Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

In 2010, Taiwan had the lowest fertility rate of any country ever. With such a low amount of births, what are the expectations of the youth towards marriage? How has this trend affected the choice between career and family? We aim to find out the answers to these questions with our focus this month, which tries to tackle the thoughts and issues...

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Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

‘Youth Design’ is a project of the Taiwan Alliance for Advancement of Youth Rights and Welfare (TAAYRW), set up to provide foundational work skills and professional design training, allowing young people to familiarize themselves with design related jobs, and helping them to accumulate work experience, to successfully orientate themselves in...

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Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

Yang Shufan, a single Chinese teacher from Taipei on the threshold of her thirties, discusses her attitude towards marriage, children and her career at this key juncture of her life.

Read more: Love, Marriage, Happiness?

Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

Chen Xinhong (26), is an actor affiliated with the Golden Bough Theatre Troupe  (5 years of stage experience, 1 year at Golden Bough Theatre Troupe)

I am from Taizhong and I went to Taizhong First Senior High School, where I always got good grades and I enjoyed studying. However, after joining the school’s National Music Club and learning...

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Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

University students Lisa Lo and Yu-Tang Hou (侯昱堂) tell us about their feelings and impressions on university life in the following two videos. They represent the youth of Taiwan, and have both had very different university experiences, but both agree that university is a place where one can simultaneously feel more mature but still enjoy...

Read more: University Life: Freedom or Responsibility?

Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

Mr. Sun from from the Taiwan Labor Front, and Huang Shiyi, a Masters student, share with us their different perspectives on work and marriage in today's society. Though they have different opinions about certain aspects, they both agree that the awful economic conditions of Taiwanese youth today are a big contributor to the slowly declining...

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Focus: Navigating your 20s in Taiwan

News reports abound about Taiwan's aging population problem, many emphasizing the imminence of this impending doom, but is Taiwan really as far down this path as eye-grabbing headlines wish to suggest? eRenlai talked to government minister Cheng-Tay James Hsueh about the realities of the aging population problem in Taiwan and what the...

Read more: A Not So Imminent Crisis: Taiwan's Aging Population