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For What Can We Hope? Concrete Houses and Hopeful Indigeneity in ‘Amis Country
Where is This Stairway Going? Nearby my residence in ‘Atolan, a Taiwanese Indigenous Communityon Taiwan’s East Coast, there is a simple, flat-roofed house. The house, constructed of steel bar reinforced concrete, resembles nearly any other solafo, or concrete slab, house you might see around this town, which
Fulbright Reflections: Forging New Connections in Taiwan
In many ways, Taiwan is very familiar to me: I have traveled through most of its cities, have many Taiwanese friends, and have worked here previously as a visiting researcher. I enjoy the sights, sounds, people, places, and most aspects of life here. Of course, there are everyday challenges: finding
Modeling the impact of dam removal on conservation of the Formosan landlocked salmon
The Chichiawan Stream and its tributaries in central Taiwan are the last refuge of the critically endangered Formosan landlocked salmon Oncorhynchus formosanus. Over the past few decades, 11 check dams have been constructed in these streams to reduce sediment transport and to prevent the collapse
Taiwan’s Themes
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
Santa on Small Kinmen
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,
Chunjuan Nancy Wei: Cross-Strait Book Manuscript and South China Sea Claims
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.
Michael Yu: Role of Protein Arginine Methylation in the Function of Pre-mRNA Splicing Factor Prp19
Dr. Yu’s research examines the impact of such modification on proteins that participate in the process of pre-mRNA splicing, which is a critical mechanism that controls how gene are expressed in an organism. Dr. Michael C. Yu is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York
Laurie Battle: Mathematical Modeling in Ecology
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
Terry O’Reilly: Contemporary Aboriginal. The Mixing.
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
Lance Crisler: The Rise of Fiction in the Legal Cases of Early China
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
