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Vol. 681 / Content

The Decline of 'Internet Celebrity' Politics

Vol. 681

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Taipei Residents: Are You Truly Happy?

CommonWealth 2019 City Happiness Survey: Taiwan’s Capital Scores Top Across the Board

Taipei put up a stunning performance in this year’s City Happiness Survey by CommonWealth Magazine, winning top scores for all objective indicators. However, when it comes to the more subjective opinion poll score, the capital city did not fare so well. The survey results show that, on top of providing residents with a decent livelihood, cities also need to fulfill more spiritual aspects of human life to make their residents happy and proud.

International

Annie Zhang

Foreshadowing History? Why Hong Kong’s One Country, Two Systems Framework Could Survive in Name Only

What kind of historic arrangement could give the anti-extradition bill protesters in Hong Kong such steely resolve that they would have no regrets even if they took everyone else down with them? Annie Zhang Jie-ping, founder of the blockchain-based, decentralized content platform Matters Lab, will write a regular column for CommonWealth Magazine in which she will comb through history to help readers understand the present by examining the past.