Taiwan Insight

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

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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

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Why Democracy Is the Best Form of Government for Taiwan?

25 November 2018 Editor

Written by Alex Tan It is election season again in Taiwan, and voters are casting their votes for local and municipal elections on November 24th. These

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Taipei Mayor Election in 2014 and 2018

24 November 2018 Editor

Written by Chia-hung Tsai 2014: A New Episode In Taiwan, the Taipei mayor election is probably the most eye-catching contest among all local elections. Before 2014, KMT

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Walking Slowly: Style and motifs of Tsai Ming-liang’s film art (Part II)

30 October 2018 Editor

Written by Terez Vincz The key figure of the second wave of Taiwanese New Cinema, Tsai Ming-liang’s The Walker (2012) consists of twenty-one shots recorded by a fixed camera. This article will

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Walking Slowly: Style and motifs of Tsai Ming-liang’s film art (Part I)

29 October 2018 Editor

Written by Terez Vincze “I think that our present age is probably the worst time of all to be alive… Living in today’s world is terrible, I’m always

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The Poetics of Tsai Ming-liang

20 October 2018 Editor

Written by Cecília Mello The films of Tsai Ming-liang have been helping to shape our world cinema landscape since the early 1990s. On one hand, they belong to what

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Taiwan New Cinema, Post-New Cinema, and Wei Te-sheng

18 October 2018 Editor

Written by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Taiwan New Cinema (TNC) is a cinematic movement that emerged in the 1980s just as democracy was introduced to the island. Its impact cannot be overstated: TNC not only expanded cultural

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Taiwan’s best option for deterring China? Anti-Access/Area Denial

9 October 2018 Editor

Written by Eric Gomez. There are few David versus Goliath matchups in the international system quite like Taiwan versus China. Across virtually every indicator of

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The significance of the Sino-Vatican agreement

8 October 2018 Editor

Written by Alexandre TM Chen. The reports on the progress of Sino-Vatican dialogue often fill up pages in press coverage since the last two years.

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Reaching for World Class in Taiwanese Higher Education 邁向頂尖大學

2 October 2018 Editor

Written by Arzhia Habibi. “The strength of first-class universities in Taiwan depends on the strength of their relationships with leading research organizations and centers. Establishing

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Golden Melody Awards and Festival: Musical Exchange Between Taiwan and the World

25 September 2018 Editor

Written by Chen-Yu Lin. The night of 20th June 2018 was one of the most significant nights of my life when I finally managed to see No Party for Cao Dong playing live at the

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Taiwan and Free Trade Agreements – Missing the Wood for the Trees?

21 September 2016 Editor

Written by Michael Reilly. Apart from city-state entrepôts such as Hong Kong and Singapore, Taiwan is probably the most trade-dependent nation in the world. The

Taiwan’s trouble talking to the world

24 August 2016 Editor

Written by Gary Rawnsley. On 25 August 2016, China’s Xinhua News Agency posted a short film on Twitter about the construction of a pipeline between Fujian province

Taiwan and the Catholic Church

17 August 2016 Editor

Written by Michael Reilly. On 24 August the government in Taipei announced that Vice-President Chen Chien-jen will attend the 4 September canonization ceremony at the

The end of China-Taiwan rapprochement tourism

28 July 2016 Editor

Written by Ian Rowen. A fiery bus crash on July 19 near Taiwan’s Taoyuan airport tragically killed 24 Chinese tourists and the Taiwanese guide and driver,

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