Annual Conference

Conference Programme- 2nd Annual Conference

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Chair: Phil Deans (SOAS)

Wu Chi-jen (SOAS)
Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Taiwan's Economic Integration with Mainland China
Discussant: Wolfgang Klenner (Ruhr University Bochum)
Esteban, Mario (CEAO, Madrid)
Will Political Liberalisation of Mainland China Reduce the Risk of Military Conflict in the Taiwan Strait?
Discussant: Masako Ikegami (Stockholm University)
Ikegami, Masako
Assessing the Risk of Armed Conflict across the Taiwan Straits.
Discussant: Phil Deans (SOAS)
Muyard, Frank (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Taipei)
From a Two-Chinas situation to a Taiwanese nation in the making. Realpolitik, national myths and the American factor in the evolution of Taiwan national politics.
Discussant: Masako Ikegami (Stockholm University)

Chair: Henning Kloeter (Ruhr University Bochum)

Marchand, Sandrine (Artois University)
Utopia and nostalgia: Convergence of two ideals in Chen Yingzhen and Chen Jo-hsi short stories
Discussant: Anna Maria Paoluzzi (University of Rome)
Fan Ming-ju (National Taipei University)
The Sense of Place in Hwang Chun-ming's fiction
Discussant: Rudiger Breuer (Ruhr University Bochum)
Paoluzzi, Anna Maria (University of Rome)
From literary pieces to movies: different approaches to intersemiotic translation in modern Taiwan culture
Discussant: Mark Harrison (Westminster University)
Laureillard, Marie (Sorbonne University)
The image of women in the work of Guo Songfen
Discussant: Rudiger Breuer (Ruhr University Bochum)

Chair: Dafydd Fell (SOAS)

Allio, Fiorella (CNRS, Paris)
The dual processes of mobilization and participation during Taiwan's 2004 legislative election
Discussant: Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
Lee, Joseph (University of London)
Political battles in the Courts: Justice or Democracy?
Discussant: Phil Deans (SOAS)

Chair: Chang Bi-yu (LSE)

Baran, Dominika (Harvard University)
'Taiwanese doesn't have culture': Language ideologies and social identity in Taiwan's education system
Discussant: Ann Heylen (Ruhr University Bochum)
Lams, Lutgard
‘What’s in a Name’: Implications of Linguistic Strategies and Labeling Practices in PRC/ROC Official as well as English-Language Media Discourse on the Cross-Strait Issue and Domestic Taiwanese Politics
Discussant: Henning Kloeter (Ruhr University Bochum)
Price, Gareth (University of Essex)
The Language Barrier? Analysing English Language Education in Taiwan
Discussant: Henning Kloeter (Ruhr University Bochum)

Chair: Masako Ikegami (Stockholm University)

Chair: Ann Heylen (Ruhr University Bochum)

Simon, Scott (University of Ottawa)
Taiwan's Indigenized Constitution: What Place for Aboriginal Formosa?
Discussant: Joseph Lee (University of London)
Adelaar, Alexander (University of Melbourne)
Aboriginal Languages of Taiwan: The Case of Siraya
Discussant: Ann Heylen
Klöter, Henning (Ruhr University Bochum)
Facts and Fantasy about Favorlang: Early European encounters with Taiwan's languages
Discussant: Alexander Adelaar

Chair: Robert Ash (SOAS)

Leou Chia-feng (SOAS)
Financial Reforms and Institutional Constraints: The DPP's Policy U-turn on the reform of the credit units of the farmers' and fishermen's associations
Discussant: Steven Wang (Stockholm University)
Wang, Steven (Stockholm University)
Those Less Favored: The Taiwanese SMEs in Predicaments
Discussant: Joseph Lin (SOAS)
Veselka, Marco (University of Heidelberg)
Taiwan's Economic Development: The Role of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises beyond the Statistics
Discussant: Wolfgang Klenner (Ruhr University Bochum)
Sun Chia-sui (National Dong Hwa University, Hualien)
Political Economy of Books as an Alternative Medium: Publishing and Social Movements
Discussant: Robert Ash (SOAS)

Chair: Rudiger Breuer (Ruhr University Bochum)

Chang Bi-yu (LSE)
Reclaiming cultural ownership - Indigenous xiqu and the construction of Taiwanese identity
Discussant: Fiorella Allio (CNRS, Paris)
Shih Fang-long (London School of Economics)
Continuity and Change between the KMT and DPP Government Responses to Religion
Discussant: Fiorella Allio (CNRS, Paris)
Lee Wei-I (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
The Construction of Community Imaginaries in Taiwan's Museums and Archives Committees (1945-1978)
Discussant: Chang Bi-yu (LSE)
Harrison, Mark (Westminster University)
Towards a 'Taiwan Studies'
Discussant: Stuart Thompson (SOAS)

Damm, Jens (Freie University Berlin)
Taiwan's Transformation: Successes and Failures
Discussant: HALBEISEN, Hermann (University of Cologne)
Deans, Phil (SOAS)
News Of Virtue Travels Quicker Than Messages Sent By Post: Isolation, Identity and Stamps As Vehicles For Regime Legitimation on Taiwan
Discussant: Jean Pierre Cabestan (CNRS)
King, Winnie (St.Antony's College, University of Oxford)
How Cross-Strait Economics has strengthened Taiwan's political system: the impact of Economic Actors
Discussant: Robert Ash (SOAS)
Kucera, Ondrej (Palacky University, Olomouc)
Is Taiwan a Presidential System? A Critical Review: An Attempt on the Classification of the Taiwanese System of Government
Discussant: Jean Pierre Cabestan (CNRS)

Chair: Shih Fang-long

Heylen, Ann (Ruhr University Bochum)
Personal Documents in Modern Taiwanese Historiography
Discussant: Stuart Thompson (SOAS)
Storm, Carsten (University of Dresden)
Images of Anti Japanese Resistance and Identity in Taiwanese Novels
Discussant: Ann Heylen (Ruhr University Bochum)
Chen, Elsa Hsiang-chun (University of Leeds)
Reading Taiwan and the Issue of Difference in a Global/Local Frame: Epitaph by Wu Mali in Sadness Transformed: 2:28 Commemorative Art Exhibition in Taiwan in 1997
Discussant: Lut Lams (KU Brussel)
Thompson, Stuart (SOAS)
In the eye of the beholder: (over)interpreting a funerary taboo
Discussant: Ann Heylen

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