On Wednesday, January 17 at 3:30pm in HUB 340 and online, UW-TSP welcomed Bonnie Glaser (German Marshall Fund) to discuss her co-authored book with Richard Bush and Ryan Hass, U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? This book talk will addressed the rising Chinese military pressure and the intensifying gray-zone campaign tactics (economic coercion, disinformation, diplomatic

In partnership with the UW East Asia Center, the Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle, and the Seed Kite Foundation, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to an in-person screening of Invisible Nation (2023) on the UW campus. Director Vanessa Hope is scheduled to attend the post-screening Q&A session. RSVP is required

Join the Taiwan Studies Program in-person or online as three speakers, Kharis Templeman (Hoover Institution, Stanford), David Bachman (UW), and Ellen Chang (UW) discuss the 2024 elections and Wave Makers on Wednesday, November 1 from 5-6:30pm PT in HUB 340. In January 2024, Taiwan will elect a new president and legislature. This election offers a potentially

I was surprised to see a Tatala mounted on the wall of the Burke Museum: after leaving Lanyu Island I wasn’t sure I’d ever see one again. But here it was, carefully displayed in the Culture is Living exhibit featuring traditional boats and paddles from marine peoples around the world. Gazing up at the Tatala,

Confusion of the Afternoon [午後的迷茫] by Taiwanese filmmaker Yung Chieh Lee is coming to the Seattle Queer Film Festival on Thursday, October 19, at 8 pm. In Confusion of the Afternoon, a boy’s imagination transforms the innocent touches and gazes of an afternoon playing poker into a sublime fantasy. For more details and tickets, visit

Invisible Nation (Vanessa Hope, 2023) is coming to SIFF DocFest on Saturday, October 7, at 4 pm. An eye-opening documentary, Invisible Nation investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. Director Vanessa Hope and producers Ted Hope and Arie Thompson are scheduled to attend, along with James Lin (Associate

From October 14 to November 28, 2023, the Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to the Kuroshio Odyssey: Maritime Memories, Culture, and Landscapes—a serial program that focuses on the diverse Indigenous communities of eastern Taiwan and their stunning natural world. The program features a series of in-person displays, online exhibits, crafting workshops, film screenings, and scholarly roundtables

On September 25 and 26, the Taiwan Studies Program will bring a dozen scholars for an in-person workshop on the theme of “Land/scaping Taiwan.” Landscapes often exist as material records, surrounding environments, or representations. We propose to move beyond these frameworks to see landscapes as embodied modes of habitation and of human and non-human encounters

On Thursday, October 12 at 3:30pm in Thomson Hall 317 UW-TSP welcomed Professor Janet Chen to discuss her newly published monograph, The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960. This talk was featured in person and online. To view the recording, please visit our YouTube channel or watch

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Taiwan Studies Topical Section: “Democratic Transition and Postauthoritarianism in Taiwan” In the 1980s and 1990s, Taiwan underwent a dramatic transformation from single-party authoritarian rule to a vibrant multi-party democracy.  The transformation spawned a number of studies about Taiwan’s democratisation as part of the so-called ‘Third Wave’. Today, Taiwan ranks