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

Yi-tze Lee, National Dong Hwa University gives his final talk of his Fulbright scholar time with the Taiwan Studies Program May 8, at 3:30 – 5PM in Thomson Hall 317. This talk explores the experiences of the Indigenous Amis people within urban infrastructures, with a focus on their everyday interactions with animal kin since the

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

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

In collaboration with the Taiwan Studies Program of the University of Nottingham (U.K.), UW-TSP organized the Taiwan in Transition Conference, held at the University of Nottingham 15-16 June 2023. This hybrid event brought approximately 20 scholars together to present on major change in Taiwan society in the realms of demography, economy, law, and national identity.

From December 2020 to January 2021, the Taiwan Studies Program hosted the Land/scaping Taiwan workshop virtually with a group of 11 scholars from different fields (including history, sociology, art history, anthropology, media studies, urban studies, etc) presenting papers from around the world. “Land/scaping” was inspired by a broad and multidisciplinary approach. It highlighted how spatial,