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David Frazier
SCMP Contributor
David Frazier is a journalist, filmmaker and festival organiser based in Taiwan since 1995, where he is founder of the Urban Nomad film and music festivals. As a journalist and critic, he has written for The New York Times, Taipei Times, South China Morning Post, Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific and others.
Amid the Cold War, a particular style of pulp fiction, stepped in a clichéd, Orientalist version of China, caught the imagination of authors and readers halfway across the world
Teresa Teng’s untimely death in 1995 sparked many a conspiracy theory. A former employee of the Chiang Mai hotel where the singer lived and died recalls what happened on that fateful day 29 years ago.
The Thai towns of the notorious Golden Triangle are taking advantage of their opium-producing history with attractions centred on the drug and military leaders who fought over it.
As Taiwan’s young generation dust off disco records from the 1970s and 80s, scholars consider how the island came to embrace a Western music genre at a time when even dancing in public was illegal.
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Taipei After Dark was a sleazy guide to nightlife in Taiwan’s capital published in the Vietnam war era. A 50th anniversary reprint, published in 2019, has David Frazier wondering how true a picture it painted.
Taiwan’s Turtle Island attracts everyone from watersports fans to volcano enthusiasts, while Toucheng on the mainland, which provides boat links, is the gateway to some of Taiwan’s best beaches.
How did a small-town dermatologist in Taiwan amass the most historically important record collection in China, one so vast he doesn’t know its size? Post Magazine finds out.
Who knew that sex, drugs and the Tao would be the seeds that blossomed into Thailand’s massive fasting detox retreat industry? And yet, here we are, by way of one Daniel Reid, author and former LSD enthusiast.
The Hongdae district of the the South Korean capital is the beating heart of a live music scene that began with American soldiers on R&R in the 1960s and which still has a taste for R&B, soul, funk and psychedelia.
After all-conquering runs on stage and screen, The Phantom of the Opera returns as an arena show.
Top hardcore bands from the US and Britain are joining local acts in the city's first heavy metal music festival.
The TV host tells David Frazier about her journey from Texas to Taiwan, and to becoming a try-anything type.
Spring Wave is the latest attempt to bring a Taiwanese music festival to Hong Kong. Organiser Shen Kwan-yuan tells David Frazier why this one should stick around
Mando-pop star A-Lin lives in the shadow of her mentor A-Mei, but she remains a rare talent, writes David Frazier.
In 1995, the first Spring Scream music festival took place on an improvised stage at a little-known beach in southern Taiwan.
The Austin, Texas, band …And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Dead can drop guitar distortion on an audience as if they are carpet-bombing. They also have a weirdly literary edge, a way of carving real songs out of all their noisiness, and a reputation for trashing instruments at the end of their shows.
