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What If Taiwan Was Never Ruled by the KMT?
What if the Taiwan you know—the stories, the symbols, the struggle—was just one thread in a much larger historical fabric?
In this 10-minute teaser, we dive into the Formosa Multiverse: an alternate timeline where the Kuomintang never retreated to Taiwan in 1949. No ROC-in-exile. No martial law. No Cold War puppet state.
Instead, a bold thought experiment: What if the 228 Uprising succeeded? What if Taiwan forged its own republic from the ground up?
This episode explores themes of erased futures, postcolonial identity, religious pluralism, and Cold War diplomacy—inviting you to rethink what Taiwan could have become.
The full timeline is complete. A book is in development. This is only the beginning.
Created with the help of NotebookLM’s Deep Dive engine—an AI tool for asking better questions about the futures we never dared to write.
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By Caleb Michael Yang
What if the Taiwan you know—the stories, the symbols, the struggle—was just one thread in a much larger historical fabric?
In this 10-minute teaser, we dive into the Formosa Multiverse: an alternate timeline where the Kuomintang never retreated to Taiwan in 1949. No ROC-in-exile. No martial law. No Cold War puppet state.
Instead, a bold thought experiment: What if the 228 Uprising succeeded? What if Taiwan forged its own republic from the ground up?
This episode explores themes of erased futures, postcolonial identity, religious pluralism, and Cold War diplomacy—inviting you to rethink what Taiwan could have become.
The full timeline is complete. A book is in development. This is only the beginning.
Created with the help of NotebookLM’s Deep Dive engine—an AI tool for asking better questions about the futures we never dared to write.