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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

Taiwan Day fifteen(6/3)

Today (6/3) we started the day off by going to a kitchen where we learned how to make ZhongZi. I thought that this experience was both interesting and fun. I’ve heard a lot about ZhongZi recently due to the dragon festival. I have also seen the bamboo wrappings hanging in various spots all over the city. I was interested in what these were so I was excited when I found out we would be making them. We started by cooking various components that would make up the middle parts of this dish. While some things were difficult like constructing the […]

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

6/2

Today we visited Studio 76, a film production company who specializes in entertainment and smart media distribution. I don’t know much about studio production, so it was really interesting to hear from an expert in the field. One aspect of this company visit I found particularly interesting was how their company is working to stay competitive despite advances in technology, particularly in AI. Studio 76 is working to diversify their business through manga, which takes films and turns them into comics. Before AI, a project to turn a film into a comic would take approximately nine months to complete. With […]

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

Taiwan Day Fourteen (6/2)

Today we started the day by visiting Studio 76, where we had the opportunity to learn about their company and how they contribute to the media and entertainment industry in Taiwan. I found it fascinating to see how multifaceted their work is—they aren’t just involved in film production but have created several branches within their company, each with a specific focus. This kind of structure allows them to be versatile and adapt to various trends in the entertainment world. One part of the presentation that really stood out to me was how Studio 76 has started converting movies into manga. […]

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

6/1

Today we had the opportunity to tour a Confucius temple. I was really looking forward to this excursion because up until this point, we have focused mostly on Buddhism and Daoism, and I wanted to see how the two religions differ from Confucianism and how their places of worship differ.  In the Confucius temple, there wasn’t a figure to represent Confucius. Instead, there was a plaque with his name written in Chinese. This differs from Buddhism and Daoism where a main part of their worship is facing the gods and goddesses and praying to an actual figure. The Confucius temple […]

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Monday, June 2nd, 2025

Day Twelve – Kaohsiung

Last day in Kaohsiung! We had our second day of class, which was more lecture based this time in order to prepare us for our visit to Foguangshan. Foguangshan is one of three major religious institutions in Taiwan, with global reach via their various business ventures. Prof. Young went into some more depth on core Buddhist beliefs and Prof. Chen spoke on how local Taiwanese people view and practice religion. We then read articles on Buddhist economics and discussed how religious institutions participate in the economy via businesses and investing in stocks. Many people have had positive experiences with such […]

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Posted by on June 2, 2025

Sunday, June 1st, 2025

Day 11 in Taiwan

Today, day 11 of being in Taiwan, was filled with culture and religion as we visited many temples in Kaohsiung. The first place we visited was not a temple in itself, but an extension of a nearby temple called Chiji (or Tzu Chi) that Professor Young, Kyla, and I had privilege of visiting later on in the day. The extension of Chiji temple that we first walked through was the Dragon and Tiger pagodas. These were beautiful 7-story towers that connected to each other and had a zig-zag bridge connecting them to the shore. There was a giant dragon and […]

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Posted by on June 1, 2025

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