Are you interested in studying the environment while traveling Taiwan? Our colleagues at the Program on the Environment invite you to join them for a 4-week study abroad program this summer: POE Taiwan Study Abroad Program Summer 2023: 6/19-7/19 Travel around Taiwan to explore cases of social and environmental resilience Interact with local students, experts,

Professor David Bachman was interviewed by Voice of America (Russian language) on October 25, 2022. Bachman discussed the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Congress.

On Tuesday, November 15, University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies faculty discussed how the Ukraine War is affecting the increasingly tense situation in the Taiwan Strait. Moderated by Anand Yang, the panel provided deep insights into the positions of China, Taiwan, and the US before opening to a public Q&A. David Bachman illuminated

On October 25, 2022, Assistant Professor James Lin was quoted in a New York Times article titled, “Why People Are Flocking to a Symbol of Taiwan’s Authoritarian Past,” about the Jing-Mei human rights museum in Taiwan. Professor David Bachman was interviewed on the Morning Wave in Busan radio program on October 26, 2022. Bachman spoke on the

On April 22, 2022, the Taiwan Studies Program hosted emeritus faculty Stevan Harrell for an interview with UW faculty Jing Xu about her current research involving children growing up in a rural Taiwanese village during the 1950s. Dr. Xu’s project incorporates rigorous anthropological analysis on unpublished research conducted by the late anthropologists Arthur Wolf and

On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Professor Zhuqing Li joined UW’s China Studies and Taiwan Studies Programs for a Book Talk discussing her recent publication – Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War. Professor Li shared her journey in trying to understand and reconstruct the near-century-long-lives of her two maternal

UW Taiwan Studies Program Assistant Professor James Lin was quoted in the October 10, 2022 episode of NPR’s The World on Taiwan’s National Day celebrations.

Happy Fall! We are thrilled to invite you to an in-person multi-media music concert, “Tshiū-á Siann” Whispers of Trees: Visual Soundscapes of Taiwan, at Benaroya Hall on Wednesday, November 2, at 7:30 pm. To celebrate this exciting collaboration, composer CHOU Hsuan-Hung and film director WEI Zhao-Yi will fly in from Taiwan to join us in person for a post-concert Q&A!

On September 29, 2022, Ian Easton (Senior Director, Project 2049 Institute) discussed with James Lin (Assistant Professor, University of Washington) Taiwan’s current defense situation, including newly announced budget increases, institutional reforms, and changing threats. Easton stressed that Taiwan faces a real and increasing threat of invasion from the PRC. However, leadership in Taipei had sidelined

Taiwan Studies Program faculty member, Director of the Urban Commons Lab at the University of Washington, and Professor of Landscape Architecture Jeff Hou published Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization. Co-edited with Dr. Im Sik Cho (National University of Singapore) and Dr. Blaz Kriznik (Hanyang University), the book