UW Taiwan Studies

06/03/2026

It was our great pleasure to share 造山者－世紀的賭注 A Chip Odyssey at Northwest Film Forum at Northwest Film Forum and to welcome co-producer Ben Tsiang for an engaging post-screening discussion. This event was made possible through the support of many wonderful partners and individuals, and we are deeply grateful to everyone who helped bring this special evening to Seattle.

05/20/2026

🎬 Free Screening! May 31 at 4 PM 造山者－世紀的賭注 A Chip Odyssey

Please join us for a special screening of A CHIP ODYSSEY (HSIAO Chu-Cheng, 2025) with Producer Ben Tsiang at the Northwest Film Forum!

What does it mean for a small island to power the world’s digital future? A Chip Odyssey takes audiences inside Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, uncovering the human stories, political tensions, and global stakes behind the chips that drive our everyday lives.

✨ Special Highlight
Stay after the screening for a live Q&A with producer Ben Tsiang, as we explore the making of the film and Taiwan’s critical place in today’s technological landscape.

🤝 FREE FOR UW TSP COMMUNITY MEMBERS! Please sign up here to reserve your place in the queue: https://tinyurl.com/ChipOdysseyRSVP

05/14/2026

Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004), Taiwan's beloved and pioneering postwar cook book author and television celebrity, was often called the "Julia Child of Chinese cooking." Fu appeared continuously on television for forty years, wrote dozens of best-selling Chinese cookbooks, owned a successful cooking school and traveled the world, teaching foreigners about Chinese food. Women in her generation, which included both housewives and career women, turned to Fu because she taught them how to cook an astounding range of unfamiliar Chinese regional dishes, in ways their own mothers and grandmothers never could. Her cookbook also represents the transpacific journeys of thousands of migrants, as they carried her recipes in their suitcases, traveling far from home. Fu's story offers us a window onto not just food, but also family, gender roles, technology, media, foreign relations, and cultural identity. This is not a story of timeless culinary tradition, but one of modern transformation-- of self and family, of cuisine and society.

Michelle T. King, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in modern Chinese food and gender history. She is the author of Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (2024), which was named one of the best books of 2024 by the New York Times and NPR, and received the support of a NEH Public Scholars Fellowship. She is also co-editor of Modern Chinese Foodways (2025), editor of Culinary Nationalism in Asia (2019), and author of Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (2014).

05/09/2026

Join us for our Spring Colloquium that is FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC!

📅 June 2nd (Tues) 2:00-4:00pm
📩 RSVP at bit.ly/TSP-26
📍HUB 334 & ONLINE
✨Light refreshments are supplied for guests, please register for the event ✨

We will be celebrating the end of a busy academic year with research presentations from graduating students as well as visiting scholars of the Taiwan Studies Program. Our presenters for 2026 are:

Bernard Chih-chieh Chou, Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and UW Visiting Scholar

Yang-hsun Hou, University of Washington Doctoral Candidate, Learning Sciences and Human Development

Hui-nien Lin, Associate Professor in the Studies of Indigenous Cultural Development Program at National Pingtung University, Taiwan and UW Visiting Scholar

Charlie Shih, University of Washington Masters Student, Culturally Sustaining Education

Tin Pak, University of Washington Senior, Political Science and International Studies

Margaret Yun-PuTu (Nikal Kabala'an), University of Washington Doctoral Candidate, School of Law

See more presentation information on our website: https://jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/events

Hope to see you there!

05/05/2026

🎬 Free Screening! May 31 at 4 PM 造山者－世紀的賭注 A Chip Odyssey

Please join us for a special screening of A CHIP ODYSSEY (HSIAO Chu-Cheng, 2025) with Producer Ben Tsiang at the Northwest Film Forum!

What does it mean for a small island to power the world’s digital future? A Chip Odyssey takes audiences inside Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, uncovering the human stories, political tensions, and global stakes behind the chips that drive our everyday lives.

✨ Special Highlight
Stay after the screening for a live Q&A with producer Ben Tsiang, as we explore the making of the film and Taiwan’s critical place in today’s technological landscape.

🤝 FREE FOR UW TSP COMMUNITY MEMBERS! Please sign up here to reserve your place in the queue: https://tinyurl.com/ChipOdysseyRSVP

04/24/2026

Tomorrow at 2 PM! ✨Healing Beyond Conflict for Taiwan Indigenous Peoples✨

The Pacific Alliance For Autonomous Traditions, Indigenous Sovereignty—led by our affiliated PhD students and recent graduates—along with guest speakers and community advocates from the Amis/Pangcah, Atayal, and Paiwan communities, are doing important work at the 25th Annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues!

Upon their return, they will share their experiences and perspectives on promoting healing through multiple lenses—including public affairs, human rights, cultural work, food sovereignty, and community health.

The event will be conducted in Mandarin, with English interpretation provided.

04/23/2026

04/23/2026

Check out this Husky Giving Day post from the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington featuring our student assistant Tin Pak!

04/20/2026

🔔 How to Publish Your Book— Online Lecture with Iulia Ivana (Jr. Acquisitions Editor, Modern East Asian Studies, De Gruyter Brill) on academic publishing

Date & Time: April 24, 2025 (Friday) 6:00 AM (PT)
Format: Online ｜ Free admission ｜ Q&A included
👉RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc56fOGqzUfDJpCUgfbtH5r5jVAvUj7frlvHek7aRta4Q5EWw/viewform?fbclid=IwY2xjawRTOvVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFIRmhaU0U5TkVjR2d2SktGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoIbjpLA79tz4gXfPU7EoFxeUBDJwcG0nvwdzgRI8MjuAz1xAY5x2YUOLI3t_aem_3JScBz9HKiNv_xbO0nVi2w
Organizer: North American Taiwan Studies Association - NATSA
Co-organizer: De Gruyter Brill

【How to Publish Your Academic Book-De Gruyter Brill Editorial Lecture】

論文寫完了然後呢？ 研究做了這麼久，想要成果被更多人看見，但學術出版到底是怎麼一回事？書稿要怎麼提交？審查流程是什麼？
本次講座邀請來自De Gruyter Brill 出版社的資深編輯Iulia Ivana，從出版社的角度出發，帶你了解國際學術出版的完整流程，也介紹專注於台灣研究的書系與期刊，幫助研究者走上適合自己的出版路。

討論重點包括：

如何撰寫一份好的出版提案
同儕審查的流程與常見問題
博士論文改寫成專書的注意事項
Brill 台灣研究書系（BSTS）與《台灣研究國際期刊》（IJTS）介紹
無論你是研究生、博後，還是正在考慮出版第一本書的學者（或是對此議題有興趣的朋友），歡迎帶著問題一起來！

「如何出版你的學術著作」線上講座

主講：Iulia Ivana（De Gruyter Brill 東亞研究資深編輯）

時間：2026年4月24日（五）9:00 PM (台灣時間), 3:00 PM (荷蘭時間), 9:00 AM (美東時間)

形式：線上舉辦｜免費參加｜含 Q&A 時間

主辦單位：北美臺灣研究學會。協辦單位：De Gruyter Brill。

※ 活動以英文進行

You've finished your dissertation — now what?
You've put years into your research and want your work to reach a wider audience. But how does academic publishing actually work? How do you submit a manuscript? What does the review process look like?

This lecture invites Iulia Ivana, Senior Editor at De Gruyter Brill, to walk you through the full academic publishing process from an editorial perspective — including an introduction to key book series and journals focused on Taiwan Studies — to help researchers find the publishing path that's right for them.

Topics include:

How to write a strong book proposal

The peer review process and common questions

Turning a dissertation into a publishable monograph

Introduction to the Brill Series in Taiwan Studies (BSTS) and the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS)

Whether you're a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, a scholar considering your first book, or simply curious about academic publishing — come with your questions!

How to Publish Your Book— Online Lecture

Speaker: Iulia Ivana, Jr. Acquisitions Editor, Modern East Asian Studies, De Gruyter Brill

Date & Time: April 24, 2026 (Friday) 9:00 PM (Taiwan) ｜ 3:00 PM (Netherlands) ｜ 9:00 AM (EDT)

Format: Online ｜ Free admission ｜ Q&A included

Organizer: North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA)
Co-organizer: De Gruyter Brill

👉RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc56fOGqzUfDJpCUgfbtH5r5jVAvUj7frlvHek7aRta4Q5EWw/viewform

04/14/2026

Join us and Professor Michelle T. King to discuss Fu Pei-Mei and the making of Modern Chinese Food!

📍Thompson Hall, Room 317
🗓️ May 14th, 2026
🖋️ RSVP at bit.ly/ChopFry

Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004), Taiwan's beloved and pioneering postwar cook book author and television celebrity, was often called the "Julia Child of Chinese cooking." Fu appeared continuously on television for forty years, wrote dozens of best-selling Chinese cookbooks, owned a successful cooking school and traveled the world, teaching foreigners about Chinese food. Women in her generation, which included both housewives and career women, turned to Fu because she taught them how to cook an astounding range of unfamiliar Chinese regional dishes, in ways their own mothers and grandmothers never could. Her cookbook also represents the transpacific journeys of thousands of migrants, as they carried her recipes in their suitcases, traveling far from home. Fu's story offers us a window onto not just food, but also family, gender roles, technology, media, foreign relations, and cultural identity. This is not a story of timeless culinary tradition, but one of modern transformation-- of self and family, of cuisine and society.

Michelle T. King, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in modern Chinese food and gender history. She is the author of Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (2024), which was named one of the best books of 2024 by the New York Times and NPR, and received the support of a NEH Public Scholars Fellowship. She is also co-editor of Modern Chinese Foodways (2025), editor of Culinary Nationalism in Asia (2019), and author of Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (2014).

This event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.