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TAIWAN HISTORY - Formosa Files Episodes

Sept. 12, 2024

S4-E23 - Taiwan’s President in Exile – Thomas Liao.

This forgotten father of Taiwan democracy sacrificed his comfortable life (he came from a rich family and had a PhD from the US in Chemical Engineering) to fight for Taiwanese independence in the post-WW2 decades. In 1956…
Dec. 14, 2023

S3-E37 - Wu Li-pei (吳澧培): A Taiwanese-American Immigrant Story, Part Two

In the 1960s and 1970s, many tens of thousands of Taiwanese went into self-exile; most of them headed to the United States. The people who became Taiwanese-Americans did so for a variety of reasons, but it's probably fair to…
Dec. 7, 2023

S3-E36 - Wu Li-pei (吳澧培): A Taiwanese-American Immigrant Story, Part One

A generation of Taiwanese left (or you might say “fled”) Taiwan in the 1960s and 70s, with most going to the United States. Some went to school there and stayed, while others emigrated as they saw no future for themselves an…