The European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan is happy to 
announce that all ERCCT public lecture and research colloquium 
sessions this semester will be hybrid. The zoom link is:

zoom.us/j/98717223673
Meeting ID: 987 1722 3673

The first Taiwan colloquium will be held this coming Monday, 28 
October, at CET 16-18h. Dr. Di Qing, Dual Ph.D. graduate from National 
Chengchi University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 
independent researcher of Taiwanese culture, will give a talk on “Does 
Traditional Chinese Culture Matter for Taiwan’s Future?— Exploring 
Little Tradition and Great Tradition in Taiwan: History, Legacy, 
Liability and Taiwan’s Predicament”.

The full schedule is as follows:

Monday Oct. 28 16 –18
Dr. Di Qing
Does traditional Chinese culture matter for Taiwan’s future? 
—Exploring Little Tradition and Great Tradition in Taiwan: History, 
Influence, Aesthetics, Global Significance and De-Sinicization

Wednesday Dec. 4  12 –14
Prof. Weng Lu-Chung (Public Lecture)
The Myth of War in the Taiwan Strait: The Yizhou Dilemma and Elite Perceptions

Monday Dec. 9 16 –18
Prof. Weng Lu-Chung
Strategic Reassurances and Deteriorating Ambiguity: Stabilizing the 
Taiwan Strait Détente

Monday Jan. 13 16 –18  

Prof. Hsia Hsiao-chuan
 From ‘Social Problems’ to ‘Social Assets’: Geopolitics, Discursive 
Shifts in Children of Southeast Asian Marriage Migrants, and 
Mother-Child Dyadic Citizenship in Taiwan

Wednesday Jan. 15 12 –14  

Prof. Hsia Hsiao-chuan (Public Lecture)
The Tug of War over Multiculturalism: a reflection on the politics of 
ethnicities and the dialectic process of empowering marriage migrants 
in Taiwan

Monday Jan. 27 16 –18  

Dr. Wang Anne-chie
Assembling Caringscape in End-of-life: Care Practices in Hospice Home Care
Dr. Yan Zhi-Jun
Urban Land Readjustment and Land Financing Networks in Local Finance: 
the Cost Equivalent Land’s Pre-Sale in Taichung

Wednesday Feb. 5 12 –14
Prof. Gunter Schubert (Public Lecture)
title to be added.