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1. Founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies ...... 3 2. Taiwan Studies curriculum at the University of Vienna...... 3 3. Taiwan-related Expertise...... 5 4. Taiwan Teaching...... 8 5. Taiwan Film Screenings...... 9 6. Vienna Taiwan Lectures...... 10 7. Workshops...... 19 8. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Conferences...... 19 9. Vienna Taiwan Studies Series...... 21 10. Funding...... 23

Founding ceremony of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies participants (right to left): Prof. Trappl (Director of Confucius Institute University of Vienna) Robin Lu (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Vienna) Prof. Linhart (Head of Department of East Asian Studies) Prof. Peng (National Chengchi University) Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Department of East Asian Studies / Sinology) Dr. Lipinsky (Department of East Asian Studies / Sinology)

Title photo: Workshop with Grace Liao, Shih-Jung Hsu and students, p.19

2 1. Founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was established with a ceremonial celebration at the Department of East Asian Studies/ Sinology in January 2009 on the invita- tion of Prof. Dr. Susanne Schwiedrzik. The ceremonial address was given by Professor Li-Chung Peng from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Dr. Peng also repre- sented the Taiwan Studies Center at NCCU, a partner institution of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, in congratulating its founding by donating a nameplate with the Center’s name and logo. The talk by Professor Peng, given in Chinese, dealt with the meaning and importance of Taiwan in current East Asian studies. It was translated into German by Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, and a revised German version was published in the journal of Leipzig students of Chinese Studies, Dianmo. The ceremony and following dinner were attended by Dr. Christoph Baerenreuter, who is responsible for the Taiwan cooperation projects sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, and by Eva-Gabriela Toifl, who was in charge of cooperation with Asia at the University of Vienna in 2009. Their participation underlined the importance that both the University of Vienna and FWF have accorded to this program. The goal of the cooperation is to establish the on-going presence of Taiwan studies and research at the Department of East Asian Studies. The founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was accompanied by the signing of a first, department level, contract of cooperation with National Chengchi University.

2. Taiwan Studies curriculum at the University of Vienna Sinology at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, defines its contemporary Chinese studies from a Greater China perspective that includes courses on Hong Kong, Taiwan and the overseas Chinese diaspora. Previously, instruction concerning Taiwan relied on visiting scholars (Dr. Michael Rudolph, University of Southern Denmark) and was therefore offered in the concentrated format of weekend seminars. From 2008 on, the Sinology curriculum has included a focus on Taiwan in its regular curriculum. From 2013, classes have been offered in English. Participants therefore include English-only participants of the Vienna University Erasmus program, and students of the English language master programs offered by the University of Vienna, for example the „Global History“ program. From 2013, the Vienna University’s regular courses on Taiwan have been included in the East Asian Economy and Society Master Program: The two-year master’s program East Asian Economy and Society (EcoS) is multidisciplinary, dealing with contemporary social, political and economic aspects of the East Asian region as a whole. It is offered at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna, in English.

3 Courses on Taiwan are especially welcome to EcoS students because with their focus on society and on social issues, they can research Taiwan as an example within the Asian region. In Sinology, the Taiwanese courses cover all three mandatory parts of the curriculum, namely „Politics and Law“, „History and Society“ and „Literature and Culture“. The Vienna Taiwan Lectures are part of the instruction on Taiwan.

Year Theme of Course Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan as an example of Colonial Regimes (in 2008 German) 2009 Taiwan 1895. Geschichtsschreibung im Film 2010 Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taiwans 2012 Taiwans gesellschaftliche Entwicklung im Film 2013 Taiwan in den 1960ern: Bildung und Industrialisierung 2013 Taiwan in den 1960ern: Verlust des internationalen Status und die Folgen 2013 Transforming Taiwan: Social, political and cultural aspects 2014 Internationale Konventionen in der Volksrepublik China und in Taiwan Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s) Reflected in Documentaries - Rice, Gender 2015 and Science Cultures 2015/16 Japanese Rule, colonial and post-colonial developments in Asia 2015/16 Intersectionality Research in Taiwan. A Comparison with the West

Taiwan Studies Events at the University of Vienna

Date Event responsible 19.-20.04. Blockseminar: Taiwans Ureinwohner Dr. Michael Rudolph, 2008 im Spannungsfeld von Nativismus, University of Christianisierung und Elitenwettbewerb Southern Denmark 17.05. Workshop: Post-Porno und Gender im Barbara Eder; Felix 2008 taiwanesischen Kino Wemheuer 28.09. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Joint Seminar, Agnes Schick-Chen 2009 presentation: What’s legal culture got to do with it – from “pingfan” to “transitional justice“ in Taiwan? 28.-30.05. Workshop „Geschichte und Gesellschaft Univ.-Prof. Dr. 2010 Taiwans unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Susanne Weigelin- der Ureinwohner“ (Ostasienwissenschaften Schwiedrzik und / Sinologie und Museum für Völkerkunde). MMag. Sonja Peschek

4 3. Outreach: Taiwan-related Expertise and Conference Contributions As its managing director, Dr. Lipinsky endeavors to promote the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and the Taiwan research at the University of Vienna through her contributions to Taiwan-related conferences internationally. She has given regular presentations at annual meetings of the European Association of Taiwan Studies since 2008, highlighting the research work of the Vienna Center. Dr. Lipinsky also regularly lectures at various universities in Taiwan. While the Vienna cooperation concentrated first mainly with National Chengchi University (NCCU) and its Taiwan Studies Center, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies has established contacts with Chang Jung Christian University (CJCU), Kaohsiung Medical University and National Kaohsiung University in Southern and from 2013 with National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Northern Taiwan. Dr. Lipinsky was elected to the Board of the European Association of Taiwan Studies in 2015, and often participates in Taiwan-related teaching at other European universities, especially in Eastern Europe (Prague, Brno, Krakow and Ljubljana).

Date Topic Event / Conference Location 5th Conference of the 18.-20.04. Taiwan Democratization and the Prague, Czech European Association of 2008 Disappearance of Women Republic Taiwan Studies (EATS) Symposium on Post-colonial 16.-17.07. Post-colonial Legal Education: A Legal Studies and Legal NCCU, Taipei 2008 non-Asian Foreigner’s Perspective Education Modernizing the Chinese Family and Gendering Society. The 10th Annual Conference of 03.-08.12. Gender Equality Education Act the Hong Kong Sociological Hong Kong 2008 and its Impact on Women’s Status Association in Taiwan Designing an all-inclusive legal system. The Gender Equity 6th Conference of the 15.-18.04. Education Act and its impact on European Association of Madrid 2009 women’s democratic participation Taiwan Studies in Taiwan The Taiwanese women’s 28.-30.09. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese movement and democratization: Vienna 2009 Joint Seminar Gendering Taiwan by law The Taiwanese women’s 10.–13.11. Conference Innovation and Lund movement and the 2009 Transformation in Taiwan University transformation of civil society

5 Date Topic Event / Conference Location The women’s movement and 7th Annual Conference of ERCCT, 08.–10.04. indigenous self-identity in Taiwan: the European Association of Tübingen, 2010 Can global feminism localize? Taiwan Studies Germany Interdisziplinäres Symposium Bunt sein, laut sein, viele sein: „Frauenbilder – Frauenkörper. Eberhard Karls 24.–26.06. Taiwans Frauenbewegung und Inszenierungen des Universität 2010 die Aneignung des öffentlichen Weiblichen in den Tübingen, Raumes Gesellschaften Süd- und Germany Ostasiens“ „Women and women’s Masaryk 06.–11.09. organisations in Taiwan“ European Graduate Summer University 2010 „Taiwanese law in the East-Asian School on Taiwan studies Brno, Czech context“ Republic Bi-Lateral Conference „Justice Gender justice by inclusion. 27.–28.09. and Injustice Problems in How the women’s movement can NCCU, Taipei 2010 Transitional Societies: Taiwan provide redress and China“ Gender justice and the role of 01.10. Lecture, Graduate Institute of the women’s movement. How to CJCU, Tainan 2010 Taiwan Studies inclulde the victims Localizing gender equality policies 8th Annual Conference of University 12.–14.05. in Taiwan: The Taiwan Gender the European Association of of Ljubljana, 2011 Equality Education Association Taiwan Studies Slovenia and the gendering of schools SOAS, 28.–30.06. A target group for feminist Conference on Migration to University of 2011 empowerment? and from Taiwan London The 2011 Kinmen Conference 01.–03.09. Transnational Brides or Victims of on “Constructing, Governing Kinmen, 2011 International Trafficking? and Engaging Civil Society in Taiwan Kinmen” 05.-07.09. Cultural diversity and the 7th Taiwanese pop culture NTNU, Taipei 2011 Taiwanese women’s movement conference The multiple faces of diversity. 06.09. Insights from three months Luncheon Talk NCCU, Taipei 2011 research on immigration in Taiwan Multiculturalism in children’s 16.09. Graduate Institute of Taiwan books: Taiwanese authors on CJCU, Tainan 2011 Studies migrant brides and their families

6 Date Topic Event / Conference Location Department Bi-National Conference 30.09– Creating a diverse society. of East Asian „Immigration Societies. A 01.10. Taiwanese government Studies, comparative perspective 2011 immigration policies University of on Austria and on Taiwan“ Vienna Die Kulturelle Renaissance XXII. Jahrestagung der DVCS, Technical 25.-27.11. Bewegung in Taiwan. Die Kontinuität und Umbruch University, 2011 Bedeutung von Kultur und in Chinas Geschichte und Berlin Revolution in der Republik China Gegenwart Conference “Reform The Xinhai Revolution in Taiwan: and Revolution. In Wien, 09.-13.01. On the Sustainability of Artificially Commemoration of the Xinhai University of 2012 Institutionalized History Revolution and 100 Years of Vienna State Building“ 8th East Asian Conference on The concept of an East-Asian 16.-18.03. Philosophy of Law, East Asian Rechtskreis: its origin and its NCCU, Taipei 2012 Legal Cultures in the Era of future Post-Reception Musterknabe? Taiwan, die UN- 09.05. Ostasienforum, Department University of Menschenrechtspakte und die 2012 of East Asian Studies Vienna Todesstrafe University United Nations Conventions 9th Annual Conference of 18-21.06. of Southern in Taiwan: On a Commitment the European Association of 2012 Denmark, without UN Membership Taiwan Studies Sonderborg International Conference “Social movements, rights UN conventions and the 06-07.11. discourses and citizenship: internationalization of the NCCU, Taipei 2012 Social and political feminist movement in Taiwan developments in Taiwan in a regional perspective” Taiwan at the UN Commission 02-04.05. on the Status of Women and the 10th EATS annual conference Lyon 2013 Women’s movement 30.09. Localizing gender equality Workshop: Ethnicity and CJCU, Tainan 2013 policies in Taiwan Gender in Taiwan Taiwans Frauenbewegung in 05.02. Public Lecture, Eberhard Karls China: Die Rolle der Kontakte über Germany 2015 Universität Tübingen die Taiwanstraße ERCCT European Research 09.02. Unmarried Women, Marriage and Center on Contemporary Tübingen 2015 Law in China, Taiwan and Asia Taiwan

7 Date Topic Event / Conference Location Olomouc, 04.05. Changes of Families in East Asia: Palacký University Czech 2015 Why Women do not Marry Republic 14.09. Taiwan Studies and Research in Lecture, National Kaohsiung Kaohsiung, 2015 Vienna University Taiwan Jagellonian Confucianism in the Asian Family Student Workshop Krakow: 16-20.11. University, Today TV-series on non-married Taiwan Popular Culture in a 2015 Krakow, women: Taiwan Regional Context Poland 20.04. Japanese-Taiwanese love stories Ljubljana, Lecture, Ljubljana University 2016 in Taiwanese Film Slovenia Japanese-Taiwanese Relations in Olomouc, 26.04. Taiwanese Cinema: Dreams of a Lecture, Palacký University Czech 2016 non-Chinese Homeland Republic

4. Taiwan Teaching Taiwan guest teachers’ intensive Chinese language seminars In early 2009, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education began to sponsor professors from partner universities of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies to offer intensive seminars (16 hrs) in the Chinese language to master students of Sinology at the University of Vienna. Thus far, all guest professors have come from different departments of National Chengchi University. The project is hopefully going to continue in the future.

Date Guest professor Course title Taiwan’s Transformation and Development: 2009 Li-Chung Peng A Historical Perspective 2011 Chia-Ning Chu Language and Dialects in Taiwan 2011 Yuang-Kuang Kao Taiwan’s Democratization and Democratic Politics Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and 2012 Carol Yeh-Yun Lin Economic Development in Taiwan Taiwanese Government and Public Policy 2013 Liang-Kung Yen in a Global Context

8 5. Taiwan Film Screenings at the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies Films are of increasing importance in introducing Taiwan, as well as a significant part of Taiwan research. From its beginnings, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies has collected Taiwanese films and documentaries, and film screenings are a regular part of courses in Taiwan studies. Student papers have analysed films in discussions of social movements, environmental activism and identity issues, as well as the history of Taiwan. Films are also shown during extra-curricular „Taiwan Nights“.

Year Topic Films shown Hou Hsiao-Hsien, City of Sadness 2008 Famous Taiwan Film directors Tsai Ming-Liang, The Wayward Cloud March of Happiness , 1999 The Dull-ice Flower, 1989 Meilidao. 2009 Hill of No Return, 1992 The Beautiful Island Cape No. 7, 2008 Island Etude, 2006 In the Name of History – „1895“, 2008 Taiwanese History Prince of Tears, 2009 2010 and Histories Voices of Orchid Island, 1993 Amis Hip Hop, 1995 Three Times, 2005 Kung Fu Dunk / Shaolin Basketball Hero, 2008 Zoom Hunting, 2010 2011 Taiwan Film Nights Cannot Live without You, 2009 The Shoe Fairy, 2006 Chocolate Rap, 2006 Taiwan’s Films Oyster Girl, 1964 of the 1960s and 1980s Beautiful Duckling, 1965 2012 Dust in the Wind, 1987 Recent Taiwanese Films Night Market Hero, 2011 Food from the Heavens, 2009 Rice culture Let It Be – The Last Rice Growers, 2005 Taiwan { The Rice Bomber, 2014 2014 Documentaries Bird without Borders, 2009 Tomb Raptor, 2009 Formosa Betrayed, 2009 The Japanese in Kano, 2014 2015 Taiwanese Film Sayon’s Bell, 1943 Duosang – A Borrowed Life, 1994

9 The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies cooperates with the theatre and film studies departments at the University of Vienna, reflecting the growing importance of media, film and TV analysis in the Department of East Asian Studies as a whole. Furthermore, film is now a means of introducing intra-East Asian comparisons, through cooperation among colleagues in Japanese and Taiwanese studies.

6. Vienna Taiwan Lectures Through our experiences over the past four years, we have found that the easiest and most economical way to achieve excellence in teaching, research and international exchange concerning Taiwan is through guest lectures. Such guest lecture programs on Taiwan are featured worldwide, but the lectures are often stand-alone and rarely related to other events around Taiwan. The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies decided from the start to involve the Vienna Taiwan Lectures into University of Vienna Taiwan teaching as a required part of coursework. As Taiwan teaching is usually master degree level, the evening lectures are well suited to master students who often work at least part time. Several students have in fact reported that they selected the Taiwan course because of its evening and weekend schedule. The Vienna Taiwan Lectures began in winter 2012. During the first term, lectures were partly in German, but this was soon changed to English only, to attract non-Austrian students and include international scholars’ presentations. Although the lecture topics were mixed, they nevertheless addressed themes that the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies is based on and familiar with, including:

• ethnicity and multi-ethnicities • Taiwan history and economics • politics and the Taiwanese elections • gender, women and social movements

From 2012, the Lectures – usually five per term – were combined into a specific term topic. However, as the single term proved to be too short to cover one topic and include a number of known expert speakers, the term topic was enlarged to an annual one in 2014, covering both winter and summer terms. Each new annual topic starts in the winter term (October) and continues through the end of the summer term (June) the following year. Currently, the necessary external funding needed to invite and host external expert lecturers has been guaranteed through 2017/18.

10 Topics of the Vienna Lecture Series 2013 Transforming Taiwan: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects 2013/14 Teaching Taiwan: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects Teaching Taiwan: Gender and Ethnicity 2014 Transforming Taiwan: The Impact of Migration and Globalization 2015 Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s): History, Culture and Legacy 2016 Perceiving Taiwan: Literature, Media and Film 2017 Mainstreaming Gender in Taiwan: Issues, Challenges and Achievements 2018 Documenting Taiwan: Identity Issues in Literature and Film 2019 Taiwan and the United Nations: Historical Experience and Current Situation

Lectures are videotaped. Detailed information can be found on the website of Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies. Homepage: tsc.univie.ac.at The annual programs of the Vienna Taiwan Lectures, including those planned for summer 2016, are featured in the following series of posters, which have been widely distributed.

Lecture by Liang-Kung Yen

11 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series Winter term 2012 Dennis Hickey Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace Across the Taiwan Strait 21st November 2012 Jana s. RoškeR Mou Zongsan und die moderne konfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwan 12th December 2012 sigRiD WinkleR Taiwan in internationalen Organisationen: Zukunftsweg oder Sackgasse? 14th January 2013 caRol yeH-yun lin National Intellectual Capital of Austria and Its Re- lationship with the Greater China Economies 30th January 2013 Summer term 2013 Jens Damm The Multiculturalization of Taiwan 8th March 2013 astRiD lipinsky Taiwan‘s women‘s movement

24th April 2013 ann Heylen Imagery of 17 th Century Formosa in Present Day Taiwan 8th May 2013 micHael RuDolpH Ethnical growth and ethnical re-classification

15th May 2013 liang-kung yen The Evolution of High-tech Industrial Park in Taiwan 22nd May 2013

12 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology and the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce

Winter term October 2013 – January 2014

Sang-Yeon Sung Taiwan: Center of East Asian Pop Circle 9th October 2013

Helmut opletal Taiwan’s political developments and the status of its indigenous people 16th October 2013

agneS ScHick-cHen Politics of memory and the question of ethnicity in Taiwan 20th November 2013

JenS Damm Taiwan’s Ethnicities: The Perspective from Mainland China 18th December 2013

cHriStian göbel Local actions, corruption and anti-corruption in Taiwan 15th January 2014

Time: Wednesday 18:15

Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen Lectures are open to the public without charge or prior registration

13 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology and the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce Summer term 2014 Transforming Taiwan:

Isabelle Cheng Female Migration to Taiwan 26th March 2014

astrId lIpInsky “Saigon Kid“ - Youth Books by Taiwanese Authors on New Taiwanese Children 9th April 2014

MarIe seong-hak kIM Confucianism that Confounds: Constitutional Jurisprudence on Filial Piety in Korea 7th May 2014

lara MoMesso A Lesson from Taiwan: Revisiting Migration for Marriage by Looking at the Lived Experiences of Cross-Strait Marriage Migrants 21st May 2014

Jens daMM Cross-Strait Social Movements: Impacts and Challenges for Both Sides 18th June 2014

Time: Wednesday 18:15

14 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology and the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce Winter term 2014 Taiwan's Civil Movement(s):

Isabelle Cheng Common Interests in a Differentiated Environment: Political Socialisation and Participation of Foreign- Born Citizens in Taiwan 12th Nov. 2014

Rosa enn Indigenous Movement and the Environment – The Case of Taiwan 3rd Dec. 2014

shIh-Jung hsu Taiwan Rural Front and the Land Justice Movement in Taiwan 10th Dec. 2014

Wan-YIng Yang Women’s Movement and Gender Value Changes in Taiwan 14th Jan. 2014

MIChael Rudolph Taiwan’s Aboriginal Movement

21st Jan. 2014

Time: Wednesday 18:15

15 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology and the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce Summer term 2015 Taiwan's Civil Movement(s):

Ming-Yeh RawnsleY Democratisation of the Media in Taiwan: Anti-Media Monopoly Movement and Policies Thursday, 19th March 2015 Room: OAW siMona gRano Taiwan’s post-2008 Environmental Activism: Green Rethoric or True Committment? 22nd April 2015

Julia RitiRc Taiwan’s Conservative Movement and its Mobiliza- tion Strategies in the Context of Same-sex Marriage Legislation 6th May 2015

henning KlöteR Negotiating Language from Below: Huang Shihui and Nativist Literature 20th May 2015

Jens DaMM The Symbiosis of Homophobia and AIDS-phobia during Taiwan’s Societal Transformation in the Early 1980s 17th June 2015

Time: Wednesday 18:15

16 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology and the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce Winter term 2015 Perceiving Taiwan:

SebaStian HSien-Hao Liao Romance of the Three Kins: Negotiating the Japanese Imaginary in Taiwan Cinema 14 Oct. 2015

SebaStian HSien-Hao Liao Poetics of Geography: The Post-Chinese Visions in Taiwan Film 21 Oct. 2015

ann HeyLen Taiwanese identity and the film Formosa Betrayed 11 Nov. 2015

CHriS berry The Japan Complex in Taiwanese Cinema

25 Nov. 2015

ti-Han CHang Nature, Ecology and Oceanic Imagination in Relation to Postcolonial Environment and Taiwanese Literature 13 Jan. 2016

Time: Wednesday 18:15

17 Vienna Taiwane Lecture Series The Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology and the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are pleased to announce Summer term 2016 Perceiving Taiwan:

Bruce JacoBs Taiwan is Not China: Aborigines, Colonial Rulers and Democratisation in the History of the Beautiful Island 13 April 2016

carsten storm Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Li Yongping’s 李永平 Jiling Chronicles 吉陵春秋 11 May 2016

Denisa HilBertova Taiwan in Czechoslovak Communist Propaganda Caricatures (1948-1989) 8 June 2016

sHu-cHun li Taiwan Literature and Taiwan New Cinema

15 June 2016

sHu-cHun li Autobiographies by Dang-Wai movement Women Workshop 11:00-16:00 Saturday,18 June 2016 Time: Wednesday 18:15

18 7. Workshops organized by the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies with guest speakers In 2014, discussions with potential Vienna Taiwan Lecture presenters resulted in several of them, especially those coming from a distance, offering to give a Wednesday lecture, provide additional input on Thursday or Friday and stay for a Saturday workshop. Because of the scarcity of classrooms, workshops could only be held during the weekend. Unlike weekday programs, the Saturday workshops attract people from outside the university, and have increased interest in Taiwan and the Center’s offerings as a whole.

Workshop „Taiwanese Popular Music: Negotiating, Constructing and 25.10.14 Articulating Taiwanese Identity” with Sang-Yeon Sung and Yi-Hsuan Lai Workshop „Rethinking the Production and Challenges of International 29.11.14 Science documentary” with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley Workshop „Land Grabbing and Forced Evictions in Taiwan” 13.12.14 with Shih-Jung Hsu and Grace Liao 13.–14. Workshop „EU Application for Chinese Cultural Diplomacy Project” 02.15 with Jens Damm (Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan) Saturday Workshop „The Japanese in Taiwanese Film: Kano” 14.11.15 with Ann Heylen 28.11.15 Taiwan Film Weekend. Workshop with Chris Berry

8. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Conferences Back in September 2009, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies organized the first Austrian-Taiwanese conference on the topic of “Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Social Change”. The meeting was part of an Austrian-Taiwanese cooperation that is otherwise available only for Austrian-Japanese bi-lateral events. The conference and others following the same pattern were funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF in cooperation with the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The initial conference was part of a project calling for two such meetings, one in each of the countries involved. Thus in September 2010, the Taiwanese counterpart at National Chengchi University hosted “Justice and Injustices in Transitional Societies: Taiwan and China”. Afterwards, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies organized bi-lateral conferences on an annual basis, involving different faculties at the University of Vienna (Faculty of History, “Equality” conferences 2016 and 2017), and even Johannes Kepler Univer- sity, Linz, another major Austrian university (“Gender and Intersectionality”, 2015 and 2016). For these events, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies took on the core

19 organizing, initiating academic cooperation beyond the field of Asian studies.

Date Location Conference Title September Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Social Vienna 2009 Change in Taiwan September Justice and Injustices in Transitional Societies: Taipei 2010 Taiwan and China September – Vienna Immigration Societies October 2011 Social Movements, Rights Discourses and November Taipei Citizenship: Social and Political Developments in 2012 Taiwan in a Regional Perspective October Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria: Vienna 2015 Differences and Similarities February Taipei Equality: Taiwan in Context 2016

Forthcoming Intersectionality in Globalizing Societies and Late 2016 Tainan Comparative Aspects April 2017 Vienna Equality: Austria in Context

Bi-Lateral conference: Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria

20 9. Vienna Taiwan Studies Series The Vienna Taiwan Studies Series is both an internationally peer-reviewed English language book series and an annual journal. The Series was registered with ISSN and ISBN numbers in 2013. The first volume was published in 2015 and an annual volume is planned for the coming years. The publications evolved to offer to a wider audience the academic contributions at Austrian-Taiwanese conferences held regularly since 2009. Individual’s publications will also be considered for inclusion in the series. The field of Taiwan studies has only been established since the 1990s as a distinc- tive academic area of research, and is still being developed and diversified. As the Vienna conference topics document, potential topics of interest are multiplying, and a European-Taiwanese comparative perspective has been newly established in Vienna, offering enough scope for another series. In addition, the need was felt for a continental European platform for Taiwan studies with a focus on society and popular culture besides the current Routledge Research on Taiwan Series (since 2011) and the Harrassowitz. Studia Formosiana Series (since 2003). Having a local, Vienna-based publisher has proven advantageous – and attractive: the Vienna Taiwan Studies Series offers colorful covers, designed locally, to distinguish itself from Routledge’s standard blue ones. The Vienna Taiwan Studies Series is also committed to affordable pricing, hoping for distribution beyond libraries and academic institutions.

About the Series Editor

Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, M.A. was a co-founder of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, in 2009, and has been the Center’s managing director since then. Born in Germany, she has been based at the University of Vienna since 2008. Dr. Lipinsky studied Chinese at Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. She majored in Sinology, Japanology and Comparative Private Law at Bonn University, Germany, and wrote her MA thesis on the Republican Chinese marriage law reforms of the 1990s in Taiwan. Dr. Lipinsky obtained her Dr. phil at Bonn University. Dr. Lipinsky worked on the national follow-up to the Fourth Women’s World Con- ference in Beijing 1995 with the leading German women’s organization Deutscher Frauenrat. She later led a UNIFEM project to strengthen the leadership capacities of village women in a ‘poverty county’ of Shandong Province, China, where she lived for over a year.

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Titles in the Series Immigration Societies. Taiwan and Beyond - with a Foreword by Susanne 1 Weigelin-Schwiedrzik. Editor: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna Social Movements in Taiwan: Historical Roots to Recent Developments 2 (forthcoming 2016) - with a Foreword by Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Editor: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria (forthcoming 2016/17) 3 Editors: Jens Damm, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, & Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna The Japanese in Taiwanese and Chinese Cinema 4 Editors: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna & Yu-Wen Fu, National Kaohsiung University

22 10. Funding for the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and supporting institutions The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was established in 2009 as part of the Department of East Asian Studies, specifi cally at Sinology, and has been active since then, although not yet legally institutionalized. Nevertheless, there has been continuous support for the Center for Taiwan Studies from the Department of East Asian Studies and the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. This has facilitated the Center’s ability to obtain additional funding from outside sources. Early on, the Education Division of the Vienna Taipei Economic and Cultural Offi ce (TECO) provided small grants to the Department library for books and literature on Taiwan. It also supported Taiwan-related conferences by hosting a dinner bringing together key people and organizations that would be interested in this form of international cooperation. The single-item grants were fi rst combined into a one year funding plan, and most recently into a three year contract. All TECO funding requires matching funds from the University of Vienna. These are covered by offi ce and lecture hall rentals, and the commitment to include regular Taiwan teaching as part of the Sinology curriculum.

In 2014, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation gave the Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series a support grant for one year. A new application was submitted in 2015, and approved for another two years. The staff and students involved in the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are very appreciative of the generous support from all supporting institutions. As interest in the developing international relationships and academic scholarship around Taiwanese studies grows, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and its Lecture Series welcome new partners in their multi-level endeavors. Plans for 2016-2018 include: the publication of annual journals; 2 volumes of papers related to the annual themes of the Lectures; a growing library of video resources from the lectures, as well as many rich and varied connections and relationships that have developed and been enriched by the exchange of guest lecturers. Organizations or individuals interested in contributing to the continued expansion and success of the program should contact the Center’s managing Director, Dr. Astrid Lipinsky at [email protected].

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