When many people think of Taiwan, they think of its largest cities – Taipei or Kaohsiung. Through the Fulbright’s US Senior Scholar Program Award,
“Wear flannel…you must wear flannel,” Tada Tsunasuke repeated in his October 1896 report from Taiwan. Tada was the first Japanese zoologist dispatched by
The central focus of my research in Taiwan is character teaching. The Chinese writing system presents the “highest contrast” to alphabetic languages,
This is my first-time visiting Taiwan. I arrived in Taipei on December 12, 2021. Everything started with a 22-day quarantine. Actually, it was not bad.
It took me more than a year plus three weeks to start my Fulbright program in Taiwan, so I was determined to utilize all the
While preparing for my teaching grant at Tunghai University, International College Dean, Dr. James Sims, asked me to design a world history course that introduced students to
As a Fulbright China Transfer due to the unfortunately regressive administrative decision that suspended Fulbright program for mainland China and Hong Kong in 2020, I
The Fulbright program shaped some of my earliest childhood memories. In 1967, my father received a Fulbright to National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Although Fulbright Taiwan is officially named Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, the supported activities are not only about scholarship but also cultural exchange. Doing so, I
I arrived in Taipei on January 31, 2021 to begin my Fulbright program in Taiwan. After three weeks of quarantine in two hotels in Taipei,
