Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Tsai is a symbol of what Taiwan has become: a flourishing democracy that has shown itself capable of electing a woman as president.
‘How am I going to face our ancestors who might ask why our culture disappeared? It is a fear that my own ethnicity will cease to exist.’
Indigenous peoples in Taiwan have survived 400 years of colonialisation and continue to thrive while asserting their land rights.
This edition offers a compelling purview of the change and continuity that has defined and redefined Taiwan in its marginal state.
Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is a master at building an image of himself as a political ‘outsider’ and an iconic leader.
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