On Wednesday, November 12 the East Asia Center and Center for Japanese Studies is hosting a book talk with Dr. Andrea Gevurtz Arai, and Jeff Hou, professor emeritus, in a discussion moderated by Prof. Davinder Bhowmik for Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers University Press 2025). November 12, 2026 3:30 –

Yen-Chu Weng, Taiwan Studies Program faculty, is one of four UW faculty researchers named as Fulbright Scholars for the 2025-26 year. Weng, assistant teaching professor in the Program on the Environment and the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. As a geographer, Weng’s work explores the dynamic relationships between human societies and the environment. She

On Wednesday, March 6 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Professor Niki Alsford to discuss his newest book entitled Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. Published by the University of Washington Press as the first book in the Taiwan and the World book series supported by UW-TSP, Taiwan

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.