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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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Everyday Life on Yongkang Jie

Kay Duffy 杜圭 July 25, 2018

      In 2016-2017, I conducted research for my dissertation on early medieval Chinese literature in Taipei as a Fulbright Fellow. Upon arriving in Taipei in early September, my husband and I set to work trying to find a home for the year. Over the summer, I had spent hours

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Active aging through the socio-ecological model

Hsueh-Wen Chow 周學雯 July 23, 2018

     I was very honored to receive the opportunity to conduct my research project in UC Berkeley, US in the academic year of 2015-2016. My project was supported by both the Fulbright-Formosa Plastics Group Senior Scholar Scholarship and The Top University Strategic Alliance in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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Alisha Jihn: Being Embodied: Body Image and Dance/Movement Therapy

Fulbright Taiwan July 18, 2018

Dance therapy can be used in a different cultural context. Alisha Jihn explores the possibilities and sees that dance therapy can be effective in fostering body image and self-esteem for adolescents and children. Through Alisha’s Fulbright project, the dance therapy participants learned to develop new relationships with their bodies. Dance therapy

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Paul Ocampo: Advancing Body-Mind Relationship in Dance Technique

Fulbright Taiwan June 28, 2018

Can “Tai Chi” mix with dance? Is training from a dance academy the only way? Through his Fulbright exchange, Paul Ocampo shows us that dancers from different generations and cultures can build and share knowledge through the arts. Paul Ocampo is a dancer and an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers, The State

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Brian Skerratt: Orphans of the Earth: Ecological Crisis and Local Imagination in Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry

Fulbright Taiwan May 10, 2018

https://youtu.be/RkdFm9GMq4E   Lillygol Sedaghat documented Taiwan’s waste management system and innovations in plastics and electronics recycling through film and digital media. She hopes to inspire conscious consumerism – the realization that every choice we make affects the environment – and spark a global discussion on trash with the #MyWasteMyWay. Using

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