Category: Tai Tales
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Sweeping tombs, eating food and waving at the dead
It’s Cheng Beng and I, forever the family travel operator, is shepherding the family to Penang island. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.
I watched a Chinese legal drama called Draw the Line and I’d like to reassure you that I’m still not a member of the Communist Party of China. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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I speak four languages. That’s just being Malaysian.
And also the result of an accident in geography and school choices. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Sad Stories of Asian People
On the literary West’s curious fascination with suffering Asians. 📧 Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Hello from a banana
On being Chinese but not quite Chinese enough. 📧Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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My yearly negotiations with Mum about Chinese New Year cooking
Every year I tell her it’s not necessary to cook for Chinese New Year. Every year I fail. Yet I keep trying. Points for effort? 📧Subscribe to read the post. Subscription is free.
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Chinese New Year auntie uncle time
Verily I tell you, 90% of my relatives will not survive cancel culture in the West. 📧Subscribe to read the post.
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Weekend Tales #4: My focus in 2024 is ‘beauty’
The new approach my little newsletter, Tai Tales is taking in 2024. Standing up against outrage culture on the Internet. And some articles about the Substack / Platformer drama. 📧Subscribe to read the post.
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Now on Substack – elitism, condescension and dogpiles
Substack’s design and content choices is fostering a social “class” system of elites, followers and outsiders. Can we escape this game? 📧Subscribe to read the post.
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The vigil at the manor (Part 3/7)
Mister Meadows finds out the truth. Miss Brahms skirts it. A Distant Stars mosaic novel story. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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The Vigil at the Manor (Part 2/7)
Mister Meadows finds a clue that reveals more than it should. Part 2 of a seven-part short story in the Distant Stars mosaic novel. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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The vigil at the Manor (Part 1/7)
The Silent are happy to serve. To be useful is to live well. A seven-part short story in the Distant Stars mosaic novel. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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What I learned from one year of Substack
Personal and random observations on what it takes to “make it” on this platform. Caution: Some of it can be brutally honest and rub you the wrong way. This post will be gated after a week. ;)
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Weekend Tales #3
A new strategy for Tai Tales, and dealing with a new housemate. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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Being Chinese in an anti-China world
I speak and think in English. But I’m genetically Chinese and that is problematic in an anti-China Western world. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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Weekend Tales #2
Dealing with digital burnout and a bumper issue with 12 recommended reads! 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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That Man
The Outerworlds formed the Federation because they had to. At least, that’s the “official” story. A Distant Stars tale. This story is exclusive for blog subscribers, so do subscribe to the blog to read the story :) 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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Distant Stars — story index
Distant Stars is a composite novel set in the distant future where humanity has fled to another part of the galaxy. But old habits die hard. Humanity is still at each other’s throats and have long forgotten why they need to work together. A roadmap for readers.
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How I’m healing from algorithms
The slow awakening that I no longer have to create around an algorithm’s demands. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
Elizabeth Tai 