From December 2020 to January 2021, the Taiwan Studies Program hosted the Land/scaping Taiwan workshop virtually with a group of 11 scholars from different fields (including history, sociology, art history, anthropology, media studies, urban studies, etc) presenting papers from around the world. “Land/scaping” was inspired by a broad and multidisciplinary approach. It highlighted how spatial,

On January 13, 2020, 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

Professor of Anthropology Jeffrey T. Martin at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign visited the University of Washington Taiwan Studies program on November 19, 2019 to give a talk on his new book Sentiment, Reason and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan. Martin gave an engaging talk on the development of the critical theory

Update: the panel recap is now available to read. When: April 30, 2019 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

Update: the lecture recap is now available to read. The UW Taiwan Studies program welcomed Professor Paul Barclay (Lafayette College) to discuss his newly published book, Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945 (University of California Press 2017). Title: Where Do Indigenous Peoples Come From? A Historian’s View When: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 6:30-8:00 PM Where: HUB Room 214

June 29, 2018 7PM Kane Hall, Room 210 University of Washington Professor Yomi Braester, Ellen Y. Chang, and Belinda Qian He Yomi Braester is professor of comparative literature and cinema studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published extensively on modern Chinese literature, film, and visual culture, as well as on architecture,

A great island off the coast of China, Taiwan has had an eventful history: as a Dutch entrepôt, a Chinese frontier, a Japanese colony, and as a Cold War redoubt for the Chinese Nationalist Party.  Today, Taiwan is a prosperous democracy with a thriving civil society.  How did it come about?  This exhibit tells the epic story.

February 20, 2018 7PM HUB Room 332 Professor Cheng-shu Kao (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) Professor Gary Hamilton (UW) Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy is a record of a thirty-year research project that we began in 1987. A distinguished sociologist and university administrator in Taiwan, Kao and his research team (which included