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Political Packaging in Taiwan: The Case of Ko Wen-je (柯文哲)
Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is a master at building an image of himself as a political ‘outsider’ and an iconic leader.
Are Taiwanese people our ‘family’? China’s cultural representations of Taiwan
Chinese film and literature shows that ordinary Chinese people’s view of Taiwan are not as homogeneous as often assumed.
From Cold War shadows to democratic diplomacy: Navigating Taiwan-Australia relations
The Australia-Taiwan story is one of shared democratic values and interconnected diasporic communities.
‘One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism’, by Ian Rowen
Can cross-strait travel between mainland China and Taiwan be used to promote Beijing’s view that Taiwan is Chinese territory and to push for unification?
Taiwan literature in Japanese: works of colonial, diasporic and contemporary writers
Chinese has been the most dominant language in Taiwan for most of the last 400 years, but the historical significance of Japanese is profound.