Taiwan studies
Taiwan studies, or Taiwanese studies, is a
NATSA), Europe (EATS), and Japan (JATS). The first World Congress of Taiwan Studies (WCTS) was hosted by Taiwan's Academia Sinica on April 26–28, 2012, in Taipei, Taiwan.[2]
History of Taiwan Studies
As with all area studies, funding and interest in Taiwan studies has largely followed American and other nations' changing political interests. Japanese interest in Taiwan studies preceded significant Western interest in the island and its diverse set of people beginning as a part of maintaining its own
PRC beginning in the late 1970s and picking up speed with China's reform and opening, academics once again began to shift their focus on China to the mainland.[3][citation needed] Western academic interest in Taiwan continued at a lower rate with a relatively strong focus on the politics of Taiwan-China-United States relations across the Taiwan Straits
.
Leading up to the
Qing "Chinese" Rule, and a Japanese colonial period all prior to the establishment of Taiwan as the base of power of the ROC in exile. In academia, Taiwanization and democratization in Taiwan
brought about a new interest in studying Taiwan and its people without assuming that they are representative of something, or at least of a single something, "Chinese."
Taiwan studies today involves a wide range of disciplines in the
social sciences
both in Taiwan and beyond it that work to take Taiwan itself as a central subject of analysis. This includes not just work on Taiwanese or Aboriginal groups on Taiwan, but also includes comparative work as well as work that focuses on cross-straits issues and "Chinese" (or Han, Hok'lo, or Hakka) cultures as instantiated on Taiwan. The biggest difference in the latter work is that Taiwan studies scholars who study "Chinese" culture on Taiwan do so with an understanding of the vast range of historical, political, and economic influences on Taiwan's people that have been completely different from those that have influenced "Chinese" heritage peoples in, for example, Hong Kong, Singapore, or the PRC.
In 2021, UCLA received a $2 million gift from Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office to establish a Taiwan Studies Endowment Fund and support its Taiwan Studies Program.[4] UC San Diego received a $5 million commitment from an alumnus to establish a Center for Taiwan Studies within the Division of Arts and Humanities.[5]
University-based Taiwan Studies Programs Worldwide
Asia
Taiwan
- Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies (National Dong Hwa University College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hualien, Taiwan[6]
- Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature (Chinese: 臺灣語文學系), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- International Taiwan Studies Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Graduate School of Taiwanese Culture (Chinese: 臺灣文化研究所), National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan[7]
- Taiwan Study Research Center, National Taiwan Library, New Taipei, Taiwan[8]
- The Center for Taiwan Studies at the College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan[9]
Japan
- Waseda Taiwan Research Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
North America
- Taiwan Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
- The Research Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Taiwan Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States
- UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative, University of California, Los Angeles and National Taiwan Normal University[10]
- The Taiwan Democracy Project, Stanford University, California, United States
- Center for Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Taiwan Studies, University of California, San Diego, California, United States
- Taiwan Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States
- The Taiwan Studies Initiative, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Taiwan Studies Program, University of Washington, Washington, United States
Europe
- Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
- Taiwanese Studies Chair, KU Leuven, Belgium
- European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen, Germany
- Taiwan Study Center, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Taiwan Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
- Center of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
- Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Taiwan Studies Project, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
See also
References
- ^ "Brief History". ith.sinica.edu.tw. Institute of Taiwan History. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ "Introduction". wcts.sinica.edu.tw. Academia Sinica. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ Harrell, Stevan. "Stevan Harrell". Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ McInerny, Peggy. "UCLA receives $2 million gift to support Taiwan Studies Program". Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ King, Anthony. "$5 Million Gift to Establish New Center for Taiwan Studies". Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ "國立東華大學臺灣文化學系 - 國立東華大學臺灣文化學系 NDHUTS". ts.ndhu.edu.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "Graduate School of Taiwanese Culture – 國立台北教育大學". Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ National Taiwan Library (2009-09-01). "About Taiwan Study Research Center". wwwacc.ntl.edu.tw. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ "History and Goals". CENTER FOR TAIWAN STUDIES, NTU. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ "Taiwan Studies at UCLA .::. UCLA Asia Pacific Center". www.international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
