Are you interested in studying the environment while traveling Taiwan? Our colleagues at the Program on the Environment invite you to join them for a 4-week study abroad program this summer: POE Taiwan Study Abroad Program Summer 2023: 6/19-7/19 Travel around Taiwan to explore cases of social and environmental resilience Interact with local students, experts,

Professor David Bachman was interviewed by Voice of America (Russian language) on October 25, 2022. Bachman discussed the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Congress.

On Tuesday, November 15, University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies faculty discussed how the Ukraine War is affecting the increasingly tense situation in the Taiwan Strait. Moderated by Anand Yang, the panel provided deep insights into the positions of China, Taiwan, and the US before opening to a public Q&A. David Bachman illuminated

On April 22, 2022, the Taiwan Studies Program hosted emeritus faculty Stevan Harrell for an interview with UW faculty Jing Xu about her current research involving children growing up in a rural Taiwanese village during the 1950s. Dr. Xu’s project incorporates rigorous anthropological analysis on unpublished research conducted by the late anthropologists Arthur Wolf and

On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Professor Zhuqing Li joined UW’s China Studies and Taiwan Studies Programs for a Book Talk discussing her recent publication – Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War. Professor Li shared her journey in trying to understand and reconstruct the near-century-long-lives of her two maternal

On September 29, 2022, Ian Easton (Senior Director, Project 2049 Institute) discussed with James Lin (Assistant Professor, University of Washington) Taiwan’s current defense situation, including newly announced budget increases, institutional reforms, and changing threats. Easton stressed that Taiwan faces a real and increasing threat of invasion from the PRC. However, leadership in Taipei had sidelined

Taiwan Studies Program faculty member, Director of the Urban Commons Lab at the University of Washington, and Professor of Landscape Architecture Jeff Hou published Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization. Co-edited with Dr. Im Sik Cho (National University of Singapore) and Dr. Blaz Kriznik (Hanyang University), the book

From June 27th to June 29th, 2022, the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program hosted the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies. The conference was a collaboration between UW-TSP and Academia Sinica. Hosted in North America for the first time, the event brought together the world’s leading Taiwan-focused scholars to present and discuss cutting-edge research.

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program will host the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies from June 27 to 29, 2022. All three days of the conference will be livestreamed on our Facebook and YouTube pages. To join us online, please register at the WCTS website. Registration to view the livestream is free and

This Saturday, May 28, from 6:00pm to 7:15pm in Kane Hall 130, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies will host a discussion addressing the evolving relationship between Taiwan and the Baltic States. Diplomatic relations between the Baltic countries and the Republic of China (Taiwan) began in the 1920s, and were revived in the