Public Policy
公共政策
The Past is a Foreign Country: A Graduate Student Returns to Taipei as a Senior Scholar
I arrived in Taipei in early September 2025 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, returning to Taiwan for the first time since a brief visit in 2010 as part of an academic delegation. Well before 2010, I lived in Taipei as a graduate student in the early 1990s,
Learning Taiwan’s Concepts of Social Justice: My Fulbright Journey at National Chengchi University
It was a colder night than usual in Kaohsiung. For me, it was mildly warm, but the locals all had to wear coats because they
Taiwan Becoming Home
It is not an easy task to think back to a time before Taipei was home. Over the past two years, Fulbright Taiwan and National
Promoting Cooperation as an Outsider: Taiwan’s Engagement with the World
Taiwan is a nation without a country. This small island the size of Maryland is endowed with few natural resources, was a colony of Imperial
Researching the Cross-Strait Implications of Taiwan’s Democratization
As a master’s student at National Chengchi University, I took a class on cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan. For my final essay, I became
On Goodwill and Hospitality
Admiring this living room in this guesthouse in Xincheng, minutes from the gate of Taroko Gorge, I am forced to consider what a villager from, say, northeastern Tibet/Western China would do with such space!
Can Health Insurance Boost Fertility? The Fertility Effect of National Health Insurance in Taiwan
When I arrived in Taipei two years ago, I knew relatively little about local Taiwanese culture or issues. With an undergraduate background in
Becoming an Insider: My Journey in Taiwan’s Social Welfare Movement
This past year has been a whirlwind of changes for me. When I first landed in Taiwan, I only had a surface-level understanding
Evaluating America: Reflections on Perspective in the International Community
Long before I was selected for a Fulbright Scholarship to Taiwan, I spent most of my life on a different island across the
