International Journal of Taiwan Studies Vol 5

The second issue of Vol 5 is now published online.This issue includes a topical section entitled Language and Society in Taiwan.

IJTS 5(2): Language and Society in Taiwan

Introduction: Language and Society in Taiwan (Henning Klöter and Julia Wasserfall)

Research Article (Topical Section):

* Language Politics and Policy under Tsai Ing-wen (Jean-François Dupré)

* 'No one at school can speak Pangcah': Family Language Planning in an Indigenous Taiwanese Home (Sifo Lakaw and P. Kerim Friedman)

* The Language Shift of Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka in Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City, Taiwan: A Data Comparison of the Surveys of 1978 and 2015 (Shu-chuan Chen)

* From Mandarin Monopoly to Sinitic Polypoly: The Story of Dubbing Peiyin in Postwar Taiwan (Spencer C Chen)

* Language visibility and invisible languages: The street name signs of Taipei City (Henning Klöter)

Research Article:

* Should I Stay or Should I Go? Diplomatic Recognition of Taiwan, 1950–2016 (Timothy Rich & Andi Dahmer)

* Health Apartheid during COVID-19: A Decolonial Critique of Racial Politics between Taiwan and the WHO (Po-Han Lee and Ying-Chao Kao)

Report:

* 'Keywording Taiwan': Report of the NATSA 26th Annual Conference (JhuCin Rita Jhan and Chee-Hann Wu)

Book Review:

* Aoife Cantrill on Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria

* Madoka Fukuda on Shaping of ‘Taiwan’s Diplomacy’: Breaking of Diplomatic Relations between Japan-ROC in 1972 and Conversion from ROC [in Japanese]

* Sophia Huei-Ling Chen on A History of Taiwan Literature

* Chris Berry on Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-first Century

* Devendra Kumar on Taiwan—A Light in the East: A Personal and Analytical Taiwan Study (2020)

* Scott Simon on Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

We are pleased to announce the publication of vol.5, issue 1 of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (March 2022) online.

Table of Content:

• Editorial (Ming-yeh Rawnsley): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-pi_i.xml (open access)

Topical Section:

• Introduction: Education, Identity, and Development in Contemporary Taiwan (Edward Vickers and Dr Tzu-bin Lin): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p5_5.xml (open access)

• Taiwanese Higher Education in Times of Change: The Implications of the New Policy 2018 (Tzu-bin Lin & Chia-kai Huang): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p19_19.xml

• English Language Education in the National Development Planning of Modern Taiwan (Li-yi Wang): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p42_42.xml

• Language Policy in Public Compulsory Education Systems: Multiculturalism and National Identity in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Alessandra Ferrer): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p59_59.xml

Research Articles:

• Diplomats, Activists, and the Haunt-ology of American Empire in Martial Law Taiwan (Derek Sheridan): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p87_87.xml

• Taiwan’s Participation in the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE): Modalities, Utility, and Challenges (Vincent Rollet): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p112_112.xml

• Behind the Leverage of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy: New Market Opportunities and Disproving Confrontation (Jiunn-cherng Teng): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p145_145.xml

Report:

• ‘The Future of Taiwan Studies in the Post-COVID World’ Online Series on the topic, ‘COVID and Governance: Global and Social Solidarity’, 31 July 2020 (Po-Han Lee, Wen Liu, Harry Yi-Jui Wu, and Ya-Wen Yang): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p165_165.xml

• A Report on a Conference That Never Was: Connections, Collaboration, and Solidarity among the Taiwan Studies Community (Isabelle Cheng): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p181_181.xml

• Populism in East Asian Democracies: Report on the International Lecture Series of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany (Oct 2020–Feb 2021) (Axel Klein, Frederic Krumbein, and Hannes Mosler): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p187_187.xml

Book Reviews:

• Chris Shei, Taiwan: Manipulation of Ideology and Struggle for Identity (Yao-tai Li): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p203_203.xml

• Chia-rong Wu, Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan(Christine Hristova): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p206_206.xml

• Ming-Sho Ho, Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (Gray Sergeant): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p209_209.xml

• Evan N. Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s (Tim Riswick): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/article-p212_212.xml