China No Space for Democracy? Political Dissidence in Colonial and Contemporary Hong Kong July 13, 2017 0 Written by Adam Cathcart and Alexander Nicholas Shaw. For Cold War historians looking at the Occupy Central movement of 2014 and Xi Jinping’s recent visit to…
Taiwan The Return of Politics Outside the State November 25, 2014 0 Written by Igor Rogelja. Taiwan is gearing up for its first post-Sunflower movement elections and many observers are considering the impact of the movement on…
Economy Taiwan’s Unresolved Vision of Globalization March 31, 2014 3 Written by Erik Tollefson. The current protests in Taiwan can plausibly be seen as the concatenation of several issues: 1) a crisis of democratic governance;…
Politics Time for President Ma to meet the students at the Legislative Yuan March 31, 2014 0 Written by Steve Tsang. One does not need to agree with the students who occupy the Legislative Yuan in Taipei to see that the first…
Politics 324: Police Brutality or Commensurate Response? March 27, 2014 0 Written by J. Michael Cole. Much mystery and disinformation continues to surround the events of the night of March 23 to 24 in and around…
Politics The Hidden Agenda of President Ma’s ‘Economics First, Politics Later’ Cross-Strait Policy March 27, 2014 3 Written by Ben Goren. During the last six years President Ma has signed over eighteen agreements with the PRC. During this period he has repeatedly…
Politics Student protests and Taiwan’s soft power March 25, 2014 0 Written by Gary Rawnsley. A state’s soft power capacity is determined by how it behaves, at home and abroad. It is derived from a style…
Politics Occupy Taiwan and the Red Shirts Movement March 24, 2014 0 Written by Dafydd Fell. One of the challenges of studying Taiwan politics is that we often have too much information and data to cope with.…
Politics Smear Tactics and Taiwan’s Compliant Media March 20, 2014 3 Written by J. Michael Cole. As the occupation of Taiwan’s legislature by thousands of protesters enters its third day, the architecture of power on the…
Politics Occupy the Legislature: Is it the only way? March 19, 2014 2 Written by Gary Rawnsley. You know something important is happening in Taiwan when the island is in the BBC news. Well ok, perhaps current events…
