This past summer, the UW School of Art sponsored the study abroad course, Design in Taiwan: Sustainable Innovation through Craft and Technology. Led by UW Assistant Professor in Industrial Design and Taiwan Studies Program member, Meichun Liu, 17 students in 3 weeks explored design culture in Taiwan across the private and public sectors. Their travels

The East Asia Program is hiring a Program Operations Specialist. If you have a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies, Korean Studies, International Studies, or other related discipline and two or more years of experience providing relevant or related experience and are interested in applying, please refer to the job description below and the official

On Friday, April 14, 2023, at 9:30 AM PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Representative Bi-khim Hsiao for a public conversation with JSIS Professor James Lin to discuss the future of US-Taiwan Relations.   Representative Bi-khim Hsiao assumed her position as Taiwan’s Representative to the United States in July 2020, after serving as a

We are pleased to share this call for papers for a Taiwan history workshop that the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program is co-hosting with Princeton University and UC Berkeley. Call for Papers New Directions in Taiwan History: Imperial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Histories February 28-March 1, 2025 Princeton University This two-day workshop will bring together

On Thursday, November 14 from 3:30 to 5pm in HUB 337 and online, Dr. Jing Xu will discuss her latest monograph, “Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Click here to register or use the QR code below. How do humans become moral persons? What about children’s active

On Thursday, October 31 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, Dr. Anru Lee will discuss her latest monograph, Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan (University of Hawaii Press, 2023). Click here to register or use the QR code below. In 1973 twenty-five young women drowned in a ferry accident

On Thursday, November 21 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, Dr. Fang Yu Hu will discuss her latest monograph, Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (UW Press, 2024). Click here to register or use the QR code below. In 1897, two years after Japan began its half-century

Tin Pak of the UW Taiwan Studies Program was pleased to interview Albert Wang, a Global and Regional Studies Major with a focus on Taiwan, on his professional and academic experiences.   Introduction: I was born and raised in Taiwan until I was 13 when I moved with my mother who started her masters in

This spring, students in Professor Yen-Chu Weng’s course “Environmental Issues in East Asia” participated in an Online International Collaboration Learning (COIL) project with students from Taiwan on evaluating the accessibility of interpretive signs in nature parks. COIL is an approach to foster global competence through development of a multicultural learning environment that links university classes

The typical narrative regarding Taiwan’s international relations goes something like this – Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China, was expelled from the United Nations in 1971 and has been losing diplomatic allies ever since. After Nauru switched its diplomatic recognition to the PRC in January 2024, Taiwanese and U.S. headlines quickly lamented that