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Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited (2019)
Book Chapter
Fell, D. (2019). Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited. In D. Fell, & H.-H. M. Hsiao (Eds.), Taiwan Studies Revisited (178-196). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429259937-11

My first book, Party Politics in Taiwan: Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan was published in August 2005. Now seems a good time to revisit this volume, as we are almost two decades from when I first started this research project. In... Read More about Party Politics in Taiwan Revisited.

Challenges Remain Following the Legalization of Same Sex Marriage in Taiwan (2019)
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Fell, D. (2019). Challenges Remain Following the Legalization of Same Sex Marriage in Taiwan

Despite the adoption of a new law on May 17, campaigns will continue to legitimize the kind of homophobic discourse that has been so prevalent in Taiwan’s traditional and social media in recent years.

The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution? (2019)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2019). The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?. In W. Alford, J. Cohen, & C.-F. Lo (Eds.), Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (155-172). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_10

This chapter contributes to the growing literature on international human rights and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Taiwan. Despite decades of debate, Taiwan has never established a NHRI that complies with international human rights no... Read More about The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?.

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (2019)
Book
Chang, B.-Y., & Lin, P.-Y. (Eds.). (2019). Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022227

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the i... Read More about Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming.

From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974) (2019)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2019). From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974). In B.-Y. Chang, & P.-Y. Lin (Eds.), Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (95-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022227-7

As a crucial part of the US-led Asia–Pacific security framework, and standing against communist expansion, Taiwan and its offshore islands acted as an anti-communist bulwark during the Cold War. Under the prevailing fear of communist infiltration at... Read More about From ‘Free China’ to Sunny Paradise: The Worlding Process in the Magazine Tourism in Taiwan (1966–1974).

Developing Taiwan Studies Teaching Programme in Europe and the United States: the experience of SOAS University of London and University of Texas at Austin (2019)
Journal Article
Fell, D., & Chang, S.-S. Y. (in press). Developing Taiwan Studies Teaching Programme in Europe and the United States: the experience of SOAS University of London and University of Texas at Austin. The China Quarterly, 240, 1108-1134. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741019000031

Over the last two decades, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of Taiwan programmes at universities in America and Europe; however, few of these Taiwan programmes have attempted to develop teaching courses. Where Taiwan courses have been i... Read More about Developing Taiwan Studies Teaching Programme in Europe and the United States: the experience of SOAS University of London and University of Texas at Austin.

Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan (2018)
Journal Article
Cheng, I., Momesso, L., & Fell, D. (2019). Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan. International Migration, 57(4), 202-217. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12534

Viewed as outsiders clinging onto links with their country of origin, immigrants do not often feature positively in electoral politics in their host society. Challenging this conventional view, this paper examines how immigrants make use of their tra... Read More about Asset or Liability: Transnational Links and Political Participation of Foreign-Born Citizens in Taiwan.

Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2018). Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’. In C. Storm (Ed.), Connecting Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts (41-60). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351268967-3

The constant repositioning and re-enunciation of Taiwan in its national imagination since the 1990s reveals a process of re-centering the island’s spatial self in the world. This chapter examines Taiwan’s metaphorical severance from China and place-m... Read More about Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’.

Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration (2018)
Journal Article
Caldwell, E. (2018). Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration. Washington international law journal, 27(2), 449-484

The Republic of China on Taiwan (“Taiwan”) successfully and peacefully transitioned from authoritarian, one-party rule into a constitutional democracy in the early 1990s. However, due to the island’s complex international status and fraught relations... Read More about Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration.