I'm Ailsa Chang in Taipei, Taiwan, where I have been hanging out at a comedy club to cover the upcoming presidential election. CHANG: I'm totally serious. Because if there is any way right now people ...

In any city in Taiwan, small commercial spaces are the norm, from coffee shops to cafés or neighborhood restaurants—and live music venues are no different. Yet these tiny operations still manage to ...

Taiwanese comedian Vickie Wang and Chinese comedian Jamie Wang (no relation) work through the lived experience of cross-strait tensions through comedy. CHANG: I'm totally serious. Because if there is ...

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