Taiwanology

The Taiwanologie (including Taiwan studies or Taiwan Science ) is an area of science that deals with the study and teaching of history , politics, society, languages, culture, literature and art (z. B. film ) Taiwan's busy.

Compared to Japanology , for example , it is a relatively young field of research. The number of publications has risen sharply since 1985. During this period, Taiwan was characterized by social, economic and political changes, including the abolition of martial law, the end of the dictatorship under Chiang Kai-shek and his son, democratization and the first presidential election.

History of Taiwanology

The term Taiwanology was coined by Stéphane Corcuff in 1995, but studies on Taiwan have been around for a long time. After the 50-year rule of the Nationalist Chinese in were 2000s Taiwanese Literature, Taiwanese languages and Taiwanese culture established at many universities in Taiwan Institute for Taiwanologie. Outside Taiwan, the first English-language master's degree in Taiwanology was established in 1999 at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in Great Britain . Academia Sinica , the National Academy of Sciences of Taiwan, has also played an important role in promoting Taiwanese studies. The Taiwan History Institute was founded in 2004, and in 2012 Academia Sinica organized the first World Congress of Taiwan Studies. In the meantime there are also scientific associations for Taiwanology such as B. European Association of Taiwan Studies, based in Tübingen and North American Taiwan Studies Association.

Research centers and chairs for Taiwanology

America

• Taiwan Studies, University of Alberta , Canada
• The Research Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of Ottawa , Ontario, Canada
• The Taiwan Democracy Project, Stanford University , USA
• Center for Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara , USA
• Taiwan Studies, University of California, San Diego , USA
• Taiwan Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin , Texas, USA
• The Taiwan Studies Initiative, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison , USA

Asia

• Graduate Institute for Taiwan Studies, Xiamen University , China
• Center for Taiwan Studies, Fudan University , China
• Waseda Taiwan Research Institute, Waseda University , Tokyo, Japan
• Taiwan Study Research Center, New Taipei, Taiwan
• Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, Taiwan National University , Taiwan

Europe

• Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, University of Vienna , Austria
• Taiwanese Studies Chair, KU Leuven , Belgium
• Research Center for Taiwanese Culture and Literature, University of Bochum , Germany
• European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen , Germany
• Taiwan Study Center, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia
• Taiwan Research Program, London School of Economics and Political Science , United Kingdom
• Center of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , United Kingdom
• Taiwan Studies Program, University of Nottingham , United Kingdom

Scientific Associations

• European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), founded in 2004
• North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA), founded in 1995

Scientific Conferences

• The First World Congress of Taiwan Studies (2012)
• Second World Congress of Taiwan Studies (2015)
• Third World Congress of Taiwan Studies (2018)
• North American Taiwan Studies Association 2018 Annual Conference

Scientific journals

• Taiwan Research Quarterly, Xiamen University
• Taiwan Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
• Studia Formosiana
• Taiwan Papers
• Taiwan Historical Research, Academia Sinica
• Vienna Taiwan Studies Series

See also

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  Portal: Taiwan  - Overview of Wikipedia content on Taiwan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gilles Guiheux (2001). Taiwan, les richesses d'une nation Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire , 71: 13-24.
2. ↑ ^{a b} "A New Look at Taiwan" Taiwan Today (2012)
3. ↑ Taiwan Fellowship (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Yih-Jye Hwang (2015). Taiwan, Taiwan Studies, and Taiwanese Identity EATS Newsletters , 6.
5. ↑ Stéphane Corcuff (2010). Étudier Taiwan. Ontologie d'un laboratoire-conservatoire.
6. ^ National Museum of Taiwan Literature
7. ^ Center of Taiwan Studies
8. ^ European Association of Taiwan Studies