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TAIWAN HISTORY - Formosa Files Episodes

April 18, 2024

S4-E8 - The U.S. Breaks Up With Taipei for Beijing (Dec. 1978)

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter only served one term, but those four years were rough: oil embargos, inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, and the decision to recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It was an unpopu…
Jan. 4, 2024

S3-E39 - Taiwan’s Most Famous Red Light District: Taipei’s Combat Zone

“Blatant sex capital of Asia, where vice is legal and the price is right,” was how one book described Taipei in 1969. Listen as Taipei-based journalist David Frazier takes us through the history of Taipei’s first foreign-ori…