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China’s Elusive Nationhood: Ethnic, Cultural, and Civic Dimensions

Daniel Glockler 葛樂德 December 1, 2016

     Despite the ahistorical claims of those who misread “nationhood” into the millennia of history in present day Greater China, a “Chinese Nation” is a fairly recent concept. As a political ideal, its roots are found in the writings of late Qing dynasty anti-Manchu and anti-imperialist intellectuals and revolutionaries.

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Joshua Stenberg: Taiwanese Minnan Glove Puppet Theater in Regional Perspective

Fulbright Taiwan November 30, 2016

This video takes a sociopolitical approach to analyze three recent Taiwanese dramatizations (puppet theatre, Western opera and gezaixi) of the life of 19th Century Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay.

Joshua Stenberg is a doctoral candidate in Chinese theatre at Nanjing University. His research focuses on traditional Chinese theatre forms (xiqu) in transnational and intercultural contexts.

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Monica Yang: Determinants and Performance of Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions

Fulbright Taiwan November 30, 2016

Dr. Yang compares characteristics and motives of cross-border Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) across the Strait and explores how firms are integrated after acquisitions. Dr. Monica Yang is Associate Professor of Business and Management at Adelphi University. As a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Department of International Business at National Chengchi University,

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Karissa Chen: The Hundred-Mile Ditch, A novel

Fulbright Taiwan November 30, 2016

Karissa Chen’s reflects on several months of novel research on the stories of post-1949 migrants to Taiwan and related history. Karissa Chen is the author of “Of Birds and Lovers.” Her work has been published in numerous publications, including PEN America, Gulf Coast, Guernica, and The Toast. She is the

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Beijing’s Formidable Strategy in the South China Sea

Nancy Chunjuan Wei 衛純娟 November 23, 2016

      The U.S. rebalance to Asia has yet to alter the desired outcome for U.S. allies and partners in the South China Sea (SCS): Checking Beijing’s advances in territorial claims. Instead, despite a few successful maneuvers, most of the strategies adopted by the Philippines and Vietnam have backfired. China

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I Am Who I Think I Am: On Finding My Identity in Taiwan

Yin-Han Karissa Chen 陳盈涵 November 23, 2016

    “Where are you from?” is a question almost every Asian American has grown up hearing (in addition to its ruder close cousin—“What are you?”). I’ve bristled at that question, swinging from being patient and polite—“You mean where are my parents from?”—to snarky—“New Jersey.” It’s a question that rankles

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Facebook, Busy Weekends, and Young Startups in the Sharing City

Jeffrey Hou侯志仁 November 23, 2016

   I arrived in Taipei in late June of 2015 to begin my sabbatical leave and my Fulbright research focusing on the “sharing city,” part of a phenomenon that is going on worldwide. From Europe to Asia, activities such as food sharing, co-working, and all forms of commoning are redefining

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