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

Join us JANUARY 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM in Thomson Hall 317 for a special book talk by Professor Nicholas de Villiers of University of North Florida for his talk ‘Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang’. VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE In his book, de Villiers contends that we need to theorize both queer time

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

Join us in recognizing one of our Global Visionaries, Professor Yen-Chu Weng who was recently interviewed by the University of Washington Global Affairs Office. The Office of Global Affairs is excited to celebrate Yen-Chu Weng for the November 2024 edition of the Global Visionaries series. The Global Visionaries series highlights the UW’s global impact by

This past summer, the UW School of Art sponsored the study abroad course, Design in Taiwan: Sustainable Innovation through Craft and Technology. Led by UW Assistant Professor in Industrial Design and Taiwan Studies Program member, Meichun Liu, 17 students in 3 weeks explored design culture in Taiwan across the private and public sectors. Their travels