Elections An analysis of President Tsai’s victory in the presidential primary June 26, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich. Image Credit: Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr; Licence CC BY 2.0. On Thursday 13 June 2019 Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen won the Democratic Progressive Party’s…
Culture and Society LGBT rights in East Asia: Connecting Taiwan to Korea June 24, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich. Image Credit: Travelling in Asia by Julio Martinez/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Exactly two years after Taiwan’s Constitutional Court declared the civil code…
Activism Taiwan’s confused reaction to the Tiananmen Incident in 1989 and why Lee Teng-hui was right June 4, 2019 0 Written by Ho Ming-sho. Image Credit: Tiananmen Square #6 by Mike/Flickr, Licence CC BY-SA 2.0. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a…
Film Qiong Yao films and Taiwan society May 15, 2019 0 Written by Xuelin Zhou. Image Credit: Cinema by Do u remember/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1965 and 1983, fifty feature films were produced in Taiwan…
Taiwan Is this the “China Dream”? March 7, 2019 0 Written by Robert S. Wang. On 5 February 2019, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) published an article entitled “PLA bombers, jet fighters in…
Taiwan What Happened to Taiwan’s Support for Same-Sex Marriage? March 6, 2019 0 Written by Tim Rich, Isabel Eliassen and Andi Dahmer. Taiwan garnered international attention in May 2017 when the Constitutional Court declared that it was unconstitutional…
Taiwan Exploring the Gendered Cultural Politics of Seediq Bale’ March 5, 2019 0 Written By Chin-ju Lin. The historical epic Seediq Bale (賽德克．巴萊, 2011), directed by Wei De-sheng (魏德聖) is the most expensive and highest grossing blockbuster in…
Taiwan Dear Ex: A Return to Family Melodrama March 3, 2019 0 Written by Shao-yi Chan. The 2018 Golden Horse Awards had the international film circuit and critics open-mouthed with two highly publicised dramatic events. First, the…
Taiwan Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan March 2, 2019 0 Written by Amy Brainer. On my way to do an interview, I got off at the wrong train stop in between Kaohsiung and a small…
Taiwan Gender, Women and Buddhism in Taiwan March 1, 2019 0 Written by David Schak. Women have long been second-class beings in Buddhism, occupying a status well below that of males. They were said to invite disasters and to be polluted, temptresses, dull, flirtatious, vain and too flighty to…
