Taiwan, remembered through conversation.
Talking Taiwan treats Taiwan as both a place and a global community. Felicia Lin guides conversations about democracy, diaspora history, cross-strait pressure, community history, baseball, trauma, and the everyday work of keeping memory alive.
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Talking Taiwan is a long-running interview series about Taiwan, Taiwanese Americans, and the global community shaped by Taiwan’s history and politics. Its center is conversation. Felicia Lin frames each episode with enough background to orient listeners, then gives guests room to connect public events with personal memory. The show is especially attentive to democracy, identity, community history, and the burden of histories that were once suppressed. Episodes on 228, the White Terror era, and transitional justice treat memory as a civic responsibility, not just a record of suffering. The tone is serious without becoming academic. Guests talk through how trauma moves across families and communities, how documentation matters, and why survivors often seek truth and prevention more than punishment. Cross-strait tension is another recurring thread. Recent conversations examine Chinese military incursions, drones, balloons, maritime structures, and the psychological strain of living with daily pressure around Taiwan. The show also makes space for social and cultural texture. A conversation with Vicky Wong moves through Shanghai’s COVID lockdown, censorship, Taiwanese and Chinese perceptions, comedy, work, and migration. Community history has a major place here. Episodes from the Taiwanese American Conference East Coast preserve memories of organizers, the conference, and the political conditions that shaped Taiwanese American life. The QIDA Foundation conversation turns toward collective identity, intergenerational connection, and the ocean as a symbol linking Taiwan and the diaspora. Talking Taiwan can be intimate. It can also be blunt about authoritarianism, information control, exclusion, and fear. The show’s range includes baseball too, with Team Taiwan’s Premier 12 gold medal win treated as both a sporting achievement and a shared moment of pride. Its best episodes feel like oral history in motion: one guest, one question, then a widening circle of context. It suits listeners who want Taiwan explained through people, not abstractions.
Made for: For listeners interested in Taiwan, Taiwanese American history, democracy, diaspora identity, cross-strait politics, and community memory. It also suits people who prefer patient interviews over compressed news analysis.
What sets it apart: Talking Taiwan stands out by pairing current political context with oral history and lived experience. Its episodes connect military pressure, historical trauma, civic organizing, culture, and sports without flattening Taiwan into a single issue.
Talking Taiwan is a Golden Crane Podcast Award Winner, and has been shortlisted in the 2024 International Women's Podcast Awards "Moment of Visionary Leadership" category. In 2025, it was nominated for the 12th Annual T.O. Webfest Awards in the category of "Best Ensemble Cast in a Podcast". Hosted by Felicia Lin, Talking Taiwan is the longest running, independently produced Taiwan-related podcast that covers political news related to Taiwan and stories connected to Taiwan and Taiwan's global community. To learn more about Talking Taiwan visit: www.talkingtaiwan.com
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Felicia Lin connects Taiwan's contested international representation in sport to deeper questions of identity, political power, and public memory.
Talking Taiwan builds its interviews around the forces shaping Taiwanese public life, with Felicia Lin supplying enough context to make each conversation legible before asking guests to explain the stakes.
Taiwan's democracy, collective trauma, and gray-zone pressure become questions you can actually follow.
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Vicky Wong connects Shanghai's lockdown and China's information gaps to the everyday complications of being Taiwanese in China.
Talking Taiwan frames Vicky Wong's path through Taipei, Shanghai, and New York as a personal way into the assumptions Taiwanese and Chinese people can carry about one another.
A thoughtful look at 228, historical memory, identity, and Taiwanese communities across the ocean.
Talking Taiwan frames Taiwan's 228 Massacre alongside the martial law and white terror that followed, then uses that history to consider how memory shapes a shared sense of identity.
Chen discusses freedom of expression in Taiwan and his scrutiny of politicians' academic work.
A recall vote involving 24 Kuomintang legislators opens Felicia Lin's conversation with Dr. Shifen Chen about democracy and political accountability in Taiwan. Chen remembers growing up without freedom of expression and fearing the consequences of criticizing the government.
A measured look at how repeated military pressure becomes part of the everyday security backdrop around Taiwan.
Talking Taiwan follows the shift from the April 2021 alarm over 25 Chinese Air Force aircraft near Taiwan to a more constant pattern of pressure by warplanes, naval ships, drones, and balloons.
A grounded conversation on collective memory, trauma, and the community work that can turn remembrance toward the future.
Talking Taiwan frames collective memory as a live, practical question for Taiwanese and Taiwanese-American communities thinking about a shared future. Dr.
Host Felicia Lin interviews fiber artist Wen-Jen Deng and curator Ming Turner about Deng's solo exhibition 'The Embedded Stitch' at Tannery Cultural Institute.
Felicia Lin interviews David on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 about Taiwan Voices Remembered, which profiles the seven Taiwanese who died in the attacks.
Vickie Wang discusses her experiences as a Taiwanese person living in Shanghai, including perceptions between Taiwanese and Chinese people and surviving the 2022 COVID lockdown.
Talking Taiwan marks 228 Peace Memorial Day by framing the 228 Massacre, the March Massacre, and the 38 years of martial law and white terror under the Chiang regime and Chinese nationalist Guo Mingtang.
Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin interviews Dr.
Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin speaks with IngeniSpace analysts Marvin Bernardo and Elva Woo about China's gray zone tactics around Taiwan, including record ADIZ incursions, the Joint Sword 2024A drills, and Justice Mission 2025 with at least 200 warplanes.
Felicia Lin speaks with Dr.
Felicia Lin interviews Richard Wang about Team Taiwan's historic gold medal win at the Premier 12 baseball tournament.
An oral history of the Taiwanese American Conference East Coast (TAC-EC) through interviews with three past organizers.
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Michael Fahey discusses human rights issues in Taiwan, focusing on the death penalty and dual nationality for long-term foreign residents.