Taiwan Insight

Women as Workers, Women as Agents: Studying Labor and Gender in Industrial and Postindustrial Taiwan

12 February 2019 Editor

While my past work focused on individual acts of resistance, my recent work investigates the possibility of collective actions to address the issue of gender inequality.

LGBT issues in 2019

11 February 2019 Editor

While many DPP supporters of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights more broadly (e.g. legislator Yu Mei-Nu) spoke out in favour of legalization, in large part they lacked a clear message that would appeal to the otherwise indifferent, making the job easier for anti-LGBT groups.

Taiwan’s Cultural Plurality and Immigration Policy

9 February 2019 Editor

Written by Ji-ping Lin. Much like many countries, Taiwan has a long historical tradition of migration, including internal and international. Taiwan’s early developments were

Taiwan’s population growth… or lack thereof

5 February 2019 Editor

Written by Marcus Roberts. The big demographic news out of Asia recently has been the “unstoppable” demographic decline that China is about to undergo thanks

Taiwan – shrinking and increasingly alone

4 February 2019 Editor

Written by Marcus Roberts. Once our three children are in bed (a process that can take some time, much to my frustration) I often relax

Mindfulness in Taiwan

1 February 2019 Editor

Written by Chung-Wei Lin Mindfulness originated from the early Buddhist classics referred to as “Samyukta-Agama” and “Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta”. Mindfulness are those teachings of the Buddha that were handed to the disciples, and which Buddhists believe are the direct path to realization. Mindfulness has four steps: mindfulness of the body

The Importance of Primary School Teachers’ Mental Health in Taiwan

31 January 2019 Editor

Written by Pei-Hsin Li “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their

Tsai’s Domestic Troubles in 2019

30 January 2019 Editor

Written by Mark Weatherall and Kai-Ping Huang. For President Tsai Ing-wen, the shock win of the KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu in the mayoral election for

Cross-Strait relations 2019: Promoting and rejecting unification

29 January 2019 Editor

Written by Qi Dongtao. The dynamics of cross-Strait relations in 2019 were revealed by Taiwan and mainland China’s top leaders’ speeches in the first two

Cross-Strait Narratives of Now and the Future

28 January 2019 Editor

Written by Michael Mazza. Taiwan’s November 2018 nine-in-one elections looked like a major setback for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. The DPP won only six

Trump Withdrawing: Global Forces and Forecasting Taiwan in 2019 and Beyond (Part 2)

27 January 2019 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster. The first part of this paper outlined trends that could dominate discussions on Taiwan’s international position in 2019, providing a shaky

Trump Withdrawing: Global Forces and Forecasting Taiwan in 2019 and Beyond (Part 1)

26 January 2019 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster. Most social scientists now regard global dynamics as a complex system, more akin to a human body than to the workings

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