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

UW Taiwan Studies 2021 Newsletter It has been an eventful year for the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program (UW-TSP).  Despite the pandemic, UW-TSP has offered a record number of events, more than tripling the number of events we offered the year prior.  Furthermore, with all of our events being virtual, we were able to

The Taiwan Studies Program is offering two courses for Fall Quarter 2021. Please consider them as you prepare for the upcoming academic year! JSIS A 484: WOMEN, NATIONALISM, & COSMOPOLITANISM IN TAIWAN  Instructor: Melissa Brown Time: TTh 4:30 – 6:20 Location: Offered remotely (synchronous) except for one in-person class on October 21st This course explores

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program is delighted to welcome Ellen Chang（張雅倫）as the first director of our Arts and Culture Program.  Ellen is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.  She holds M.A. degrees in Cinema Studies from both NYU and Ohio University, and a B.A. in English from National

To encourage and facilitate research on Taiwan and the presentation of Taiwan-related research at academic conferences, the Taiwan Studies Program announces a program of small research and conference travel grants.  All University of Washington Taiwan Studies PhD students are eligible. Please refer to our Student Grants and Scholarships page for more information.   

We are looking for a Taiwan Arts Program Administrator to design and direct a new Taiwan Arts Program. As part of our new MOFA grant, the new Taiwan Arts Program under the Taiwan Studies Program will offer national events open to the public focused on Taiwan arts and culture. We define arts and culture broadly,

On March 1st, Professor Hsu presented a lecture on how the study of Taiwan history has developed and how the field can be understood. Over the past decade, the study of Taiwan history has steadily increased, with about 1,196 monographs, dissertations, and theses being produced in 2010, to about 1,551 in 2019. The most popular

Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State, edited by Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis, and Stevan Harrell (University of Washington Press, 2020), narrates the parallel processes in which East Asia’s four most populous countries (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) have evolved from developmental into what the authors call “eco-developmental”

Taiwan Studies Program faculty and associate chair, James Lin, was quoted during a NPR piece on Biden’s foreign policy toward Taiwan and China. Give it a 3-minute listen!