"Made in Taiwan" - everyone knows this phrase. But what kind of country lies behind the manufacturer of cheap clothes and, after all, 80% of all notebooks worldwide? And what is life like in a place where high-speed internet connections are as common as the dangers posed by hungry ghosts? Depending on your perspective, Taiwan is a subtropical island in the Pacific with spectacular mountains, a bastion of traditional Chinese culture, the first Chinese democracy, a former Japanese colony, a U.S. aircraft carrier, or a breakaway province of the People's Republic of China. To navigate this confusion, there is only one solution: a consistently subjective and curious gaze. And with that, the author tells stories about chaos and order in everyday life, good manners towards the local and beyond, and the comical figure she presents as a Western woman in all of this. Myt.