Culture and Society Taiwan’s media: More reforms needed September 28, 2016 0 Written by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley. The media are central in a modern, functioning democracy, facilitating dialogue, flows of political information, accountability, transparency and popular participation. Studies…
Hong Kong The Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong’s Legco Election September 12, 2016 0 Written by Ho Ming-sho. A couple of weeks before the second anniversary of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, the massive 11-week street occupation demanding genuine suffrage…
Taiwan Love or Bread: Public Opinion on the Cross-Strait Dilemma during the Ma Ying-jeou Era December 10, 2015 0 Written by Chih-Jou Jay Chen. The core dilemma that the Taiwanese are confronted with in regard to cross-strait relations is the choice between national sovereignty…
Sunflower Movement Cross-Strait relations after the Sunflower movement September 26, 2014 0 Written by Vincent Wei-cheng Wang. It has been six months since the Sunflower Movement (SFM). The student protest movement initially caught the KMT, the Chinese…
Sunflower Movement Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Generation Politics September 24, 2014 7 Written by Frank Cheng-shan Liu. The “sunflower” student movement earlier this year aroused island-wide feelings about Taiwan’s political future. For some observers, it is the most…
Sunflower Movement Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Protest Reenergized by Sunflower Movement September 23, 2014 0 Written by Ming-sho Ho. On March 9 2014, Taiwan’s annual anti-nuclear demonstrations took place in several major cities. But unlike last year’s event, which witnessed…
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…
Taiwan Reflections on Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement September 22, 2014 0 It is half a year since Taiwanese university students and their supporters stormed the Legislative Yuan and occupied it for three weeks in an act…
Taiwan Active Citizens and Citizen Activism: testing the limits of democratic participation in Taiwan May 6, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't…