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

Recording now available on YouTube In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought these practices to the developing world. In the Global Vanguard

The April 24 Roundtable Discussion recording is available. In partnership with the 228 Memorial Foundation (Taiwan) and the UW Tateuchi East Asia Library, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to our 228 Memorial Program, featuring two roundtable discussions (one in English and one in Mandarin), an exhibition tour, and two film

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.

Asian Indigeneities, Resilient Sovereignty, and Multiple Agencies in Taiwan and Beyond See agenda and participants HERE On April 28, 2025 the Taiwan Studies Program brings together scholars collaborating with Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan and beyond, bridging Taiwan’s Indigenous Studies with Indigenous scholarship in the Asia-Pacific region. Highlighting contemporary research topics on Indigenous self-determination and agency, particularly

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

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

The UW Taiwan Studies Program is proud to announce the launch of the University of Washington Press book series, Taiwan and the World, edited by TSP faculty Madeleine Dong, Bill Lavely, and James Lin.  The first book published in the series is Niki Alsford’s Taiwan Lives, on which he will give a book talk on March

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