Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake. We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Taiwan Studies vol.8 no.1 has been published online: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/8/1/ijts.8.issue-1.xml

The print version will follow in the near future. ToC for this new issue is as follows:

* Editorial (Ming-yeh Rawnsley)

Research Articles:

* Is Taiwan a Small Island? Relational and Representational Perceptions (Ari-Joonas Pitkänen)

* The Openness of Death: (Re)constructing Indigenous Identity in Post-Martial Law Taiwan (Billy Beswick) (open access: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/8/1/article-p34_003.xml)

* Food Culture in Precolonial Taiwan (Christopher Joby) (open access: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/8/1/article-p61_004.xml)

* The Ordinary Virtue and Moral Significance of Health Systems: The Case of Taiwan (Ming-Jui Yeh)

* Religions and the Development of Taiwan’s Welfare Regime (Andre Laliberte) (open access: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/8/1/article-p118_006.xml)

* Taiwan’s Regional Identity under the New Southbound Policy: Integrating Personal-Role Identity and Domestic-Regional Dimension (Tonny Dian Effendi)

* Taiwanese public opinion on inviting the Dalai Lama to Taiwan: Political or religious motives? (Mei-Lin Pan and Kristina Kironska)

Report:

* Bridging Cultures, Building Relationships: the Fulbright Program’s Legacy in Taiwan (Molly Bettie)

Book Reviews:

* Taiwan during the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen: Navigating in Stormy Waters and Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen: Changes and Challenges (reviewed by Jasper Roctus)

* Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life (reviewed by Joan Dew)

* Encounters between Formosa and Japan: The Interaction and Transformation of Literature and Theater during the Japanese Colonial Period (reviewed by Yu-yin Hsu)

* Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Soft Power and Hard Truths Facing China’s Ascendancy (reviewed by Xu Peng)

We hope you will enjoy reading the IJTS.

Yours sincerely,

Editor-in-Chief

Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley, SOAS, University of London, UK

Executive Board

Lung-chih Chang, National Museum of Taiwan History, Taiwan

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

Dafydd Fell, SOAS, University of London, UK

Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Gunter Schubert, Tübingen University, Germany

Book Review Editor

Gary D. Rawnsley, University of Lincoln, UK

Assistant Editor

John Robert Wood, Aberystwyth University, Wales