Ketagalan Media

Education is the very foundation of society. Currently, Taiwan's education system is failing 1 in every 9 children, because there are not enough teachers in resource-poor communities. Teach For Taiwan’s mission is to close this achievement gap by placing talented and committed young leaders to teach in high-need classrooms. We talk to founder Anting Liu about the organization, education for remote areas, and some ideas on education direction.

In this special episode, we reflect on the 228 Massacre.

We discuss Aboriginal and indigenous civilizations in Taiwan and elsewhere with Tony Coolidge, the son of a US military serviceman in Taiwan and an Atayal aboriginal Taiwanese. As the founder of ATAYAL, Tony is committed to building bridges that link indigenous communities around the world, including his recent project to bring students from the New Zealand Maori tribe to spend time with aboriginal students in Taiwan.

Crystal Boys, a classic novel about Taiwan's gay subculture in the 1970s, is also about family, authority and freedom. To find out more about an upcoming stage adaptation at the National Theater, we talk to director 曹瑞原, actors 莫子儀 and 陸一龍, and the author 白先勇 himself.

We talk to Victoria Linchong, who is the director of the documentary "Almost Home: Taiwan" in which she takes us on a family visit to Taiwan that turns out to be much more about history, identity and making these big questions personal. To promote the film, she is also hosting an art tour with famous artists in the US making resistance style posters for a Free Taiwan.

In this special episode, host Chieh-Ting Yeh and guest Jou Yi-cheng go over the history of Dihua Street in the old Dadaocheng neighborhood in Taipei. Known for its specialty shops, we take you on a journey into the 1920s, when Dadaocheng was the cosmopolitan center of Taiwan, connecting it to the rest of the world in the Roaring 20s. We also ponder what that means for Taiwan going into the 2020s and beyond.

For the first interview of the new year, we tackle the questions of Taiwan's economy and free trade. We ask Prof. Peter Chow of City College of New York about trade with China, Taiwan's strategy in joining regional trade blocs, and whether free trade is ultimately good for Taiwan.

In this first episode of the Ketagalan Project, co-hosts Chieh-Ting Yeh, Jonathan Lee, and Tim Suen talk with US foreign affairs expert on East Asia Julia Famularo on current policy debate on Taiwan in Washington, the pivot to Asia, reaction from China and predictions for the future. The Ketagalan Project is a media project that brings more Taiwan news and commentary to the English speaking audience. We believe that there is more room for quality coverage of Taiwan in English, and that news on Taiwan can use more historical, ideological and international context. The Ketagalan Project is named after the Ketagalan tribe (an Austronesian people in Taiwan whose language has become extinct), and the Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei.