During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, Taiwanese American Heritage Week is celebrated beginning on Mother’s Day weekend. This year, TACL encourages you to consider: What shapes your Taiwanese American Heritage?

Finding one’s identify is an individual journey, but there are all kinds of resources you can explore to help guide your path:

Click here to view the below content in a handy dandy infographic (or you can scroll to the bottom of this post) *Special thanks to JORDAN HU, TAP-NY Design Chair, for creating the infographic.*

READ

  • Since 2006, TAIWANESEAMERICAN.ORG has featured exclusive interviews and personal stories of Taiwanese Americans pursuing their dreams. TA.org also compiles helpful resources, such as their recent 50 Books for Your Taiwanese American Library list.
  • In READING WITH PATRICK Taiwanese American Michelle Kuo confronts issues of race, privilege — and her parents. For more information on the book and where you can read it, please visit Michelle Kuo’s website.
  • THE FOOD OF TAIWAN is a cookbook full of recipes and history. Discover more about the book here.
  • Loveboat, Taipei New York Times bestseller revolves around Ever Wong and her unexpected foray into Loveboat, a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound, adults turn a blind eye, snake-blood sake flows abundantly, and the nightlife runs nonstop.

WATCH

  • ABC’s populate TV series FRESH OFF THE BOAT brings humor to a childhood many can identify with.
  • LINSANITY THE MOVIE follows Taiwanese American Jeremy Lin from Harvard to hoop dreams. Watch the trailer here.
  • Crazy Rich Asians follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family. Stars Taiwanese-American Constance Wu.
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the first Marvel Studios film with an Asian director and a predominantly Asian cast.
  • Love in Taipei is based on the best-selling novel, Loveboat, Taipei, where a young woman’s cultural immersion program in Taiwan turns out to be a liberating free-for-all known as “Loveboat” where unexpected romance leads her to question her future.

DISCUSS

  • DEDICATE TIME to asking your parents, grandparents, and friends about how they grew up — and what being Taiwanese American means to them.

PARTICIPATE

TAHW Infographic