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Writer (HELLO, STRANGER, Granta 2022) & philosopher. In Tainan, Taiwan, with a foot in Scotland. Faculty @ Parami University, Myanmar. Director @windandbones.bsky.social https://www.willbuckingham.com https://www.windandbones.com

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · Dec 12

Somehow, I've not yet mentioned this on Bluesky. But my latest book, "Hello, Stranger" (Granta 2022) is about how most of the 8 billion people on this planet are strangers. So dealing with strangers is one of the central problems of human life.

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 15h

This is a lovely, generous-spirited, article by 羅強哥 about our @windandbones.com philosophy salon in Taiwan (Mandarin, but you can run it through a translation tool).

並非一場嚴肅難解的論辯，而更像是一次在樹蔭下的輕鬆對談
Not a serious, hard-to-understand debate, but more a relaxed conversation in the shade of a tree.

在跨國對話中，哲學走回自我本真

www.wansha.com.tw

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 1d

Trotting around, like neat little minor bureaucrats, exuding a sense of towering self-importance.

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 1d

The glory of the sausage dog is the mismatch between its obvious absurdity, and its look of profound self-seriousness. This mural, from Lao Tanghu 老塘湖 in Taiwan, captures this well.

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 2d

I've been watching Talk Talk秀台語 to try and improve my Taiwanese. I don't know what it is doing for my language skills, but I can confidently say that it is making me incredibly hyperactive.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzO...

【Talk Talk秀台語第二季】完整版EP1｜王者來襲！山豬妹妹力拼瑞夫攻佔阿公阿媽市場！澎哥身世之謎不藏了！漫才雙帥登場｜吳姍儒浩子許效舜黃豪平｜全台第一台語脫口秀選秀｜公視台語台

YouTube video by DAY DAY 台語台

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Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com · 5d

Wind&Bones Interview with TaiwanPlus News Episode 2 of 3!

'...a groundbreaking literary project’

Here is the second instalment of our interview about our recently published book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic.

👇😎

www.windandbones.com/posts/taiwan...

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 5d

Wildly excited to be running an English / Tâi-gí ghost story writing workshop this evening with writer friend Naomi Sím, hosted by the wonderful 無有為 / Bookstore and Café Nothing here in Tainan.

I'll post photos after the event.

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 13d

I read this, and my first thought was "Oh, no... What's Olivia Colman gone and done now?"

Text reads "Danish authorities say 'professional actor' responsible for airport drone attacks - Europe Live"

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 14d

Going to get my students to read Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller", because I think they might just love it, and I've been wanting to teach it again for a long time.

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 15d

Realising quite how strange he was makes me like him more.

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 15d

The trouble with this is that, with his rhetoric on immigration, Starmer has been repeating and amplifying far-right talking points. He is responsible for fuelling the division that he decries.

Keir Starmer to launch progressive fightback against ‘decline and division’ fuelled by far right

Prime minister expected to warn UK is ‘at a crossroads’ as he sets out plan to counter Nigel Farage and Reform

www.theguardian.com

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 15d

Hot topic in my Kant class today: is Kant right about not lying, ever? Or is he just a Weird Little Guy?

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 16d

As always, @michellekuo.bsky.social and @albertmwu.bsky.social are taking what is difficult and complex, and writing about it with extraordinary nuance, power and humanity. This is essential reading on #Taiwan.

A Sense of Dread: Isolationists under Trump Lay the Groundwork for Abandoning Taiwan, Marking a Radical Departure in Foreign Policy

Hello everyone,

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 16d

I've just had to go back and revise a comment on a student's essay, having told them they may need to iron out a few of their glamour problems.

Grammar, dammit. Grammar....

(In my classroom, of course, we're all very glamorous, even if we're not always as grammarous as we might wish...)

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 18d

And here's Lisa MacDonald, with an exquisitely well-judged reflection on the tricksiness of translation.

taiwaninsight.org/2025/09/19/o...

Orchids in the Wild

Written by Lisa LacDonald. This article reflects on orchids in Scotland and Taiwan as metaphors for translation. While Scottish orchids evoke resilience, Taiwanese orchids embody richness and local…

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 18d

Here's Elissa Hunter-Dorans, being brilliant about grandmothers, mothers, and mother tongues.

taiwaninsight.org/2025/09/17/g...

Grandmother Islands: Oral Memory, Mother Tongues, and Literary Kinship between Taiwan and Scotland

Written by Elissa Hunter-Dorans. This article reflects on how maternal and grandmaternal figures embody the preservation of Taiwanese and Gaelic. Through Tâigael, the author explores oral tradition…

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 18d

Why translate from Taiwanese to Gaelic and back again? Here, @drhannahstevens.bsky.social and I try to give an answer on #Taiwan Insight.

Do read the other essays in this special issue as well (from Elissa Hunter-Dorans and Lisa MacDonald, with the final one soon to land from Naomi Sím).

Tâigael: Orchids, Maternal Care, and a New Rosetta Stone

Written by Hannah Stevens and Will Buckingham. The article introduces Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic, a translation project linking two minoritised languages through English and Manda…

taiwaninsight.org

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 20d

At the thrice-weekly community gathering that is the arrival of the rubbish truck here in Tainan, I'm always particularly impressed by the sprightly pensioner who wheels his piles of rubbish to the truck, heaped up in a wheelchair.

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Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com · 21d

"Why translate from Taiwanese to Gaelic and back again? What possible reason could there be to publish a book of translations between these two small languages? And what challenges are there in embarking on such an enterprise?"

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 21d

I think about this a lot. Taiwan’s bustling pensioner park scene depends on it.

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 21d

One of the clearest markers of Britain’s civic downslide in recent decades is the slow cancellation of its once plentiful provision of public toilets. But in Asian countries like Japan and Taiwan, another loo is possible.

Politics of the Pissoir

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 23d

That's fabulous! When you're down in Tainan, give me a shout, and let's go get a coffee.

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 23d

Delighted to have this published on Taiwan Insight today, written with @drhannahstevens.bsky.social — the first in a series about our @windandbones.com book, Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic.

taiwaninsight.org/2025/09/15/t...

#Taiwan #Scotland #Taigi #Gaelic #literature #translation

Tâigael: Orchids, Maternal Care, and a New Rosetta Stone

Written by Hannah Stevens and Will Buckingham. The article introduces Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic, a translation project linking two minoritised languages through English and Manda…

taiwaninsight.org

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 25d

Matilda really didn't mess around...

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 25d

I've not thought about this story for years, but I used to love Saki. And this is an absolute corker of a line...

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25d

“I could not do violence to my conscience for anything less than ten shillings”

—In Saki’s (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870–1916) short story “The Boar-Pig”, a cunning girl – called Matilda – extracts money from 2 society ladies trying to gatecrash a garden party. 🖼️ by Quentin Blake …
#BookWormSat
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An illustration to Saki’s “The Boar-Pig”, by Quentin Blake: a dark-haired young girl, wearing an Edwardian-era frock, is sitting up a tree. She is looking down, smiling, at two ladies wearing Edwardian finery, with puffed shoulders, gloves, and elaborate hats. One lady is just peeking into the frame of the picture; the other, a robust woman carrying a small handbag in one hand an a furled parasol in the other, is looking up at the young girl in some dismay.

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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 27d

It is! 😀

Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 27d

If you are in Tainan, come along to this on the 27th! It's free and fun.

Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com · 27d

Philosophy-curious friends in Taiwan: we are back on Saturday 27th September with 死亡與哲學 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺.

The philosophy salon is in Mandarin and English and participants can chat in any language they like.

Full details here 👇✨✨

www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

See you there!

Participants at our free philosophy salon.

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