The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club will host longtime Taiwan journalist and former TFCC Vice President Chris Horton on Tuesday, February 3, for a conversation about his 2025 book Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival. This event is organized with the support of the Memorial Foundation of 228.
Drawing on more than a decade of reporting in Taiwan and China, Ghost Nation tells the story of how this diplomatically isolated democracy has become a central player in global geopolitics. As tensions between Washington and Beijing continue to rise, the book offers a deeply reported and accessible account of Taiwan’s history, identity, and the stakes of its struggle for self-determination.
Chris will discuss the book’s main themes, his reporting process, and Taiwan’s place in today’s shifting international order, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Tuesday, February 3
Time: 3.00pm (please arrive by 2.50pm)
Venue: National 228 Memorial Museum (臺北市中正區南海路54號)
Language: English
Admission: TFCC members will be given priority
Registration: https://forms.gle/q7vR9q6gGFyKsttEA
Light refreshments will be provided at the venue.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist who has covered Taiwan’s foreign relations, domestic politics, economy, and society since 2015. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Wire China, and ChinaFile. From 2022 to 2024 he served as Vice President of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
Before coming to Taiwan, Chris spent two years in Hong Kong covering the Umbrella Movement and civil society, and 13 years in China reporting on the country’s economic rise and its global impact.
More about the book:
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/chris-horton/ghost-nation/9781035034024
The session will be moderated by TFCC vice chair David Demes.