Taiwan Insight

Not All Stories Are Yours To Tell – A Reflection on The Century Bloodshed Part I

13 March 2026 NGA Shi Yeu

Written by Chee-Hann Wu. This article reflects a personal memory and classroom discussion; she explores the ethical responsibilities of artists when representing traumatic historical events. Emphasising consent, historical accuracy, and self-awareness, the piece argues that storytellers and audiences alike must engage critically with how collective trauma is portrayed and remembered in art and media.

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The Hidden Prison: How Taiwanese Comics Expose the White Terror’s Quiet Scars

12 March 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Meng Kit Tang. The piece examines how two recent Taiwanese comics: White Prison Shadows 2 (2025), grounded in Ye Shitao’s White Terror experiences, and White Rebellion 1 (2024), a speculative thriller; reveal the White Terror’s most enduring legacy: not the prison cell itself, but a “prison outside the prison” sustained through surveillance, social stigma, and internalized self-censorship.

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From White Terror to Green Overreach: Taiwan’s Democracy Under Pressure

11 March 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Meng Kit Tang. This article examines how Taiwan, under mounting pressure from Beijing, risks drifting toward legal and administrative overreach at home. Drawing on recent high-profile detentions, national security legislation, and institutional gridlock, it argues that while today’s Taiwan bears no resemblance in scale to the White Terror, it increasingly echoes its methods: vague laws, procedural shortcuts, and media-driven stigma.

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The Obstacles to Agreeing an EU-Taiwan Investment Agreement

27 November 2017

Written by Michael Reilly. In October 2015 the European Commission announced that it would ‘explore launching negotiations on investment with [….] Taiwan.’ For a country that

Language in the study of Dutch Formosa

20 November 2017

Written by Ann Heylen. Ahead of my talk on the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on 22 November, I have decided to

Taiwan in a Challenging East Asia Security Environment

14 November 2017

Written by Gordon Houlden. The retreat of the Republic of China (ROC) government and its armed forces to Taiwan did not occur in a strategic

The New Southbound Policy: Tsai’s Soft Power Alternative

13 November 2017

Written by Mariah Thornton. During the presidential debate of 2016, then Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen boldly posited: ‘When the maintenance of our diplomatic

Catalonia, Taiwan, and the Centralising State (part II)

8 November 2017

Written by Ben Goren. In the first part of this article, I briefly explored the wider historical contexts of current rising claims to independence in Catalonia and

Taiwan, China, and the future of U.S. policy in Asia

7 November 2017

Written by Douglas Paal. China has just concluded its 19th Party Congress. The air is redolent with questions about how much will change and what

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