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A grey Mid-Autumn Moon Festival @ Keelung!

Catherine Lee

A grey grey day in Keelung, on Taiwan’s NE coast, as always!  Grey city, grey weather.  But particularly so today as the country surfaces after yesterday’s Typhoon Meranti, and prepares for tomorrow’s Typhoon Malakas.  We’re in a kind of typhoon-sandwich…. Today is Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the first day of a 4-day holiday weekend, when the moon is supposedly at its best and brightest all year ha ha ~ no sign of any moon round here!  It’s grey grey grey with rain rain rain and more rain! In Keelung today, my arrival coincided with the arrival of the huge Golden Princess … Continue reading A grey Mid-Autumn Moon Festival @ Keelung!

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Super Typhoon Meranti targets Taiwan, mainland China – CNN.com

Catherine Lee

Praying for southern Taiwan ~ and it’s gale-force winds and torrential rains up here too…. Hundreds of people have been evacuated in southern Taiwan as the island braces for the impact of the strongest storm of the year. Check out this CNN report… Source: Super Typhoon Meranti targets Taiwan, mainland China – CNN.com Continue reading Super Typhoon Meranti targets Taiwan, mainland China – CNN.com

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Taiwan, Holy See have an ‘alliance of love’: vice president – Taipei Times

Catherine Lee

Taiwan’s relationship with the Vatican…. Check out this article by Peter Chen 陳正義 president of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs: Chen should urge Holy See for dual recognition And this one….. Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) on Sunday said that the government would continue to strengthen its rapport with the Holy See, describing the relationship between the two nations as “an alliance of love and core values.” Source: Taiwan, Holy See have an ‘alliance of love’: vice president – Taipei Times Continue reading Taiwan, Holy See have an ‘alliance of love’: vice president – Taipei Times

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Taiwan’s Glove Puppet Shows 布袋戲

Catherine Lee

A traditional art that is kept very much alive in Taiwan by lots of mobile glove puppet shows that travel around the country putting on shows outside temples, mainly these days for benefit of the deities in the temples.  This one I came across yesterday outside a small Taoist Temple in Sanzhi had loud speakers relaying the story and 2 puppet masters – but I was the other only person there…. The language of the puppet shows is Taiwanese and the stories are long, complicated and fast-moving… so I left them to it and continued on my way! Continue reading Taiwan’s Glove Puppet Shows 布袋戲