

It’s five in the afternoon at Hsinchu’s Municipal Stadium, inside of which a crowd of about twelve hundred have gathered, their vibe rowdy, but polite. Welcome to the world of Mixed Martial Arts in Taiwan. Heavy Metal music blares over…

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Cold War Cuisine

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Cold War Cuisine

My photographer is surrounded by waitresses wearing starch-pressed uniforms. They are grabbing his camera, repeating “no photos” in halting Mandarin. The editor and his girlfriend hang by the entrance, clearly regretting their decision to join the magazine’s newest writer on his…

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How Not to Avoid Jet Lag

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How Not to Avoid Jet Lag

Nineteen tales ranging from new journalism to exotic hallucination. Click here for the Kindle Version (Amazon) Click Here for all other E-book formats. (Smashwords) How Not to Avoid Jet Lag Nineteen stories from the increasingly deranged mind of travel Writer Joshua Samuel Brown,…

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