NüVoices Podcast: Adapting YA bestseller ‘Loveboat, Taipei’ to the big screen with Abigail Hing Wen

Author Abigail Hing Wen discusses her NYT best selling YA novel, Loveboat, Taipei and its film adaptation Love in Taipei, based on the Taiwan summer study tour that started more than half a century ago. I had the pleasure of speaking with her, where we chatted about the crazy escapades, her own experiences with the program, how her book and the film came together, and what it's like telling this story to a new generation of diaspora youth.

Youth Drama, Romance, Friendship, Coming Of Age, Arts and Entertainment, TaiwanS HoAugust 16, 2023Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Love Boat, Taiwan Study Tour, Diaspora, Overseas Community Affairs Council, Taiwan, Taipei, Love In Taipei, Loveboat TaipeiComment

Wait, My Youth, infused with the bittersweet ache of nostalgia (Updated with A River Runs Through It)

This drama left a bittersweet ache in my heart other campus dramas never managed to pull off. Infused with a sense of nostalgia for the early 2000s where much of the story takes place, the drama centres around a group of five (later six) friends and their trials and tribulations from youth to adulthood over the course of a decade.