Taiwan Studies Reconfigured

Amélie Keyser-Verreault 何梅俐 is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Her research explores body politics, gender, family, migration, and resistance in East Asia, with an interest in qualitative, art-based, decolonial, and intersectional methods. Current projects include low fertility, postnatal care in Taiwan, and Taiwanese migration to Japan.Josie-Marie Perkuhn leads the joint postdoctoral research project Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP) at Trier University and is a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University. Trained in political science and Chinese studies, she researches international relations, maritime security, and contemporary policy issues, with extensive experience in Taiwan-focused academic cooperation.Felix Brender 王哲謙 is a Project Associate at LSE IDEAS and incoming Hou Family Fellow (2026–2027) at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Previously, he served as a Research Assistant with the Taiwan as a Pioneer project at Trier University. His research examines Chinese relational security practices and the politics of identity, memory, and transitional justice in Taiwan.

• Chapter 1- Introduction: Reconfiguring Taiwan studies through methodological innovation Part I – Environmental Imaginaries and the Anthropocene Chapter 2- Maintenance in time of disappearance: Survivance of the clouded leopard in the Paiwan spiritual landscape Chapter 3- Deep or shallow understanding of Taiwan’s energy transitions? Methodological reflections with qualitative comparative analysis Part II – From Decolonisation to Intersectionality: Rethinking Indigenous Research Practices Chapter 4- The intersectionality framework: an innovative approach for Taiwan Studies Chapter 5- Applying decolonising methodologies in a research project on Paiwan women artists and their work Chapter 6- Indigenous female resilience on the forced displacement: A case study of Ciulaku, Southern Taiwan Part III – Seeing Power: Politics, Culture, and the Public Eye Chapter 7- Framing anti-elite and crisis populist messages in elections: A time-series comparison of parties’ communicative patterns on Facebook in national elections Chapter 8- Evaluating Taiwanese government decision-making and institutional change in film policy through new institutional economics Part IV – Reconstructing Taiwan’s Past: Methodologies and Sources Chapter 9- A case study of intellectual biography in Taiwan Studies Kuan-Wei Wu Chapter 10- Research reports, perspectives and a new approach of historical studies on diary texts in Taiwan Yu-Yin Hsu Chapter 11- The use of Transkribus and other AI in the transcription and analysis of historical documents relating to Taiwanese history Jamie Blake Knox Chapter 12- What was counted and what counts? Statistics from the period of Japanese colonial rule as sources for the socioeconomic history of Taiwan Christine Moll-Murata and Pao-wen Huang Part V – Imitator to Improver to Innovator: Shifting Perspectives, Shifting Identities Chapter 13- From imitator to innovator: Taiwan’s ego-driven role trajectory Josie-Marie Perkuhn Chapter 14- Tiger and dragon searching for phoenix feathers and unicorn horns: Imagining and mapping plausible trajectories of Cross-strait relations through integration theories and thought experiments Frédéric Krumbein Chapter 15- ‘Stripping bare’: Materiality and a new approach to Taiwanese foreign policy Dana S. Trif