The 2016 labor dispute between the university administration and cleaning staff at National Cheng Kung University is revealing of the effects of labor outsourcing in Taiwan. How did the 02 Student Club respond to and intervene in the labor dispute?...
A recent essay by McKenzie Wark on Chinese New Left intellectual Wang Hui published on Verso Books’ blog proves an exercise in western academic leftists’ lack of knowledge of Asia and their inadvertent support of individuals with politics that they would likely find repulsive, if not for lack of sufficient knowledge about Asia and wishful desire to find analogues to themselves in non-western countries. It is instructive to examine this essay more closely in order to understand what we might term a form of leftist orientalism...
A recent video released by Chinese state-run media outlet Xinhua News about border conflicts between China and India, titled “The Spark: 7 Sins of India,” has provoked anger with accusations of racism against Indians in the ad...
With news of Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s ouster from the Trump administration, many have breathed a sigh of relief. But, in truth, the Trump administration still contains a number of political actors that could prove dangerous with regard to US foreign policy...
A solidarity rally was held in Taipei today for recently arrested Hong Kong activists, some of which have been sentenced to up to 13 months in prison...
While meant to be a cause for celebration in Taiwan, as marking the start of the largest international sporting event ever held in Taiwan, the opening ceremonies of the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade were instead a cause for media spectacle and anger from the Taiwanese public...
Outrage and shock has broken out in the academic world and beyond with the censoring of articles from the China Quarterly, a leading journal of the China studies published by Cambridge University Press, in order to comply with orders from the Chinese party-state. Apart from this being revealing about the Chinese party-state's need to suppress information in order to prevent dissent, this may also return to inherent challenges of China Studies...
Violence in America by white supremacists increasingly encouraged by Donald Trump’s presidency to organize openly should have important lessons for Taiwan, not only because of what this reveals about America, but because of important parallels to Taiwan...
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal handed down jail sentences today to Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow for participation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, sentencing Wong to six months in jail, Law to eight months in jail, and Alex Chow to seven months in jail. The three have been billed Hong Kong's first political prisoners. What now for Hong Kong?...
