Join UW-TSP on Wednesday, January 17 at 3:30pm in HUB 340 and online as we welcome Bonnie Glaser (German Marshall Fund) to discuss her co-authored book with Richard Bush and Ryan Hass, U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? This book talk will address the rising Chinese military pressure and the intensifying gray-zone campaign tactics (economic coercion,

Join the Taiwan Studies Program in-person or online as three speakers, Kharis Templeman (Hoover Institution, Stanford), David Bachman (UW), and Ellen Chang (UW) discuss the 2024 elections and Wave Makers on Wednesday, November 1 from 5-6:30pm PT in HUB 340. In January 2024, Taiwan will elect a new president and legislature. This election offers a potentially

From October 14 to November 28, 2023, the Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to the Kuroshio Odyssey: Maritime Memories, Culture, and Landscapes—a serial program that focuses on the diverse Indigenous communities of eastern Taiwan and their stunning natural world. The program features a series of in-person displays, online exhibits, crafting workshops, film screenings, and scholarly roundtables

On September 25 and 26, the Taiwan Studies Program will bring a dozen scholars for an in-person workshop on the theme of “Land/scaping Taiwan.” Landscapes often exist as material records, surrounding environments, or representations. We propose to move beyond these frameworks to see landscapes as embodied modes of habitation and of human and non-human encounters

On Thursday, October 12 at 3:30pm in Thomson Hall 317 UW-TSP welcomed Professor Janet Chen to discuss her newly published monograph, The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960. This talk was featured in person and online. To view the recording, please visit our YouTube channel or watch

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Taiwan Studies Topical Section: “Democratic Transition and Postauthoritarianism in Taiwan” In the 1980s and 1990s, Taiwan underwent a dramatic transformation from single-party authoritarian rule to a vibrant multi-party democracy.  The transformation spawned a number of studies about Taiwan’s democratisation as part of the so-called ‘Third Wave’. Today, Taiwan ranks

Friday May 12, 2023 1:00pm-4:00pm Saturday May 13, 2023 9:00am-12:00pm Peek Family Forum (Founders Hall 580) | Seattle Campus As US-China relations grow increasingly tense, Taiwan has found itself in the middle of a decoupling of the two largest economies in the world. Taiwan-based semiconductor firm TSMC has responded to the recent US CHIPS Act by building

CALL FOR PAPERS Southeast Asia and Taiwan Conference April 25-26, 2024 University of Washington, Seattle Co-hosted by the UW Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas, Taiwan Studies Program, and East Asia Center Southeast Asia and Taiwan have been linked for millennia by migrations of indigenous peoples and maritime trade.  Today, both have become rising economies

On June 20, 2023, Assistant Professor Yuan-Hsiao published a new article in Globalization and Health entitled “Politics matters for individual attitudes toward vaccine donation: cross-national evidence from the United States and Taiwan.” Co-authored with a collaborative team of scholars from National Cheng Kung University, Professor Hsiao’s article discusses commonalities and differences between political influences on Taiwanese and

On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. PT, UCLA’s Asia Pacific Center and UW’s Taiwan Studies Program welcomed CHONG Ja Ian to discuss his new work, ‘Stand up Like a Taiwanese!’.  Taiwan’s opposition to PRC demands such as acceptance of the ‘92 Consensus’ and ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula since 2016 has invited a