Taiwan in 1989: My Experience
Looking back to our trip to Taiwan in 1989, it seems like a coincidence that we were dispatched to Taiwan, since it was a place I was so familiar with. The timing was bittersweet. By…
Author Archives: Kathleen Purvis
Dad in Taiwan: A Canadian Visitor in the 1970s (Part 2)
This is part two of Kathleen Purvis’s tale of her father’s time in Taiwan in 1972. If you haven’t read part one, go and do that first. Of course, Taiwan in 1972 was considerably…
Dad in Taiwan: A Canadian Visitor in the 1970s
I remember how friends reacted in 1989 when I announced I would be taking 2 months off my job in Toronto to accompany my husband on a work assignment in Taiwan. Most didn’t know where…