Taiwan Insight – Page 3 – The online magazine of the Taiwan Studies Programme

Exploring the Gendered Cultural Politics of Seediq Bale’

21 February 2019 Editor

Written By Chin-ju Lin. A Seediq perspective on the uprising and genocide might still be forthcoming and would be welcome as Wei’s movie reopened the historical trauma without the Seediq being ready to see themselves represented in such a compromising way.

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Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan

19 February 2019 Editor

Written by Amy Brainer. Family life in Taiwan changes rapidly—as, for example, families grow smaller, the cost of living rises, and new ideas about child development are popularized—so too do the tools available to families to make sense of gender and sexual diversity.

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Gender, Women and Buddhism in Taiwan

18 February 2019 Editor

Thus, although Buddhism in Taiwan does not confer complete equality on women, their position is greatly improved over that of the past. Moreover, it has provided opportunities for women to greatly enlarge their social lives through volunteering and participation in Buddhist groups as well as opportunities to develop and utilize their social, organizational, administrative and leadership abilities.

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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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Xi Jinping’s Message to Compatriots in Taiwan Signals Change in Taiwan Policy

24 January 2019 Editor

Written by Elizabeth Freund Larus. Xi Jinping’s January 2ndMessage to Compatriots in Taiwan, in which China’s leader called for unification under a “one country, two

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Countering Chinese Military Modernization: A Path Forward for Taiwan and the United States

24 January 2019 Editor

Written by Lotta Danielsson. China has long undertaken a massive and sustained effort to modernize its military, and the Chinese determination to change the political

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The Cross-Strait #10YearChallenge

23 January 2019 Editor

Written by Margaret Lewis. What a difference a decade makes. Pandas are not the focus of the #10YearChallenge, in part perhaps because a 5-year-old panda

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China’s Greatness and Taiwan’s Vulnerability

23 January 2019 Editor

Written by Edward Friedman. Recent threats by the CCP Supreme Leader Xi Jinping to use force in order to annex Taiwan have focused attention on

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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

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