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The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files

History

The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files

John Ross and Eryk Michael Smith

Sky Cop TC Brown Returns – S6-E16

July 02, 2026 6:39am 31 min

TC Brown returns to Formosa Files – and to Taiwan – after 53 years away. A former U.S. Air Force security policeman stationed at CCK Air Base in Taichung for most of 1968-73, TC reflects on his recent trip back to the is...

The Fake Fishmonger – Snack 08

June 28, 2026 1:01am 13 min

In the early hours of morning, Eryk and John head to a market in Taichung. Actually, they let Lin Kai-lun do that and all the other hard work. Lin is a third-generation fish seller, whose Chinese-language memoir A Guide ...

Snakes of Taiwan (with Gerrut Norval) – S6-E16

June 24, 2026 8:19pm 25 min

Does a “triangular head” mean danger? Did the wartime Japanese release experimental snakes on Yangmingshan? Do you really collapse after a hundred steps if a hundred-pacer bites you? Herpetologist Gerrut Norval joins Joh...

Keelung to Ishigaki Ferry: Taiwan’s Forgotten Yaeyama Stories – Snack 07

June 20, 2026 10:30pm 17 min

To celebrate the new Yaima Maru ferry service connecting Keelung with the Yaeyama Islands, Taiwan’s nearest neighbors, we uncover stories of Taiwanese migrants there in the Japanese colonial era. On jungle-clad Iriomote ...

The Dragon Boat Festival Story: Qu Yuan, Myth, and History – S6-E15

June 18, 2026 1:49am 30 min

Looking for the true story behind the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Jie)? There’s much more to it than dragon boat races and sticky rice dumplings (zongzi).Many know the standard origin story of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan...

Football in Taiwan: From Missionaries to Mulan – S6-E14

June 10, 2026 11:19pm 29 min

As we head into the 2026 World Cup, we take a look at Taiwan’s surprisingly rich football heritage. Although a minor sport today, there have been periods of intense popularity and success. The soccer story starts more th...

The Great Formosa Tsunami Mystery – Snack 06

June 06, 2026 10:19pm 10 min

The disaster was so terrible, so deadly that shocking reports of it reached as far away as Europe; they claimed that in 1782, Taiwan had been devastated by a colossal tsunami. Some accounts said the island had almost dis...

VIDEO: Should Taiwan Change its Time Zone? A Chat with Sasha B. Chhabra – S6-E13

June 04, 2026 2:19am 25 min

Who owns Taiwan’s time? Taipei-based political commentator and author of Formosa Review substack Sasha B. Chhabra helps us wind back the history of Taiwan’s clocks, from local rhythms before what we now call “standard ti...

Should Taiwan Change its Time Zone? A Chat With Sasha B. Chhabra – S6-E13

June 04, 2026 2:16am 24 min

Who owns Taiwan’s time? Taipei-based political commentator and author of Formosa Review substack Sasha B. Chhabra helps us wind back the history of Taiwan’s clocks, from local rhythms before what we now call “standard ti...

A German in Dutch Formosa: Caspar Schmalkalden – S6-E12

May 28, 2026 2:13am 29 min

In the mid-1600s, Caspar Schmalkalden left war-ravaged Europe to work as a soldier and surveyor for the Dutch. After spending time in Brazil, he sailed to Batavia and finally to Formosa, where he lived among Dutch coloni...

Taekwondo in Taiwan: From the Marines to Olympic Gold – Snack 05

May 25, 2026 7:47pm 11 min

Taekwondo may be Korean, but few places have embraced it as enthusiastically as Taiwan. Introduced in the 1960s for the military, the fast-kicking martial art quickly spread to the wider community. Before long, Taiwan ha...

The Tanaka Memorial: A Secret Blueprint for World Conquest – S6-E11

May 20, 2026 9:47pm 28 min

In the 1930s, a mysterious document known as the Tanaka Memorial shocked the world. Supposedly written by Japanese Prime Minister Baron Tanaka, it outlined a strategy for conquering Manchuria, China, Southeast Asia, and ...

Bridges of Taiwan – S6-E10

May 13, 2026 11:21pm 28 min

John Ross and special guest John Groot celebrate the opening of the remarkable Danjiang Bridge in Tamsui (Danshui). They explore the bridges that transformed Taiwan: the Xiluo Bridge over the mighty Zhuoshui River, once ...

Chen Shu-chu: Taiwan’s Vegetable Vendor Philanthropist – Snack 04

May 09, 2026 7:08pm 10 min

In this Mother’s Day edition, we celebrate the extraordinary life of Chen Shu-chu (陳樹菊), a humble vegetable seller from Taitung who quietly donated millions of NT dollars to schools, charities, and orphaned children – wh...

Taiwan Ghosts: Haunted Hotels, Trickster Spirits, and Vengeful Widows – S6-E9

May 07, 2026 1:15am 29 min

Ghosts of all kinds – wandering spirits, water ghosts looking for substitutes, mountain demons, and many more; welcome to the strange supernatural world of Taiwan. Eryk and John, fortified with protective amulets and hol...

Guns in the Mountains: Taiwan’s Indigenous Firepower – S6-E8

April 29, 2026 11:52pm 28 min

We head into the mountains to tell the story of the deep relationship between Taiwan’s Indigenous communities and firearms. The warriors’ incredible skill and ingenuity with guns enabled them to hold off Qing dynasty for...

Ping-Pong with Mao in Taiwan: The Chairman (1969) – S6-E7

April 23, 2026 12:15am 23 min

Join us as we step into the strange Cold War world of The Chairman, a forgotten 1969 spy thriller starring Hollywood great Gregory Peck. The movie, which was partly filmed in Taiwan, is about a scientist sent behind the ...

The Celebrity Forensics Expert: Henry Lee – Part 2 – S6-E6

April 15, 2026 11:32pm 39 min

It’s 1965, and Henry (27) and Margaret (26) Lee have moved to the USA. She’s working as a schoolteacher, and he’s trying to make ends meet however he can, including by washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant and teaching ...

Shoes, Graves, and Fingerprints: Henry Lee in Taiwan – Part 1 – S6-E5

April 08, 2026 10:07pm 27 min

To mark the recent passing of Henry C. Lee (李昌鈺), one of the world’s most famous forensic scientists, we examine his extraordinary life. In Part 1, we’re in impoverished postwar Taiwan. Lee is the eleventh of thirteen ch...

Bonus episode: Taiwan’s Sugar Railways (with Prof. Dafydd Fell) -S6

April 05, 2026 2:01am 37 min

John talks with Professor Dafydd Fell of SOAS University about "The Twilight Years of Taiwan’s Sugar Railways", his new book co-written with Wang Xiang, a researcher who has spent years documenting the remains and memori...

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