(A) Welfare State and State/Society Relations

  1. "The Historical and Political Logic of Institutional Choice: Why did Taiwan Create a Centralized, State-controlled System of National Health Insurance" by 林國明 (Kuo-ming Lin), Yale University, Sociology
  2. "Democratic Transition and the Development of Company-Based Old Age Welfare Program in East Asian NICs: A Comparative Study of Korea and Taiwan " by Sungkyun Lee, UW-Madison, Sociology
  3. "Contracting Out the Welfare State?: -- A Study of Government and Nonprofit Agencies Relationship in Taiwan's Child Welfare Policy" by 雷文玫(Wenmay Rei), Yale University, Law

(B)Regime Types and State Transformation

  1. "The KMT's Regime Type and Regime Change -An Institutional Perspective" by 林佳龍(Chia-lung Lin), Yale University, Political Science.
  2. "Political Authoritarianism and Economic Development--- Examining the Applicability of Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Model on Taiwan" by 許維德(Wei-Der Shu) , Syracuse University, Sociology.

(C) Democratization and Central/Local Relations

  1. "The Development of a Colonial City and the Character of the State Authority - A Case Study of Taiwan: 1895-1995," by 董建宏(Chien-hung Tung), New School, Economics.
  2. "Local Factionalism and the Kuomintang's Candidate Selection Process," by Charles D. Hadley and Chung-li Wu, University of New Orleans, Political Science.
  3. "Democratization in Taiwan: The Causes of the Delay and Its Future" by 謝斐宇 (Fei-yi Michelle Shieh), SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology

(D) Nationalism

  1. "National Identity and Democratization - The Triadic Relations Between Taiwanese, Main Landers, and China", by Tsong-Jyi Lin, Purdue University, Political Science.
  2. "Toward a Pragmatic Nationalism?: Lee Teng-hui, Hsu Hsin-liang, and Taiwan's Passive Revolution", 吳叡人(Rwei-ren Wu), U of Chicago, Political Science.
  3. "My Utopia or Yours? Steering Between a Course of National Identity Formation and Welfare State Making by Reinventing Social Citizenship in Taiwan " by黃崇憲(Chung-Hsien Huang), UW-Madison, Sociology

(E) Ethnic Identity and Politics

  1. "Ethnic Contradiction and the Development of Taiwanese Capitalism" by 蔡宏政 (Hung-Jeng Tsai), U. of Tennessee, Sociology.
  2. "Ethnic Politics in Taiwan : The Sense of Crisis of the Mainlander Population and its Impact on Democratic Transition in Taiwan" by范雲(Yun Fan), Yale University, Sociology
  3. "Mirrors and Masks: An Interpretative Study of Mainlander's Identity Dilemma in Contemporary Taiwan" by李廣均 (Kuang-chun Li), UT-Austin, Sociology
  4. "The Taiwanese Diaspora in America: Imposed Silences and Self-Articulations" by Karen Liao, UC-Berkeley, Ethnic Studies.

(F) Power and Collective Memory:

  1. "Placing Collective Memory: Geography, Ritual, and Politics in the 50th Anniversary of the 228 Incident in Taiwan" by Robert Andrew Edmondson, U of Texas, Asian Studies.
  2. "Ritualization and Contest of Political Commemorations: The Cult and Image of Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan at the End of the Nineties" by Stephane Corcuff, Paris Political Science Institute.
  3. "Reconstructing China: History of the Geo-body of an Imagined Community," by 藍適齊 (Shi-chi Lan), Cornell University, Government.

(G) Aborigines and Politics of Deconstruction

  1. "Political Processes on the Taiwan Frontier" by Roger Y. M. Chan, Washington State University, History.
  2. "From Ancestral Legends to Political Myths: The Issue of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins" by Michael Stainton, York University (Canada), Social Anthropology

(H) Language and Culture

  1. "Talking Politics - Linguistic and Political Taiwanese Hokkien" by David Decker, Associate Professor of English and Western Literature, Tunghai University
  2. "On the Attacking Verbs in Taiwanese" by 趙芳藝 (Fang-Yi Chao), Ohio State University.
  3. "The Processes of Abolishing Hanji Culture Areas - In the Case of Vietnam, Korea and Japan" by蔣維文(Wi-Vun T. Chiung), UT-Austin, ESL.
  4. "How to Cope with Indigenous Culture in Taiwan" by 黃柏棋(Pochi Huang), Harvard University, Sanskrit & Indian Studies.

(I) Religion and Folklore

  1. "Native and Alien Models of Taiwanese Identity Genuine Possession" by Keelung Hong (Univeristy of California, San Francisco) and Stephen O. Murray (El Instituto Obregsn, San Francisco)
  2. "The Impact of Modern Technology of Funerary Paper Houses Made in Taiwan," by Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Michigan, Asian Studies.
  3. "The Social Psychology of Fortune-Telling in Taiwan" by 李力昌(Lichang Lee) , UW-Madison, Sociology
  4. "The Institutionalization of the Norms of Giving in the Collective Settings: Using the Tzu-Chi Association in Taiwan as an Example" by丁仁傑 (Jen-Chieh Ting), UW-Madison, Sociology

(J) Economy and Society

  1. "Technology, Social Networks, and Governance Structures --Sectoral Differences in Taiwan's Manufacturing Production Networks" (in Chinese) by潘美玲 (Mei-Lin Pan), Duke University, Sociology.
  2. "Guests from the Tropics: Labor Practice and Foreign Workers in Taiwan" by 李安如(Anru Lee), CUNY, Anthropology
  3. "The Cultural Formation of Direct Sales in Taiwan,"(in Chinese) by辜千祝(Chien-Juh Gu), Michigan State University, Sociology.
  4. "An Estimation of Intrinsic Cost for Transport Mode Selection by Taipei Urban Commuters" by褚志鵬(Chih-Pen Chu), Stanford University, Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research.

(K) Education:

  1. "Goal Setting and Social Comparative Information: Effects on Children's Self-Efficacy and Skills" by施淑慎(Shu-Shen Shih), Indiana University, Educational Psychology
  2. "Changing Mind: How Elementary Social Studies Textbooks Both Reflect and Change Society" by蘇雅珍(Ya-Chen Su), Indiana University, Curriculum Studies.

(L) Environmental Policy and Politics:

  1. "Local Sustainability and Coastal Wetland Protection in Taiwan -A Case Study of Chiku Wetland Development," by 杜文苓(Wen-Ling Tu), SUNY, College of Environmental Studies and Forestry.
  2. "A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Relationships between the Environmental Movement, Environmental Attitudes, and the State" by 蔡宗秀(Tsung-hsiu Tsai), U of Wisconsin-Madison, Agricultural and Applied Economics
  3. "Environmental Politics in Taiwan: The Case of Anti-Nuclear Movement" by 林子倫 (Tze-Luen Lin), U. Of Delaware, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy.

(M) Literature

  1. "Metaphors of Identity: Colonialism and Nationalism in the Fiction of Wu Cho-liu."" by Whitney C. Dilley, University of Washington, Comparative Literature.
  2. "Authors of FREE CHINA and the History of Taiwanese Literature During the Fifties," (in Chinese) by應鳳凰(Feng-Huang Ying), University of Texas at Austin, Asian Studies.
  3. "Taiwan's Women's Literature as Seen by the West 'Under Western Eyes'", by Angela Hsu, University of Texas at Austin

(N). Cinema: Ang-lee's Trilogy

  1. "Remaking National Imagery - Cultural Exportation, Auteur Aesthetics and Ang-Lee Trilogy" by 鍾珮琦(Pei-chi Chung), Indiana U, Telecommunications.
  2. "Food Family, and the Performance of 'Chineseness' in Ang Lee's Father Knows Best Trilogy" by周成蔭(Eileen Cheng-yin Chow), Stanford University, Comparative Literature.

(O) International Relations:

  1. "Taiwan's 'Name Card' Diplomacy at the United Nations," by John J. Metzler, St. John's University.
  2. "Taiwan's Last Relief? The Relationship of the Proposed International Criminal Court and China's Acts of Aggression" by Christa Tzu-Hsiu Lin

(P) Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan Studies & Concluding Remarks.

  1. "Formosa Renamed: The Need for Core and Comprehensive Bibliographies of Taiwan Studies" by John Shufelt, Tunghai University

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