#taiwanstudies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #taiwanstudies, aggregated by home.social.
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2026 ANU Taiwan Update
8-9 September"Four scholars on chips, energy, polarisation and identity, plus a restored screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Sandwich Man."
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New book about 30 years of the Green Party in Taiwan (綠黨在台灣：第一個三十年). The book was written by Dafydd Fell, Peng Yen-wen, and Wang Yen-han. It includes a couple of photos by me.
The new book complements the English language book written by Dafydd Fell in 2021 which covers the first 25 years of the Green Party in Taiwan.
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Some Taiwan scholars set out a "leftish" position on Taiwan. This is partially a response to AOC's poor response to a question about Taiwan at the Munich Security Conference in February this year
Contributors include James Lin and Kerim Friedman
https://positionspolitics.org/what-is-a-left-position-on-taiwan/
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Two books about Taiwan, written three decades apart, reveal shifts in academic and journalistic discourse
"Reading these two books side by side offers more than a comparison of two authors or two historical moments. It reveals a deeper transformation in how Taiwan itself has changed, and how it is understood, narrated, and situated within global knowledge."
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A review of Lev Nachman's book Contested Taiwan. The review focuses on the Sunflower Movement and the formation of the New Power Party. It calls the book's theoretical arguments about contested state theory "padding". I thought the theory was important and that Nachman added some very Taiwan specific context to it.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856078
#Taiwan #TaiwanStudies #book #NPP #台灣 #時代力量 #政治 #sovereignty
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Some advice about working in the field of Taiwan Studies
"Compared to [China Studies, Japan Studies and Korea Studies], Taiwan Studies is much more politically sensitive, smaller in size, and younger in age, though of increasing importance. As a result, much of the research funding and programme infrastructure supporting other regional fields is still underdeveloped for the field of Taiwan Studies."
https://taiwanwatcher.substack.com/p/taiwan-studies-as-a-field-of-activism
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Jenna Lynn Cody reviews Mark Harrison and Catherine Chou's book Revolutionary Taiwan
"Revolutionary Taiwan understands this [the PRC is the aggressor state], and gives the reader all the reasons they need to understand and appreciate Taiwan’s struggle for what it really is: a struggle for identity and dignity."
https://open.substack.com/pub/laorencha/p/book-review-revolutionary-taiwan
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Interview with Dr Chun-yi Lee of the Nottingham University about the development of Taiwan Studies. Dr Lee is director of the Taiwan Studies program at Nottingham which publishes the online magazine Taiwan Insight
https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/03/06/defining-taiwan-studies/
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New report on Australia-Taiwan relations by the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney
"In Australia, the use of caution as the default framework for engagement with Taipei, along with our longstanding reductionist debate, has fundamentally hampered any crafting of a sophisticated long-term policy position on Taiwan."
https://www.ussc.edu.au/australia-taiwan-relations-policy-options-and-priorities-for-engagement
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Just published: Public Support for Taiwan’s Bluebird Movement and Legislative Reform
"This study examines how independent voters differed from partisan voters in their responses to one of the most defining political moments in recent years, the legislative reform, and the subsequent Bluebird movement, one of the largest social protests in Taiwan since 2014."
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New book: U.S. Allies and the Taiwan Strait - available for free download
"Against the backdrop of worsening tensions across the Taiwan Strait, this Element analyzes the positions and policies vis-à-vis Taiwan of six major democratic US treaty allies-Japan, Australia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Germany-and the European Union."
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📚 Some notable books about Taiwan published in 2025
I would add Lev Nachman's book 'Contested Taiwan' to the list
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/01/01/2003849850
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Changing Dynamics in Geopolitics: Implications for Taiwan - book available for free download
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Dr Alexander Tan's talk on political polarisation in Taiwan delivered at the 2025 ANU Taiwan update. The talk analyses what drives polarisation in Taiwan and some possible solutions
#Taiwan #TaiwanStudies #democracy #politics #DPP #KMT #ANU #台灣 #政治
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I have been at ANU for the past two days for the Taiwan Update. It finished with a screening of the film Gaga. It is a beautiful and meaningful portrayal of contemporary life in a Tayal village in Taiwan. Dr Alexander Tan's talk on political polarisation was also very thought provoking.
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A summary of Yap Ko-hua's book 'Unraveling the Historical Puzzles of Taiwan’s Ethnic Groups' (臺灣族群史解謎)
"This book meticulously examines historical systems, population statistics, household registers, and survey data to unravel the complex histories of the Pingpu Indigenous, mainlanders, Hakka, and Hoklo communities."
via Kerim's @triptych.oxus.net
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Reviews of two books which have distinct narratives about Taiwan's history
"While each book approaches the challenge in a different way, both move toward the same goal—articulating distinct Taiwanese historical pasts while harboring hopes for a democratic future, even as the pressure from the PRC mounts and the realistic possibility of such a prospect seems to diminish daily."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/one-island-many-histories/
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James Lin's book 'In the Global Vanguard:
Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan' is open access and available for download from UC Press -
2025 ANU Taiwan Update
Keynote address by Christina Lai on Taiwan’s economic statecraft. Screening the film Gaga by the Atayal director Laha Mebow
9-10 September at ANU, Canberra
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Chris Taylor reviews three Taiwan-related books
* Ghost Nation
* Derecognition
* Taiwan Travelogue"Ghost Nation's true strength lies not merely in revealing Taiwan as liminal—an uncertain space, an indistinct identity—but in its telling of the story of how Taiwan triumphed over forces that might have erased it entirely—still threaten to do so."
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A very positive review of Chris Horton's new book about Taiwan, Ghost Nation
"...what elevates the book above policy commentary or journalistic chronicle is its insistence on treating Taiwan not merely as a geopolitical flashpoint, but as a living, breathing democracy with its own stories, contradictions, and ghosts."
https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2025/07/a-ghosted-taiwan-grapples-with-the-future-of-democracy/
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Lao Ren Cha reviews 'Social Forces in the Remaking of Cross-Strait Relation' which uses a Gramscian framework to analyse the evolution of Taiwanese identity
https://laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/06/book-review-social-forces-in-re-making.html
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Reviews of two recent Taiwan related books: Rebel Island and The Boiling Moat. Bonus commentary on the clichés oft-used to describe Taiwan
https://open.substack.com/pub/chinadiction/p/rebel-island-boiling-moat
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Review of Mark Harrison and Catherine Chou's book 'Revolutionary Taiwan'
"Packed with elegant analogies, deftly illustrated examples, and subtle but clear, compelling arguments, this book is both educational and immensely enjoyable."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2025/05/15/2003836900
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Taiwanese Bookshelves events in Australia — a conversation with Dr. Paelabang Danapan, to explore the rich history of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples
In Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne 7-9 May 2025
https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/paelabangdanapan
#Taiwan #TaiwanStudies #Indigenous #Australia #ANU #unimelb #museum #台灣
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This article discusses a key question in Taiwan politics. How to promote the development of a pro-Taiwan opposition to replace the pro-China KMT-TPP alliance?
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🔊 Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison talk about their book 'Revolutionary Taiwan' on the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast
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Dafydd Fell writes about how how SOAS's Taiwan Studies program has held events parallel to its courses to help promote and increase interest in the subject
"I hope that by sharing our experiences of connecting teaching and events programmes we can provide some useful lessons for how to make international Taiwan Studies more sustainable."
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New blog post: Walking on "Tayal Country" in Taiwan
"It is a place where the Tayal people continue to find ways to practice their traditions while living within the nation-state of Taiwan and adapting to environmental change."
https://davidonformosa.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/jianshi-atayal-culture-trip/
#Taiwan #Hsinchu #TaiwanStudies #Indigenous #台灣 #新竹 #原住民 #blog
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📖 Island Tinkerers by Honghong Tinn tells the story of how Taiwan has become a global leader in high-tech manufacturing