Half Baked in Taiwan Author:Beth Fowler Half Baked in Taiwan is a humorous, insightful, no-holds-barred account of one true-blue Yankee's two-and-a-half years of living in Taiwan, a quintessentially Chinese island that gets battered in the international shuffle. Beth Fowler's anatomy of culture shock will make you grin, giggle and reconsider the cliché "It's a small world."