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Taiwan Studies
Interviews with scholars of Taiwan about their new books.
February 26, 2026
Island Tinkerers
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a forme…
January 26, 2026
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan (U Hawai'i Press, 2025), Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: …
January 23, 2026
Cross-Border Intimacies
Transnational marriage migration is among the many features of cross-border mobility that characterise the globalised world. This is also the case in …
December 27, 2025
Spaces of Creative Resistance
An exciting collection of stories of change that most people don’t usually hear from the bottom up, from the grassroots, about what’s happening in Eas…
November 6, 2025
Good Wife, Wise Mother
In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve as a l…
September 19, 2025
Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan
How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missiona…
September 16, 2025
Uneasy Allies
This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War. …
August 26, 2025
Breakneck
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab, and previously a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Before…
August 6, 2025
Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains
This episode’s host, Adina Zemanek, invited Dr. Bonny Ling, executive director of Work Better Innovations, to talk about Taiwan as a home for migrant …
August 3, 2025
Untied Hands
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying their…
July 21, 2025
China's Gambit
Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over perc…
June 19, 2025
Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival
Chris Horton is a freelance journalist who has been based in Taiwan since 2015, before many Western publications had any dedicated presence on the isl…
May 19, 2025
Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China
In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in …
May 17, 2025
Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
This podcast episode, hosted by Kikee Doma Bhutia from the University of Tartu, features journalist and analyst Aadil Brar discussing India's foreign …
April 23, 2025
Geographies of Gender
In Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Dr. Tadashi Ishikawa traces percepti…
April 23, 2025
After Eunuchs
Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, an…
April 8, 2025
Haunting Ruins
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of t…
March 20, 2025
Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited one of her co-editors, Dr Ian Rowen, to talk about their forthcoming book publication, A Taiwanese Eco-lite…
March 6, 2025
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
Aiming to explore the Sino-Tibetan border region, which is renamed “Shangri-La” by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Te…
February 28, 2025
Art Chat: Home and Cetacean Photography, with Ray Chin
In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Ray Chin金磊, a Taiwanese wildlife photographer who pioneered in the field of underwater and cetacean photogr…