Fwd: International Journal of Taiwan Studies Issue 6.2 (July 2023) Published!

Dear All, We are very pleased to announce that issue 6.2 (July 2023) of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies has been published online.

Here is an overview of its contents:

• Editing as an Act of Intersemiotic Translation in A City of Sadness: From Poetic Language to Cinematic Language by Vivian Szu-Chin Chih

• A Taiwanese Soft Power? Contesting Visions of Democracy and Culture by Nissim Otmazgin

• Tongzhi Sovereignty: Taiwan’s lgbt Rights Movement and the Misplaced Critique of Homonationalism by Adam Chen-Dedman

• How Did Taiwan Go from ‘Most Affected’ during SARS to ‘Least Affected’ during covid-19? – A Comparative Study of Taiwan’s Emergency Responses by Alzbeta Loduhova and Kristina Kironska

• Neglected from Societal Narratives and Minoritised – Experiences of Invisibilised Asian Community Members in Canada before and during the covid-19 Pandemic by Shao Yuan Chong

• China’s Buffer Thinking towards Taiwan by Yu-Hua Chen

• Factors Motivating Chinese Malaysian University Students’ Educational Mobility to Taiwan – State Racism, Historical Connections, and Sinophone Cultural Consumption by Ting-Fai Yu

• The Fourth World Congress of Taiwan Studies: ‘Taiwan in the Making’, University of Washington, Seattle, 27–29 June 2022 by Chun-yi Lee and Beatrice Zani

• Henning Klöter and Mårten Söderblom Saarela (eds.), Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices by Yuan Li

• Stephen J. Hartnett, The World in Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War by Norbert Francis

• Paul Jobin, Ming-sho Ho and Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao (eds.), Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene by Dafydd Fell

• Dafydd Fell, Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan by Lev Nachman

• Kirk A. Denton, The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan by Thomas B. Gold

• Mei-Fang Fan, Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan: A Deliberative Systems Perspective by Bart Dessein

The print copy of volume 6.2 will be available in September. In the meanwhile, please access the digital version through your personal or institutional subscription. If you wish to subscribe to IJTS, you can do so through the EATS membership and IJTS subscription packages. We hope you will find the articles in this issue informative and engaging. Best wishes, IJTS Editorial Board