Beijing’s efforts to infiltrate Taoism in Taiwan continue. However, Taiwanese see China and the CCP with growing mistrust.
Mattias Daly
Quanzhen: How China Weaponizes Taoism for Global Propaganda. 3. Ready to Mobilize?
The CCP would like to use Taiwanese Quanzhen Taoists for its purposes. However, it encounters an obstacle in the very structure of Taiwan’s Taoism.
Quanzhen: How China Weaponizes Taoism for Global Propaganda. 2. International Ambitions
It is not about religion only. There are investment programs and direct pro-Chinese political action abroad.
Quanzhen: How China Weaponizes Taoism for Global Propaganda. 1. International Outreach
The global expansion of the Quanzhen sect of Taoism and how the CCP has used it as a tool of influence through the United Front Work Department.
A Slow Boil: Memories of Life in China During the Uyghur Genocide
Longread: an American student’s bitter reflections on his ten years in China, alongside the “ethnic cleansing” of Uyghurs and the persecution of Muslims.
Mattias Daly
Mattias Swenson Daly is a Kiwi-American researcher, translator, and writer based in Taiwan. His writings and translations span religious, historical, political, and arts topics. One of his translations, Taoist Inner Alchemy: Master Huang Yuanji’s Guide to the Way of Meditation, was published in 2024 through Shambhala Publications. In 2023 he published Ungrounded Certainty: The Methods, Texts, and False History of Sexual Inner Alchemy in the Scholarly Imagination (無中生有：學界想象中的陰陽丹法文本與虛構的歷史), an original monograph written in Chinese, through Shin Wen Feng Printing Company. Prior to living in Taiwan, he spent a decade in China.