Taiwan, her culture like an melting pot of Chinese, Japanese and Western influences.  From outside of the island, the world sees her with controversial tensions over the geopolitics.  When the media started to focus on outstanding democratic society, Professor Julie Chen takes one step further and wants the people to view the Taiwan island from the people’s life and culture.  In the coming autumn semester (September - November, 2021), the Chinese study in University of Helsinki will organize a series of on-line lectures, six lectures and one film screening, each lecture featured by one specialist from different part of the world.  The ‘Spotlight Taiwan Helsinki’ academic lectures on Taiwan covers history, the indigenous civilization on language and music, taiwanese-language cinema, literature, the people’s life beyond politics on the offshore islands.  The events are free and open for the general public.  The organizer and facilitator, Professor Julie Chen said “I want people to get inspired to see that the people in Taiwan are real.  They have their different history, different life, and different values, just like all of all.  I wish those lectures give us more personal touch, not just geopolitical issues.”Info & registration about the academic lectures of Spotlight Taiwan Helsinki:https://blogs.helsinki.fi/spotlighttaiwan/https://www.facebook.com/helsinkichinastudieshttps://twitter.com/julieyuwenchen?lang=en

They, the designers and the makers.  Normal Object Factory is their company, founded in 2017 in Stockholm, after they graduated in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.  Ever since they constantly ask the questions: Why we are doing design? What is the meaning behind the normal?  They constantly reflect what they are doing.  Liu Chien-Kuang a taiwanese glass maker and designer and Alexandra Nilasdotter a swedish ceramist and designer, as a couple, as the entrepreneur.  They have free hand to put the idea into the reality.  They find the solution to make our life easier and better.  They have the sense of the responsibility in the world where has too much stuffs, too much pollution, too much waste.  Their project is the content of story.  Their object is the tool of story telling.  They want to relay the feeling and the issue to the people and to raise the awareness through their objects.  Normal Object Factory’s website:  http://www.normalobjectfactory.com/

她，台大研究計畫「循環經濟應用在營建產業」研究員。四年前跟在倫敦認識的立陶宛老公結婚生子，從倫敦再移居到台北，後來疫情讓一家分隔兩地。 張芸萃的生活就和她的跨領域生涯一樣的不尋常，成功大學建築系畢業，就跟很多臺灣孩子一樣，在升學的教育之下，不知道自己的未來要做什麼，只知道會唸書會考試，不會好好去想以後想要去從事什麼樣的工作，自己也沒有機會去嘗試，乖乖牌的她，聽著大人說往東當建築師，往西去唸研究所，進了學校發現設計原來是沒有標準答案的，還經驗到課堂上的老師們互相辯論對自己的作品有南北不同的觀點，於是她選擇了往環境觀點發展，自己走自己的路，營建背景的她，學房地產，學智慧都市規劃，深入循環經濟。去了荷蘭，到了英國，回到台灣。自認是地球人的她，用大尺度廣角鏡去看永續環境，也去看永續人生。荷事生非 論壇網址：張芸萃 專欄https://www.oranjeexpress.com/author/yuntsui/

她，護理居服員，健美模特兒，攝影模特兒。去年二三月前，新冠肺炎病毒入侵人類生活前，她是個空服員，閒不下來的她決定回去學校進修，開始了護理的工作，閒餘沒事，去年報名了參加健美比賽，頭一次參加，跟芬蘭本地人角逐，還得了全國錦標賽第三名，比賽完，居然還轉身成了業餘的模特兒，偶而和世界各地不同的攝影師合作，在鏡頭前展示自己真實美麗的一面。一個門一個門的打開，這位來自北京的胡平山，不會因為是在疫情封閉自己。她移居芬蘭已經有二十個年頭，但她明白，最近這五年開始感覺到自己的改變，特別是護理工作每天接觸到和自己年齡相仿的病人，更加深了她的體悟 - 健康快樂，是人生中最重要的事，過去中國的文化包袱已經不再管用，從不愉快中解脫出來，超脫干擾生活的負能量。 在芬蘭，她學會了愛自己，學會了跟自己相處，這些成了她生活熱情的動力，激發她熱情的來源。

她，挪威特隆赫姆政府環境氣候顧問。旅行是她生活的延伸。今年她再度用三十二天徒步走完朝聖之路，這是她對保護地球的宣言。李清玉，單身的時候，是個不折不扣的背包客，唸書的時候她就開始自助旅行，好奇的特質驅動著她把唸書的功力用在旅行不同國家，她人生的第一趟就花五十天去了荷蘭，德國和奧地利，途中在北德落腳四個禮拜進學校上德語。第二趟義大利 24 天，後來一趟八十天的西班亞，跨德國到斯堪地那維亞，還遇到了前世註定的挪威老公。結婚生子沒有讓她停下腳步，給準備上小學兒子的禮物，就是母子兩搭國鐵環遊德國到丹麥兩個禮拜。進入中年，當然要給四十歲的自己一個大禮，那就是一個人遠赴古巴三個禮拜。她不是那種收集數量把地圖插滿國旗的那種背包客，她要的是學習各種不同文化，歷史，人文和觀念，做事方式。當永續的思考點開始重新辯論討論人與旅行的關係，她兩年前毅然決定用低碳足跡的行動步上瑞典挪威東西向的朝聖之路，並成功一個人用一個月走完580 公里。今年的徒步之行雖然高低差難度更高 650 公里，海拔 1300 公尺的山丘地帶，天候變化身體適應更有挑戰，但這趟旅行，李清玉體悟到旅行是生活的延伸，旅行不過是把生活帶到不同的場景，旅行也可以透過電影，文字作品，或是一頓自己下廚的異國風味配上異國音樂，在家也可以有有品質的旅行，也可以讓自己生活在旅行裡。李清玉有關旅行的書和臉專：2020 年出版的書： 『北歐聖奧拉夫朝聖之路：從瑞典到挪威六百公里徒步回家的故事』，出版社暖暖書屋的圖書網址（內含各大平台購書連結）：https://sunny-warm.wixsite.com/sawph-3/sl023臉書「樂活，特隆赫姆」專頁：https://www.facebook.com/happytrondheim/

他，瑞典玻璃藝術家。七年前，申請到丹麥職業學校學習吹玻璃，三年的春風化雨，當一個在學校唯一的亞洲人，他經驗到從所未有的文化衝擊，班上除了當地的丹麥人還有來自歐洲各地的學生，居然不知道台灣在哪裡，他們的印象 Made in Taiwan 刻板到認定台灣就是個大型的代工工廠。於是，他決定用他的設計能力繼續進修，前進他相信是個多元社會的瑞典念研究所，他以高分錄取，上課前學校通知他不用付學費，學校用全額獎學金讓他進入研究所，也開始他發掘台灣地方歷史故事的歷程。兩年前念完研究所的他，當起了自己品牌工作室的老闆。劉建廣，台北教育大學藝術系念完，應該就跟其他人一樣到學校去當美術老師，畢業前因緣際會認識了一個剛留學回國的藝術家，這位喝過洋墨水的朋友去過日本學玻璃，勸他往玻璃產業發展。他先在台灣的玻璃工坊待了兩年半載，然後去了日本看人家怎麼吹，之後決定前進北歐到四個國家深入了解世界有名悠久歷史的北歐玻璃設計。這趟旅行，他篤定要進入這行，就要從學徒做起，自費申請到丹麥當時還開放給外國人學的高職。在台灣和日本孕育對玻璃設計的熱情，和在丹麥文化衝擊的經驗，鼓舞著他把玻璃和文化元素融入到設計創作裡，同時更促使這位在高雄土生土長的藝術家從台灣歷史和自己的成長經驗尋找創作靈感。劉建廣設計師的設計品網頁：個人網站 http://www.kuangstudio.com/品牌 http://www.normalobjectfactory.com/

He - a professional football coach and the founder of Football Club Vikings based in Taipei Taiwan.  This year 2021 is the 10th year of his football club.  150 football players are now on the fundraising campaign which aims to keep on the operation of the club.  More importantly they need the fund to make the trips abroad for the international games.  For every young football player around the world, one of the highlights is the annual trips heading across the borders for the opportunity to test their skills against the international oppositions and to win the games and sometimes to lose and learn from it.  The Vikings do the same.  In their map, they have challenged Cambodia, China, Japan and most frequent Denmark.  Year 2013 - 2019, the team participated every year the Brøndby Cup Denmark, a major international youth tournament.  Behind all these, there is the man with the passion and the will to devote to the football.  Johnni Nielsen his first touch with the football was with his father.  Like the other danish boys, 3-month old already has the ball.  When he can walk, his father took him to the garden and started to play on.  Until his knee got injured at 19.  By then he already had the couching license and regularly trained his teammates.  Year 2009 he took all his couching stuff and football gear and everything donated when he moved to Taiwan with his taiwanese wife and the kids.  Gradually the danish childhood came to his mind, he wanted to do the same as his father.  He took his son to the school next to where they live and started to play on.  The first couple weeks, they were two people, the next couple weeks, they had 3-4, to the end they have enough for a football team.  So they have 20-25 kids in the end in a year.  That’s FC Vikings started.  10 years passed these teens, hanging around on street corners, grew up in the minor families, now are studying in the universities.  They are still the Vikings and they make the couch Johnni Nielsen smile.F.C. Vikings social medias:Webpage: http://fcviking.com/Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8sIP6rHqDzuqEljBFkSoAQFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/fcvikingstw/Fundraising: https://www.zeczec.com/projects/vikings

He - a professional photographer and co-founder of the project “A Taste of Taiwan”.  Year 2018 after the success of the first timelapse film, Henrik Matzen had a dream - to bring his partner Jonas Høholt, a timelapse artist & editor, with him back to Taiwan.  He wanted Jonas to experience a bit, because Jonas did all the editing of that first video, but he never saw that country and he never experience anything of it.  He didn’t know the smell of the night market or all the delicious foods you can get from there.  He didn’t have any idea about it.  So only way to make him experience all these was to bring him there, and let him to shoot something for this sequel of Timelapse film.  Let him experience just a bit of it.  The first challenge was the money issue.  Henrik had the plan to get the sponsorships to cover the expenses.  This starting point almost stopped him going further.  Several times he thought it is not going to happen.  But it happened on 2019.  Henrik was very familiar with Taiwan.  Year 2005 his very first trip landed on the soil of Taiwan, he felt home.  Ever since he travelled every year to Taiwan for the business and in the free-time he went around the island with his 30 kilos of camera gear and parts.  He went to mountains, lakes, countryside and Taipei 101.  He stayed there for 4-5 hours to wait for the sun to set and to rise.  Eventually he gets to know another timelapse lover Jonas who just lives some blocks away from him in Denmark.  First time they met in a coffee shop.  Of course Henrik brought his works to show to Jonas.  When Jonas saw all the scenes Henrik had been shooting, he said ‘Wow, this is amazing!  We should make something.  I wanna to edit it for you.’  Drinking coffee and eating cake with the beauty of Taiwan, that moment they started to call the work ‘A Taste of Taiwan’.  The project became a baby from both passionate Timelapse photographers.  The 4th of July, 2019 the film ‘A Taste of Taiwan II’ was released.  And that afternoon - the taste and the feeling, flowing between both Henrik Matzen and Jonas Høholt remain eternally in every moment in that film.Timelapse & hyperlapse photography by: Henrik Matzen and Jonas HøholtMusic tailored and composed by Joona LättiTimelapse films -A Taste of Taiwan, released on May 29, 2018, https://youtu.be/e_WRJzk22pEA Taste of Taiwan II, released on July 4, 2019, https://youtu.be/nF9QbdkZ-TY訪談節目播出時間和頻道：July 19, Mon, 21.00pm, Turku 91,5MHz, Cable 93,7MHz & 93,9MHzJuly 20, Tue, 21.00pm, Helsinki 100,3MHz, Elisa cable 98.7 MHz (time is subject to change 12.7-8.8)Podcastings are availabe in various channels, for example：Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/dongxinanpei-radio-program-podcast/id1003085317Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0fqCDwHKQO5ypXsFj11Vi6tunein: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Podcasts/DongXiNanPei-radio-program-p740308/?topicId=131275667Direct listen from DongXiNanPei - http://setala.sdf.org/DongXiNanPei/Love_on_the_Move_series__Christine_Bejerasco.mp3ps. Tampere 98,4 MHz Radio Moreeni and Tampere University Internet radio are on the summer break. 

What is China? Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous remark about China - “There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.” Today, Napoleon’s words leave us a deep thought “What is China?”. The context of China’s remarkable economic growth has caught many public intellectuals’s attention all around the world for decade. In contrast to its positive impact, the COVID-19 pandemic makes us constantly pondering the same question “What is China?” In order to deal with the Giant, the scholars have put on the efforts to figure out the puzzles about the phenomenon - China, chinese people and chinese culture. This week DongXiNanPei re-broadcasts the 2018-made interview with the journalist from Helsigin Sanomat Mari Manninen. The finnish journalist, writer and also the winner of 2016 non-fiction Finlandia prize (by the book ‘One child policy’) Mari Manninen in this interview introduces the book ‘Chinese things, KIINALAINEN JUTTU-33 Kiina-myyttiä, jotka vaativat kumoamista’. Total 33 myths, Mari Manninen has the magnifying glasses to convey the reality and tend to change the Finnish-language readers’ perception about China. “What is China?” are you ready to take your magnifying glasses to examine the same question?