Three weeks. Three cities. New friends, new perspectives, and design inspired by Taiwan. In summer 2026, 15 UW students joined our Design in Taiwan study abroad program across Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan, collaborating with 12 students from the National Taiwan University D-School and 12 students from design programs at National Cheng Kung University. Together, we explored

Former UW Taiwan Studies Program visiting scholar Chien-Tu Huang recently published an article titled “Echoes of the Kuroshio: Sea-Route Studies in Seattle” on Research and Reflections, the online journal of Fulbright Taiwan. In 2026, through the Fulbright Taiwan–Ministry of Culture Arts Professionals Program, I was hosted by the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program in

Join us on October 29 – in person or online – as Tadashi Ishikawa introduces Geographies of Gender, which examines the fringes of family and marriage in imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan in the 1910s through the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. The talk focuses on daughter adoption as one of the

FREE ADMISSION with RSVP! Join us in person on October 15 for a screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Boys from Fengkuei (風櫃來的人, 1983), a landmark work in the emergence of Taiwan New Cinema. The film follows a group of restless young men who leave their fishing village on the Penghu Islands for the port city of Kaohsiung,

Join us on October 15 – online or in-person – for ‘Circulating Taiwan: Film Festivals, City Films, and Women on the Move’ with Beth Tsai. Learn more about the talk Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026 Time: 3:30 – 5PM Location: Thomson Hall 317 Beth Tsai is author of Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals (Edinburgh

Dr. Margaret Yun-Pu Tu (Nikal Kabala’an) centers her research and teaching around her community, the Indigenous peoples in Taiwan, seeking to answer questions surrounding Indigenous sovereignty as it relates to a global landscape of legal, social and technological change. That effort is now a part of UW curriculum with Tu’s newly developed course, Indigenous Taiwan

Charlie Shih is a Master’s student in Culturally Sustaining Education affiliated with Taiwan Studies. She authored a set of children’s picture books as a part of a process of reconnection with her Pazeh (a Pingpu Indigenous (Plains Indigenous) language from central Taiwan) heritage and to contribute to revitalization efforts. The stories use home-based daily language

Introduction from the Chair The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program (UW-TSP) has wrapped up another eventful year.  In addition to concluding the first year of our new MA program in East Asia-Taiwan Studies, we hosted a record number of visiting scholars from Taiwan, continued a three-part workshop series on Taiwanese history, and hosted a

This past Winter quarter, Professor James Lin led a Task Force titled ‘Averting War: Taiwan and US-China Relations.’ Over a period of ten weeks, a team of 14 undergraduates worked together to produce a report with policy recommendations for US and Taiwanese officials, which was presented to David Sacks of the Council of Foreign Relations. We had

Dear friends and members of the Taiwan Studies Arts and Culture community: Since its founding in 2021, the Taiwan Studies Arts and Culture Program has brought dozens of filmmakers, performers, musicians, scholars, authors, and other artists to the University of Washington, Pacific Northwest, and North America.  I am proud of what the program has accomplished under the leadership