Taiwan Youth Will be Served January 4, 2016 3 Written by Paul R. Katz. The 2016 Taiwan elections may bear witness to a story bigger than DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s impending victory, and…
Taiwan Taiwan 2016 academic resources: Political culture January 2, 2016 0 Written by Jonathan Sullivan. Substantial academic interest in Taiwan has coalesced around the diverse set of norms and behaviours captured by the rubric political culture.…
Taiwan local elections Crass electoral politics and the role of a militant civil society November 27, 2014 1 Written by J. Michael Cole. Merely 48 hours to go before Taiwanese across the nation cast their votes in the nine-in-one local elections. With regulations barring…
Sunflower Movement Don’t judge the Sunflower Movement by local election outcomes November 27, 2014 0 Written by André Beckershof. A little more than half a year after the Sunflower Movement, the local elections might be seen as a first indicator of…
Politics Sunny Days and Nuclear Disasters: The China Factor in Taiwan’s Local Elections November 21, 2014 0 Written by Stefan Fleischauer. Taiwan is gearing up for the largest slate of local elections it has ever seen to date. On 29 November, more…
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 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 New Civic Movements and Further Democratisation in Taiwan April 29, 2014 0 Written by Ming-Yeh Rawnsley. The term ‘new civic movement’ refers to the various mass social movements mobilised by students and civic groups in Taiwan in…
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…
