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 Friday, April 14, 2023, at 9:30 AM PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Representative Bi-khim Hsiao for a public conversation with JSIS Professor James Lin to discuss the future of US-Taiwan Relations.   Representative Bi-khim Hsiao assumed her position as Taiwan’s Representative to the United States in July 2020, after serving as a

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

“Hu Tai-Li’s films should be mandatory viewing for anyone in Taiwan Studies. Future generations of filmmakers in Taiwan will owe a great debt to her.” —Marc L. Moskowitz, American Anthropologist, 2008 From April 3 to May 3, 2023, the Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to our exhibit, Encountering Hu Tai-Li: The Anthropologist Behind the Camera,

On Friday, April 14, 2023, at 9:30 AM PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Representative Bi-khim Hsiao for a public conversation with JSIS Professor James Lin to discuss the future of US-Taiwan Relations. The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: Representative Bi-khim Hsiao in Conversation with JSIS Professor James Lin University of Washington (In-person Only) Please visit our Eventbrite page to register: bikhimhsiao.eventbrite.com *Registration Required! Registered

On Monday, April 17, 2023, at 3:30p.m. PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Professor Scott Simon to discuss his newly published monograph, Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa. The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa – today called Taiwan – say that their ancestors emerged in the