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Research on Childhood Obesity among Preschool-age Children in Taiwan

Jyu-Lin Chen 陳姿利 December 5, 2016

     I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to be a senior research scholar working on a cross-strait research project in Taiwan and Mainland China. The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated childhood obesity as a global epidemic and a major public health issue. Overweight is defined as

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Research and Reflections from Hualien County

Stephen Pan 潘長浩 December 1, 2016

    When I visited Taiwan in the summer of 2002, there were no direct flights between the island and mainland China, Freedom Square was still called Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Square, and the now diminutive Mitsukoshi tower was still the tallest building in Taipei. In my suitcase was a Sony

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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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