Events archive
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Professor Thomas Gold (University of California, Berkley)
16 June 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Pavilion Room, Fourth Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Shuh-mei Shih (University of California, Los Angleles)
15 June 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
Abstract : “As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Dr Michelle Hsieh (Taiwan Academic Sinica)
9 June 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
A distinctive feature of Taiwan’s post-war economic development was decentralized industrialization consisting of a system of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) clustered in a geographical locale... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
7 June 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Won the 48th Golden Bell Awards Best Television Film Best Director Best Script Best Supporting Actor Best supporting actress in the 15th Taipei Film Festival. Wu Nong-guo, a long-time social activist... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
31 May 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In November, 2008, the Chinese President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, Chen Yun-lin, visited Taiwan. It was a critical moment in history: this was the first official... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
12 March 2015 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
With the curious dream of going to Taiwan to eat its reputed bananas, Men-shuan joined the Nationalist army and came to Taiwan with its retreating troops in 1949. Yet, before long having being... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Dr Malte Philipp Kaeding (University of Surrey)
26 February 2015 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: 2014 can reasonably be considered a watershed year in the so-called Greater China region because of massive protests in Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. Taiwan's Sunflower and Hong Kong’s... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Chiang Wei-hua, Chang Jiho
12 February 2015 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders' Building, St Antony's College
Converstation with Documentary Filmaker Chiang Wei-hua and Student leader Chang Jiho on Two Crucial Student Movements in Ma’s Presidency Introduction: Documentary filmmaker, Chiang Wei-hua, and a... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Professor John MacInnes (University of Edinburgh)
6 February 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, Fourth Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Abstract: Sociologists and other students of nationalism have become keen, even obsessive, students of national identity. However, as Brubaker and others have pointed out, the concept of identity,... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Professor Tsai Yuan-Lin (National Chengchi University)
29 January 2015 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Although Taiwan and Palestine have no commonality in geographical, cultural, political respects, they have run a similar historical course from the pre-colonial through colonial to post-... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Professor Joseph Wong (University of Toronto)
25 November 2014 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to resist democratization, often times at all costs. And yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Professor Joseph Wong (University of Toronto)
25 November 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to resist democratization, often times at all costs. And yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization, but... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Feng-yi Chu
18 November 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
This presentation addresses a wistful, nostalgia-like sentiment towards Japan that seems to exist in contemporary Taiwanese society, particularly amongst some native Taiwanese elders who experienced... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
13 November 2014 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
“People just can't get enough of Cape No. 7. The highest grossing local film in Taiwan's history, Cape No. 7 is now a cultural phenomenon, and only has Titanic's record left to conquer at the... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Fan Yang Choung
13 November 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
A struggling young rock band singer, Aga (Van Fan), returns to his hometown Hengchun and works as a postman. He comes across an undeliverable piece of mail: seven love letters that were written for a... Read more