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Taiwan’s Themes

Teagan Adamson 艾婷安 January 20, 2016

     There is a theme of themes in Taiwan. Shopping areas are organized by theme, and restaurants are known by their brand. You can find numerous electronics shops and a five-story building dedicated to computers, cameras, cell phones, videogames, and their respective accessories on Bade Road. For everything related

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Santa on Small Kinmen

Ross Busch 比儒實 January 15, 2016

    On December 25th, I celebrated Christmas without my family for the first time. I felt a little uncomfortable, and a little homesick. I’m teaching English on a smaller island off the small island of Kinmen in Taiwan. Never before had I been asked to work during the holidays,

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Chunjuan Nancy Wei: Cross-Strait Book Manuscript and South China Sea Claims

Fulbright Taiwan January 4, 2016

Dr. Chunjuan Nancy Wei is an associate professor and chair of the M.A. East Asian and Pacific Rim Studies program at the University of Bridgeport.

Her Fulbright project includes two parts:

1) completion of a manuscript tentatively entitled Rationality, Misperception and Political Contexts: Cross-Taiwan Strait Relationships as a Nested Game;

2) preliminary research on the history of Taiwan’s claims on the South China Sea.

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Laurie Battle: Mathematical Modeling in Ecology

Fulbright Taiwan November 5, 2015

Laurie Battle is a professor of mathematics at Montana Tech specializing in mathematical modeling. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Chung Hsin University in Taichung, where she researches endangered Formosan landlocked salmon and teaches graduate courses on different modeling techniques. In 2014-2015 Dr. Battle were using simulation modeling

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Terry O’Reilly: Contemporary Aboriginal. The Mixing.

Fulbright Taiwan October 19, 2015

With deep reverence for their cultures, Terry O’Reilly shares the journeys of an American playwright among the Saisiyat, Amis, Paiwan and Atayal peoples of Taiwan. Terry O’Reilly is an internationally active director, playwright and teacher. Co-artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company, New York, which has produced three of his

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Lance Crisler: The Rise of Fiction in the Legal Cases of Early China

Fulbright Taiwan October 19, 2015

Lance’s current project explores recently excavated legal manuscripts, which date to the Han and pre-Han period (~200 BCE). Lance’s research examines plot creation in these early legal case files to discover the larger implications of the early role of fiction in Chinese legal and historical narrative texts. Lance Crisler is

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Mary Hamilton: Boat Building and the Role of the Boat in Tao Culture

Fulbright Taiwan October 15, 2015

Mary Hamilton’s research focuses on traditional boat building and its role in Tao culture, from the first meeting to decide to build a boat to its completion and ritual initiation. Mary Hamilton is a graduate of Fordham University. As a Fulbright Fellow at National Taitung University’s Department of Public and

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Lance Crisler: The Rise of Fiction in the Legal Cases of Early China

Fulbright Taiwan October 5, 2015

Lance’s current project explores recently excavated legal manuscripts, which date to the Han and pre-Han period (~200 BCE). Lance’s research examines plot creation in these early legal case files to discover the larger implications of the early role of fiction in Chinese legal and historical narrative texts. Lance Crisler is

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