Recent Posts

David on Formosa

David on Formosa

Return To Blog Listing

A blog about Taiwan and all things Taiwanese from Taipei, Taiwan. Includes travel, photos, movie reviews, environment, culture, news and commentary.

Search This Blog's Tags For:

Recent Posts Tagged With 'taiwan studies'

  • Austronesian Taiwan 2.0

    Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 21:42 in books, taiwan, anthropology, taiwan studies

    Austronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History, Ethnology, Prehistory was first published in 2000 and has been out of print for past few years. A new edition of the book was published to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Shung Ye Museum and the exhi...

  • End of the last semester at NCCU

    Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 20:41 in taiwan, anthropology, nccu, taiwan studies, smangus

    The end of this semester marked my completion of the coursework requirements in the Master’s of Taiwan Studies program at NCCU (國立政治大學). The classes I took this semester were Political Development of Taiwan and International Relatio...

  • Shung Ye Museum marks 15th anniversary

    Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 21:04 in taiwan, taipei city, taiwan studies, museums & galleries

    The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines (順益台灣原住民博物館) celebrated its 15th anniversary yesterday. The day was marked by the opening of a special exhibition from Japan.  The exhibition contains artifacts from the National Museum ...

  • Call for papers - 2009 NATSA Conference

    Posted on Wednesday November 12th, 2008 at 20:30 in taiwan, taiwan studies

    The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) is calling for papers for its 2009 conference. The conference is at The University of Texas at Austin from 26-28 June 2009. The main theme of the conference is “Locating Taiwan: Space, Cultu...

  • Another semester begins at NCCU

    Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 21:58 in taiwan, nccu, taiwan studies

    After a very long summer vacation it was back to school again this week. I am now starting the second year of the Master’s in Taiwan Studies. If all goes to plan then I will finish the course within a year. I am taking two classes this semester...

  • How does NCCU rank?

    Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 17:46 in taiwan, University, nccu, taiwan studies

    Fili has written a post exploring the rankings of NCKU (國立成功大學). I want to take a similar look at the rankings for National Chengchi University (國立政治大學). NCCU doesn’t make it on some of the lists that Fili has referenced...