Brian Hioe (丘琦欣)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Brian Hioe
- Chinese: 丘琦欣
- Era: -
- Geography: -/NY
- Core roles: journalist
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Education
- New York University — 2013 — B.A., History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. — Columbia University in the City of New York — 2016 — M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures
Employment
- New Bloom — 2014-Present — Founding editors
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.
Role in the Community
- Founding editor of New Bloom (破土), the online magazine on Taiwanese/social-movement politics; his New Bloom archive of the 2014 Sunflower Movement (timelines, photographs, interviews) is cited as a primary source in the book The 228 Inheritance — The 228 Inheritance: Taiwan’s Revolution Is Here
- Wrote a personal essay for the TAH “Our Journeys” series on Taiwanese Americans — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-373|Our Journeys #373]]
- Reported on the Laguna Woods Taiwanese church shooting for New Bloom — Laguna Woods Taiwanese Church Shooting
- Commented on Taiwanese identity polling trends in a VOA email interview (as New Bloom founding editor and non-resident researcher, University of Nottingham Centre for Taiwan Studies): identity is never static, the long-term trend shows declining 中國人 identification, and the壓倒性 support for 維持現狀 is why every party now declares for some form of status quo — 台灣最新民調：僅2.4%自認中國人 (VOA 電郵採訪); the same interview was republished 2025-04-19 — 台灣最新民調：僅2.4%自認中國人，創調查紀錄 (2025-04-19 轉載)
- Panelist (「破土」雜誌創辦人) at the NTU Journalism Institute / Foreign Correspondents’ Club forum 「選後台灣：變動中的世界與新執政者們」 (2024-04-25), alongside 鄭閔聲 (天下雜誌), David Demes, 鬼島之音共同創辦人吳怡慈, and 英國上議院前議長德蘇莎女爵 (online) — 台海局勢受矚 英國上議院前議長論壇
- Quoted in corpus-translated CNN reporting on Pelosi’s planned 2022 visit to Taiwan (as founder of 破土雜誌/New Bloom): 丘琦欣 observed that Chinese threats had become “background noise” (背景雜音) for Taiwanese people, so the public largely did not weigh dire consequences of the visit — CNN：裴洛西擬到訪，台灣低調應對
- New Bloom (破土) is held in Echopedia as a community historical work — New Bloom 破土 (Online Magazine)
- New Bloom’s 228 reporting (「Historical Violence of the 228 Massacre is still Unanswered For」) is cited in TAH 228 reading/resource lists — Remembrance: Resources Learning about 228 and Remembering the 228 Massacre: Readings & Resources
- New Bloom Magazine (@newbloommag) was cited as a reporting source in the corpus record on Taiwanese Americans helping report anti-AAPI discrimination (2021) — Taiwanese Americans Help Report Anti-AAPI Discrimination
- New Bloom is listed among the partner organizations of Taiwan Mixed, the student-run English-language Taiwan news aggregator — Introducing Taiwan Mixed
- In the Bonnie Jin profile, New Bloom is described as 「a radical media collective in Taiwan organizing between Taiwan and the international community」 whose advocacy transcends the national context — Bonnie Jin, Union Organizer
- TAH encyclopedia entry — 1612. Brian Hioe 丘琦欣