Taiwan Insight

Motion Without Movement: The Latest (Non-) Developments in Cross-Strait Relations

22 January 2019 Editor

Written by June Teufel Dreyer. No Taiwan president has an easy job balancing pressure from China on unification with domestic pressures from those who advocate

Reviewing Policies Related to Cultural and Creative Industries Implemented by the Central Government of Taiwan

21 January 2019 Editor

Written by Chang Bin Lee In 2002, the Central Government of Taiwan (CGT) initiated the Challenge 2008: National Development Plan focusing on administrative policies toward cultural and creative industries. Cultural policy arose

Xi Jinping’s Speech Fails to Deliver what the People of Taiwan Want

21 January 2019 Editor

Written by Bonnie S. Glaser. On January 2, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his first speech focused exclusively on policy toward Taiwan. The occasion for

Contrasting the ‘Ethnic’ with the ‘Indigenous’: exploring different depictions of the ‘other’ in Taiwan.

18 January 2019 Editor

Written by David O’Brien Recently I had the pleasure of a few days in the beautiful, chilled-out Taitung, Taiwan’s self-described “most indigenous city”. Taitung County

Inclusivity- New Policies on Taiwan’s cultural diplomacy in the Culture White Paper 2018

17 January 2019 Editor

Written by Chun-Ying Wei The long-anticipated Culture White Paper 2018 was officially published last December following the National Cultural Congress in 2017. I had the

English as a National Language

9 January 2019 Editor

Written by Isabel Eliassen and Timothy S. Rich. For several months, Taiwanese officials have been drafting plans to make Taiwan into a Mandarin-English bilingual nation.

Economic Inequality and Low Wages in Taiwan

21 December 2018 Editor

Written by Chin-fen Chang. Taiwan had been able to achieve both growth and equality in the process of development until the 1980s. The statistics of

How People Choose Their Religions in Taiwan: The Characteristics of the Followers Within Weixin Shengjiao

20 December 2018 Editor

Written by Liu Hsiu-Yi According to a 2014 report from the Pew Research Center, Taiwan ranks second-highest in religious diversity in the world. The many

The ‘Enchanted’ Island: Religion, Secularisation and Modernity in Taiwan

19 December 2018 Editor

Written by Scott Pacey There was once a time when sociologists expected religion to decline, both as a social force, and as an object of

China’s Meddling in the 2018 Taiwan Local Election

11 December 2018 Editor

Written by Yu-Hua Chen. Taiwan completed its nine-in-one local election on 24 November 2018, which ended up with a historical defeat of the ruling Democratic

Three Public Opinion Trends Paved the Way for the DPP’s Defeat

10 December 2018 Editor

Written by Dongtao Qi. The results of Taiwan’s 2018 nine-in-one local elections surprised many observers. Surely many of them had been anticipating the DPP’s loss

Some Early Thoughts on the Taiwan 2018 Elections and Referendums in an International Context- Part Two

7 December 2018 Editor

Written by Ian Inkster, Mark Wenyi Lai and Victoria Hsin Hsin Chang. Identity Politics in the International Context The global thesis is that industrial democracies

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