The new UW Taiwan M.A. degree option has been featured  in several Taiwanese news outlets. Focus Taiwan, the English version of Taiwan Central News Agency (CNA) has carried a piece on the new degree option as has Radio Taiwan International. Read more here: Focus Taiwan News Taiwan Central News Agency Radio Taiwan International  

See recording of this event on our YouTube channel!   On Thursday, January 30 at 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Thomson 317, and ON-LINE live-stream the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomes professors and co-authors Catherine Chou and Mark Harrison for a presentation on their recent book Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World,(Cambria, 2024).

Tin Pak, a junior majoring in International Studies and a student-staff member of the Taiwan Studies Program was awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship and a Jackson Foundation grant for his research on Taiwan.  Tin will be in Taiwan next quarter researching Taiwan’s military and civilian resilience to electromagnetic attacks.  Congratulations, Tin!      

The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various tracks of study, including for the first

Join us in recognizing one of our Global Visionaries, Professor Yen-Chu Weng who was recently interviewed by the University of Washington Global Affairs Office. The Office of Global Affairs is excited to celebrate Yen-Chu Weng for the November 2024 edition of the Global Visionaries series. The Global Visionaries series highlights the UW’s global impact by

In partnership with the UW Tateuchi East Asia Library, TaiwanPlus, and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI), the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to Love, Taipei—a pop-up exhibit at TEAL in November 2024 and an online film festival on TaiwanPlus (November 2024 and onward). Love, Taipei is inspired by romance films

On November 14 and 15, 2024, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will bring together early American academics of Taiwan for a conference where they will discuss their legacy and the future of Taiwan studies. Program Schedule In the postwar period, Taiwan underwent significant political and economic changes that attracted the attention of scholars. Among these

This past summer, the UW School of Art sponsored the study abroad course, Design in Taiwan: Sustainable Innovation through Craft and Technology. Led by UW Assistant Professor in Industrial Design and Taiwan Studies Program member, Meichun Liu, 17 students in 3 weeks explored design culture in Taiwan across the private and public sectors. Their travels

The East Asia Program is hiring a Program Operations Specialist. If you have a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies, Korean Studies, International Studies, or other related discipline and two or more years of experience providing relevant or related experience and are interested in applying, please refer to the job description below and the official

We are pleased to share this call for papers for a Taiwan history workshop that the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program is co-hosting with Princeton University and UC Berkeley. Call for Papers New Directions in Taiwan History: Imperial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Histories February 28-March 1, 2025 Princeton University This two-day workshop will bring together