A Year of Weaving in Taiwan
It is astonishing to me how quickly these nine months have gone by in Taiwan. This semester in the remote hills of Tainan,
It is astonishing to me how quickly these nine months have gone by in Taiwan. This semester in the remote hills of Tainan,
“Say goodbye to Taiwan,” wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest.1 Threatened by China’s rising
I spent my Fulbright year engaged in ethnographic research on Taiwan’s indigenous communities and their practices, and the ways in which these practices
Empires create legacies that successors use in diverse ways. My project explores the court of China’s Ming dynasty (1368-1644) on a broad Eurasian
In 2016-2017, I conducted research for my dissertation on early medieval Chinese literature in Taipei as a Fulbright Fellow. Upon arriving in Taipei
Chinese nationalism continues to be an important but inadequately understood phenomenon. On the one hand, it is evident that nationhood and national identity are deeply
During my 2016–17 Fulbright fellowship in Taiwan, I had the opportunity to visit the Taoyuan factory of Sheng Kuang 聖光 (Sacred Radiance), a leading
In my language, we say “I love you” a lot. Think about that sentence for a minute. Really think about it. Does it strike you
Introduction and Background Many of us would agree that Senator J. William Fulbright’s vision of “a world with a little more knowledge and
“Where are you from?” is a question almost every Asian American has grown up hearing (in addition to its ruder close cousin—“What are