{"id":1868,"date":"2021-10-08T11:24:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2023-05-04T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:06:41","slug":"oct-20-tigers-on-the-mountain-assessing-is-taiwan-chinese-today-with-professor-melissa-j-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2021\/10\/08\/oct-20-tigers-on-the-mountain-assessing-is-taiwan-chinese-today-with-professor-melissa-j-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing &#8220;Is Taiwan Chinese?&#8221; Today with Professor Melissa J. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 20, 2021,\u00a0 the UW Taiwan Studies Program hosted Professor Melissa J. Brown for her talk, &#8220;Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing <em>Is Taiwan Chinese?<\/em> Today.&#8221; This recorded talk is available for viewing on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcnSCRLlEZhEYzHE9n-Zgxg\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing \u201cIs Taiwan Chinese?\u201d with Professor Melissa J. Brown\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kV07VZFIgfQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the release of Dr. Brown&#8217;s book in 2004, there have been many changes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in academia. Professor Brown revisited the main points of her book, discussed the contexts of the book&#8217;s creation, and assessed which conclusions still hold and which conclusions require revision.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1871\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-750x971.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-750x971.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-375x485.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/10\/Brown-1140x1475.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Melissa J. Brown is Managing Editor of the <em>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.<\/em> She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Washington-Seattle. She was on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati and Stanford University before going to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard in 2011 and joining the <em>HJAS<\/em> staff in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This event was made possible by the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 20, 2021,\u00a0 the UW Taiwan Studies Program hosted Professor Melissa J. Brown for her talk, &#8220;Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing Is Taiwan Chinese? Today.&#8221; This recorded talk is available for viewing on our\u00a0YouTube channel. 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