The fear of intermixers was not new, nor was the dread of native customs and culture. The hostility to the purveyors and symbols of native barbarity – the language, dress, manners, bards, poets, harpers, and others – was expressed in the Statutes of Kilkenny and resurrected in 1536 during the Kildare rebellion.

Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.

I'll get you back for this!

The Yunlin County Government is inviting the public to a flower festival that will be held in Cihtong Township’s (莿桐) 50 hectare flower field — which is roughly the size of 1,145 basketball courts.