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!  

As we enter Spring 2021 course registration, please consider our two course offerings below!   JSIS A 472 Science, Technology, and Innovation in East Asia – Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China Meets: TTh 2:30 – 4:20pm (Remote Learning) Instructor: Marie Anchordoguy SLN: 15332   JSIS A 235: History of Modern Taiwan Meets: TTh 1:30 –

The Taiwan Studies Program at UW held a four-part lecture series focused on Contemporary Environmental Issues in Taiwan. All talks were recorded and are available for your viewing! Part I: Understanding the Politics of Climate Change in Taiwan: from Global, National, to Local (Feb 23rd)   Part II: Public Opinion and Behavior towards Climate Change in

On January 7th, 2021, Professor Julia C. Strauss spoke about her recently published book, State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance.  This event was recorded and is available for viewing  This book is a comparative study of regime consolidation in the ‘revolutionary’ People’s Republic of China and the ‘conservative’ Republic of China (Taiwan)

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program will participate in an upcoming conference, Post Pandemic World and Global Education in Asia.  This virtual conference is an academic collaboration between Taiwanese universities, European universities, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Washington. The COVID-19 outbreak has raised many problems in the world and has impacted