Taiwan Insight

What if Taiwan is a Human Girl: Knowledge, Emotion and Identity in the Fan Creations on Hetalia Taiwan

4 September 2024 Adrian Chiu

Written by Belinda Han. This article studies the fan community of the Japanese webcomic Hetalia: Axis Powers in both Taiwan and China. It explores how the fandom of the Taiwanese character, Wan-Niang, interprets and retells historical and political message, acts as a field where emotions and identities jumbled.

Taiwanese Psychiatrists’ Cultural Inquiries in the 1950s: Toward a Prehistory of Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychological Anthropology on the Verges of the Japanese and American Empires

2 September 2024 Adrian Chiu

Written by Alex Hsu-Chun Liu. This article reviews the cultural inquiries of Taiwanese psychiatrists in the postwar years, a period that saw the birth of transcultural psychiatry. The stories of Hsien Rin and Tsung-Yi Lin revealed the shift from eugenics to socio-cultural psychiatry and contributed to the decolonialisation of psychiatry in a postcolonial society.

An Unseen Legacy: Cold War Liberalism and the Liberal Historiography of Taiwan

30 August 2024 Adrian Chiu

Written by Thomas Liang-Chung Wang. This article reviews the discourses of Cold War liberalism in Taiwan, which focuses on the individualistic nature of liberalism. Such a reflection prompts a reappraisal of the present-day concept of the liberal ideal in Taiwan. It questions whether the contemporary vision overlaps with those of refugee liberals, especially on perspectives such as nationalism.

The national Committee on Climate Change: Also a security issue

28 August 2024 Yu-Chen

Written by Paul Jobin. This article discusses the challenges and strategic priorities of Taiwan’s national committees placed in the Presidential Office, addressing the issues of climate change, defence resilience, and health. This article reviews the first meeting of the National Climate Change Response Committee to assess the government’s stance on nuclear energy, the priorities of different stakeholders in climate policy, and the potential synergies with Taiwan’s defence and health strategies.

The Ongoing Climate Governance and Indigenous Peoples’ Carbon Rights in Taiwan

23 August 2024 Yu-Chen

Written by Hsin-Ju Li. This article reviews Taiwan’s legal frameworks for carbon emission reduction, including the carbon fee and carbon trading schemes. It also explores how Indigenous peoples have participated in these systems and the future path for developing Indigenous carbon rights.

A Dawn of Climate’s Constitutional Moment? — An Anatomy of Taiwan’s Climate Legislation and the Historic Climate Lawsuit

21 August 2024 Yu-Chen

Written by Helen Hai-Ning Huang. This article highlights the key provisions of the Climate Change Response Act, particularly its design, objectives, and emissions reduction targets, and dissects the historic constitutional climate lawsuit in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s Energy Transition and Security from the Perspectives of Legal Reforms

19 August 2024 Yu-Chen

Written by Mori Lin. This article explores Taiwan’s journey toward a nuclear-free homeland. It examines the challenges and opportunities in its energy transition, the impact of legal reforms, and the ongoing efforts to enhance energy security and sustainability.

How Environmentally Friendly is Taiwan’s Constitution? An Observation from Ecological Constitutionalism

16 August 2024 Yu-Chen

Written by Kuan-Wei Chen. This article explores Taiwan’s integration of ecological considerations into its constitution through ecological constitutionalism. It highlights legislative advancements and the challenges of implementing these principles in legal and constitutional frameworks.

Tiger in a Cat’s Body: Taiwan’s Strategies for Diplomatic Recognition

14 August 2024 Adrian Chiu

Written by Jeremiah Reyes. This article highlights Taiwan’s strategy to gain diplomatic recognition, including dollar diplomacy, participation in international organisations and value-based diplomacy. It argues value-based diplomacy seems to be the most impactful especially when China becomes more hawkish. Taiwan’s experience offers lessons for other contested states.

A Time of Extinction: Dedicated to Whom? Exploring Sustainability through the Lens of Theater, Let’s Be Consciously Wasteful

12 August 2024 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Charles Lee. This article raises fundamental questions about theatre sustainability. It focuses on theatre venues and infrastructure in Taiwan by critically examining productions that attempt to respond to the concerns through distinct approaches. The author also investigates the unique dynamics Taiwanese The author also explores the unique dynamics that Taiwanese audiences have with the “aesthetics of Anthropocene theatre”.

Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry in the “Chip Wars” Era

9 August 2024 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Gunter Schubert. Taiwan’s security is largely determined by the government’s ability to promote the resilience of Taiwan’s high-tech industries, especially semiconductors, to ensure their international competitiveness and crisis resilience. Based on this fact, this article raises two subsequent questions: what strategies are the Taiwanese semiconductor industry pursuing to secure its technological edge and markets in the new global power constellation? And what is the Taiwanese government doing to strengthen the country’s economic security, which arguably depends essentially on maintaining Taiwan’s leading position in the global high-tech industry over the long term?

The New AI (Artificial Indigeneity): The Rise of Speculative Indigenous Fiction in Taiwan

7 August 2024 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Ti-han Chang. This article explores a literary landscape where unique Austronesian cultural references blend with fantastical narratives of speculative realism which has given rise to a groundbreaking subgenre in eco-literature, Speculative Indigenous Fiction, in Taiwan. The author calls the new wave of fictional writing the new AI—‘Artificial Indigeneity’.

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