On Saturday, February 25, and Sunday, February 26, join the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program and the Seattle Festival Orchestra for an in-person music concert, Triumph, at Town Hall Seattle. The concert will start with a bang, featuring the US Premiere of Taiwanese composer Ching-Mei Lin‘s Paean for Warrior and Love, inspired and

Yeen-mei Wu, ardent supporter of the Tateuchi East Asia Library and the Taiwan Studies Program, died November 29th.  She was 87. Yeen-Mei came to the US in 1959 to study business at the University of Michigan. She was part of the second wave of Chinese immigrants to the country, many of whom were from Taiwan.

On Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 6p.m. PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Chien-Wen Kung to discuss his newly published monograph, Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s. Click here to register. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia and possibly the world’s

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023,  at 5p.m. PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Wei-Ping Lin to discuss her newly published work, Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan. This is a virtual event which will be livestreamed on our Facebook and YouTube pages. Click here to register.

Since 1949, Taiwan has been through major social, political, and economic transitions. On June 15 and 16, 2023, the Taiwan Studies Programs at the University of Washington and the University of Nottingham, will hold the joint conference, “Taiwan in Transition.” Hosted at the University of Nottingham, conference discussion will include, but not be limited to,

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program (UW-TSP) had another eventful year, offering some of our most ambitious programming to date. Here is an overview of our events and courses from the past year, as well as a preview of the year ahead.  If you missed any events, we invite you to view them on

On Thursday, January 19, 2023 from 3:30 to 5:00p.m. PT, Professor Seiji Shirane will joined the UW Taiwan Studies Program to discuss his newly published monograph, Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945. Shirane’s book explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern

Assistant Professor James Lin wrote an article for Jacobin on the history of US-Taiwan relations. Entitled “Taiwan Shouldn’t Be Used as Geopolitical Pawn,” the article was release on November 18, 2022. Please follow this link to read Professor Lin’s piece.

Recordings of the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies are now available on our YouTube channel and below. We hope you enjoy looking back on the dynamic scholarship featured this past June. For more information about the Congress, please view our conference report.

UW-TSP will offer two courses for Winter Quarter 2023! Please consider these courses as you plan for your upcoming quarter. Made in Taiwan: Arts and Culture of Contemporary Taiwan Instructor: Ellen Chang JSIS 484 B / CMS 320A Date and Time: TTh 10:30-12:20pm Credits: 5 This course will provide an introduction to the arts and