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We are pleased to discuss with Professor Lan her research on migrants, parenting, and second-generation children in Taiwan. Reflecting on her academic journey, in Part 1, Professor Lan discusses how her research on migrant workers has evolved over the years. She also offers insightful analysis of how migrant workers navigate the changing landscape of Taiwanese society during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How have Taiwan’s civil society responded to the limits of state-organized transitional justice initiatives?
How can we understand the challenges and possibilities facing Taiwan’s quest for transitional justice through the lens of constitutionalism and political contestation?
Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is often applauded internationally as a success story, yet it has only been possible because of Taiwan’s strong medical profession and vibrant civil society. How did civil society engagement contribute to Taiwan’s pandemic response?
Few scholars have investigated both the colonial origin of Taiwan’s medical profession and the development of Taiwan’s public health system and civil society engagement after democratization. How did the medical profession in Taiwan emerge in the Japanese colonial era? Why are there many doctors actively participating in today’s Taiwanese politics?
“Taiwan literature can be conceived of as every single mode of literary expression that has left an existential trace on Taiwan,” said Dr. Shuo-bin Su (蘇碩斌), director of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature. The research, preservation, and promotion of such modes of expression, however, either failed to receive organized institutional support or was subsumed under a China-centered historiographical perspective before the lifting of martial law in Taiwan. The establishment of Taiwan literature as a field of academic inquiry became possible thanks to the political liberalization of Taiwanese society and the emergence of a “Taiwan consciousness” since the 1980s. What might be the challenges and possibilities facing the field of Taiwan literature, then and now? What might be the new directions of the field? This interview features as part of our special issue: Encountering Everyday Life: Taiwan in Museums.
