Taiwan Studies Reconfigured Islands of Inquiry

Chapter 1- Introduction: Reconfiguring Taiwan studies through methodological innovation
Amélie Keyser-Verreault, Josie-Marie Perkuhn and Felix Brender

 Part I – Environmental Imaginaries and the Anthropocene

Chapter 2- Maintenance in time of disappearance: Survivance of the clouded leopard in the Paiwan spiritual landscape
Agathe Lemaitre

Chapter 3- Deep or shallow understanding of Taiwan’s energy transitions? Methodological reflections with qualitative comparative analysis
Anthony Ho-fai Li

Part II – From Decolonisation to Intersectionality: Rethinking Indigenous Research Practices

Chapter 4- The intersectionality framework: an innovative approach for Taiwan Studies
Amélie Keyser-Verreault

Chapter 5- Applying decolonising methodologies in a research project on Paiwan women artists and their work
Fanny Caron

Chapter 6- Indigenous female resilience on the forced displacement: A case study of Ciulaku, Southern Taiwan
Wan-Jou Lin

Part III – Seeing Power: Politics, Culture, and the Public Eye

Chapter 7- Framing anti-elite and crisis populist messages in elections: A time-series comparison of parties’ communicative patterns on Facebook in national elections
Jiun-Chi Lin

Chapter 8- Evaluating Taiwanese government decision-making and institutional change in film policy through new institutional economics
Wan-Shin Chen

Part IV – Reconstructing Taiwan’s Past: Methodologies and Sources

Chapter 9- A case study of intellectual biography in Taiwan Studies
Kuan-Wei Wu

Chapter 10- Research reports, perspectives and a new approach of historical studies on diary texts in Taiwan
Yu-Yin Hsu

Chapter 11- The use of Transkribus and other AI in the transcription and analysis of historical documents relating to Taiwanese history
Jamie Blake Knox

Chapter 12- What was counted and what counts? Statistics from the period of Japanese colonial rule as sources for the socioeconomic history of Taiwan
Christine Moll-Murata and Pao-wen Huang

Part V – Imitator to Improver to Innovator: Shifting Perspectives, Shifting Identities

Chapter 13- From imitator to innovator: Taiwan’s ego-driven role trajectory
Josie-Marie Perkuhn

Chapter 14- Tiger and dragon searching for phoenix feathers and unicorn horns: Imagining and mapping plausible trajectories of Cross-strait relations through integration theories and thought experiments
Frédéric Krumbein

Chapter 15- ‘Stripping bare’: Materiality and a new approach to Taiwanese foreign policy
Dana S. Trif

Biography

Amélie Keyser-Verreault 何梅俐 is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Her research explores body politics, gender, family, migration, and resistance in East Asia, with an interest in qualitative, art-based, decolonial, and intersectional methods. Current projects include low fertility, postnatal care in Taiwan, and Taiwanese migration to Japan.

Josie-Marie Perkuhn leads the joint postdoctoral research project Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP) at Trier University and is a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University. Trained in political science and Chinese studies, she researches international relations, maritime security, and contemporary policy issues, with extensive experience in Taiwan-focused academic cooperation.

Felix Brender 王哲謙 is a Project Associate at LSE IDEAS and incoming Hou Family Fellow (2026–2027) at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Previously, he served as a Research Assistant with the Taiwan as a Pioneer project at Trier University. His research examines Chinese relational security practices and the politics of identity, memory, and transitional justice in Taiwan.