Taiwan Insight

Reworlding Childhood: Parenting in an Age of Educational Anxiety

11 May 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Kristina Göransson. Focusing on homeschooling and other “opt-out” practices in Singapore and Taiwan, this article shows how families actively rework ideas of care, learning, and childhood. These alternative paths, while they offer an escape from exam pressures, also require intensive parental labour and remain shaped by inequalities in class and access.

Beyond the Growth Narrative: Energy Constraints in Taiwan’s Green Transition

8 May 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Gita T. This article argues that Taiwan’s green transition assumes energy demand will remain manageable and relatively stable amid rapid technological expansion. This assumption is increasingly difficult to sustain. These dynamics suggest that Taiwan’s green transition requires a shift not only in technology, but in how energy systems are planned and governed.

From ‘China’s Last Frontier’ to ‘Ghost Nation’: Rethinking Taiwan Across Three Decades of Change

7 May 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. The article compares Simon Long’s 1991 book, Taiwan: China’s Last Frontier and Chris Horton’s recent publication, Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival (2025). The author traces Taiwan’s transformation from an authoritarian frontier within a China-centric framework to a democratic, identity-driven political subject central to global geopolitics, yet still diplomatically constrained. By examining the two frameworks, the author reveals both profound change and enduring discourse on Taiwan’s self-determination and the limits of international recognition.

Six Assurances and Trump’s Arms Sale Policy toward Taiwan

6 May 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Baosheng Guo. This article argues that Trump’s recent comments about arms sales to Taiwan at least violated the principle and tradition of the second article of the Six Assurances. Though his foreign policy is rife with unpredictability and uncertainty, his willingness to abide by the rule of law provides a measure of assurance to Taiwan’s security.

JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN THE INVASIONS AND COLONISATION OF TAIWAN, 1874–1945: ISLAND VIOLENCE FROM THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN’S FIRST ENCROACHMENT TO THE END OF THE ASIA–PACIFIC WAR

5 May 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Charles R. Charrington. This article re-examines Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan by juxtaposing narratives of modernisation with documented violence. It traces military invasions, massacres, and coercive governance from the late nineteenth century to World War II, while situating them within broader imperial dynamics. Rather than advancing anti-Japanese sentiment, it foregrounds how colonial violence has been obscured despite its centrality to Taiwan’s historical formation.

Why Such Haste to Cook and Eat Me, China? Cao Zhi’s Seven-Step Poem and Taiwan for Peace, not Pees

4 May 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Sheng-mei Ma. This essay mobilises Cao Zhi’s seven-step poem as an allegorical lens on cross-Strait tensions, tracing how fraternal violence, de-personalised poetics, and classical Chinese cosmology illuminate Taiwan’s precarious geopolitics. Interweaving “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” and “Journey to the West”, it critiques power, survival, and moral contamination, arguing that domination ultimately inscribes both victim and victor within enduring cycles of violence.

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