James Lin, assistant professor of international studies and an expert in Taiwan history, has authored an article titled, “Taiwan Shouldn’t Be Used as a Geopolitical Pawn,” that was published in Jacobin on Nov. 18, 2022, on the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations.

In a New York Times article titled, “Why People Are Flocking to a Symbol of Taiwan’s Authoritarian Past,” about the Jing-Mei human rights museum in Taiwan, Jackson School faculty James Lin, a historian of modern Taiwan, is quoted. The article was published on Oct. 25, 2022.

David Bachman shares perspectives on the growing tension between China and Taiwan in an interview with Morning Wave in Busan. The piece aired on Oct. 26, 2022. Listen to the 14-minute interview here. Morning Wave in Busan is an early-bird program featuring news and current issues and based in Busan, Republic of Korea.

Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, has co-edited a new book published by Amsterdam University Press titled ‘Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization‘. In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban

David Bachman, Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, was interviewed on KIRO7 News on the significance, opportunities and challenges of the US visit to Taiwan.    

James Lin, assistant professor of Taiwan Studies and a historian of Taiwan, on recent events in US-Taiwan relations & more: South China Morning Post quoted James Lin on Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan (July 30, 2022)- Hyphen Magazine roundtable interview on Taiwanese Americans and recent Taiwan news quotes James Lin (Aug. 2, 2022) Conversation Six, a platform for short audio

James Lin, assistant professor of Taiwan Studies and a historian of Taiwan, is quoted in the media below about the May 15 attack on a Taiwanese-American church in southern California in which one person was killed and five injured by suspected gunman David Chou, who was born in martial-law era Taiwan but identified as Chinese:

Jackson School Professor Deborah Porter’s new book “The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences” (Routledge 2022) brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.