Dafydd Fell
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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
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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.
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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.
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Abstract This paper draws from the literature on social movements and utilises collective memory to examine interactions between structure and agency in transformative protest events. Intra-movement...
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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! .
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This new textbook presents an excellent introduction to the most important aspects of contemporary Taiwanese society, politics, economy, and international relations in a comprehensive and reader-fr...
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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.
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Abstract In this article we examine how Taiwan’s oldest movement party, the Green Party Taiwan, dealt with national electoral defeats in 2012, 2016, and 2020. We examine the theme of electoral defeat...
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Volume 8, Issue 2 of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies is out now!.
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"Volume 8 (2025): Issue 2 (Jul 2025)" published on 08 Jul 2025 by Brill.
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Here's our SOAS Politics Department Term 3 Newsletter and there is quite a lot of coverage of our Taiwan events here!.
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RT @jamesbaron: Excellent events for Taiwan Studies Summer School programme @SOAS last couple of weeks. Managed to catch film screenings an….
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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.
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In today’s fragmented world—where “might is right” increasingly undermines the rules-based international order—even the strongest alliances can falter.
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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! .
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This book traces the history and development of Taiwan’s new money god tradition, where, by borrowing a small sum of blessed ‘fortune money’ and returning it with interest within a year, a temple’s...
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Today at SOAS we will host the book launch of Lev Nachman's new book Contested Taiwan sovereignty, social movements, and party formation.
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In the 2025 Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are excited to feature Dr Lev Nachman’s book talk, which offers a timely analysis of how identity, territory, and external threats shape party...
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We will open day 5 of this year's SOAS Taiwan Summer School with a screening of Wan Jen's Super Citizen Ko!.
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As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are honoured to screen the award-winning film Super Citizen Ko, directed by Wan Jen, one of Taiwan’s most important social realist...
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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!)
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We're just a few hours away from the start of the main part of the SOAS Taiwan Summer School Programme 2025!
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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.
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In the 2025 Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to welcome Dr Lev Nachman for our Keynote Lecture to explore how Taiwan studies can grow within political science and broader...
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We'll have a Taiwan studies feast to start the 2025 SOAS Taiwan Summer School. In addition to Huamei Chiu and Yubin Chiu's lectures, we will be screening four Taiwanese documentaries!
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Delighted to receive my copy of Identity, Multiplicity, and Resistance in Taiwanese Poetry, Edited By Wen-chi Li. I'm looking forward to the planned book launch in the autumn at SOAS. It's the latest in Research on Taiwan Book Series that I edit and our first book on poetry.
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The latest review of Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan By André Beckershoff is out! It's a very extensive review in the blog Lao Ren Cha - 老人茶!.
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Taiwan cinema is one of the most popular elements of Taiwan Studies at SOAS. We've now run a Taiwan cinema course for 20 years. As part of this year's summer school we'll be screening an exciting mix of films and documentaries, with these three films shown on July 3 and July 4!
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Looking forward to reading this new article by my former student and now @SOASpolitics colleague @ChrisJDeacon !.
As a kind of companion piece to my ISQ article below, I have a new publication out in @INTPOLITSOCIO looking at how the “everyday mnemonic foreign policy” of popular culture can create the conditions of possibility for international history wars like 🇯🇵-🇰🇷
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