Taiwan Studies

Ever since the translated version of Mapping the Terrain was published in Taiwan, the New Genre Public Art has become known as a new pattern of art, deriving both discourses and practices. After governmental constructive involvements and Community Empowerment, it has developed not only western horizontal transplantation but also local significance. This article focuses on the two-year plan "Environmental Art Movement at Plum Tree Creek", which links to the ecological system of Plum Tree Creek to present artistic significance. Criticisms of new genre public all will also be used to discuss how the problems of new genre public art can be solved through this movement.

2004年《量繪形貌》一書的翻譯出版開始，「新類型公共藝術」在臺灣開始以一個新的藝術型態被認知，發生實踐與論述，在臺灣公家單位的積極介入，接續了社區總體營造之發展延伸，發展出不僅是西方橫向論述移植而發展出地方的意義。本文以2010年國家文化藝術基金會視覺藝術策展類補助的二年計畫《樹梅坑溪環境藝術行動》為研究對象，連結以樹梅坑溪為軸的周邊生態，從中討論新類型公共藝術的展示問題，如何輻射出藝術內涵，並且從幾項對新類型公共藝術的批判出發，觀察樹梅坑溪環境藝術行動處理新類型公共藝術問題的方式。

The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific: Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, 3rd Edition
©2017 Routledge: London & New York. 341pp. + x. Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-New-Global-Politics-of-the-Asia-Pacific-Conflict-and-Cooperation-in/Connors-Davison-Dosch/p/book/9781138647022

Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US dominance in the ‘Asian Century’. Whilst presenting evidence for a multifaceted ‘Beijing Strategy’, which aims to counter the US by building an alternative regional order, it also explains Japan’s definitive departure from its limited military role. Key content includes:
- Intra-regional conflicts in the South China Sea and the Korean peninsula,
- The different responses within the Asia Pacific to globalisation and western ideas of democracy and political economy,
- The underappreciated success of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in building a regional identity
- The European Union’s soft power in the region.
A highly topical account, which offers an overview of the main actors, institutions and contemporary issues in the Asia Pacific, the book will be essential reading for students of Asian Studies, International Politics, and anyone interested in the region.

Michael K. Connors teaches at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. He is the co-editor of Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy, Constitution (forthcoming).
Remy Davison holds the Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics at Monash University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Single Market Europe (2011).
Jörn Dosch is Professor of International Politics and Development Cooperation at the University of Rostock, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at Monash University Malaysia. His recent publications include Malaysia Post-Mahathir: A Decade of Change (2015).

A relationship between the Daic (Tai-Kadai) and Austronesian language phyla has long been posited, but the evidence is restricted and it has been suggested that this indicates a split at the level of Proto-Austronesian of considerable antiquity. Two proposals model this relationship, one suggesting a direct relation with PAn, the other with PMP (Proto-Malayo-Polynesian). The paper evaluates all existing proposals, comparing them with reconstructed Tai, Kra-Dai and Hlaic, as well as suggesting new comparisons. It suggests that the only convincing explanation of the comparisons with different subsets of Austronesian is to suppose the relationship is multi-genetic, that intense contact across the Taiwan Strait in the early period of Austronesian maritime activity, allowed different elements to make up Daic. This can be compared with the genesis of Malagasy, where multiple islands contributed to the lexicon of present-day Malagasy.

The past 10 years witnessed a resurgence of youth activism in East Asia. While some may consider it as simply reflecting a broader, general trend of young people reacting to the neoliberalizing world, this paper pays special attention to the changing cultural geographies of East Asia that underlie part of the picture. In 2014, the Sunflower movement in Taiwan was triggered by a group of young people who occupied the Legislative Yuan, paralyzed the establishment for 23 days, and brought about alternative politics, which soon was echoed by the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong during 26 September to 15 December the same year. This paper is interested in understanding how young people, walking away from the aforementioned urban uprising with their memories of participating in a sort of exceptional city for short time, carried on their aspiration for alternatives in their everyday lives. Finding inspiration from Victor Turner’s notion of liminoid and anti-structure, it attends to the activism embedded in everyday life. It also attends to the translocal, transnational interaction among young actors across cities in East Asia, with a focus on the act of place-fixing, which enables connection, collaboration, and circulation (of resources) through materialistic, transactive practices and can be compared to place-making.

MARTIN, Fran. “Japanese homoerotic manga in Taiwan: Same-sex love and utopian imagination,” in Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities, edited by Fusami Ogi, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike and John A. Lent. Palgrave MacMillan, Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels series (2019): 5-23.

More than 8,300 km separate Taiwan and Israel, but there are nevertheless important connections between the two small countries. They do not officially recognize each other, but over the past two and a half decades, they have found ways to collaborate.

Taiwan’s influence on popular music and culture in the Sinophone world is significant. This lecture series will introduce Taiwan’s popular music— with a particular focus on popular music after the 1970s to recently— to the students while examining the social, political and cultural influences on the production and consumption of music, as well as how popular music shapes society, locally, regionally and transnationally. Every lecture will include at least one case study of artists or groups to enhance the student’s understanding of Taiwan’s popular music scenes.

This essay was first published (English and Chinese) in the proceedings of the International Conference of “See in”: Hai-an Street Museum, Tainan, Taiwan, July 16, 2005. That English version had a number of technical problems and neither version included the illustrations.  This version was completed in 2016 with the illustrations. No attempt was made to update it with newer information.  Except to note that the person behind the City Museum, Bob Cassilly, died tragically in 2011.

This article studies the implications of the Taiwan-based Republic of China’s last major
cultural diplomacy offensive, the North American tours of the National Chinese Opera
Theater, on the eve of the consolidation of China’s international representation by
the People’s Republic of China. The tours represented Beijing opera as a high-profile
victim of the Cultural Revolution and promoted the Nationalist government on Taiwan
as the legitimate guardian of China’s ancient cultural traditions and what it meant to
be “Chinese.” The ultimate failure to stop the US shift to Beijing highlights, among
other things, the Nationalist government’s lack of control over the “infrastructure
of persuasion” dominated by American impresarios and show business. This article
expands the explanatory power of cultural diplomacy by conceptualizing not just
the production but also the projection of cultural messages in the contention over
“Chineseness” at a critical juncture in the global Cold War.

With the humanistic ideals of narrative medicine, the author and two graduate students of Taipei Medical University in 2012 explored a halfway house for AIDS sufferers in Taiwan, and found a man in his late fifties who was eager to set down his story, " Handsome ". Six hours of interviewing produced an 82-page transcript in Chinese. The following oral history in English is a summary of his account, one rich in description of traditional custom and social and economic history. Born in 1958 to an adopted daughter-in-law (a peculiarly Taiwanese custom) in a rich landowner family in Sanchong, west of Taipei, Handsome and his mother were ejected from the family and taken in by a retired military man, a " mainlander " who had fled to Taiwan in 1949 after the Communist/Nationalist civil war. Running away from home at age 16, Handsome was molested by an older man he met in New Park, the well-known locus of an emerging subculture of homosexuality in Taiwan. He narrowly escaped being sold by a police inspector to serve as a male prostitute. Later he formed a platonic relationship with a young woman he considered his one pure love, but at age 25 he fled from marriage and abandoned himself to wanton gay sexuality, in which he seemed to hold great charm and power. He was successful in business as well. But turning HIV-positive at age 51, he gradually lost much of his eyesight, and has been reduced to living in a crowded halfway house of an AIDS NGO. All the same, his motto is " Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry, and you cry alone " , and he has put together an extraordinarily popular blog beginning from the interview of his early life transcribed by my students.

基於臺南、臺北兩大城市的地域差異，也覺得有必要實地進行城市生活圖像的口述訪談，以便保留文獻之外的另一種記錄和記憶。本訪談即於2015年11 月起至2017 年10 月止，兩年多的時間以臺灣南北兩大城市生活為訪談主題，主要以日本時期至戰後初期為時間斷限，以重建近代臺灣南北兩大城市生活圖像。本書所謂的「城市生活」，意指在城市裡土生土長的居民，他們在城市中的食、衣、住、行、娛樂以及節慶活動等生活記憶。 本書採取第一人稱「說故事」的方式來記錄，以提升可讀性，讓讀者有感同身受的現場感。為了呈現這些受訪者經歷跨政權下臺語、日語以及北京話的多語生活實態，訪談內容的紀錄也適度地使用臺語和日語來標記他們的實際用語和用詞，並留存可能逐漸失傳的技術和專業語彙。本書的編排，則分成府城臺南篇和臺北篇兩部分，基本上按照受訪者年齡順序來排列。此外，口述歷史仍需要適度地「徵信」，因此本書也利用各種可能的文獻、資料庫、搜尋系統、古今照片以及地圖，來註解和補充說明，或是確證訪談內容，以讓本書的訪談記錄更具參考價值，並加深其廣度和深度。

Изучение российско-тайваньских отношений в России
Современные связи между РФ и Тайванем насчитывают всего 20 лет. Но по насыщенности событиями и динамизму развития эти годы далеко превзошли предыдущий 40-летний период «холодной войны» и заслуживают особого внимания. В статье даётся обзор истории и перспектив этих отношений

Özet
Tayvan, 20.Yüzyılın ikinci yarısından sonra yaşadığı hızlı dönüşüm ve istikrarlı ekonomik
büyüme süreci ile birçok iktisatçı tarafından incelenmeye değer bulunmuş bir ülkedir. Tayvan
için genel kanı, ekonomik mucize yaşamış olmasıdır. 1950’lerde tarımsal üretim, 1960’lar ithal
ikameci politikalar ve 1980’lerde Ar-Ge tabanlı bilim ve teknoloji alanında uygulanan
politikalar ile küresel pazarda ihracatçı bir ülke olarak özellikle 2000’lerden sonra Tayvan
Doğu Asya ülkeleri içerisinde en hızlı büyüyen ekonomiler arasına girmiştir.
Bu çalışmada Doğu Asya ülkelerinden ve Asya Kaplanları olarak nitelendirilen ülkelerden
Tayvan’ın 1960’den bugüne ekonomik gelişim sürecine değinilecektir. Tarımsal üretimden
sanayi üretimine geçişte ve teknolojik altyapıdan beşeri sermaye gelişimine kadarki süreçte
uygulanan devlet politikaları neticesinde Tayvan ekonomisinde meydana gelen yapısal
dönüşüm ve Tayvan’ın hızlı bir kalkınma sürecini başarıyla sürdürmesi birçok ilgili çalışmalara
da konu olmuştur. Çalışmanın sonunda Türkiye ekonomisi için öngörülebilir ve uygulanabilir
ekonomi politikalarına da Tayvan örneği üzerinden yer verilecektir.
Çalışmada yöntem olarak Tayvan ekonomisinin söz konusu dönemleri yazın olarak
incelenecektir. Bununla birlikte Tayvan ekonomik büyüme sürecine yönelik istatistikler de
çalışmada yer almaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı Tayvan ekonomisini yakından tanımak,
ekonomik kalkınma sürecinde ülkede uygulanan politikaları incelemektir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Tayvan, Kalkınma, Ekonomik Büyüme, Ar-Ge, Politika



From 1960 to Today Structural Analysis of Taiwan Economy
Abstract
Taiwan is considered a significantly important country to investigate by many economist due
to the fast transformation and consistent economical changes. The consensus for Taiwan
economy can be simplified as an economic miracle. Agricultural manifacturing in 1950s,
import oriented industrialization 1960s and R&D based science and technology in 1980s are
common policies which makes Taiwan one of the exporter countries since 2000s, as a result
Taiwan becomes one of the biggest growing economies in East Asia.
In this study, economical development of an East Asian country, also accepted as one of the
Asian tigers, namely Taiwan, since 1950 to present will be mentioned. Structural changes in
Taiwan economy due to the state policies while passing through agricultural
manufacturing to endustrial manufacturing and management of the fast develeopment
process of Taiwan are well studied. At the end of the study, feaseble and
foreseeble recommendations for Turkish economy will be presented with adressing Taiwan
example.
In this study, these mentioned periods will be discussed with light of the literature. The aim
of this study is understanding Taiwan economy, and policies which makes this economical
development possible.
Key Words: Taiwan, Development, Economic Growth, R&D, Policy

本文嘗試以「抒情詩」理論重新閱讀林泠詩作，以詩中抒情自我的呈現與定位，以及此一抒情自我的時空感受為切入點，復以創作時間為討論線索，發掘林泠詩作中自我的變化、情感內容及其表現的變化、時空視野的變化。這些變化其實都符應了一套自成體系的語言策略、美感原則，使林泠的詩雖以「抒情」為大宗，卻不流於濫情、泛情，而能節制、凝練。以情感為核心，加之以語言的驅遣和抑遏，可說是真正的抒情詩之所以能夠完整、精緻的首要條件。因此，透過林泠的詩歌創作，正可以幫助我們理解與定位「現代詩」的「現代」意涵，也有機會讓臺灣「現代詩」的討論擺落對「現代主義」起源演變等問題的爭辯究詰，而得以聚焦於其在臺灣發展與運用的面貌，實兼具作者的情志抒發語語言形式的鍛鍊。

This ARI reviews the current state of the Taiwan-China relationship in light of the current challenges Taiwan faces in keeping its Latin American allies loyal. More opportunities for shifting alliances now exist, especially given the current global economic meltdown which has had an impact on both China and Taiwan’s ability to sustain its assistance to many Latin American states. Taiwan-China relations in Latin America are at a crossroads. This paper starts with an overview of Taipei’s struggle to ensure the support of its Latin American allies, in face of a fast growing and increasingly appealing Beijing. It then focuses on two case studies, St Lucia and Costa Rica, which have recently switched allegiance. St. Lucia has flipped back and forth; while Costa Rica ended a 63-year relationship with Taiwan in June 2007 and recognised the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Whether other countries follow suit is unclear. However, the risk of a domino effect favouring Beijing is real, as und...

In this article, the author analyzes the emergence of a 'coming out' discourse in Taiwan and the generational variation in its relevance for queer lives. Drawing from fieldwork with gender and sexually nonconforming people ranging in age from their 20s to their 70s, she argues that dominant identity-based frameworks are inadequate for understanding how and why this discourse has emerged in Taiwan at this historical moment. The findings point instead to generational shifts in familial interdependency and intimacy, which require new and hybridized strategies for managing gender and sexuality within families. This article highlights the importance of placing the small but growing body of work on LGBT family of origin relationships in conversation with theories of parent-hood, kinship and family change.

The development of offshore wind farms has been a way for the state to repackage national development projects using green energy discourses. In Taiwan, where the further development of nuclear power is suspended due to public antinuclear sentiment, offshore wind farms have been heavily promoted as a way of meeting electricity demand. The planned site for offshore wind farms, mainly the intertidal zone along the coast of Changhua County, overlaps with both oyster farms and the habitat of Taiwanese humpbacked dolphins, categorized as a critically endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This has resulted in a clash between conserving the oyster farming landscape, protecting an endangered species, and developing green energy. Facing this dilemma, pro–wind farm discourses that highlight concerns about global climate change have gradually supplanted those stressing the welfare of oysters and dolphins, even though the latter have been used successfully as local icons by movements opposing previous development projects on the intertidal zone. This article reconsiders the politics of territorialization implied by the “green” label affixed to offshore wind farm projects and other forms of green energy in general. As such, the meaning of offshore wind farms, as a newly discovered energy resource, is intertwined with the changing meanings of both dolphins and oyster farms, as rival nonhuman objects of resource exploitation and natural conservation. The territorialization of such resources in the emerging discursive space of green energy has proceeded via relational placemaking with nonlinear connections among multiple human and nonhuman elements.
Key Words: conservation, intertidal zone, landscape, renewable resources, resource frontier.

In this paper, I argue that frontiers are dilemmas composed of multiple dualities, be they exclusive and inclusive powers, connected space and national periphery, or modernity and primitiveness. These dilemmas, in consequence, become the mechanism to create a leeway for the state to ‘tailor’ different meanings of frontier to meet the contingent market demands. I use tea production on China’s southwest frontier as an example to demonstrate that dilemma is not an end result, but a mechanism to rearticulate the relationship among frontier, the state and the market economy. Specifically, I argue that dilemmas on China’s southwest frontier have been forged by the Chinese state with its incompatible desires between ‘modernisation’ and ‘primitiveness’ of the tea landscapes in Yunnan, a province on China’s southwest frontier. Meanwhile, the incompatible desires and the resulting dilemmas on China’s southwest frontier have further mobilised the state to flexibly rework its power to reconstruct the frontier to meet contingent market demand. Based on the shifting meanings of tea landscapes, the state has flexibly ‘shuttled through’ the dilemmas between development of modernisation and preservation of primitiveness on the frontier.

Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (2nd Edition)
Author: Holly M. Barker
Publisher: Cenage (2012)
https://www.cengage.com/c/bravo-for-the-marshallese-regaining-control-in-a-post-nuclear-post-colonial-world-2e-barker/9781111833848/

為馬紹爾喝采：在後核武、後殖民世界取回掌控權的島國
譯者：賴彥穎

Taiwan was the first country to anticipate the threat of COVID-19, to send a medical team to investigate the initial outbreak in China, and to implement a comprehensive and successful public health response that avoided repeated infections or catastrophic lockdowns. Counter-intuitively, Taiwan’s success was achieved in part due to its exclusion from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, which led it to adopt a highly vigilant approach to health threats, especially those that emerge in China, whose irredentist claims impinge on Taiwan’s participation in the international community and constitute an existential military threat. Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 was recast by its diplomatic representatives into “The Taiwan Model”, a formulation used to pursue increased international recognition and participation.

The intensification of political conflict in recent years bears the imprint of new social developments, intercultural interactions and global influences transforming Taiwan, engendering a highly polymorphous society with different communities vying for their representative cultural voices (Liao 92). The emergent homosexual cultural politics in Taiwan is one such marginalized voice trying to assert itself through literary discourse, commanding focus on complex ethnic and social relationships that exist and interact within the country (Chang 196). Specifically, the development of queer literature () since the 1980s uses cultural representations of homosexuality to reflect a growing sense of identity crisis on the island and address the psychological dilemma of living under rapidly changing global conditions (Martin [1] 4). Queer discourses thus define new social categories that forge resistance to foreign influences but are nonetheless still trapped within an institutionalized network subjugated to a global circulation of ideas. Bai Xianyong’s and Zhu Tianwen’s() are two Taiwanese novels that portray a suppressed homosexual identity to illustrate the complex dynamic arising from a shift in the island’s societal and political framework amidst the emergence of a new globalized cultural paradigm. A

This draft is to become a chapter of the book project "Judicial Reform in Taiwan: Institutionalising Democracy and the Diffusion of Law" (Neil Chisholm ed., Routledge, forthcoming). The project bears on Taiwan's judicial reform of 1999. It is the first book-length study of Taiwan's judiciary and its transformation in the early stage of Taiwan's democratization.

Written after a second judicial reform that was launched in 2017, this chapter aims at historicizing not only Taiwan's judiciary but also the attempts to reform it. This chapter provides in its first part a historical account of Taiwan's justice system and the society's perception of it in the long century between 1895 to 1999. Rejecting the conventional narratives which enumerate origins of legal reception, this part explains how the justice system under Japanese rule (1895--1945) has earned respect despite the colonialism, and why this system fell into disarray under the Republican Chinese occupation (1945--92).

This chapter argues then in its second part that Taiwan's reformers have reduced the poor quality of the country's administration of justice to the malfunction of the judiciary alone. Taking into account the history of Western judiciary itself, this chapter argues that the key reform issues pertain rather to state-building than the making of organizational and procedural laws. This chapter argues that the centralization of government lawyering in a broad sense is Taiwan's priority and expects that this issue would soon lead to more reform attempts.

Telle est la contribution politique de la littérature qui rappelle, documente, prédit et invente tout ce que l’Académie, encadrée par une dictature, engoncée dans son besoin de citer des sources, alourdie par ses notes de bas de page, ne peut dire ou n’ose pas faire : penser le politique et ses injustices, sa répression des individus et de leur mémoire, ses métamorphoses et ses espoirs. La littérature rappelle que la politique est nationale, mais aussi locale, avec ses factions, ses intérêts, ses surprises, que la vie politique est individuelle autant que collective. Elle montre que Taiwan est toujours, et de plus en plus, un État, une société, où la démocratie, parce qu’elle est à l’origine une greffe, a l’audace de se réinventer souvent, là où, chez nous, elle semble vouloir s’éroder. Pluralité culturelle, strates historiques, croisements de civilisations, frontières de valeurs et de cultures, la société taïwanaise est un objet complexe à appréhender. Quel meilleur endroit que Taiwan, où la littérature s’exprime en mandarin de Pékin, en minnan du Fujian taïwanisé, et dans une moindre mesure en langue hakka et dans les langues austronésiennes, pour illustrer la vivacité – la vie dans la cité – de ces processus à l’œuvre dans une société ouverte sur le monde et à la convergence d’identités multiples ?

The International Journal of Taiwan Studies is working on a topical section entitled "Taiwan: A Frontline of Democracy under Threat?". To signal your intent to write an article in this topical section please email an abstract of no more than 300 words, including paper title and author(s)’s name, by 13 June 2021 to the guest editors, Dr. Alessandro Albana and Professor Antonio Fiori (both Uni of Bologna) at alessandro.albana2@unibo.it and antonio.fiori@unibo.it. Please send along a short bio describing each author’s titles, institutional affiliations, and research interests.

Le privilège de la noblesse Les dernières représentantes encore en vie ne sont plus qu'une trentaine. Toutes octogénaires, ces VuVu (« grand-mère » en langue paiwan) portent sur leurs mains les traces de ce rituel initiatique visant à marquer leur statut social, invoquer la protection divine et ouvrir les portes de l'après-vie. Si traditionnelle-ment, les hommes Paiwan étaient eux aussi marqués (les chefs portaient sur leurs poitrines des motifs spécifiques et complexes traduisant la puissance de leur statut social), leurs traces ont elles déjà disparu, avec le décès notamment de la dernière génération dans les années 1990. La coutume connaît son premier déclin durant l'occupation de l'île par le Japon de 1895 à 1945. Interdite, elle devient secrète, les femmes allant se faire tatouer dans les montagnes à l'abri du pouvoir. À la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'île entre dans le giron de la République de Chine, qui elle aussi désavouera cette pratique. « La passation du pouvoir pris deux ans néan-moins, se souvient Ho Yu-mei, une femme âgée vivant à Laiyi Township, ville montagnarde indigène situé au sud de l'île. Durant cette période, mes grands-parents nous ont encouragé à nous faire tatouer. Mais ensuite, la pratique s'est arrêtée ». Un rite initiatique soumis à des règles rigoureuses La société paiwan reposant sur le principe de classe sociale héréditaire, les tatoueurs (chaque village en avait au moins un) étaient soit noble, soit shaman, soit un homme, soit une femme. Les parents de la jeune fille en passe d'être tatouée devaient offrir au chef du village une boisson cérémonielle à base de vin de céréales. Ce dernier décidait alors de la date à laquelle le tatouage serait réalisé, et choisissait parmi cinq classes possi-Ljalep Qamuljilj, née en 1927, est une noble paiwan. Elle a été tatouée par une femme : « Quand la séance s'est terminée, une cérémonie pour calmer la température des mains était obligatoire. Nous avons aussi prié pour que cela ne s'infecte pas, et que le motif soit clair et brillant » raconte-t-elle.