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Inside Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement

Ian Rowen 伊恩 August 2, 2018

“Say goodbye to Taiwan,” wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest.1 Threatened by China’s rising economic might and abandoned by a weakening United States, one of Asia’s most vibrant democracies was facing, in his “realist” analysis, an almost inevitable annexation

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One Belt One Road and China’s Energy Security

Kaiwen Lin 林凱文 August 2, 2018

     The Belt and Road Initiative, initially known as One Belt One Road, is China’s latest national development strategy, which aims to: Promote the connectivity of Asian, European and African continents and their adjacent seas, establish and strengthen partnerships among the countries along the Belt and Road, set up

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From Raleigh to Taipei: Insights Gained Abroad

Amanda Frederick August 2, 2018

     Having been an international educator for more than ten years, my entire career has been focused on supporting and enhancing internationalization efforts at various institutions.  Several years ago, I attended a session on the Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) seminars at a NAFSA conference. In this session, attendees

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Reed Criddle: Performing Editions of Taiwanese Buddhist Chant

Fulbright Taiwan August 1, 2018

Is chanting a form of performance or a form of meditation? Through his five months Fulbright research in Taiwan, Dr. Reed Criddle would argue it is the later. Dr. Criddle visited Taiwan to study the Pure Land Mahayana Buddhism chants and aims to share them back in the United States

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Fulbright Mission: MA Student Living in Tainan

Brittany Mayne 梅曼麗 July 30, 2018

     September 7, 2017, marked the day I first began my journey on my Fulbright grant in Taiwan. First and foremost, I wish to give thanks to all the Fulbright Taiwan staff and those who supported me throughout my first year here. The amount of effort and consideration you

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Zhongshan Road

John Gregory 葛約翰 July 30, 2018

       I arrived on the “beautiful island” with my wife, originally a native of Taiwan, and five children nearly ten months ago. That arrival was not unlike many of our arrivals over the last twenty years. But, although over the years we have also experienced many departures, this

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Unpacking U.S. Aid in Taiwan: Developmental Perspectives

Elyse Mark 麥麗施 July 25, 2018

     For development scholars, few postwar success stories are more fascinating than that of the four Asian Tigers in the twentieth century. Due to its political isolation, many authors have attributed Taiwan’s miraculous economic growth to long-term stimulus from U.S. aid packages in the post-WWII period. International relations (IR)

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Fulbright 訪問學者之行：加州灣區文化體驗

Yu-Yang Lu 盧煜煬 July 25, 2018

在矽谷的大學中，有許多來自他國的學生，從授課過程中，可發現學生中還是有東西方的差異。西方學生比較勇於課堂上發問，東方學生則傾向於課後再找老師討論，不知是語言能力的限制，還是養成教育所造成的？十月中，我將研究多年的主路徑分析概念與應用，對SJSU管理學院老師做演講，和參與老師們進行相當熱烈的討論。

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