Dear Members and Friends of EATS,
Please take a look at the latest news that could be of interest to you:
1) We are pleased to bring to your attention the online publication of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies 8(2): https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/8/2/ijts.8.issue-2.xml
This issue contains a topical section on the subject “Transitions and Challenges in Taiwan’s Economy and Society”. There are also two open access articles and two book reviews. ToC is as follows:
Topical Section: Transitions and Challenges in Taiwan’s Economy and Society
1. Introduction: Transitions and Challenges in Taiwan’s Economy and Society (Zong-rong Lee and Thung-hong Lin)
2. From Laissez Faire to a Market Mechanism: The Formation of Housing Finance in Taiwan (Yi-ling Chen)
3. Continued Growth and Consolidation of Family Capitalism in Taiwan (Zong-rong Lee)
4. Visible Fists: Political Risks and the Performance of Taiwanese Businesses in China, 1995–2022 (Thung-hong Lin & Chun-Yin Lee)
Research Article:
5. How Do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party Taiwan (Dafydd Fell, Yen-wen Peng, Yan-han Wang, and Jhucin Rita Jhang) – open access
Report:
6. Switzerland–Taiwan Free Trade: A Status Update (Patrik Ziltener) – open access
Book Reviews:
7. A New Beginning or More of the Same? The European Union and East Asia After Brexit (2021, Michael Reilly and Chun-yi Lee) (reviewed by Yun-Chieh Wang)
8. The Many Faces of Taiwan’s Cultural Diplomacy: Marking the First Decade of VCTS (2022, eds Astrid Lipinsky and Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao) (reviewed by Tonny Dian Effendi)
2) [Call for Panelists] Verge-sponsored Panel at AAS 2026 “Global Asias’ Crossroads: Settler Colonialism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity”
Organizers: Lillian Ngan (lngan@usc.edu) & Wayne CF Yeung (wayne.yeung@du.edu)
Date/Venue: March 12-15, 2026 / Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description:
As scholars (Fujikane & Okamura; Day et al.) turn a critical eye towards the involvements of Asian diasporas in settler colonialism in places like Hawai’i and Canada, a salient absence from the conversation is the settler colonialisms currently active in continental Asia, including China (Tibet, Xinjiang), Japan (Hokkaido, Okinawa), and Russian Far East, as well as settler post-colonies like Taiwan and India (Kashmir). Meanwhile, Sinophone studies, which has pioneered settler-colonial criticisms in the study of Sinitic-language communities, remains ambivalent as to how diaspora’s expiration answers to the decolonization of immigrant-Indigenous relationalities in local contexts.
In Global Asias, the grey areas between migratory movement and settler colonialism, located between the political invisibility of non-white settler-colonial polities and the rhetorical indivisibility between Indigenous sovereignty and nativist nationalism, remain vexed political issues and messy theoretical lacunae. This panel thus invites critical, multidisciplinary interventions into questions attending to settlers or settler colonialisms of color from a Global Asias’ perspective, comparatizing and globalizing the term’s critical use-value. To what extent is the settler-colonial framework applicable in, for example, Sino Vietnam borderland (where transculturation is imperially longue-durée) or Hong Kong and Singapore (where, as “societies of migrants, ” indigenous claims are weak)? Do intergenerational differences (“old” and “new” immigrants codified by terms like peranakans, tusán, sinke, sanyiman, xinzhumin), immigration status (undocumented, refugees, guest-workers), and diasporic indigeneity (Hmong-Americans and Indigenous Taiwanese diasporas) nurture new articulations of identity or solidarity relevant to existing settler-colonial/Indigenous dynamics? How do territorial disputes (Sino-Russo-Japanese Northeast Asia, China/Taiwan, and India/Pakistan) reflect on territory-based Indigeneity?
If interested, please send your (1) 250-word abstract addressing the connection between your research and the CfP and (2) two-page CV with information related to the call to Lillian Ngan (lngan@usc.edu) and Wayne CF Yeung (wayne.yeung@du.edu) by July 18, 2025. We will notify you about the decisions by July 22, 2025.
3) 2026 10th Anniversary Academic Symposium — Call for Papers “Art Configurations: Periphery/Center, Part/Whole in Taiwan Art History”
The Taiwan Art History Association (TWAHA) will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year by co-hosting a symposium, “Art Configurations: Periphery/Center, Part/Whole in Taiwan Art History”, with the Hsinchu County Cultural Affairs Bureau on Friday–Saturday, March 20–21, 2026 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Submissions are warmly welcomed.
We invite both open submissions and invited papers under three categories—annual theme, supplementary theme, and general theme—from domestic and international researchers. The goal is to reexamine the historical context and future trajectories of Taiwan art history, responding to challenges encountered by the art-academic community over the past decade. The call for abstracts is open now until August 30, 2025. Upon acceptance, full papers must be submitted by January 31, 2026. For more details, please see attached document.
4) Forthcoming book: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐧: 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭, part of the 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒊𝒘𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔.
This textbook is an essential resource for students of Taiwan Studies, IR, Political Science, and more – plus a valuable reference for policy analysts, consultants, and journalists seeking a critical and balanced understanding of Taiwan.
The book explores key questions such as:
• How did the island develop?
• How did Taiwan become a democracy?
• How does it combine tradition and modernity?
• What human rights problems does Taiwan encounter?
• How did Taiwan become an Asian Tiger?
• How does it live with its neighbours?
• How does diplomacy work when you’re not internationally recognized?
🛒 Available for preorder here:
https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Taiwan-More-than-a-Flashpoint/Kironska-RejtovaYang/p/book/9781032801483
5) Call for Proposals: “Resilient Memories in East Asia: Remembrance, Acknowledgment, Reconciliation”
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU, Kaunas, Lithuania), October 10–11, 2025.
Panel or individual proposals can be submitted by filling a form and sending it by email to conference.asc@vdu.lt by July 21, 2025. More information is provided in the application form.
As East Asia navigates its histories of war, colonization, and ideological conflict, the resilience of collective memory plays a crucial role in shaping both domestic and international relations. This conference considers memory as a living process that resists simple narratives, focusing on how communities remember the past, how societies acknowledge historical injustices, and how reconciliation can be pursued in a complex landscape of competing memories and political tensions.
With all this in mind, the conference “Resilient Memories in East Asia: Remembrance, Acknowledgment, Reconciliation” will encourage scholars, practitioners, and students from a range of disciplines to examine the complex dynamics of memory in East Asia and explore how memory shapes and is shaped by historical trauma, collective narratives, and contemporary identities in the region. A special attention will be given to Taiwan’s case which encompasses multiple aspects related to the conference’s theme.
The organisers of the conference invite participants from various academic fields to present their original research that is focused on aforementioned topics and include cases from East Asia (Taiwan, Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, etc.). The conference is not limited to one approach and encourages submission of proposals that can be classified under different fields of humanities and social sciences: anthropology, ethnology, history, sociology, economics, political science, etc. The working language of the conference is English.
The conference is organized by VMU Centre for Asian Studies and supported by Spotlight Taiwan.
Best wishes,
EATS Board