James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social
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Historian of Taiwan. Assistant Prof @UWJSIS & @UWTaiwanStudies. Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. he/him.
Joined May 2009
Open access publication! My book is now available open access for everyone to read and download free on the @ucpress website: A brief thread about the book /1.
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Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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RT @ZYQHistorian: My ongoing thoughts on US-China engagement, thanks to the Carter Center China Focus: "Who's Afraid of Engagement?" https:….
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Call for papers: "New Directions in Taiwan History" workshop to be held at @UWTaiwanStudies February 26-27, 2026. Deadline to apply is October 10, 2025. Please share widely! For application instructions:
jsis.washington.edu
New Directions in Taiwan History – Taiwan at the Center and at the Margins February 26-27, 2026 University of Washington, Seattle Hosted by the UW Taiwan Studies Program This two-day workshop will...
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Today Taiwan and South Africa are radically different places than they were four decades ago, and ironically how an alliance forged through authoritarianism has unraveled with subsequent democratization and decolonization.
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I’m reminded of this by a letter in the Hoover Archives from the South African ambassador to the ROC writing to 魏鏞 in 1987 denouncing the Africa National Congress as part of a “terrorist alliance” with an “unrelenting commitment to violence.”.
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The ongoing diplomatic escalation between Taiwan and South Africa is quite a reversal from just four decades, when the two “pariah states” of the international system, martial law era ROC and apartheid South Africa, were close allies.
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RT @taomo_zhou: For friends on the job market: Open rank Southeast Asian History position @NTUHistory
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RT @emilyywu: So much insight from Nathan Batto on the recall movement. We spoke about how thresholds were lowered in 2016 (the Sunflower M….
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Excited to see the translation of Kaori Lai 賴香吟's Portraits in White 白色畫像 published in English by Columbia UP! Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt, commissioned by @iirowen, and a historical introduction written by yours truly.
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RT @heguisen: Really enjoyed chatting with Adrienne Wu and Yuchen Lee of @globaltaiwan about how international coverage of Taiwan has and h….
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RT @JosephALedford: The Hoover History Lab recently hosted an event that I organized on the uses and misuses of history in public policy. T….
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Scholars held a conversation based on the premise that policymakers often use history badly. How can this be rectified, so that historical analogies offer more thoughtful solutions for the present?...
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RT @DanielDenvir: This spring, the AHA (the flagship organization for American historians) undemocratically vetoed a resolution condemning….
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RT @lnachman32: As someone who has read a lot of pop Taiwan books over the last few years, this one stands out in quality. Dawley’s retelli….
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RT @soonw123: Pleased to be sharing my review essay in HSNS on “New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan”. I reviewed….
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RT @kerslake_andrew: 1) There's a growing effort to deny Taiwan’s colonial history by redefining Han migration as “internal expansion.” But….
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RT @BrankoMilan: Development and Diplomacy.In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan, James Lin, 2025. h….
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RT @heguisen: Publication Day for Ghost Nation is July 17 - now only 45 days away. Pre-order today and be among the first to read Taiwan's….
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Harvard and other similar US universities have always served elites. The change was that they began to become a destination for elites from outside the US when the US supplanted the UK and Germany as the higher education destination of the world.
Two things can be true at the same time:. 1) That Harvard and other elite US universities have consciously made themselves the playground, meeting point and status-symbol of the children of international elites, largely turning their back on deserving lower-class US students.
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I didn't realize the PDF link was session unique. Here is a permanent link:
direct.mit.edu
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public LicenseThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous
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Both Anru Lee and Honghong Tinn wrote chapters in their books about the gendered and racist tropes of young female laborers in Taiwan’s industrial development.
this is so insane.
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