Taiwan Insight

Towards hope – the transformative power of affects in academia: On alternative ways of perceiving and narrating bipartisan politics in Taiwan

26 August 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Hsiao-Man Cavalli and Lily Y.H. Lin. This article explores how emotions shape the study of Taiwan’s party politics, examining how researchers’ embodied experiences can deepen understanding of political differences. Through reflections on collaborative research, it highlights how acknowledging emotions fosters more nuanced, inclusive, and relational approaches to conducting and interpreting Taiwan Studies.

Expressing Emotions in a Colonial Text: Huang Fengzi’s Taiwan no shōjo (A Young Girl of Taiwan)

25 August 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Anne Sokolsky. This article examines Taiwan no shōjo (1944), a collection of essays by Taiwanese writer Huang Fengzi, arguing that its emotional language reveals the complexities of colonial identity under Japanese rule. Through an analysis of competing voices and affective expressions, it explores how emotions, power, and cultural belonging shaped both the text and its colonial context.

Feeling Taiwan: Emotions, Knowledge, and the Politics of Everyday Life

24 August 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Po-Han Lee, Alvaro Martinez-Lacabe, and Yu-chin Tseng. This special issue, featuring the co-editors and authors of the recently published edited volume, Feeling Taiwan, explores how emotions shape Taiwan’s politics, history, and everyday life. Drawing on six case studies, it examines how feelings are not separate from knowledge but fundamental to understanding identity, social change, and lived experience, while inviting broader audiences to engage with Taiwan through emotion.

Teaching Maritime Culture and History in Eastern Taiwan

21 August 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Eric Siu-kei Cheng. This article explores how maritime education in Taitung turns Taiwan’s eastern coastline into a living classroom. Drawing on fieldwork, community collaboration, fisheries, food education, and Green Island’s White Terror heritage, the author shows how students engage with environmental sustainability, Indigenous knowledge, local livelihoods, cultural preservation, and democratic memory through the ocean.

China’s Maritime Pressure Spans Sea and Screen: Taiwan Needs a Regional Evidence Network

20 August 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Ming-hui Tang. This article analyses how Beijing combines maritime patrols, AI-generated propaganda, and legal framing to create an illusion of administrative control around Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. To counter this strategy of jurisdictional enclosure, it argues that Taiwan must leverage its strategic position to build a public regional evidence network with its neighbours. By standardising real-time data verification, authenticating media, and clarifying international law, Taiwan can convert individual incidents into collective security.

Islands as Breathing Infrastructures: Why Are More Visitors Making Livelihoods More Difficult in Today’s Kinmen?

19 August 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Chengyu Yang. This essay examines how Kinmen’s surge in cross-strait transit passengers strains local livelihoods and infrastructure without delivering proportional economic benefits. As a passage between Taiwan proper and mainland China, Kinmen acts as a “breathing infrastructure”, a delicate sea-air system easily desynchronised by weather disruptions. Consequently, high passenger volumes exhaust finite transport resources, fuelling tensions between stranded travellers and residents who depend on those same domestic flights for daily life.

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