Taiwan Insight

Programming Languages and Rails Girls: On refactoring the social norm

15 February 2019 Editor

Written by: Audrey Tang. When we create a safe space for a community’s participants, to observe and decide our own social scripts, we can collectively program a social norm that is both rigorous and creative — just like the best formulas, poems, and programs.

Songs of Defiance: LGBT Pop Music in Taiwan (Post-2018 Referendum) [Part 2]

14 February 2019 Editor

Written by Matt Taylor. In part one of this two-article feature, where we are trying to understand the impact of the November 2018 same-sex marriage

Songs of Defiance: LGBT Pop Music in Taiwan (Post-2018 Referendum) [Part 1]

13 February 2019 Editor

As Taiwan’s LGBT community reels from the result of the referendum, they can find solace in the rich collection of Taiwan’s LGBT music cannon. Those songs that saw the community fight against discrimination, against inequality, and espouse the values of freedom, individuality and defying the status quo have an even more important meaning now than they did before.

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