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2024-2025 Reading List

Lecture 1. January 6 Gender and Political Representation (DF)

Huang Reading: Substantive Representation

Batto Reading

Chang Reading

Huang Reading on Quotas

Sawer Reading

Politics of Female Political Representation Lecture

Female political representation lecture slides

Frozen Garlic Piece on proposed gender quota reforms in 2025

Lecture 2. January 13 Electoral and Party Politics 2000-2012

2025 Lecture Recording Taiwan's Electoral and Party Politics 2000-2012

2025 Lecture Slides

Lecture 3. January 20 Electoral and Party Politics 2012-2024

Short article on youth voting, party and national identity in the run up to 2024

2012-2024 Domestic Politics Lecture

2012-2024 Lecture slides

Review of advertising in 2024 election

Templeman on Taiwan's Constitutional Crisis

Lecture 4. January 27 Student, Environmental and Labour Movements

Social Movements Lecture

Social Movement Lecture Slides

Lecture 5. February 3 Feminist and LGBTQ Rights Movements

2025 Taiwan's Feminist and LGBTQ Rights Movements Lecture

2025 Feminist and LGBTQ Rights Movements Lecture Slides

Lecture 6. February 17 Rapprochement: Cozying up to China under Ma Ying-jeou (2008-16)

PG_ lecture 6_ PPT_ Part I

PG_ lecture 6_ PPT_ Part II

Dent _2005 _ “Taiwan and the New Regional Political Economy of East Asia”.

Dent _ 2009_ Taiwan and the New East Asian Regionalism

ECFA (Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) -- English version

ECFA (Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) -- Chinese version

The disputed "Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement" (English version)

The disputed "Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement" (Chinese version)

Cross-Strait Policy Reference Book (Chinese) _ provided by Tung Chen-yuan

Tan _ 2011_“ECFA's Regional Impact and the Taiwan - Singapore FTA Negotiations"

MAC report under Ma (English version 2011)

Memorandum on implementation of the 2005 China-WHO Taiwan MOU

Stiglitz: The free-trade charade

2025_ 海峽兩岸經濟合作架構協議(ECFA)執行情形 (Chinese document)

Lecture 7. February 24 Changing tactics: Tsai Ing-wen’s international escape route

Lecture 7_ Part I: Changing tactics: Tsai Ing-wen’s international escape route

Lecture 7_ Part II: Changing tactics: Tsai Ing-wen’s international escape route

Hours of Common report on Taiwan's status_ 2024_11

"New Southbound Policy" Guidelines and Action Plan

Jing Po-chiun's articles

ROC National Defense Report 2023

Lecture 9. March 10 China’s Evolving Taiwan Policy

Lecture 9_ Part I: China’s Evolving Taiwan Policy

Lecture 9_ Part II: China’s Evolving Taiwan Policy

"Is Xi Jinping’s China on a path to war?" (9 August 2024, Al Jazeera)

Chinese Strategy and Military Modernization in 2015: A Comparative Analysis

Lin Gang_ 2016_ Beijing's New Strategies towards a Changing Taiwan

Hickey_2009_ Beijing's Evolving Policy toward Taipei

China/Taiwan: Evolution of the 'one China' policy -- key statement from Washington, Beijing and Taipei

PRC 1st White Paper_ 1993_ The Taiwan Question and Reunification of China_ 31 August 1993

PRC 2nd White Paper_ 2000_ Relations between the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: PRC White Paper, February 2000

Lecture 8. March 3 Taiwan’s Cultural diplomacy and Soft Power

Lecture 8. Part I_ Taiwan’s Cultural diplomacy and Soft Power

Lecture 8. Part II_ Taiwan’s Cultural diplomacy and Soft Power

Davidson &amp; Montville (1981/82) Foreign Policy According to Freud

Tsang S. (2017) “Impact Based on Soft Power"

Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang's keynote speech on Taiwan's digital strategy in fighting Covid-19 and fake news

Lecture 10. March 17 Strategic ambiguity: The Role of the US in Cross-Strait Relations

Lecture 10. Part I_ Strategic Ambiguity: The Role of the US in Cross-Strait Relations

Lecture 10. Part II_ Strategic Ambiguity: The Role of the US in Cross-Strait Relations

1949 _ China White Paper

BBC: The Great Wall

Important documents: 3 Communiqués, TRA, and six assurances

Military and Security Developments Involving the PRC 2023 - Annual Report to Congress

Mann _ 'About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton

2018_ Taiwan Travel Act

Davidson & Montville (1981/82) Foreign Policy According to Freud