Taiwan Insight

TAP as Ecosystem: Research, Exchange, and Editorial Work – Two personal perspectives on engaging Taiwan through scholarship

18 February 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Written by Felix Brender and Julian Vetterlein. The article reflects on TAP’s role in building a Taiwan Studies research ecosystem through travel grants, student engagement and interdisciplinary exchange. Through the perspectives of two research assistants, it shows how TAP supported full research cycles, international collaboration, policy dialogue and sustained academic interest in Taiwan beyond traditional funding structures.

Digital Connected Societies: Petitions about Children under surveillance in Taiwan – Insights from TAP’s cross-perspective collaboration

17 February 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Dr Josie-Marie Perkuhn and Assistant Professor Dr Amélie Keyser-Verreault. The article examines growing CCTV surveillance of children in Taiwan’s childcare settings, analysing public petitions on the Join platform alongside nationwide survey data. While most respondents support intensive monitoring for safety, significant privacy concerns persist. The study highlights digitalisation’s role in reshaping childcare, democratic participation and emerging ethical tensions.

Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP): Local Innovation in the Dynamics of Global Megatrends — a project review

16 February 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Dr Josie-Marie Perkuhn & Professor Dr Christian Soffel. This article introduces Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP), a four-year interdisciplinary postdoctoral project strengthening Taiwan Studies in Europe through research, workshops, teaching initiatives, digital infrastructure, and fieldwork. Treating Taiwan’s innovations as analytical lenses on global change, TAP built lasting scholarly networks and resources beyond a single funding cycle.

Rethinking Chinese Media in a Digital Decade: Reflections on the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media, 2nd Edition (2025)

13 February 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. This article shares insights from the new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (2025), which documents a radically transformed, digitalised media ecology across the Chinese-speaking world. Comparing Taiwan, the PRC, Hong Kong and Macao, it foregrounds platform governance, power, participation and cultural negotiation, positioning Taiwan as a key lens for rethinking Chinese media studies in the digital age.

Beyond Volume: Designing Slower Tourism in Taiwan

12 February 2026 Adrian Chiu

Written by Gita T. As Taiwan’s tourism sector continues to recover, questions about how the island should grow as a destination are beginning to resurface. This article advocates a slower model of heritage preservation, which allows a single site or landscape to open outward through observation, conversation, and carefully timed context. Taiwan does not start from zero as much preservation work is already underway.

Making Art, Living Art – Tehching Hsieh’s Life Works

11 February 2026 Chee-Hann Wu

Written by Chee-Hann Wu. This article reviews Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh’s 2025 Dia Beacon retrospective, tracing his durational performances that treat the body as a clock, from cages to time-clocking, and reflecting on the exhibition’s embodied, minimalist presentation that collapses art and life, revealing time as both medium and co-performer.

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