Our Opening Lecture for the main part of the 2025 SOAS Taiwan Summer School will be given by Lev Nachman: More parties, more problems: Making Taiwan studies succeed in political science. It'll on June 30 at 3.30 in the SOAS SWLT in the Paul Webley Wing. soas.ac.uk/about/event/mo…

We're just a few hours away from the start of the main part of the SOAS Taiwan Summer School Programme 2025!

We start Say 3 of our SOAS Summer School with Lingfang Cheng's talk on Abortion Politics in Taiwan! We start at 09.30 in R301 (note the room change!)

We will open day 5 of this year's SOAS Taiwan Summer School with a screening of Wan Jen's Super Citizen Ko! soas.ac.uk/about/event/fi…

Today at SOAS we will host the book launch of Lev Nachman's new book Contested Taiwan sovereignty, social movements, and party formation soas.ac.uk/about/event/co…

The latest book is now forthcoming in the Taiwan Book Series! It's Money God Temples in Taiwan: Transcendence and Metaphysics in Chinese Religion By Fabian Graham. The book is due out in November 2025 and will be the second new book out in 2025! routledge.com/Money-God-Temp…

One of my most memorable travel destinations was to Nagorno-Karabakh and afterwards I wrote a couple of short articles connecting this contested state to Taiwan. It was interesting to see one of them referred to in this article that just came out. moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/07/04/whe…

Excellent events for Taiwan Studies Summer School programme SOAS University of London last couple of weeks. Managed to catch film screenings and talks by Lev Nachman, including for new book, which argues that unique conditions in contested states drive formation of movement parties. Dafydd Fell

Here's our SOAS Politics Department Term 3 Newsletter and there is quite a lot of coverage of our Taiwan events here! mailchi.mp/4a49160bcb05/d…

Volume 8, Issue 2 of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies is out now! brill.com/view/journals/…

Although it was published online in May 2024, the article How Do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party Taiwan, officially was published this week in Issue 2, Volume 8 of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies brill.com/view/journals/…

The latest book is forthcoming in the Taiwan Series. It will be: Contemporary Taiwan: More than a Flashpoint Edited By Kristina Kironska , Eunika Rejtová Yang . Due out on December 31 2025 and in paperback on first publication! routledge.com/Contemporary-T…

My former MA student Silvia Frosina published: The Forgotten Class Factor? Examining Structure-Agency Dynamics in Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement at Its 10th Anniversary, in the European Journal of East Asian Studies. brill.com/view/journals/…

Kharis Templeman has written a fascinating analysis of the TPP in four parts. So far three parts are out and it's a wonderful balance of comparative politics theory, concepts and rich Taiwanese politics empirical details! Here's part 1 kharistempleman.com/blog/the-curio…

Here's part 2 of Kharis Templeman's The Curious Case of the TPP, Part 2: Party-Building Strategies in the Taiwanese Electoral Context, which also includes some discussion of Lev Nachman's anticipated book Contested Taiwan and my Taiwan's Green Parties kharistempleman.com/blog/the-curio…

I was interviewed for this piece in the National Public Radio titled: Taiwanese political gridlock endures as China-friendly party survives recall vote. Also cited here are Nathan Batto and Alexander C. Huang npr.org/2025/07/26/g-s…

The latest book is forthcoming in the Taiwan Book Series! It's Taiwan's Semiconductor Miracle: From Periphery to Core, By Tain-Jy Chen 陳添枝 and Chin-Tay Shih 史欽泰 It's officially due out in November. routledge.com/Taiwans-Semico…

Simona Alba Grano was recently invited by Swissinfo and Benjamin von Wyl to reflect on her now ten-year-old book with the Routledge Taiwan Series, Environmental Governance in Taiwan, and to compare the state of nuclear energy in Taiwan then and now. swissinfo.ch/eng/global-ele…

"Anti-Nuclear Groups Rally in Taipei Against Plan To Revive Ma-anshan Reactor" by Gino Lopez | 盧培德 newbloommag.net/2025/08/16/maa…

The latest book is now forthcoming in the Taiwan Series!! Meditative Dance Theatre in Contemporary Taiwan. By Izabella Łabędzka. This will be the fifth book published in the series in 2025! routledge.com/Meditative-Dan…