Articles By Brian Hioe
My Airport: Taoyuan International Airport
Taoyuan International Airport is an airport with identity issues.
All That Exists Melts Into 7-Eleven
I think I'm the only person I know who has ever tried 7-Eleven bubble tea.
TPE-JFK
I’ve become increasingly aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.
I Love a Man in (a Fifty-Cent Army) Uniform
Here’s where the conversation, which had already been strange enough, truly took a turn for the bizarre.
It felt sort of like we were staring out at the ghosts of history
Even if those ghosts were ourselves, from four years ago.
Man in a Box
I lived in a box in an apartment building, itself a collection of boxes, in a city, a large mass of boxes containing other boxes.
Taiwan’s amazing answer to ‘The Room’
A phantasmagoria of Taiwanese modernity; a mythical allegory of the political and economic dramas affecting Taiwan as a whole.
Kaoliang is Taiwan’s Macho Booze
Sometimes worshippers will leave bottles of kaoliang at Ji Gong temples in order for him to charge them up with supernatural power before taking them back.
