The International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) 5.1 published online!

We are pleased to announce the publication of vol.5, issue 1 of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (March 2022) online: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/5/1/ijts.5.issue-1.xml

The print copies will follow shortly.

IJTS is supported by the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) and is the only academic journal in English focusing on Taiwan. This latest publication also included a paper contributed by an event organized by NATSA in August 2020 on the topic of "The Future of Taiwan Studies in the Post-COVID World."

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

Happy reading, and happy New Year of Tiger.

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Editor in Chief: Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley (European Association of Taiwan Studies) Executive Editorial Board: Lung-chih Chang (Academia Sinica) Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (University of Texas at Austin) Táňa Dluhošová, (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia) Dafydd Fell (SOAS, University of London) Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Academia Sinica & Organising Committee of the World Congress of Taiwan) Gunter Schubert (Tübingen University) Book Review Editor: Gary D. Rawnsley (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) Assistant Editor: John Robert Wood (Aberystwyth University) International Journal of Taiwan Studies Editorial Office Address: Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, WC1H 0XG, UK Email: ijts.office@eats-taiwan.eu Website: https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/ijts-overview.xml