CEFC Taipei (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Taipei Office) |
Established in 1994 in Taipei and located at the Academia Sinica's Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences since 1999, the CEFC Taipei is an academic research center sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research). In cooperation with CEFC main office - located in Hong Kong - and Taiwanese academic institutions - Academia Sinica in particular - the CEFC Taipei focuses on research in social sciences and humanities on contemporary Taiwan, mainly through the following activities:
Senior researchers, master and PhD students from France and Europe are hosted at CEFC Taipei for short and long-term research projects. Current team.
Organizations of conferences, workshop, lectures and seminars with audio records online.
Selection and edition of articles on Taiwan for the quarterly journal China Perspectives / Perspectives chinoises. Latest special issue on Taiwan.
A resource center with more than 3000 academic articles and book chapters in Taiwan Studies in English and French. See the catalogue.
Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies |
 | The Taiwan Studies Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was established in 1999 and upgraded to the Centre of Taiwan Studies in 2006. It has become one of the most active Taiwan Studies academic centres in the world. Its contribution to European Taiwan Studies was recognized with the award of the Prize of the French-Taiwanese Cultural Foundation in 2008 and the ROC’s Friendship Medal for Diplomacy in 2011. |
The Centre focuses of four core Taiwan Studies projects (1) Taiwan Studies teaching, (2) Taiwan Studies academic events, (3) Academic cooperation with other Taiwan Studies institutions, (4) Publication in the field of Taiwan Studies.
(1) Taiwan Studies teaching: SOAS offers the widest range of Taiwan Studies postgraduate courses of any institution outside Taiwan, with courses on Taiwan’s politics, economics, film, society & culture and languages. These are available to students taking any SOAS postgraduate degree. We also offer a MA degree in Taiwan Studies, the only such English language degree in the world.
(2) SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies runs regular academic seminars during term time, its popular Taiwan Studies Summer School and at least one international collaborative conference per year.
(3) We work together with a range of academic institutions in Taiwan, Europe and the US to promote both Taiwan Studies conferences and teaching projects.
(4) Most of our international conferences are designed with the goal of producing important Taiwan Studies academic publications. We also promote Taiwan studies publication through the Routledge Research on Taiwan book series.
For more information on the Centre’s Taiwan Studies work see this power point presentation or our website
| The Taiwan Programme at the Institute of East Asia, Normal Superior School, Lyon |
This research unit within the French CNRS, affiliated also to Lyon's Normal Superior School and the Institute of Political Studies of Lyon, has started in 2005 to develop programs on Taiwan in several directions: Research, Teaching, Academic Exchanges with Taiwan, Documentation, and Cultural events.
- The research program has dealt with identity politics, geopolitics of Taiwan and history of relations across the Taiwan straits; several workshops, including for master and PhD students, have been organized since 2007
- Teaching is mainly organized around a research seminar at the master level on Taiwan's historical geopolitics started in 2005, and various optional courses on Taiwan or cross-straits relations taught at the institute of Political Studies for bachelors;
- Academic exhanges with Taiwan are composed of student and teacher exchange programs with Taipei's Soochow University, Kaohsiung's Sun Yat-sen university and Tainan's Chang-jung University
- Documentation: after years of purchasing books and collecting private funds, the Lyon Institute of East Asia has opened in 2008 the Centre Documentaire Taiwanais de Lyon with over 5.000 book references on Taiwan mainly in Chinese, English and French
- Cultural events: the Institute has oganized two Taiwan Cultural Weeks mixing cultural events with academic presentation, with a wide number of activities sich as exhibition, workshops, conferences, performances, including the Premiere, in 2008 of "La Boite", a mixture of Lyon's guignol tradition and Taiwan's budaixi tradition by two teams working together.
Contact: stephane.corcuff@ens-lyon.fr
The European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) |
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| The European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan formally established on June 1st, 2008, is jointly financed by the University of Tubingen (Germany) and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (Taiwan). Its major objective is to promote post graduate social science research on contemporary Taiwan, most notably in the areas of politics and law, economics, society and cross-strait relations. The ERCCT provides a platform for European and Taiwanese students at the doctoral and post doctoral levels to engage in academic dialogue on theory, methodology and content related to specific research projects, to prepare for fieldwork in Taiwan, to assess the empirical findings brought back from the field and to assist students to get their work published by internationally renowned publishing houses. |
The Taiwan Research Center (TRC) in Slovenia |
The Taiwan Research Center in Slovenia has started to function in 2009 on the initiative of Dr. Saša Istenic and support of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD). Its major objective is to project Taiwan’s image among Slovenian citizen and improve their awareness of Taiwan by the means of promoting Taiwan studies in Slovenian main University (the University of Ljubljana) and organizing various Taiwan-themed events throughout Slovenia. In other words, the Center endeavours to enhance cultural exchange and goodwill between Slovenia and Taiwan, and to support the field of academic study and education. In the future, the Center aspires to promote exchanges among institutions interested in Taiwan studies, academic workshops, seminars and conferences and other events which would all serve as means for exchanges of views, knowledge sharing and networking in the area of Taiwan studies.
For more information see http://www.tajvan.si