Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema tour 2020 at UCLan Bringing Taiwan Films to the UK! The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)'s Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies (NorITS) is working with the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and King's College London to bring Taiwan Language Cinema to the...
Our Head of Asia Pacific Institutes, Prof Niki Alsford and Co-Director for NorITS, Dr Lara Momesso, co-edited a special issue on Taiwan for European Journal of East Asian Studies. Authors in the special issue include our lecturers for Asia Pacific Studies, Dr Ti-Han Chang and Dr...
Prof Niki Alsford, Head of the Asia Pacific Institutes, and Ed Griffith, Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies, have published a new article on the Hong Kong Security Law in the Conversation UK. Read "China is becoming increasingly assertive – security law in Hong Kong is just...
Our Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies, Dr Ti-Han Chang, shared five must-read novels on the environment and Climate Crisis via Conversation UK. Can we learn from the lockdown and move towards a greener future? Read through her recommendations on the conversation here. Published on 9th July 2020...
Professor Niki Alsford, Head of the Asia Pacific Institutes, and Fiona Su, an independent researcher based in Hong Kong, discussed the Chinese National Security Law in Hong Kong, at the New Bloom. Read it here. ...
Our next International Roundtable on the role of Social Media in shaping (Un)Democratic processes is taking place on the 9th March from 9:30am at the People's History Museum. A full day dedicated to workshops, movie screening and discussions on information technologies and democracy. Open to public...
The 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake Natural Disasters as Public History Abstract The history of natural disasters in Taiwan has frequently been linked to the practice of historical preservation, archival science, oral history, and museum curatorship. All are collectively hallmarks of a broad range of activities that fall under the...