A series of exhibitions, discussions, and guided tours brings together historical sites and stories connected to the 228 Incident across many places in Taiwan, including Taipei, Hsinchu, Yilan, Taichung, Nantou, Keelung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hualien, Penghu. These images, discussions, and texts guide visitors into events often reduced to a single conflict, but which unfolded as

Join us for an engaging talk with Professor Lin Yu-ju titled “Commercial Resilience between the Cracks of Empires: A Leading Seafood Merchant in Southern Taiwan” on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 3:30-5:00 p.m., at Tateuchi East Asia Library 2M Seminar Room.  This talk focuses on Wang Ruzhen 王汝禎 (1880–1953), who came from a family of civil

Join the Simpson Center for the Humanities on Thursday, Feb 26, 2026, 4 – 5:30 p.m. at the Communications Building, Room 120, for a special lecture with Professor Heng-hao Chang on Post-Colonial Reflections on International Disability Rights: Adaptation and Localization in Taiwan. Taiwan is a unique site of innovation in disability rights. Despite being barred

Scholarship Opportunity to Study Mandarin in Taiwan UW internal deadline: March 1, 2026 Taiwan Ministry of Education deadline: March 31, 2026 Scholarship amount and eligibility: The UW Taiwan Studies Program invites all UW undergraduate and graduate students to submit applications for the Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, which offers stipends of 28,000

Recording of this event is available HERE (audio disruption resolves at 10:47 mark) Join us FEBRUARY 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM in Thomson Hall 317 for a special talk by Chris Horton on his book “Ghost Nation: the Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival.” This event is HYBRID. You can register to attend in person or online

The Design in Taiwan 2026 Study Abroad Program will take place from August 23 to September 12, 2026 in Taipei, Tainan, and Taichung, three major cities in Taiwan. The program focuses on innovative approaches to sustainability, craft, and wellness. We are excited to partner with two leading universities in Taiwan: National Taiwan University (NTU) and National

The Taiwan Studies Program is excited to welcome Dr. Hui-Nien Lin and Dr. Chih-Chieh Chou as our Visiting Scholars for this academic year. They will be presenting their research at the Taiwan Studies Program’s Spring Colloquia in May. Dr. Hui-Nien Lin is an Associate Professor in the Studies of Indigenous Cultural Development Program at National

On Wednesday, November 12 the East Asia Center and Center for Japanese Studies is hosting a book talk with Dr. Andrea Gevurtz Arai, and Jeff Hou, professor emeritus, in a discussion moderated by Prof. Davinder Bhowmik for Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers University Press 2025). November 12, 2026 3:30 –

The Taiwan Studies Program features articles written by our students on topics ranging from politics to history and education to human rights. Our two most recent posts include ‘Blue in a Box: Implications of Taiwan’s Devaluation of Blue-Collar Workers’, by recent International Studies graduate Euchari Majors (MAIS 2025), and ‘From Reconciliation to Action: Taiwan’s Pathway

The interest rate of a loan is sometimes calculated on a daily basis, often as much as 2%”; these are the words of an Indonesian care worker in Taipei who struggles not only to pay off her debt to a middle company, but also to make a livable wage in Taiwan and reach her goal