Join us on March 6, 2025 at 3:30 (Pacific) for a talk by Honghong Tinn on her latest book ‘Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry‘.  How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island

Join us Thursday, February 6 at 3:30 – 5:00 PM in Thomson 317, and online for ‘Colonial Taiwan and the Nature of Japan’s Pharmaceutical Industry’ with Timothy M. Yang, University of Georgia. This talk is based on Yang’s recent book ‘A Medicated Empire: the Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan’ (Cornell University Press, 2021). In this

In partnership with the UW Music Alumni Concert Series, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to Absolute Sonatas, a duo concert between violinist Emily Acri and pianist Li-Cheng Hung on Monday, January 20, at the UW Brechemin Auditorium. Violinist Emily Acri and pianist Li-Cheng Hung are excited to present this Absolute

The 2025 Taiwan Scholarship and the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, will be open for applications FEB 1 – MAR 31, 2025. As in previous years, the MOE_Taiwan_Scholarship-2025 is offered to students who wish to enroll in a degree program in Taiwan, while the MOE_Huayu_Enrichment_Scholarship-2025 is tailored for students who wish

Join us JANUARY 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM in Thomson Hall 317 for a special book talk by Professor Nicholas de Villiers of University of North Florida for his talk ‘Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang’. VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE In his book, de Villiers contends that we need to theorize both queer time

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