Join us Thursday, February 6 at 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Thomson 317, and online for ‘Colonial Taiwan and the Nature of Japan’s Pharmaceutical Industry’ with Timothy M. Yang, University of Georgia. This talk is based on Yang’s recent book ‘A Medicated Empire: the Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan’ (Cornell University Press, 2021). In this

In partnership with the UW Music Alumni Concert Series, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to Absolute Sonatas, a duo concert between violinist Emily Acri and pianist Li-Cheng Hung on Monday, January 20, at the UW Brechemin Auditorium. Violinist Emily Acri and pianist Li-Cheng Hung are excited to present this Absolute

The 2025 Taiwan Scholarship and the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, will be open for applications FEB 1 – MAR 31, 2025. As in previous years, the MOE_Taiwan_Scholarship-2025 is offered to students who wish to enroll in a degree program in Taiwan, while the MOE_Huayu_Enrichment_Scholarship-2025 is tailored for students who wish

The new UW Taiwan M.A. degree option has been featured  in several Taiwanese news outlets. Focus Taiwan, the English version of Taiwan Central News Agency (CNA) has carried a piece on the new degree option as has Radio Taiwan International. Read more here: Focus Taiwan News Taiwan Central News Agency Radio Taiwan International  

On Thursday, January 30 at 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Thomson 317, and ON-LINE live-stream the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomes professors and co-authors Catherine Chou and Mark Harrison for a presentation on their recent book Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World,(Cambria, 2024). In the early 1990s, the people of Taiwan gained the

Tin Pak, a junior majoring in International Studies and a student-staff member of the Taiwan Studies Program was awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship and a Jackson Foundation grant for his research on Taiwan.  Tin will be in Taiwan next quarter researching Taiwan’s military and civilian resilience to electromagnetic attacks.  Congratulations, Tin!      

The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various tracks of study, including for the first

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

In partnership with the UW Tateuchi East Asia Library, TaiwanPlus, and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI), the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to Love, Taipei—a pop-up exhibit at TEAL in November 2024 and an online film festival on TaiwanPlus (November 2024 and onward). Love, Taipei is inspired by romance films

On November 14 and 15, 2024, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will bring together early American academics of Taiwan for a conference where they will discuss their legacy and the future of Taiwan studies. Please visit this link to register for the conference: https://uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com/pioneeringtaiwan/ Program Schedule In the postwar period, Taiwan underwent significant political and