Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Rethinking Taiwan and the World: Presentations by the Fairbank Center’s 2023-24 Fellows in Taiwan Studies
2024-04-02 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | CGIS South Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
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Speakers:Shinyi Hsieh, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center; PhD, History of Health Sciences Program, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California-San Francisco – Navigating Geomedical Borders: A Critical Analysis of NAMRU-2’s Operations in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, 1955-1975. Anatol Klass, Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center; PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley – Building the Department of African Affairs: Institutional and Strategic Developments in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy During the Early Cold War Julia Famularo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center; PhD in Modern Asian Political History, Georgetown University – Taiwan’s Substitute Military Service Program: Reform and Expansion Under the Tsai and Incoming Lai Administrations

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Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
2024-03-28 16:00 - 18:30 | Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, 121 Bay State Rd, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Speakers:Akio Takahara, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of TokyoJa-Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of SingaporeSatu Limaye, Vice President, East-West Center; Director, East-West Center in Washington

This event examines the risks for conflict in the Taiwan Strait and the implications that the changed geo-strategic environment has for the US, Taiwan, the Sino-US relationship and the US-led system of alliances in the region. It builds on a series of BUCSA events about Taiwan’s security that we have held over the past few years, including a talk with Taiwan Defense Minister Andrew Yang in the Spring of 2021 and a presentation and discussion with senior US diplomat Chas Freeman in March 2022.

For more information, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/12/04/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies-march-28-2024/ .

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Election Results in Taiwan: Assessing Their Impact on Taiwan's Political Development and Cross Strait Relations
2024-01-17 20:00 - 21:30 | Presented via Zoom
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Speakers:Douglas H. Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director, American Institute in Taiwan (2002–2006)Sarah Liu, Senior Lecturer in Gender and Politics, University of EdinburghJi Ye, Graduate Institute for Taiwan Studies, Xiamen University

Chair: Steven Goldstein, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center

Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jsuQw_ArSrS330mlcOHzxw

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Lung Yingtai - My Life in an Indigenous Village
2023-09-27 16:30 - 18:00 | CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University

Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous village in eastern Taiwan three years ago, she sought to comprehend the elements that comprise her life, including the journey of her daily water supply from the mountain’s depths to her garden pond. Furthermore, she regularly encounters cobras, wild boars and crab-eating mongooses, prompting her to examine the impact of cultural as well as environmental “encroachment” on the wildlife and people residing in the untouched forest.

About the speaker: Lung Yingtai is a writer, literary critic and public intellectual. Lung not only has a large number of devoted readers in her native Taiwan, but her works also have great influence in the Chinese-language world in Singapore, Malaysia, China, and North America. Lung entered public service as Taipei City Government’s first minister of culture in 1999 and served as Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Culture from 2012-2014. She is author of more than two dozen books, including essays, fiction, reportage, and literary criticism. Her 1985 book, The Wild Fire, created a major cultural stir for its honest and introspective look at the social and political problems facing contemporary Taiwan society. Big River, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949, published in 2009, became a must-read in greater China despite that it has been banned in China. She was Hung Leung Hao Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong from 2015-2020.

Organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia

More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/my-life-in-an-indigenous-village/

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Visiting Scholars Present: Taiwan Studies
2023-05-16 09:30 - 11:00 | CGIS South Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
Fairbank Center visiting scholars will share the work of Taiwan filmmaker Edward Yang, research on Qing Dynasty Taiwan war preparations, and new findings on U.S. views of U.S.-China AI competition. Please join us for this fascinating workshop!

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Presenters:

Ruochen Bo, 2022-23 Hou Family Pre-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies

Bo will talk about the iconic Taiwan filmmaker and one of his most important films: “Edward Yang and Education: A Brighter Summer Day (1991)“

Nan-Hsu Chen, 2022-23 Hou Family Post-doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies

Chen will talk about “Everyday Problems and Wartime Transportation in Taiwan, 1884-85”

Chia-hung Tsai, Professor, National Chengchi University

Tsai will present on: “American Opinion on AI Competition between the US and China”

Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vY8L4xhtTS2X-JKmxqKZsg

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Taiwan Studies Workshop - Taiwan Elections 2022: Examining the Results
2022-12-07 09:00 - 10:30 | Presented via Zoom
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Panelists:Lev Nachman, National Chengchi UniversitySara Newland, Smith CollegeChia-hung Tsai, National Chengchi University; 2022-2023 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Moderator: Steven M. Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate

The opposition Kuomintang party achieved what some consider to be a “blue wave” in the November 26 elections for local government offices by winning a total of thirteen of the major offices while “flipping” three of those previously held by the Democratic Progressive Party. In this, our third panel on the Taiwan elections, we examine the campaign issues and assess the significance of their results for the structure of party system in Taiwan, for party leaderships and for the 2024 presidential and legislative elections.

Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CYMlloEzSsWE0Pe9F2ixTg.

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Taiwan Studies Workshop - Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts' Perspective
2022-11-17 09:30 - 11:00 | Presented via Zoom
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On November 26, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties.

On November 15 and 17, the Fairbank Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop will host two virtual seminars focused on the upcoming elections.

Panelists:Lev Nachman, National Chengchi UniversitySara Newland, Smith CollegeChia-hung Tsai, National Chengchi University; 2022-2023 Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Moderator: Steven M. Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate

Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VvU7JvaCSoezJJ-C2neYMA.

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YouTube recording of “Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts’ Perspective”

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Taiwan Studies Workshop - Taiwan Elections 2022: The Politicians' Perspective
2022-11-15 08:00 - 09:30 | Presented via Zoom
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On November 26, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties.

On November 15 and 17, the Fairbank Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop will host two virtual seminars focused on the upcoming elections.

Panelists:Ambassador Leonard Chao, Chairman, International Affairs Committee, and Deputy Chairman, Policy Think Tank, Taiwan People’s PartyMark Chih-Wei Ho, Congressman, the Republic of China, member of the Standing Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)Alfred Chia-hsing Lin, Deputy Director, Culture and Communications Committee and member of the Central Committee of the Kuomindang (KMT)Wan Yu Wang, Congresswoman, the Republic of China and member of the Central Decision Committee, New Power Party

Moderator: George Yin, Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for China Studies, National Taiwan University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q2IRMwrYST-lS7ei5mvtEQ.

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Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Jaewoong Jeon - Sugar and Commodity Form: Manifestations in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
2022-04-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Presented via Zoom
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Speaker: Jaewoong Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Moderator: Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate

This talk will not be recorded for future viewing.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University.

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From Tangut to Taiwan: A Dialogue with Lo Yi-chin on Diaspora and Identity Politics in Fiction 從西夏到台灣：駱以軍談離散文學與認同政治
2022-04-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Presented via Zoom
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Taiwan Studies

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Speakers: Lo Yi-chin 駱以軍, Writer and winner of Dream of the Red Chamber Fiction PrizeMingwei Song 宋明煒, Wellesley CollegeModerator: David Der-wei Wang 王德威, Harvard UniversityThis roundtable will be in Mandarin.

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Taiwan Studies Workshop Featuring Lev Nachman - Why is Unification So Unpopular in Taiwan? It’s the PRC Political System, Not Just Culture
2022-03-24 16:00 - 17:30 | Presented via Zoom
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Taiwan Studies

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Speaker: Lev Nachman, Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post- Sunflower Movement Parties focuses on contested states, examining why some flourish while others decline.Also Streaming on YouTube

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Panel Discussion - Cross-Strait Relations One Year After Biden's Election
2021-11-15 20:00 - 21:30 | The Legislative Yuan, Room 801, No. 1, Sec. 1, Jinan Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan
Panelists:
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College Emeritus and director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Alastair Iain Johnston, Laine professor of China in World Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University
Sara Newland, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Smith College
Szue-chin Philip Hsu, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University
Yi-Feng Tao, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University
Johnny Chi-chen Chiang, Congressman, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and chairperson of Kuomingtan (March 2020 – October 2021)
Mark Chih-Wei Ho, Congressman, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and member of the Central Standing Committee, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
Moderator:
George Yin, National Service Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University and Adjunct Research Fellow, Center for China Studies, National Taiwan University
One year after Biden’s election, cross strait and US-China relations seem more unstable than during the Trump administration. If the status quo is desirable, what can the U.S. and Taiwan do to maintain the status quo? This hybrid webinar brings together US and Taiwan scholars, in addition to Taiwanese policymakers, to explore the drivers of increasing tensions in the cross-strait area, and to examine the credibility of proposed solutions.
Presented via Zoom Webinar and from the Legislative Yuan in Tapei

Register for the Zoom Webinar at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2RgCTSP7RLS04cd00ao9mw

Register for the in-person event in Taipei at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe93zzXCSxzSLmYB0uLD1GSCUH01UFjTTQEoRvd_HY8NvdZFg/viewform
Location for the in-person event is: The Legislative Yuan, Room 801, No. 1, Sec. 1, Jinan Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan 100台北市中正區濟南路一段1號，群賢樓801
Please note: this event will not be simulcast on our YouTube channel.

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bonnie Glaser - How Great is the Risk of War Over Taiwan?
2021-09-29 12:30 - 13:45 | MA
There is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next six years. Such dire predictions are largely based on estimates of PLA capabilities. But even if China can seize and control Taiwan, will it do so? Assessing the potential for such an attack also requires an understanding of Xi Jinping’s strategy toward Taiwan and his risk/benefit calculus. The policies of the United States and Taiwan, and how they are viewed in Beijing, also need to be taken into account.
Speaker: Bonnie Glaser, Director, Asia Program, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Bonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy.

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Special Event - The State of Taiwan Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Directions
2021-06-28 09:30 - 11:00 | MA
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PanelistsJaw-Nian Huang, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University, TaiwanLawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, TaiwanKevin Wei Luo, Doctoral Fellow, Hou Family fellow in Taiwan Studies, Harvard UniversityLev Nachman, PhD in political science, UC Irvine
DiscussantChing-fang Hsu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
This roundtable discussion brings together past and present Hou Family Doctoral Fellows in Taiwan Studies at the Fairbank Center, to discuss current methodological approaches and emerging thematic directions in the study of Taiwanese history, society, and politics. Bridging across disciplinary fields such as media studies, history, and political science, the panelists will share their research experiences amid resurging interest in Taiwan, and envision how this renewed conversation can help jumpstart the next generation of Taiwan studies.
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Webinar - The Challenge of COVID-19: The Taiwan Experience
2020-06-02 09:00 - 10:45 | MA
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · The Challenge of COVID 19: The Taiwan Experience
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Speakers:
Jen-Hsiang Chuang, Deputy Director-General at Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan
Steve Kuo, President, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Moderators:
Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, China Health Partnership.
WIlliam Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Organizer: Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate
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This webinar, originally scheduled on Microsoft Teams, will now take place on Zoom instead. We apologize for any confusion. No registration is required.
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Chien-Huei Wu - Economic-Security Nexus: The US-China Trade War and its Implication for Taiwan
2020-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Chien-Huei Wu, Associate Research Professor, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Hsin-Hsin Pan - Foreign Visits and the Image of National Security Defender: An Analysis of Voter Attitudes in Taiwan
2019-11-21 16:00 - 20:00 | MA
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 powers. We have three findings. First, foreign visits are effective. Second, visits to the US is more so than China. Moreover, visits to the US in perceived fair Taiwan-US relations for reassurance of informal ally, but visits to China in perceived bad Taiwan-China relations for damage control.
For more information about the speaker’s research, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/phsinhsin/

Shelley Rigger - Taiwan's Tumultuous "normal election"
2019-10-23 12:15 - 13:30 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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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 in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2006). Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan’s domestic politics: Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). She has published articles on Taiwan’s domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her current research studies the effects of cross-strait economic interactions on Taiwan people’s perceptions of Mainland China. Her monograph, “Taiwan’s Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwan Nationalism’” was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006.

Margaret K. Lewis - Why Law Matters in Taiwan
2019-05-01 12:30 - 14:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, 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 School of Law Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice. Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation’s US-Japan Leadership Program.
Her publications have appeared in a number of academic journals including the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and Virginia Journal of International Law. She also co-authored the book Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education Through Labor with Jerome A. Cohen. Professor Lewis has participated in the State Department’s Legal Experts Dialogue with China, has testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is a consultant to the Ford Foundation.
Before joining Seton Hall, Professor Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school, she worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law and was awarded a Furman Fellowship. Professor Lewis received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Douglas Paal - The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty
2019-04-15 16:00 - 18:00 | CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Speaker: Douglas Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director, American Institute in Taiwan

Panel Discussion - The Taiwan Elections of 2018: Implications for the Future
2018-12-06 12:00 - 14:00 | CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
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Panelists:
Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University
Chang-ling Huang, National Taiwan University
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College

Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report
2018-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 | MA
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

The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947
2017-04-20 12:00 - 14:00 | CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, 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, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization in Taiwan, and of Republican China’s troubled war aftermath. It also discusses the debates and memory wars that surround the Incident in present-day Taiwan.

Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
2017-04-08 10:00 - 16:30 | MA
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections

Organizer: Professor David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Sponsors: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Discussants: David der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh, Michael Berry, Mei Chia-ling

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1PM – 5PM
Panel One: (Post-)Colonial Identities and Sentimentalities, 1934-1949
1pm – 3pm
Dingru Huang
Mapping a Strange Home: Weng Nao, the Kōenji Neighborhood of Tokyo, and Taiwanese literature in the 1930s
Chun -yu Lu
Lovable Foe: Sentimentalizing Morality in Wartime Taiwan, 1937-1945
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
Trauma and Diaspora of 1949: History, Memory, and Literature in Taiwan’s Mainlander Studies

Panel Two: Reinvention and Remembrance, 1950s-1970s
3:30pm – 5pm
Yang Fu-min
When “Wen” becomes Knowledge: Bing-ing Hsieh’s “How I Write”
Cheng-chieh Chang
Remembering Taiwan’s Activism in 1960s-70s
Lo Yichen
Of the Civil Law Family: The Troubling Concept for Legal Transplantation in Taiwan

SATURDAY APRIL 8, 10AM – 5:30PM
*Please note. Saturday’s sessions will now be held in the Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA*
Panel Three: Politics and Poetics, 1979-1980s
10am – 11:30am
Kevin Luo
Revisiting Authoritarianism and Democratization in Taiwan: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Texts, 1979-1987
Chung Chih-wei
“Harbor Songs” between Men: The Perverse Lyricism in 1980s’ Taiwanese Nationalists
Po-hsi Chen
An Isle of Socialism Unwritten: The Pro-Unification Leftist Literary Historiography in Taiwan

Panel Four: Contesting Voices and Networks, 1990s-2016
1pm – 3pm
Kyle Shernuk
Sinophone Tidalectics, or the Transculturation of Identity in the Age of Globalization
Lily Wong
Affective Labor and the Sinophone Lens in “The Fourth Portrait”
Dalton Lin
Can-Kicking in International Disputes: Parallel Self-Interest, Behind-the-Scene Diplomacy, and Lessons for Rapprochement Attempts
Jaw-Nian Huang
Between State and Market: Institutional Origins of Media Self-censorship in Taiwan, 1949-2016

Roundtable
3:30pm – 5:30pm

Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
2017-04-07 13:30 - 17:00 | MA
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Organizer: Professor David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Sponsors: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Discussants: David der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh, Michael Berry, Mei Chia-ling
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1PM – 5PM
Panel One: (Post-)Colonial Identities and Sentimentalities, 1934-1949
1pm – 3pm
Discussant: Michelle Yeh
Dingru Huang
Mapping a Strange Home: Weng Nao, the Kōenji Neighborhood of Tokyo, and Taiwanese literature in the 1930s
Chun -yu Lu
Lovable Foe: Sentimentalizing Morality in Wartime Taiwan, 1937-1945
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
Trauma and Diaspora of 1949: History, Memory, and Literature in Taiwan’s Mainlander Studies
Panel Two: Reinvention and Remembrance, 1950s-1970s
3:30pm – 5pm
Discussant: Melissa J. Brown
Yang Fu-min
When “Wen” becomes Knowledge: Bing-ing Hsieh’s “How I Write”
Cheng-chieh Chang
Remembering Taiwan’s Activism in 1960s-70s
Lo Yichen
Of the Civil Law Family: The Troubling Concept for Legal Transplantation in Taiwan
SATURDAY APRIL 8, 10AM – 5:30PM
*Please note. Saturday’s sessions will now be held in the Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA*
Panel Three: Politics and Poetics, 1979-1980s
10am – 11:30am
Discussant: Mei Chia-ling
Kevin Luo
Revisiting Authoritarianism and Democratization in Taiwan: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Texts, 1979-1987
Chung Chih-wei
“Harbor Songs” between Men: The Perverse Lyricism in 1980s’ Taiwanese Nationalists
Po-hsi Chen
An Isle of Socialism Unwritten: The Pro-Unification Leftist Literary Historiography in Taiwan
Panel Four: Contesting Voices and Networks, 1990s-2016
1pm – 3pm
Discussant: Michael Berry
Kyle Shernuk
Sinophone Tidalectics, or the Transculturation of Identity in the Age of Globalization
Lily Wong
Affective Labor and the Sinophone Lens in “The Fourth Portrait”
Dalton Lin
Can-Kicking in International Disputes: Parallel Self-Interest, Behind-the-Scene Diplomacy, and Lessons for Rapprochement Attempts
Jaw-Nian Huang
Between State and Market: Institutional Origins of Media Self-censorship in Taiwan, 1949-2016
Roundtable
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Discussant: Mei Chia-ling

Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
2017-03-06 14:00 - 15:15 | Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100), 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02138, United States
Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.

Taiwan Studies Workshop: Cross-Strait Relations in the Trump Era
2017-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | MA
The Taiwan Studies Workshop reports back from their recent trip to Taiwan and the Mainland, including a closed-door meeting with the Republic of China’s President Tsai Ing-wen, and a meeting with the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.
Speakers:
Joseph Fewsmith,Fairbank Center Associate, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University
Steven Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate, Chairman of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at the Fairbank Center, Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus at Smith College
Alan Romberg, Distinguished Fellow and the Director of the East Asia program at Stimson Center
Robert S. Ross, Fairbank Center Associate, Professor of Political Science at Boston College

Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration
2016-11-03 09:45 - 15:30 | MA
Taiwan Studies Workshop
9:45am – Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States.
10:15am – Shelley Rigger, Davidson College
11:15am – Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
1:00pm – Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:00pm – Alan Romberg, Stimson Center
