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Dear Friends,

I wanted to alert you to an upcoming lecture at Waseda, sponsored by the Waseda Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies.

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the release of my new book, Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan’s Bloodiest Uprising, now for sale by the publisher Camphor Press. Here is an excerpt from the publisher's description:

(This issue was originally published on the Global Taiwan Institute's website and the full articles are available at: https://globaltaiwan.org/issues/vol-8-issue-11/)

Three Domestic Political Variables to Watch in Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election
By: Russell Hsiao

The CCP Convenes Its Annual Taiwan Work Conference for 2023—and Signals a Possible Ideological Shift in Taiwan Policy
By: John Dotson

We are pleased to announce the publication of “Cultures of Labor in Contemporary China,” a special issue of positions (31:2), edited by Paola Iovene.

This special issue offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural and media practices of Chinese migrant workers, ranging from poetry to music and from oral storytelling to the use of social media. Contributors argue that “culture” acquires new salience with precarity on the rise and political advocacy increasingly constrained.