An info session on the Taiwan Scholarship and Huayu Enrichment Scholarship will be held on January 18th from 5 – 5:30pm Pacific. Past scholarship recipients will share their experiences, and general information will be shared regarding the two scholarships. Please RSVP before January 14th, Webex meeting information will be sent via email following registration.   The

UW-TSP will host Professor Shelley Rigger for a Book Talk on her recent publication – The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise.  This virtual event will take place at 3:30pm Pacific Time on Thursday, January 13th. Please fill out the RSVP form to receive viewing information for the event.

On October 11th, UW-TSP hosted Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan for a brief interview on Taiwan and Somaliland. Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research, and a Research Professor of Political Science at Hong Kong Baptist University. His recently published article in the Diplomat, The Somaliland Connection: Taiwan’s Return to

UW-TSP will offer two courses during Winter Quarter 2022! Making Modern Taiwan  JSIS A 588 (SLN: 22190) // HSTAS 590 (SLN: 22191) Course Instructor: James Lin, jyslin@uw.edu T 1:30 – 4:20pm // 5 credits Taiwan has recently been called by a major publication as “the most dangerous place on Earth.” However, these popular portrayals of Taiwan are largely

The Challenging Hegemony Roundtable held on November 30th, 2021 provided key insights into recent geopolitical developments surrounding Taiwan and the Baltic States stemming from Lithuania’s recent decision to accept a Taiwan Representative Office. Whereas Taiwan operates diplomatic offices around the world under a variety of names, Lithuania’s is the first in Europe to utilize the

Taiwan Film Day is here! Join UW Taiwan Studies’ very own Arts & Culture Program and its partner Dream Flare Film Festival for a curated selection from the Taipei Film Festival featuring three Taiwanese cinematic productions, plus interviews and roundtables,  available exclusively on Asiania from November 10 to November 21, 2021. A Leg 腿 (Yaosheng Chang, 2020): https://dfff-aleg.asiania.me/ Hotel

Professor Ken Chih-Yan Sun of Villanova University is invited by the UW Taiwan Studies Program and UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology to present a Book Talk. Professor Sun will speak on his new work, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life, on Thursday, November 4th, at 4pm Pacific Time. Please

On Wednesday, October 20th, 2021,  the UW Taiwan Studies Program hosted Professor Melissa J. Brown for her talk, “Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing Is Taiwan Chinese? Today.” This recorded talk is available for viewing on our YouTube channel. Since Is Taiwan Chinese? came out in 2004, there have been many changes on both sides of the

Assistant Professor James Lin, a historian of modern Taiwan and Associate Chair of the UW Taiwan Studies Program, was recently quoted on the podcast China Rising, a  ten episode podcast hosted by Global News (Canada). The 30-minute episode can be listened to here. Lin is featured in the second half, where he discusses how the U.S. economy and national security needs are

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program (UW-TSP) will host the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies from June 27 to 29, 2022.  The quadrennial conference is jointly organized by Academia Sinica and UW-TSP. The WCTS brings together the world’s leading Taiwan Studies scholars to share their research. The 4th Congress will pursue the general