Taiwan Insight
Studying Aging Chinese Nationalists in Modern Taiwan: A Lesson for Young Voters
Like many others, Taiwan’s population is divided when it comes to political opinions. Yet apart from the deciding factors such as ethnic background or living environment, one must pay special attention to the obvious gap that exists between voters of different age groups. In other words, while political ideals could still be drawn according to geographical and ethnic identities, there seems to be an emphasis, placed by media and the local communities themselves, on the dividing perspectives on the nation and the functions of society according to one’s age group
Writing Projects
NüVoices
Anthropologist: Taiwanese identity is a ‘paradox’ of conflicting beliefs – but social bonds create unity
Taiwan is a rare example of a thriving Asian democracy. The re-election in January 2020 of President Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who advocates for the island’s continual political freedom and independence, only served to underline the nation’s difference from the People’s Republic of China. But during my fieldwork as an anthropologist, researching Chinese nationalism during and after the election, I discovered that ordinary people’s conception of identity was more complicated than the headlines suggest.
New Canadian Media
Embracing Taiwan: A Panel on Canadian Relations with Taipei
With 2019 marking the forty-year anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, and Canada’s increasing interest in cross-strait issues, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa hosted the panel called Embracing Taiwan: Canada Has More Options Than We Realize, on April 16, 2019.
