On January 13, the UW Taiwan Studies Program held a public roundtable on the Taiwan presidential and legislative elections that had taken place two days earlier. Three experts on Taiwan electoral politics made presentations: Dr. Kharis Templeman, Professor Margaret Lewis and, and Professor Dennis Lu-Chung Weng  Director-General Alex Fan of the Taipei Economic and Cultural

(Non-)Humans, Environment, and Moments of Encounter University of Washington, Seattle April 17-18, 2020 Sponsored by the UW Taiwan Studies Program, Department of Landscape Architecture/College of Built Environments, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Landscapes often exist as material records, surrounding environments, or representations. We propose to move beyond these frameworks to see landscapes as embodied modes of

The Taiwan Studies Program at the University of Washington is excited to announce our involvement at this year’s UW Converge summit in Taipei, Taiwan, and to invite all alumni and community members to join us at Converge. UW Converge is an annual international meeting of University of Washington alumni, and friends from all over the world. This year’s summit begins

The University of Washington was honored to once again host the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) from May 16 to 18, 2019.  Since the last time UW hosted NATSA over ten years ago, NATSA has grown into a vibrant community of students and scholars enabling new and important research on Taiwan. This year’s North

In a roundtable conversation, the UW Taiwan Studies Program hosted Shirley Kan, Steve Li, and David Bachman on April 30, 2019 to discuss how forty years of the TRA have affected the US-Taiwan partnership. Topics of discussion included how the TRA has affected US arms sales to Taiwan, Taiwan’s self-defense and security cooperation policies, and

The Taiwan Studies Program is honored to host the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) annual meeting this year at the University of Washington.  NATSA was established in 1994 and is run by North America-based faculty and PhD students who are interested in Taiwan Studies. The NATSA annual conferences are the largest academic events on

Professor Paul Barclay (Lafayette College) visited the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program on April 10, 2019 to talk about his new book Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945 (University of California Press 2017, available to read free online). Barclay captured the attention of the audience with his in-depth approach to

When: April 30 5:30PM: Reception with food and beverages, sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of Seattle. 6:30PM to 8PM: Roundtable Discussion Where: 214 Husky Union Building (HUB) In 1979, the US Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA). In the aftermath of establishing a diplomatic relationship with the People’s Republic of China instead of

Join us for an upcoming community forum, “Taiwan Relations Act: TRA @ 40, an Enduring Partnership”, this Sunday, April 14th, from 3-4 PM in the UW East Asia Library. Our featured speaker is Director General Kuo-shu Fan (范國樞 處長) of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. He will talk about Taiwan and U.S. relations over the past 40 years on the occasion

In her new book Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018), Professor Lan uses parenting as an empirical lens to examine cultural transformation and persisting inequality in the contexts of globalization and immigration. This talk focuses on the distinct strategies of “global parenting” among Taiwanese families across the