Events

The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The February 28th Incident, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known, […]

Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan

Speaker: Jin Jungwon, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with […]

Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report

Speakers:  Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College

Panel Discussion – The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Listen again:  Panelists: Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University Chang-ling Huang, National Taiwan University Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College  

Douglas Paal – The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Douglas Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director, American Institute in Taiwan

Margaret K. Lewis – Why Law Matters in Taiwan

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Listen to an interview with Margaret Lewis on our "Harvard on China" podcast. Download and read the transcript of this podcast interview here. Speaker: Margaret K. Lewis, Seton Hall University […]

Shelley Rigger – Taiwan’s Tumultuous “normal election”

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Read event summary here Speaker: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Shelley Rigger, is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has a PhD […]

Hsin-Hsin Pan – Foreign Visits and the Image of National Security Defender: An Analysis of Voter Attitudes in Taiwan

Speaker: Hsin-Hsin Pan, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Discussant: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore This paper looks into the effect of foreign visits to major powers on an image of national security defenders for politicians of minor […]