Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 undergraduate, graduate and professional students from the UW Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma campuses in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the University of Washington. Recognized in the 2025 100 is Tin Pak, B.A. – International Studies, and B.A. – Political Science

Yi-tze Lee, National Dong Hwa University gives his final talk of his Fulbright scholar time with the Taiwan Studies Program May 8, at 3:30 – 5PM in Thomson Hall 317. This talk explores the experiences of the Indigenous Amis people within urban infrastructures, with a focus on their everyday interactions with animal kin since the

Join us April 25 at 12:30 PM for Re-institutionalization of Marriage Among Young People in Taiwan a lunchtime talk by guest lecturer Lake Lui, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. This lecture is part of the Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Crisis Discourses and Collaborative Responses conference the same day.

Join us on March 6, 3:30 – 5 PM (Pacific) for this hybrid book talk with Professor Honghong Tinn, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. (Register via the link below) How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers,

By Niki Alsford and James Lin The Pioneering Taiwan Studies Workshop, held at the University of Washington and co-organized with Niki Alsford from the University of Central Lancashire, brought together a distinguished cohort of early-generation Taiwan Studies scholars whose research has significantly shaped the field. The workshop provided a unique platform for reflecting on the

The 2025 Taiwan Scholarship and the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, will be open for applications FEB 1 – MAR 31, 2025. As in previous years, the MOE_Taiwan_Scholarship-2025 is offered to students who wish to enroll in a degree program in Taiwan, while the MOE_Huayu_Enrichment_Scholarship-2025 is tailored for students who wish

The new UW Taiwan M.A. degree option has been featured  in several Taiwanese news outlets. Focus Taiwan, the English version of Taiwan Central News Agency (CNA) has carried a piece on the new degree option as has Radio Taiwan International. Read more here: Focus Taiwan News Taiwan Central News Agency Radio Taiwan International  

See recording of this event on our YouTube channel!   On Thursday, January 30 at 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Thomson 317, and ON-LINE live-stream the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomes professors and co-authors Catherine Chou and Mark Harrison for a presentation on their recent book Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World,(Cambria, 2024).

The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various tracks of study, including for the first