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Briefing on Scholarship Opportunities Offered by the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of EducationDate: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, ...
06/02/2025

Briefing on Scholarship Opportunities Offered by the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education

Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
Venue: China Centre, University of Oxford
Audience: Members of the University only

Are you interested in studying or working in Taiwan? Join us for a scholarship briefing hosted by education officers from the Education Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK (TRO). This session will provide information on various opportunities, including:

✅ Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) – for Mandarin language studies
✅ MOE Taiwan Scholarship – for degree programmes in Taiwan
✅ Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL)
✅ Additional opportunities – TFETP and YMS schemes for working in Taiwan

🔹 Hear from past HES recipients about their experiences in Taiwan!
🔹 Discover how you can study, work, and immerse yourself in Taiwan’s vibrant academic and cultural environment!

📢 Don’t miss out on this chance to explore exciting opportunities in Taiwan!

For more details, visit: Oxford Talks Event Page below:

We are pleased to invite students at Oxford to a scholarship briefing on Tuesday, 18 February 2025, from 13:00 to 14:00, hosted by representatives from the Education Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK (TRO). This session will provide insights into various scholarships and program...

[Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series] EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?📚 Join us on Thursday, 5 De...
20/11/2024

[Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series] EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?

📚 Join us on Thursday, 5 December, at 17:00 at the Oxford China Centre for an engaging talk by Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (馮儒莎). Dr Ferenczy will share insights and research from her latest book, Partners in Peace: Why Europe and Taiwan Matter to Each Other.

Speaker: Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, Assistant Professor, National D**g Hwa University, and Affiliated Scholar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme invites you to the Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024 at St Antony's Colle...
11/11/2024

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme invites you to the Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Join us to explore the implications of this pivotal election year worldwide for Taiwan and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region. Due to limited venue capacity, please RSVP.

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme invites you to the Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Join us to explore the implications of this pivotal election year worldwide for Taiwan and the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region.

Join us for a talk: Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China SeaDate: 10 June 2024 T...
04/06/2024

Join us for a talk: Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea

Date: 10 June 2024
Time: 17:00 to 18:30 BST
Location: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford
Speaker: Dr Diren Doğan, Lecturer, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University & Visiting Fellow, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA)

Speaker: Ms Diren Doğan, Lecturer, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, and Academic Visitor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Dr Beatrice Zani from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) will be giving a talk for the Oxford Tai...
02/03/2024

Dr Beatrice Zani from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) will be giving a talk for the Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar, which will be the last one of Hilary Term 2023/24. Please join us!

Topic: Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labor, Commodity Circulation, and Digitized Economies across Taiwan
Date: Monday 4 March 17:00 to 18:30
Venue: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford

Taiwanese ports are paradigmatic sites to observe the new shapes of our globalised economic system. If global corporations are mostly pictured as the major actors of the global supply chain, in this talk I look at the invisible actors who daily contribute to its functioning: migrant maritime workers...

Dr Hsin-Chieh Chang on Monday 19 Feb 5pm at Oxford China Centre will talk about the receptivity of different types of mi...
12/02/2024

Dr Hsin-Chieh Chang on Monday 19 Feb 5pm at Oxford China Centre will talk about the receptivity of different types of migrants in Taiwan, their civic behavior & support for same-sex marriage in a novel perspective.

In an era of rising global intra-regional migration, in-depth explorations of attitudes toward immigrants and immigration (ATII) in emerging migrant-hosting societies in Asia are scarce. Using Taiwan as a case of an emerging non-Western, democratic migrant-hosting context with a racially homogeneous...

Join us on Wed 7 Feb 2024 2:30-3:30pm at Oxford University China Centre, University of Oxford for a briefing on scholars...
04/02/2024

Join us on Wed 7 Feb 2024 2:30-3:30pm at Oxford University China Centre, University of Oxford for a briefing on scholarships by Taiwan in the UK 駐英國台北代表處 Education Division. Uncover MOE scholarships like &

Join us on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, from 14:30 to 15:30 for a comprehensive briefing by representatives from the Education Division of the Taipei Representative Office (TRO) on scholarship opportunities provided by ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education. The session will focus on the Huayu Enrichment...

Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme cordially invites you to join our panel discussion on Taiwan's 2024 Elections on Thursda...
20/01/2024

Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme cordially invites you to join our panel discussion on Taiwan's 2024 Elections on Thursday, 25 January 2024, from 17:00 to 18:30 at the Dickson P**n Building, Oxford University China Centre, University of Oxford.

This kind of panel only happens every four years! Don't miss it!

Panellists
Dr Monique Chu, Lecture in Chinese Politics, University of Southampton
Dr Michael Reilly, Senior Fellow, Taiwan Research Hub, University of Nottingham
Dr Jing Bo-jiun, Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

Free admission; no registration required.

On 13th January 2024, 14 million Taiwanese voters went to the polling stations and elected the new president, vice president, and legislators of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Securing 40% of the votes, William Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidential race against...

We are excited to announce a panel discussion on Taiwan's 2024 elections during Week 8 of Michaelmas 2023. Join us on No...
22/11/2023

We are excited to announce a panel discussion on Taiwan's 2024 elections during Week 8 of Michaelmas 2023. Join us on November 30th from 17:00 to 18:30 at the Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, China Centre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford. We look forward to your participation!
[Panellists]
Dr Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham
Ms Mariah Thornton, LSE
Dr Jing Bo-jiun, University of Oxford
[Moderator]
Professor Todd Hall, University of Oxford

Dr Jing Bo-jiun, Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

Join us for a film screening of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep' (九槍) followed by a Q&A session with Director Tsai Tsung...
20/11/2023

Join us for a film screening of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep' (九槍) followed by a Q&A session with Director Tsai Tsung-Lung (蔡崇隆).

📅 Date: Monday, 4 December 2023
🕓 Time: 16:00 to 18:00
📍 Venue: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n China Centre Building, University of Oxford

The film won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2022. #金馬59最佳紀錄片

Admission is free! Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to engage with the filmmaker and understand the story of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.' See you there!

Nguyen Quoc Phi was nobody before he died, but now he tells his own story as a young migrant from Nghệ An, Vietnam, to Taiwan in this documentary. Phi was an undocumented migrant worker, or a ‘runaway’, in northern Taiwan before he was shot nine times by the police and left unattended by the p...

Join us for our inaugural Taiwan Studies Seminar of the Michaelmas term 2023. Dr. Chen Pin-chuan (陳斌全), Director of the ...
12/11/2023

Join us for our inaugural Taiwan Studies Seminar of the Michaelmas term 2023. Dr. Chen Pin-chuan (陳斌全), Director of the Cultural Division, Taipei Representative Office in the UK, will present a talk titled 'Post-Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry'.

Date: Monday, 13th November, 17:00-18:30
Venue: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford

In the realm of global cinema, ‘Taiwan Cinema’ has been a recognisable entity since the 1980s, earning a strong reputation from both cultural and artistic perspectives. However, following the Taiwan New Cinema movement of the 1980s, international discourse on Taiwanese cinema seems to have relat...

Job posting: Senior Research Fellow in Oxford Taiwan Studies ProgrammeOxford School of Global and Area Studies invites a...
21/06/2023

Job posting: Senior Research Fellow in Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies invites applications for a Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies Programme with an expected start date from 1 August 2023.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DAK372/senior-research-fellow-in-taiwan-studies?fbclid=IwAR1PTEfY0w7-e_csFz32712xmOM42KV0dFfY28z8q1-_Epsxvzs3fUgy5jM

The Contemporary China Studies Programme (CCSP) in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), seeks applications for a full time Senior Research Fellow role available from 1st August 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter, until 30th September 2025. The successful candidate will manage th...

Professor Ming-sho Ho is going to give a public lecture on Supporting International Democracy in Taiwan: From the Tianan...
08/06/2023

Professor Ming-sho Ho is going to give a public lecture on Supporting International Democracy in Taiwan: From the Tiananmen Incident to the Ukraine War. Join us in the Lucina Ho Room at 1pm on 15 June (Thursday)!
Please visit the Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme website for more information:
https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/taiwan-studies-seminar-vi
Additionally, if you’re interested in networking with Oxford-based DPhil researchers or postdoctoral researchers from Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Science, National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan), join us for a series of presentations on Thursday and Friday afternoons: https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/research-networking-event-research-institute-humanities-and-social-science

Ying Chang: Turning point: The transition from Shanghai-Style to Beijing-Style in the development of Peking opera in post-war Taiwan

04/06/2023

Come join the Oxford University Taiwanese Student Society and the Oxford Taiwan Studies Group for a networking event! This event will take place in the Language Lab 2 (Dickson P**n Building, Canterbury Road, OX2 6LU) between 15.00 and 17.00 on 5 June. We will be discussing Taiwan-related issues while enjoying delicious bubble tea.
https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/events

23/05/2023

ONE WEEK TO GO! Submit your abstracts to the Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference by 30 May!
The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme (https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/) is hosting an international conference on Wednesday 27 September 2023 to be held at St Antony's College. This conference focuses on technology and change broadly conceived. We welcome panels/papers for research at different stages of development. Research adopting an interdisciplinary approach or taking a comparative perspective is particularly welcome. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics include:
· technology, chip wars and international relations
· online and social media debates in or about Taiwan on international events
· digital media and youth culture in Taiwan and East Asia
· migration, care and technology in Taiwan
· digital social movements in and beyond Taiwan
· creative industries in Taiwan and East Asia
· smart cities in and beyond Taiwan
· business and innovation in Taiwan
Keynote speaker:
Dr Lih-yun Lin, Professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, and Commissioner at the National Communications Commission
Dr Chun-yi Lee, Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, and Director of Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham
Submission:
· Please state your paper title and provide a 300-word abstract in a word document.
· Please state the title of your panel and describe your panel in 300 words. Please also provide a 300-word abstract for each of the papers.
· Please include your/each panel presenter’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation in the word document.
· Please put either ‘PAPER’ or ‘PANEL’ in your email subject line.
· Please submit your paper or panel proposal in English to [email protected].
Key dates:
· Deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals: 30 May 2023
· Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2023
· Conference dates: 27 September 2023
Organisers: The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and the Taipei Representative Office in the U.K.
Registration and fees: We will announce conference fees soon.

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme is pleased and honoured to welcome Dr Jieh-min Wu, Research Fellow at the Institute ...
27/04/2023

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme is pleased and honoured to welcome Dr Jieh-min Wu, Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, to talk about his book titled Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model. Join us at 1pm on 15 May (Monday)!
Please visit the Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme website for more information: https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/taiwan-studies-seminar-v
Please register here for receiving a meeting link in due course: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-taiwan-studies-seminar-v-tickets-621620602957

30/03/2023

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme (https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/) is hosting an international conference on Wednesday 27 September 2023 to be held at St Antony's College. This conference focuses on technology and change broadly conceived. We welcome panels/papers for research at different stages of development. Research adopting an interdisciplinary approach or taking a comparative perspective is particularly welcome. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics include:
- technology, chip wars and international relations
- online and social media debates in or about Taiwan on international events
- digital media and youth culture in Taiwan and East Asia
migration, care and technology in Taiwan
- digital social movements in and beyond Taiwan
- creative industries in Taiwan and East Asia
- smart cities in and beyond Taiwan
- business and innovation in Taiwan

Keynote speaker: Dr Lih-yun Lin, Professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, and Commissioner at the National Communications Commission

Submission:
- Please state your paper title and provide a 300-word abstract in a word document.
- Please state the title of your panel and describe your panel in 300 words. Please also provide a 300-word abstract for each of the papers.
- Please include your/each panel presenter’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation in the word document.
- Please put either ‘PAPER’ or ‘PANEL’ in your email subject line.
- Please submit your paper or panel proposal in English to [email protected]

Key dates:
Call for Papers: Now open
Deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals: 30 May 2023
Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2023
Conference dates: 27 September 2023

Organisers: The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and the Taipei Representative Office in the U.K.

Registration and fees: We will announce conference fees soon.

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