Africa Beijing’s Rise and Taiwan’s Decline in Africa: What Does the African University Tell Us? August 23, 2019 0 Written by Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi. Image credit: 中共援非因何称〝不附带条件〞?真没政治条件?by 禁书 网/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Universities are important institutions. Based on their functionality, universities can be…
China The Turkish Understanding of “One China”: Turkey’s Delicate Policy Balance between Taiwan and China August 22, 2019 0 Written by Selcuk Colakoglu. Image credit: 土耳其总统担 by 禁书 网/Flickr, license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Turkey has maintained long-term relationships with both China and Taiwan since…
China-Vatican Taiwan and the Vatican: Relations from Past to Near Future August 21, 2019 0 Written by Alexandre Tsung-ming Chen. Image credit: Vice President Chen expressed regards to Vatican Secretary of State Card. Pietro Parolin by the Office of the…
APEC Taiwan’s Think Tanks and the Practice of Unofficial Diplomacy August 20, 2019 0 Written by Pascal Abb. Image credit: 2017臺灣國際科學展覽會頒獎典禮 by Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)/Flickr, license: CC BY 2.0 Taiwan is a unique case…
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…
China First person, second language: Autobiographical documentaries by women in the Chinese diaspora May 24, 2019 0 Written by Gina Marchetti. Image Credit: Roll of Film by Dale Mastin-Purcell/Flickr, Licence CC BY-ND 2.0. Thanks to the visibility of Nanfu Wang’s Hooligan Sparrow (2016) on feminist…
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 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 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…