Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley

Introduction: Taiwan, Public Diplomacy, and the World Health Assembly 5

• Gary D. Rawnsley

Taiwan and the World Health Assembly/World Health Organization: Perspectives from Health Services and Research 10

• Yen-Fu Chen

The Beijing Perspective: the Political and Diplomatic Context for Taiwan and the World Health Assembly 28

• Kerry Brown

The Recognition Imperative behind Taiwan’s Public Diplomacy: a Critical Study of Taiwan’s Effforts to Join the World Health Assembly 44

• Colin Alexander

Indigenous Peoples as Non-State Diplomatic Actors in the Public/Cultural Diplomacy of Taiwan: a Case Study of Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art 62

• Carla Figueira

Taiwan and Itu Aba (Taiping): Creating an ‘Island for All’ in the South China Sea 93

• Leonard Hammer

The Psalmanazar Afffair and the Birth of Taiwan Studies in Europe: a Reassessment of the Historic Hoax 112

• Hung-yi Chien

Destabilising Empires from the Margin: Report of the 25th North American Taiwan Studies Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 16–18 May 2019 137

• Szu-Yun Hsu and Agnes Ling-Yu Hsiao

Lessons from the Taiwan Syllabus Project: Findings and New Directions 147

• Ta-Yang Hsieh and John Chung-En Liu

Online Platforms on Taiwan: a General Review 157

• Ketty W. Chen

Gunter Schubert (ed.), (2016) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan 167

Hardina Ohlendorf

Dafydd Fell, (2018) Government and Politics in Taiwan, 2nd edition 171

Parmeet Kajal

Fabienne Jagou (ed.), (2018) The Hybridity of Buddhism: Contemporary Encounters between Tibetan and Chinese Traditions in Taiwan and the Mainland 173

Scott Pacey

Mikael Mattlin, (2018) Politicized Society: Taiwan’s Struggle with Its One-Party Past 176

Bart Dessein

Jonathan Sullivan and Chun-Yi Lee (eds.), (2018) A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations 180

Beatrice Zani

Yun Fan, (2019) Social Movements in Taiwan’s Democratic Transition: Linking Activists to the Changing Political Environment 184

Emily Cardinali

Yearning for Recognition: Indigenous Formosans and the Limits of Indigeneity 191

• Scott Simon

Sovereignty Re-postulation: the Theatricality of Statist–National Sovereignty Wrestling in Taiwan 217

• Hui-Yi Katherine Tseng

Taiwanese Public Perceptions of Diplomatic Recognition: an Experimental Analysis 247

• Timothy S. Rich and Andi Dahmer

Legalisation of Same-Sex Marriage in Contemporary Taiwan 268

• Doris T. Chang

Beyond Cultural China: the Representation of Taiwan in US-based Speech Communication and Journalism Research 292

• Hsin-i Sydney Yueh

An Introduction to the Japan Association for Taiwan Studies and Its 21st Annual Meeting, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, 7–8 June 2019 321

• Momoko Kawakami

Connecting the Local and the Global: the Association for Taiwan Literature 331

• Hsin-Chin Evelyn Hsieh

Review of the Exhibition Oppression and Overcoming: Social Movements in Post-War Taiwan, National Museum of Taiwan History, 28 May 2019–17 May 2020 341

• Susan Shih Chang and Jeremy Huai-Che Chiang

Christopher H. Achen and T.Y. Wang (eds.), (2017) The Taiwan Voter 361

Nathan F. Batto

Michael Reilly, (2017) Narrow Gauge Railways of Taiwan: Sugar, Shays and Toil 365

Chris Cockel

David C. Schak, (2018) Civility and Its Development: the Experiences of China and Taiwan 368

Thomas B. Gold

Chien-Jung Hsu, (2014) The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896–2012 371

Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley

Wai-chung Ho, (2011) School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan 374

Ann Heylen

Ming-yi Wu (吳明益), (2019) The Land of Little Rain (苦雨之地) 378

Ti-han Chang