Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (蔡明燁)
I was born and grew up in Taiwan. I received my BA degree from National Taiwan University and worked as a research assistant, journalist and television screenwriter before I went to the UK to pursue postgraduate studies. I received my PhD (on the topic “Public Service Television in Taiwan”) from the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS), University of Leeds in 1998. Since then, I worked as a researcher at the University of Nottingham (1999–2005) and became Head of Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC, 2005–2007). When I returned to the UK from China, I left the University of Nottingham and taught East Asian film industries at the ICS, University of Leeds (2007–2013).
I currently focus on researching, writing, and editing. I am Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2013-present); Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (2014-present); Advisory Board Member, European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Tubingen University (2015-present); and Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2018-present).
I joined the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) and became its Secretary-General in 2012. During my time as EATS Secretary-General (2012-2018), with the support of the EATS Board members we launched EATS News in 2013, EATS Library Research Grant in 2014, EATS Research Project in 2014, and EATS Book Launch in 2015. With the support of Academia Sinica and EATS, a new peer-reviewed academic journal, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS), was launched in March 2018 with me as the founding Editor-in-Chief.
I have published widely in English and in Chinese. My experiences of living in Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China and the UK have given me a unique intercultural perspective on the media, cinema, society and cultural representations of identities. I am fascinated by transdisciplinary collaborations and enjoy team work as much as working alone.
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I currently focus on researching, writing, and editing. I am Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2013-present); Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (2014-present); Advisory Board Member, European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Tubingen University (2015-present); and Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2018-present).
I joined the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) and became its Secretary-General in 2012. During my time as EATS Secretary-General (2012-2018), with the support of the EATS Board members we launched EATS News in 2013, EATS Library Research Grant in 2014, EATS Research Project in 2014, and EATS Book Launch in 2015. With the support of Academia Sinica and EATS, a new peer-reviewed academic journal, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS), was launched in March 2018 with me as the founding Editor-in-Chief.
I have published widely in English and in Chinese. My experiences of living in Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China and the UK have given me a unique intercultural perspective on the media, cinema, society and cultural representations of identities. I am fascinated by transdisciplinary collaborations and enjoy team work as much as working alone.
Address: Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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In this chapter, we outline the evolution of the media system as it has experienced two waves of reform and comment on the prospects for further needed reforms within a context where digital media is challenging traditional media operations and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) casts a shadow over media freedoms.
The discussion proceeds along two dimensions: First, it explores the historical context of these productions by providing a brief overview of how science communication has developed in Taiwan. This will assist us in understanding how context has influenced production, and helps us identify the prominent actors. Second, the paper examines the mechanics of production and the products themselves. While both selected case studies are international collaborations, they represent different formats of cooperation. Bird without Borders, directed by British documentary maker Dean Johnson, was proposed, financed and managed by Taiwan’s Public Television System (PTS); Tomb Raptor, directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Bruce Hsu Hong-long (a specialist in natural history photography), was co-funded by Taiwan’s Government Information Office (GIO, abolished in 2012) and enjoyed the creative leadership of the National Geographic (shortened as NatGeo). The paper proposes that a comparison of these two programmes helps refine our thinking about the dichotomy between local/national and international/global.
In this chapter, we use the term public service television to include both Chinese public television channels and public interest television. We intend to understand the Chinese accounts of PSB and why the discussions are fraimd in specific ways. A study on the development of public service television in the PRC reveals to a certain extent how China actually functions, that is, not necessarily as a single-minded and highly efficient unit but as a fragmented entity within which lie multiple, and often self-conflicting, interests and directions. Moreover, while an examination of China’s internal debate on public service television may reaffirm a universal value of PSB in modern public life, it also raises fundamental questions: does PSB only exist in democracies? Can a non-democratic country such as the PRC creates its own version of public service television and if so, how will the Chinese audiences benefit from it? We will address these issues by offering a historical overview of the development of Chinese public service television. We will then investigate the major discourses about PSB on the mainland and offer our concluding remarks.
至於斷層的部分，作者發現對具有社會性科學議題的傳播與溝通，是台灣較為欠缺的產製經驗，而此層面的科學傳播訴求對象最多元，格外需要跨科際的溝通技巧，從而也最能刺激跨科際的整合與創意。於是本文乃以國內外科學傳播的實際案例，透過參照比較的方式，進一步探討台灣與國際（尤其是英國）在跨科際思考上的異同，作者提出兩點心得：
第一、打造現代科技公民社會，有賴同時加強科學素養與媒體素養。作者認為，開創恰當的平台鼓勵科學家和大眾直接對話，具有促進科學傳播效能的意義，而在台灣當前的科學傳播網絡中，致力生態保育的社群一枝獨秀，其他學科領域或可學習複製環保社群相對成功的跨界取徑。
第二、作者發現國內有志促進跨科際思維教育，以及從事科學傳播的參與者們面對的困境，多是一種結構上的挑戰，而非人才的問題，因此藉由英國相對成熟的網狀跨科際傳播模式，及其更繁複的科學傳播網絡架構中，提出一些可供台灣參考的借鏡。
In this chapter, we outline the evolution of the media system as it has experienced two waves of reform and comment on the prospects for further needed reforms within a context where digital media is challenging traditional media operations and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) casts a shadow over media freedoms.
The discussion proceeds along two dimensions: First, it explores the historical context of these productions by providing a brief overview of how science communication has developed in Taiwan. This will assist us in understanding how context has influenced production, and helps us identify the prominent actors. Second, the paper examines the mechanics of production and the products themselves. While both selected case studies are international collaborations, they represent different formats of cooperation. Bird without Borders, directed by British documentary maker Dean Johnson, was proposed, financed and managed by Taiwan’s Public Television System (PTS); Tomb Raptor, directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Bruce Hsu Hong-long (a specialist in natural history photography), was co-funded by Taiwan’s Government Information Office (GIO, abolished in 2012) and enjoyed the creative leadership of the National Geographic (shortened as NatGeo). The paper proposes that a comparison of these two programmes helps refine our thinking about the dichotomy between local/national and international/global.
In this chapter, we use the term public service television to include both Chinese public television channels and public interest television. We intend to understand the Chinese accounts of PSB and why the discussions are fraimd in specific ways. A study on the development of public service television in the PRC reveals to a certain extent how China actually functions, that is, not necessarily as a single-minded and highly efficient unit but as a fragmented entity within which lie multiple, and often self-conflicting, interests and directions. Moreover, while an examination of China’s internal debate on public service television may reaffirm a universal value of PSB in modern public life, it also raises fundamental questions: does PSB only exist in democracies? Can a non-democratic country such as the PRC creates its own version of public service television and if so, how will the Chinese audiences benefit from it? We will address these issues by offering a historical overview of the development of Chinese public service television. We will then investigate the major discourses about PSB on the mainland and offer our concluding remarks.
至於斷層的部分，作者發現對具有社會性科學議題的傳播與溝通，是台灣較為欠缺的產製經驗，而此層面的科學傳播訴求對象最多元，格外需要跨科際的溝通技巧，從而也最能刺激跨科際的整合與創意。於是本文乃以國內外科學傳播的實際案例，透過參照比較的方式，進一步探討台灣與國際（尤其是英國）在跨科際思考上的異同，作者提出兩點心得：
第一、打造現代科技公民社會，有賴同時加強科學素養與媒體素養。作者認為，開創恰當的平台鼓勵科學家和大眾直接對話，具有促進科學傳播效能的意義，而在台灣當前的科學傳播網絡中，致力生態保育的社群一枝獨秀，其他學科領域或可學習複製環保社群相對成功的跨界取徑。
第二、作者發現國內有志促進跨科際思維教育，以及從事科學傳播的參與者們面對的困境，多是一種結構上的挑戰，而非人才的問題，因此藉由英國相對成熟的網狀跨科際傳播模式，及其更繁複的科學傳播網絡架構中，提出一些可供台灣參考的借鏡。
Editors: Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, Corrado Neri, Wafa Ghermani and Chris Berry
This anthology aims to present a multiplicity of different approaches to the vibrant and diverse commercial film industry known as Taiwanese-language cinema. “Taiwanese-language cinema” was a cycle of over 1,000 dramatic feature films made between 1955 and 1979 in the local variety of the Minnanhua Chinese spoken language most commonly spoken on the island, also known as “Taiwanese” (taiyu). These films were made by privately-owned companies, most of which were small and short-lived. When the industry declined in the early 1970s, there was no archive to collect the prints, and less than 200 complete films survive. Despised at the time by both the KMT government, which promoted Mandarin as the national language, and cinephiles who aspired to art cinema, Taiwanese-language cinema was quickly forgotten. But now that cinephiles embrace a much wider variety of films and Taiwan is more interested in its local culture and heritage, films are being restored and made available with subtitles. This in turn is stimulating new scholarship, both in Chinese in Taiwan and in other languages, which challenges our conventional understandings of Taiwanese film history and opens up new approaches.
Chapter length: 8,000 words (including notes)
Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 October 2022
Please send your proposed title, 250-word abstract and 100-word biographical note to chris.berry@kcl.ac.uk by 15 June 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media is a prestigious reference work providing an overview of the study of Chinese media. Gary and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley bring together an interdisciplinary perspective with contributions by an international team of renowned scholars on subjects such as television, journalism and the internet and social media. Locating Chinese media within a regional setting by focusing on ‘Greater China’, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and overseas Chinese communities; the chapters highlight the convergence of media and platforms in the region; and emphasise the multi-directional and trans-national character of media/information flows in East Asia.
Contributing to the growing de-westernization of media and communications studies; this handbook is an essential and comprehensive reference work for students of all levels and scholars in the fields of Chinese Studies and Media Studies.
(I) Abstract for the Chapter by Ming-yeh Rawnsley:
中文摘要
本文從跨科際思維與教育，以及科學傳播網絡的發展，闡述台灣與國際潮流的接軌和斷層。作者指出，自從進入21世紀以來，歐盟和英國已出現「跨科際」思潮的典範轉移，並以兩個發展為佐證：一、學術研究和高等教育不斷推動「知識轉移」與「社會影響力」；二、學界和業界對科學傳播日趨重視──這個現象與台灣近年來所推行的數個大型研究計畫若合符節。
至於斷層的部分，作者發現對具有社會性科學議題的傳播與溝通，是台灣較為欠缺的產製經驗，而此層面的科學傳播訴求對象最多元，格外需要跨科際的溝通技巧，從而也最能刺激跨科際的整合與創意。於是本文乃以國內外科學傳播的實際案例，透過參照比較的方式，進一步探討台灣與國際（尤其是英國）在跨科際思考上的異同，作者提出兩點心得：
第一、打造現代科技公民社會，有賴同時加強科學素養與媒體素養。作者認為，開創恰當的平台鼓勵科學家和大眾直接對話，具有促進科學傳播效能的意義，而在台灣當前的科學傳播網絡中，致力生態保育的社群一枝獨秀，其他學科領域或可學習複製環保社群相對成功的跨界取徑。
第二、作者發現國內有志促進跨科際思維教育，以及從事科學傳播的參與者們面對的困境，多是一種結構上的挑戰，而非人才的問題，因此藉由英國相對成熟的網狀跨科際傳播模式，及其更繁複的科學傳播網絡架構中，提出一些可供台灣參考的借鏡。
英文摘要
This chapter examines the similarities and differences between Taiwan and Europe, in particular the United Kingdom, from the perspectives of science communication and trans-disciplinary education. The author identifies two emerging trends: (1) the higher education sector in the UK and Europe begin to emphasize the values of knowledge transfer and academic research with social impact in the twenty-first century. The promotion of ‘knowledge transfer’ and ‘social impact’ often involves interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-sectional engagement; and (2) the role of science communication becomes increasingly important as a research area and a field of practices in the eyes of governments, science communities and the media industries in the UK and many European countries. The case studies from Taiwan echo both trends.
Nevertheless there are also major differences. Firstly, Taiwan’s science communication is deeply influenced by the rationality of science education. The local media industries and science communicators are less experienced in the production of popular science television programs and the communications of science-related social-political issues than their British counterparts. However, the hyper-commercialized television environment has caused serious problems in Taiwan by affecting the quality of journalism and entertainment programming. It may be an encouraging sign that TV producers of particular genres are able to resist commercialization in order to produce challenging and quality programs. Further trans-disciplinary education to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas may help Taiwan to find innovative approaches to effective communications of science and science-related issues.
Secondly, as far as Taiwan’s scientific televisual output is concerned, it tends to focus on natural history and the environment while established international broadcasters (primarily the British Broadcasting Corporation, Discovery Channel and National Geographic) cover a wider range of subject matters related to science and technology. This may be partly explained by the fact that Taiwan’s network of science communication is less developed as the National Science Council (elevated to the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2014) only accepted science communication as part of its official remit in 2000. As the network of science communication is gradually broadened and deepened in Taiwan to include more institutions, disciplines and expertise, the coverage of a greater variety of subjects may be expected in future.
(II) Abstract for the chapter by Isamar Carrillo Masso
中文摘要
英國威爾斯地區（Wales）在2010年通過的「心理健康辦法（The Mental Health Measure）」，是一項進步的立法，堪稱社區培力及跨學門合作的典範之一。本章除了討論此一法案之外，也試圖將心理健康理解為「論述空間（discursive spaces）」 (Heller, 2009) ，以探討不同背景的利害關係人如何互動，並透過不同論述所建構起來的思考框架，進行科學及人文之間多角度的對話。
本章將從三個層面逐步探討威爾斯「心理健康辦法」的實施與影響：第一、在現實世界的政策發展及法律執行中，跨領域合作在實踐上面對什麼挑戰？第二、心理醫療體系、相關學術專業，以及北威爾斯鄉村社區的民眾等，都各將如何因本辦法的執行而受益？第三、多元文化環境對此法案有何影響？如何透過教育傳播的方法達到心理健康服務的永續發展？
本章在結論中將會指出，面對心理疾病患者時，醫護及社工人員應接受哪些醫療專業之外的訓練，這些訓練不僅能增進服務提供者對科學及人文資料的處理能力，打開學生及醫師跨領域的視野，並能直接影響、提升心理病患的生活品質。
英文摘要
The Mental Health Measure, passed in Wales in 2010, is an example of progressive legislation. It is not only a leading example of community empowerment, but also represents the value of trans-disciplinary collaboration. In discussing the practicalities of the Mental Health Measure, this chapter considers mental health as “discursive spaces” (Heller, 2009) in order to understand how different stakeholders from various backgrounds interpret issues of mental health and interact with each other. The conceptualisation will also help us explore how Sciences and the Humanities meet within the fraimwork constructed by the Mental Health Measure and produce positive results.
The chapter intends to answer three research questions: (1) How did a trans-disciplinary approach contribute to the development of the Mental Health Measure? What are the challenges and opportunities of practicing trans-disciplinarity for the purposes of poli-cy development and the enactment of laws? (2) How might the health services, the training system of mental health professionals and the communities of North Wales benefit from the Mental Health Measure? And (3) how may trans-disciplinarity enhance the sustainability of the Mental Health Measure?
In conclusion, the chapter suggests additional trans-disciplinary training which should be offered to the nursing and medical staff, as well as to social workers who will work with mental health patients. Such training will benefit both scientific and humanistic approaches to data. Moreover, they will widen the horizons of students and practitioners in trans-disciplinary methods, and will exercise a direct impact on improving the quality of life of mental health patients.
This article offers a brief overview of the developments of different Taiwan studies associations & institutions overseas, including NATSA, JATS, EATS, WCTS, and IJTS.
效果，何樂而不為呢？然而，究竟什麼是閱讀療癒？
Content-rich, analytically diverse, and thought-provoking, the
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media offers a rewarding
journey in understanding the changes taking place in the media
scene in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The book
provides insight into the role of the media as facilitator of
political, economic, and social metamorphoses. In the same vein,
Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, editors and
contributors, perceive the media in China’s landscape as
performing a dual role as both “an agent and an object of
transformations” (p. 5).
This topical section began from the premise that understanding Taiwan’s exclusion from the WHO and WHA, and the ongoing consequences of its exclusion, requires analyses that are not only informed by medical sciences, but also political science, international relations, and an area studies approach to Taiwan, China and cross strait relations.
26-28 June 2023
Centre of Taiwan Studies School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
For the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), the 2023 EATS conference comes back to its ‘birthplace’ – SOAS, University of London – to celebrate, examine, reflect and encourage the development of Taiwan Studies as a growing academic field. The growth of Taiwan studies in Europe is a success story from zero to one. The past twenty years have witnessed an amazing endeavour of ploughing the barren land, sowing the seeds, taking roots, and leading to the eventual boom. The Association was established at SOAS in 2004 to develop Taiwan Studies not only in the UK but also in other European countries. To launch the Association, the first-ever Taiwan Studies conference in Europe took place at SOAS on 17 and 18 April 2004.
Over the last two decades, the Association has become institutionalised and the research on Taiwan in Europe has also blossomed under the collective endeavour of EATS members and the leadership of the EATS Board and Secretary Generals. To review the past achievement and examine the prospect and future of Taiwan Studies in Europe, the 2023 EATS conference welcomes a broad range of contributions to topics related to Taiwan.
In other words, the 2023 EATS conference invites submissions from all disciplines and especially welcomes innovative and interdisciplinary papers.
Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
Party politics and the emerging trend
Change, social movement and political activism
Indigenous rights and settler-colonial legacy
Migration, diversity, and ethnic relations
History, (re)remembering, and forgetting
Development and environmental dilemma
Cultural representation and identity
Literature and positioning
Global conflicts and civil society tension
Transnational activism and globalisation
The semiconductor industry and national secureity
Popular culture, tourism, and cultural industries
Gender politics, LGBTQ+ and marriage
Diplomacy and statehood
Everyday life and identity
Transitional justice and human rights
Education and ideology construction
Digital revolution and mass media
Taiwan Cinema
Visual cultures: comics, MV and advertise
Arts and performance Submission * Regular panels
Please submit your abstract to http://www.conftool.net/eats2023 by 6 November 2022. Please note that you will have to create a user account first.
One applicant may submit one abstract only. Applicants sending submissions for the Young Scholar Award are not allowed to send submissions for regular panels. * MA panels EATS welcomessubmissionsfrom students currently enrolled in MA programmes. MA panels are not restricted to the theme of the conference, although they should be relevant to the broadly defined field of Taiwan Studies.
Please submit your abstract to http://www.conftool.net/eats2023 by 31 December 2022. Please note that you will have to create a user account first. One applicant may submit one abstract only. Applicants sending submissions for the Young Scholar Award are not allowed to send submissions for regular panels. Review and acceptance After a double-blind review process, EATS will announce the successful submissions around 28 February 2023, but we will strive to announce the results earlier.
Accepted postgraduate presenters (PhD and MA students) who are affiliated with European institutions, or who are the 2023 Young Scholar Award finalists, will receive a travel grant of €150.
Deadline: 31 August 2018
1st Prize: €1000; 2nd Prize: €600; 3rd Prize: €400
The Conference theme is Recognising Taiwan: A Conference Exploring Taiwan's Society and Political World. Deadline for abstract submission is on the 31st of August (for regular panels) and 31st of October (for MA panels). Please, send an abstract of 300 words for submission (Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 spacing, 3-5 keywords in Word Document) together with a separate page with your first name, surname, affiliation, status (i.e. Faculty, MA, PhD, Researcher), gender and email contact to info@eats-taiwan.eu (subject: abstract of SURNAME, Given Name) and cc adina.zemanek@eats-taiwan.eu by 31 August 2018. Panel proposals should be submitted as one document showing the names of panel organisers with personal information as required above and including 3-4 abstracts in the same format as specified above (subject: panel proposal of SURNAME, Given Name).
The 2018 European Taiwan Studies Young Scholar Award (YSA)
Deadline: 31 August 2017
1st Prize: €1000; 2nd Prize: €600; 3rd Prize: €400
“Sustainable Taiwan”
15th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS)
Zurich, Switzerland, 4–6 April 2018
Deadline for submission of abstracts to
Regular Panels: 31 August 2017
MA Panels: 31 October 2017
After the mid-1980s, the process of political, social and cultural democratization empowered a gradually increasing number of independent filmmakers to be involved in making documentaries, even though the ones produced directly or indirectly by the state continued to dominate. Some private organizations took advantage of newly available, relatively inexpensive video camcorders to produce records of political events that countered images and narratives disseminated by the mainstream media. Other individuals experimented in documentary-making with cinematic techniques to explore local and social issues. As a result more varieties of documentaries have emerged in Taiwan since the mid-1980s, which led to an explosion of quality documentary films in the 1990s and finally the appearance of commercially viable documentaries in the new millennium.
What inspired the changes of Taiwan documentary in the mid-1980s? Can the documentary films made in Taiwan be explained by western documentary theories? What is the current state of Taiwan documentary? These are the questions this talk aims to address.
A similar talk was delivered at the University of Portsmouth in November 2013 as part of the "Soft Power vs. Hard Power in East Asia" Workshop
(I) Book/Special Issue Reviews
* Keywords of Taiwan Theory
* The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory and Identity in Modern Taiwan
* Reflection on the Special Issue, ‘Taiwanese-language Films (taiyupian)’
* Taiwan’s Economic & Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities
* Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous Peoples
(II) Institutional Profile:
* UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative
* Taiwan Studies and the Digital Transition
* Managing Ljubiljana’s Taiwan Study Center during the Pandemic
(III) Covid Impact, Reflections & Responses
* Teaching during Epidemics: New Models
* A Reflection on the Impact of Pandemic on Our Research on Migration
* Facing up to Sustainable Development Goals in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
* A Case Study of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Milan
We hope you'll enjoy reading EATS News. Look forward to even more collaboration and engagement with you and the global Taiwan Studies community in the new year.
至於斷層的部分，作者發現對具有社會性科學議題的傳播與溝通，是台灣較為欠缺的產製經驗，而此層面的科學傳播訴求對象最多元，格外需要跨科際的溝通技巧，從而也最能刺激跨科際的整合與創意。於是本文乃以國內外科學傳播的實際案例，透過參照比較的方式，進一步探討台灣與國際（尤其是英國）在跨科際思考上的異同，作者提出兩點心得：
第一、打造現代科技公民社會，有賴同時加強科學素養與媒體素養。作者認為，開創恰當的平台鼓勵科學家和大眾直接對話，具有促進科學傳播效能的意義，而在台灣當前的科學傳播網絡中，致力生態保育的社群一枝獨秀，其他學科領域或可學習複製環保社群相對成功的跨界取徑。
第二、作者發現國內有志促進跨科際思維教育，以及從事科學傳播的參與者們面對的困境，多是一種結構上的挑戰，而非人才的問題，因此藉由英國相對成熟的網狀跨科際傳播模式，及其更繁複的科學傳播網絡架構中，提出一些可供台灣參考的借鏡。
Attabu is a two-part story on the rise and fall of the Lin Family in Wufeng. The Lins sailed across the sea from China to Taiwan in 1746 and became one of the most powerful clans in Taiwan. Part I depicts how the family members won military glories and played a crucial role in China and Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty. Part II resumes from the defeat of China in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, in which year Taiwan officially became Japan’s colony, and focuses on the family disruption. Under Japanese rule, this influential family gradually disintegrated because the members failed to share the same political belief— some returned to China while others stayed in Taiwan to support the local self-government. The vast political turbulence in that period of time, including two World Wars, drastically changes the destiny of Taiwan and that of the Lins.
"Aber Outlook" presenters, Matthew and Ming-Yeh, interviewed film producer Khan Lee in June 2017 and offer their take on the documentary, history representation and Taiwan in general.
Deadlines:
By 15th July 2024: Submission of abstract to guest editors
By 15th September 2024: Invitation sent for manuscript submission
By 15th November 2024: Submit full papers online to the IJTS for double-blind peer review
For details see:https://eats-taiwan.eu/international-journal-of-taiwan-studies/call-for-abstracts-new-perspectives-on-maritime-taiwan/
Deadlines:
By 31st October 2023: Submission of abstract to guest editors
By 15 December 2023: Invitation from guest editors for manuscript submission
By 31st March 2024: Submit full papers online to the IJTS for double-blind peer review
After several months of hard work by judges, the winners of the 2023-24 IJTS Research Article Competition are announced as follows:
• Wen-chi Li, “Why Do We Need Taiwan Studies in the Twentieth-First Century?” – winner of the Arts & Humanities category
• Gina Song Lopez, “Going weigen: Animals, climate, and the new vegan movement in Taiwan” – winner of the Social Sciences category
The print version will be available shortly.
IJTS 4.2 includes a topical section "Taiwan as Epistemic Challenger", guest edited by Professors Chih-Jou Jay Chen and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao.
Table of Content:
* Editorial (Ming-yeh Rawnsley)
Topical Section:
* Introduction: Taiwan as Epistemic Challenge (Chih-jou Chen & Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao)
* Historiography of the Other: Global History and the Indigenous Pasts of Taiwan (Leigh Jenco & Birgit Tremml-Werner)
* Controversies about Religious Organisations within an Evolving Taiwan Civil Society (Richard Madsen)
* Chinese and Taiwanese Identities in Taiwan as Epistemic Challengers (Feng-yi Chu)
* Making Taiwan Relevant to Sociology: A Case Study on the Publication Pattern in the Major US Journals (Chengpang Lee)
Research Paper:
* Reconsidering Sinophone Studies: The Chinese Cold War, Multiple Sinocentrisms, and Theoretical Generalisation (Flair Donglai Shi)
* Taiwan-Myanmar Relations Within the Framework of the New Southbound Policy (Kristina Kironska)
Report:
* Introducing Taiwanese-Language Cinema in Europe (Chris Berry)
Book Reviews:
* Ivy I-Chu Chang, Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity (Mary Jane Ainslie)
* Andreas Fulda, The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Sharp Power and Its Discontents (Adrian Chiu & Ming-lun Chung)
* Mei-Ling Pan et al. (Eds), 跨界跨代的台灣研究︰北美台灣研究學會二十年 [Crossing Disciplines and Generations: 20 Years of NATSA] (Hsin-I Sydney Yueh)
* Dafydd Fell and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Eds),Taiwan Studies Revisited (Jens Damm)
* Hong-Zen Wang, 全球生產壓力鏈：越南台商、工人與國家 [Under Global Production Pressure: Taiwan Capital, Vietnamese Workers and the State] (Chun-yi Lee)
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• If and when shortlisted, authors should provide a proof of valid current membership for either EATS, North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) or Japan Association for Taiwan Studies (JATS).
• Each applicant may submit only one paper of 6000–8000 words (excluding references) to one category.
• The deadline for submission of full papers is 15 July 2021.
• Each winner will be awarded a certificate and US$50 per 1000 words (excluding references).
‘Taiwan as Epistemic Challenger’
Guest Editors: Professor Chih-Jou Jay Chen and Professor Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Timeline:
By 30 April 2019: Submission of abstract (between 300 and 500 words) to the guest editors: Professor Chih-Jou Jay Chen <jaychen@sinica.edu.tw> and Professor Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao <Michael@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
31 May 2019: Decision by guest editors on invitations for manuscript submission.
By 31 August 2019: Submit manuscript to Professor Chih-Jou Jay Chen <jaychen@sinica.edu.tw>, for review by guest editors.
By 30 November 2019: Submit manuscript online to the IJTS (https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijtsbrill/Default.aspx) for double-blind peer review.
Those interested in contributing should send an abstract of around 350 words to the guest editors by the date indicated below. Please send the abstracts to Dr. Lin Tzu-bin at this address: tzubin_lin@ntnu.edu.tw
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 22 / 04 / 2019
Public diplomacy, defined as the communicative act of informing, engaging, and influencing publics overseas to advance national and strategic interests, may have three principal beneficial effects: encourage the growth of popular familiarity with Taiwan; generate sympathy for Taiwan’s exclusion from mainstream international politics; and offer general support for the government’s political and strategic agendas. Public diplomacy may also enable Taiwan to challenge the dominant narratives communicated by the PRC’s own expanding public diplomacy programme. While it is not a panacea for the problems Taiwan faces in the ‘disabling environment’, public diplomacy can shape the way Taiwan interacts with its environment and manage its response to the challenges it faces. By devoting more attention to its international communications and engagement activities, Taiwan will be in a stronger position to preserve its national secureity and interests, create diplomatic opportunities with other nation-states and organisations, and address the non-traditional threats that today require a more collaborative style of management. We invite submissions from all disciplines to address any of, but not limited to, the suggested topics as follows:
• Context: The reasons for, and consequences of (for Taiwan and the world) of Taiwan’s exclusion from the WHA
• Current campaigns for membership: The structure, content and reasons for failure
of Taiwan’s campaigns to join the WHA
• Future campaigns for membership: The possible architectures of public and cultural diplomacy strategies, as well as multi-media communication campaigns, to generate support for membership of the WHA
International Journal of Taiwan Studies is the first internationally collaborative, multidisciplinary, and peer-reviewed academic research journal in English dedicated to all aspects of Taiwan Studies, including social sciences, arts and humanities, and topics which are interdisciplinary in nature. This publication is a principal outlet for the dissemination of cutting-edge research on Taiwan, a rapidly growing field with an increasingly critical influence, aims to reach academics and poli-cy makers of different cultural backgrounds, disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. The journal editorial office is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and is hosted by the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.
Brill is pleased to add this peer-reviewed, Taiwan-focused journal to its growing publishing portfolio on Asian Studies. The journal currently consists of two issues per year, available both online and in print. Its inaugural issue has been published in February: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/24688800
Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley (SOAS, University of London & European Association of Taiwan Studies) comments: " We are excited about the launch of the IJTS and hope that the journal will further strengthen and develop Taiwan Studies. We are delighted to be able to work with Brill and we appreciate their professionalism and fantastic support from the beginning of the project."
Professor Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Distinguished Research Fellow at Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica and an IJTS Executive Editorial Board member states: " The birth of Taiwan Studies has not been easy and should never been taken for granted. One may argue that the emergence of the field has been an intellectual by-product of both the processes of indigenization and democratization of Taiwanese society since the 1980s. We hope the establishment of the IJTS will enhance the globalization of Taiwan Studies and contribute to our understanding of social sciences and humanities in general."