Sunflower Movement Where have the Sunflowers gone? September 22, 2014 2 Written by J. Michael Cole. The question has been nagging at the edges of my mind ever since it was first thrown at me after…
Hong Kong Redefining Hong Kong SAR July 22, 2014 2 Written by Daniel Garrett. While undeniably the most extensive authoritarian and arguably violent crackdown by the SAR government since the Handover, the local regime’s actions…
Hong Kong Redefining Hong Kong SAR: The Mainland Security Crackdown Arrives July 21, 2014 3 Written by Daniel Garrett. Within the last few weeks, the political situation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has deteriorated precipitously as China’s…
China Tiananmen, democracy and the CCP June 2, 2014 1 Written by Edward Friedman. Leninist party dictatorships from 1989-1991 democratized in East and Central Europe as well as in Mongolia in Asia. The Soviet Union…
China Tiananmen, Sunflowers and the Framing of Democratisation in China and Taiwan June 1, 2014 2 Written by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. A quarter of century has passed since the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on…
Taiwan A Very Remarkable Democracy May 21, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. Taiwan’s democracy has been called many things. First it was a ‘budding’ phenomena erupting at the end of the Cold War,…
Taiwan Taipei flirts with ‘authoritarianism lite’ amid political crisis May 1, 2014 0 Written by J. Michael Cole. As the political crisis pitting civil society against the Ma Ying-jeou administration deepens, Taiwanese authorities are adopting countermeasures that, to many…
Politics Sunflower Students Join Lilies and Strawberries in making Taiwanese History April 9, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. At six o’clock on Monday April 7, twenty one days after starting their historic occupation of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan main chambers,…
Politics Debunking the Myths About Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement April 4, 2014 11 Written by J. Michael Cole. In the absence of knowledge, fall back on conspiracies. This is what many foreign analysts and the Taiwanese government have…
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;…
