Taiwan Insight

Food for Thought and the Search for Authenticity

25 April 2025 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by David O’Brien. This article reflects on the author’s visit to Taitung, Taiwan, exploring how food intersects with identity, colonialism, and authenticity. Drawing on experiences in Xinjiang, Poland, and Taiwan, the author examines how cuisine can both divide and unite across cultural and political landscapes.

Teasing Romantic and Literary Appetite: Reading Taiwan Travelogue

23 April 2025 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Mu-Hsi Kao Lee. The article explores the experience of reading Taiwan Travelogue as a translated historical yuri novel. Kao Lee reflects on how the narrative, despite its clear genre and straightforward plot, evokes a sense of both satisfaction and longing in the reader. The article highlights the story’s ability to interweave historical and cultural details with the protagonists’ emotional connection, examining themes of desire, identity, and the complexities of relationships within a specific historical context.

Savouring Taiwan’s History and Experience: Reflections on the Taiwan Travelogue and Its Book Talk

16 April 2025 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Tun-Jung Kuo and Li-Ting Chang. This article reflects on a book talk discussing Taiwan Travelogue, highlighting how the novel uses food to narrate Taiwan’s colonial history, cultural hybridity and female perspectives. Through detailed depictions of cuisine and memory, it challenges historical narratives and deepens understanding of Taiwan’s evolving identity amid Japanese colonial influence and localisation.

Food is politics, and so is travel.

14 April 2025 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Chee-Hann Wu. This article discusses Taiwan Travelogue and its US book tour earlier this year. It highlights the controversial marketing strategy, the extensive use of footnotes to enrich the historical context, and the categorisation of the novel as queer literature due to the evident, though subtle, romantic undertones between the two female protagonists.

Revisiting Research: Indigenous Peoples as Non-State Diplomatic Actors in the Public/Cultural Diplomacy of Taiwan

11 April 2025 Yu-Chen

Written by Dr Carla Figueira. This article reflects on the 2024 IJTS Open Access Award-winning paper, “Indigenous Peoples as Non-State Diplomatic Actors in the Public/Cultural Diplomacy of Taiwan: A Case Study of Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art.” It highlights the value of engaging with the personal and social contexts shaping research outputs. It celebrates the growing academic focus on Indigenous Peoples and cultural diplomacy, foregrounding Taiwan’s unique position.

The Expansion of Taiwanese Firms and the US-China Trade War: The Subcontractors’ Dilemma in Global Supply Chain Competition

9 April 2025 Yu-Chen

Written by Lin, Thung-Hong. This article introduces the 2023 IJTS Open Access Award-winning paper, “Subcontractors’ Dilemma: The Expansion of Taiwanese Firms 2002–2015”, and discusses a follow-up study examining how China’s autocratisation under Xi Jinping has impacted Taiwanese firms operating in China through 2022. Together, these studies provide a comprehensive view of the challenges Taiwanese businesses face amid globalisation and shifting geopolitics, offering crucial insights into corporate strategies and government policies.

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