Taiwan History 101: Reading Group Session #4
Schedule
Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+08:00Location
台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號1樓, Taipei, Taiwan 108028 | Taipei, TP
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Join us for the fourth session of our five-part reading group on Taiwanese History 101! Taiwanese History 101 is a reading group for Taiwanese diaspora, students, people new to Taiwan, and others who want to learn about Taiwanese history to better understand Taiwanese politics and civil society today. Using Dr. Wan-yao Chou’s A New Illustrated History of Taiwan (2015) as our main text, we will be covering Taiwanese history in a series of five introductory sessions: Han settlement and Indigenous Taiwan, Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, the KMT and the authoritarian era, Taiwan’s democratization, and Taiwan’s contemporary era.
Whether you’re someone who’s been looking for others to learn and study with, or searching for time to engage in political education, or wanting to discuss the history of your homeland in English with others, this is the space for you! The reading group will be led by New Bloom founding editor Brian Hioe.
Our reading material will be Chou Wan-yao's A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, which can be purchased at Eslite (https://www.eslite.com/product/1002133192489319...)
PLEASE NOTE: We have pushed back the event from its originally scheduled time of 3/23 by a day.
Session IV: Taiwan’s Democratization
Required Readings [pages: 27]
- Chou 2015, "Democratization, Historical Memory, Our Road", pp. 358-385.
Optional
- Ministry of Culture 2018 “Cheng Nan-jung Liberty Museum” (https://www.moc.gov.tw/en/information_251_83346.html)
- Hu Hui-lin’s “A fire of freedom and democracy kindled with flesh” (http://www.nylon.org.tw/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85:a-fire-of-freedom-and-democracy-kindled-with-flesh&catid=13:english)
- Lin Shih-yu and Hu Hui-lin’s “Our Baptism amid the Blazing Flames” (http://www.nylon.org.tw/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=200:our-baptism-amid-the-blazing-flames&catid=13:english)
- OFTaiwan’s “Wild Lily Student Movement” (https://oftaiwan.org/social.../wild-lily-student-movement/)
Speaker: Brian Hioe
Place: DAYBREAK (Bangka Boulevard, No. 110, 1F, Wanhua District, Taipei)
Time: 3/24, 7 PM
Dates: 2/2, 2/9, 3/9, 3/24, 4/6, all at 7 pm
Entry: 100 NT
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