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The China-Taiwan cross-strait relationship: Stable, but fragile
In the past five years, China and Taiwan have succeeded in stabilizing their relationship to the benefit of both. Most progress has been in the economic and cultural spheres, with political issues left aside for the moment. A recent Center for Chinese Studies conference examined how China, Taiwan and the United States view the increasingly complex trilateral relationship.
Posted: 5/7/2013
Writing Sex, Food, and Politics
LI Ang (李昂), a prominent Taiwanese writer, investigates gender and politics in social life and literary creation, opening up new spaces of critical reflection on the question of women in literary writing.
Posted: 5/11/2012
2012 TUSA Ambassador Summer Study Abroad Scholarship
The TUSA Ambassador Summer Scholarship Program is being offered again this year to U.S. college and university students who are interested in studying the Mandarin Chinese language during the months of July and August.
Posted: 12/2/2011
Beyond Taiwan, a Writer and Her Readers Discover Each Other
Walls, fences and being overheard beyond walls and fences were the themes of Taiwanese intellectual Lung Ying-tai's May 2 lecture, in which she invited the audience to "sit along with me at the writer's desk." The event, attended by nearly 300 people, was sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
Posted: 5/4/2011
TUSA 2011 Ambassador Summer Scholarship Program
Scholarship program for undergrads and grads to study Mandarin in July and August 2011
Posted: 1/14/2011
Grants in Taiwan Studies Announced
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies announces the awarding of research grants in Taiwan Studies for 2010-11. Congratulations to awardees IRENA CRONIN (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures) and ANTHONY ESTES (Department of Anthropology).
Posted: 6/4/2010
Clock Ticking on Taiwan Strait Resolution
The coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.
Posted: 10/7/2009
K-6 Students to Learn Chinese at Broadway Elementary School
Broadway Elementary School (Venice, California) to open a Mandarin Academy
Posted: 8/20/2009
The Development of Inner-Party Democracy in Taiwan: Consequences for Taiwan's Party Politics
A talk by Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
Posted: 11/18/2008
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Jiang Wenye's Music & Poetry
A talk by David Der-wei Wang, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Posted: 4/4/2008
307 Degrees Conferred by International Institute in 2006-07
View a slideshow of the 2007 International Institute Graduation Ceremony (Flash plug-in required). Speakers included retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark.
Posted: 7/10/2007
Lecture Podcast of Thomas Gold, Sociology, UC Berkeley
From a presentation given June 1, 2006 titled, Twenty Years after "State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle": Author's Retrospective.
Posted: 6/30/2006
Schaberg and Yan to head UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Two young, yet distinguished, scholars take over as co-directors of one of America's top China programs.
Posted: 5/5/2005
Taiwan and China Cross-Strait Debate Comes to UCLA
Taiwanese and Chinese scholars discuss the reasons for and effects of the Anti-Secession law
Posted: 5/3/2005
China versus Taiwan: Balance of Power or of Will?
Allen S. Whiting analyzes alternative scenarios of where the "balance of will" between China and Taiwan may lead
Posted: 1/21/2005
"Greater Chinese Union" - A Political Solution to the Impasse in the Taiwan Strait?
Linda Jakobson explores possibilities for peaceful reconciliation
Posted: 11/2/2004
