Articles tagged with: Indonesia
“The Golden Child” at the Spot Taipei Film House
The Golden Child is currently playing at the Spot Taipei Film House as part of their event We Are Family: Festival of New Immigrants. (See the schedule here.) Four films make up this mini-festival, and they all focus on the experiences of women from China, Vietnam, and Indonesia who come to Taiwan to marry Taiwanese men. The first two films I’ve seen were The Happy …
My Little Honey Moon at the Spot Taipei Film House – Foreign Brides in Taiwan
I returned to the Spot Taipei Film House to watch the second of the four films about foreign brides in Taiwan. I read in an article in the Taipei Times that these four films together are part of the event “We Are Family: Festival of New Immigrants” at the Spot. Also in this article is the interesting statistic that there are more than 450,000 of …
Immigrant Stories at the Spot Taipei Film House
Four interesting movies are playing at the Spot Taipei Film House in the month of May. They are Taiwanese movies and they offer a fascinating look at the experience of foreign women who marry men in Taiwan. I had been told that there were no English subtitles, but the other day I happened to catch a trailer for one of them, and it had English …
About Me
My name is Doug Nienhuis. I’m a Canadian currently doing a bit of bike touring in the Philippines. I’m not sure where this trip will take me next, but the current plan is to end up in Zamboanga on Mindanao and take a ferry from there to Malaysian Borneo. From there, if the weather is right, I might try to make my way to Indonesia.
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