1st Edition

Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen Navigating in Stormy Waters

Edited By Gunter Schubert, Chun-yi Lee Copyright 2022
396 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

396 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

396 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a substantive assessment of the first Tsai Ing-wen administration, investigating different policy fields and issues from 2016 to 2020, prior to Tsai’s election for a second term.  Providing a balanced account of government performance under Tsai’s Ing-wen’s reign, chapters in this edited volume combine theory and extensive empirical data to highlight both achievements and... Read more
  1. Introduction
  2. Gunter Schubert and Chun-yi Lee

  3. Situating Tsai Ing-wen’s First Term: Three Decades of Presidential Discourse in Taiwan
  4. Jonathan Sullivan and Don S. Lee

  5. Tsai Ing-wen, The Sandwich President
  6. Shelley Rigger

  7. Liang’an vs. Kua’an: The two Dimensions of Taiwan-China Relations during the First Tsai Administration
  8. Gunter Schubert, Rui-hua Lin and Yu-chen Tseng

  9. Decoding the Cyber Strait: Taiwan’s Responses to the Chinese Cyber Threat under Tsai Ing-wen
  10. Christopher Andrä-Hampf

  11. The Increasing Irrelevance of Industrial Policy in Taiwan, 2016-2020
  12. Douglas B. Fuller

  13. The War of Referendums in 2018: Analysing the Interaction between Social Movements and Political Parties
  14. Ming-sho Ho and Chun-hao Huang

  15. The Rough-and-Tumble of Taiwan’s Pension Reform in the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen, 2016-2020
  16. Don-yun Chen, Chung-an Chen, Zhoupeng Liao, Hsiang-kai Dong, Hung-chen Kuei

  17. The Reorientation of History Teaching in Taiwan’s 12-year Basic Education
  18. Mau-kuei Chang, Shih-ch'i Chin and Hsiu-chin Yang

  19. A Noble Dream Undelivered: The Quest for Transitional Justice During Tsai Ing-wen’s First Term
  20. Cheng-yi Huang

  21. "It’s not marriage!": Framing and Mobilizing in the Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Movement
  22. Yu-chin Tseng

  23. Productivity, Cohesion and Dignity: The Contestation of Migration Policy under the First Tsai Ing-wen Administration
  24. Isabelle Cheng

  25. Assessing the First Years of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy: The Case of Vietnam
  26. Chun-Yi Lee

  27. Stronger than Ever? US-Taiwan Relations during the First Tsai Administration
  28. Scott Kastner

  29. Taiwan, Japan, and the EU under the Tsai Administration’s New Southbound Policy: Viable Alternatives?
  30. Kerry Brown

  31. Trilateral Humanitarian Aid: Continuities and Changes of Taiwan’s ODA Policy before and during the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen

Shiuh-shen Chien and Yi-chen Wu

Biography

Gunter Schubert is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies and director of the European Resarch Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He specialises in local governance in the PRC, cross-strait political economy, Taiwanese politics and the changing global order under the impact of China’s rise. 

Chun-yi Lee is Associate Professor at school of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. She is also the Director of the Taiwan Studies Programme at University of Nottingham. Chun-yi’s research interest is in cross-strait relationship, and China’s impact on global political economy.