RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE Join us on May 14 – online or in-person – for a book talk by Michelle T. King about her latest book ‘Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu-Pei Mei and Making of Modern Chinese Food. Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004), Taiwan’s beloved and pioneering postwar cook book author and television celebrity, was often called the

Join the Taiwan Studies Program April 9 for special guest lecture by Ming-sho Ho, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University as he dives deep into two major movements: the Bluebird Action of 2024, which brought crowds back to the streets by reviving the spirit of past protests, and the Great Recall Campaign of

Join the Taiwan and Japan Studies programs for a presentation by Adam Liff, Professor of East Asian International Relations at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies on April 23. Amid a rapidly changing balance of power and worsening frictions across the Taiwan Strait, this talk surveys the historical evolution of Japanese

Scholarship Opportunity to Study Mandarin in Taiwan UW internal deadline: March 1, 2026 Taiwan Ministry of Education deadline: March 31, 2026 Scholarship amount and eligibility: The UW Taiwan Studies Program invites all UW undergraduate and graduate students to submit applications for the Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, which offers stipends of 28,000

On Wednesday, November 12 the East Asia Center and Center for Japanese Studies is hosting a book talk with Dr. Andrea Gevurtz Arai, and Jeff Hou, professor emeritus, in a discussion moderated by Prof. Davinder Bhowmik for Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers University Press 2025). November 12, 2026 3:30 –

The Taiwan Studies Program features articles written by our students on topics ranging from politics to history and education to human rights. Our two most recent posts include ‘Blue in a Box: Implications of Taiwan’s Devaluation of Blue-Collar Workers’, by recent International Studies graduate Euchari Majors (MAIS 2025), and ‘From Reconciliation to Action: Taiwan’s Pathway

We are joining the Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) in welcoming Lucy Li as the new China collection librarian. Over the past two years, Lucy has served in this role in an interim capacity, demonstrating exceptional dedication, professionalism, and deep understanding of the research and teaching needs of our China and Taiwan Studies communities. Her strong academic

New Directions in Taiwan History – Taiwan at the Center and at the Margins February 26-27, 2026 University of Washington, Seattle This two-day workshop will bring together scholars working across the temporal range of Taiwan history to share and discuss works-in-progress and findings from their research projects.  We especially welcome contributions on legal, environmental, Qing,

Yen-Chu Weng, Taiwan Studies Program faculty, is one of four UW faculty researchers named as Fulbright Scholars for the 2025-26 year. Weng, assistant teaching professor in the Program on the Environment and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. As a geographer, Weng’s work explores the dynamic relationships between human societies and the environment. She