The UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program is thrilled to invite you to a special screening of CHEN Hui-Ling’s documentary film, A Letter to A’ma 給阿媽的一封信 (2021), on Wednesday, March 29, at 7 pm, at the Northwest Film Forum. The screening will be followed by a post-screening Q&A session with Director Chen, moderated by

The UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program is honored to invite you to a memorial film screening and lecture honoring Dr. HU Tai-Li on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 5:30 pm, at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. In memory of Dr. HU Tai-Li, the evening features an in-person screening of the

On Thursday, May 11, 2023,  at 3:30p.m. PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Hsiao-ting Lin to discuss his newly published monograph, Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies. Click here to register. Professor Lin’s book explores the challenges which faced the United States

UW-TSP will offer four courses for Spring Quarter 2023! Please consider these courses as you plan for your upcoming quarter. Taiwan Indigenous Cultures Instructor: Jiun-Yu Liu JSIS 484 A / ANTH 469 C Date and Time: TTh 3:30-5:20pm Credits: 5 Taiwan is a society that composes of two major ethnical groups: Han Chinese and Austronesian

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 welcomed Professor Chien-Wen Kung to discuss his newly published monograph, Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia and possibly the world’s most exemplary overseas Chinese Cold

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023,  at 5p.m. PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed 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. The Matsu archipelago between China

In collaboration with the Taiwan Studies Program of the University of Nottingham (U.K.), UW-TSP organized the Taiwan in Transition Conference, held at the University of Nottingham 15-16 June 2023. This hybrid event brought approximately 20 scholars together to present on major change in Taiwan society in the realms of demography, economy, law, and national identity.

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