Special Issue for the Workshop on Sep.30-Oct.1, 2021   Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy (JSSP) Special Issue “EU-East Asia: A Relational Perspective” Call for Papers Guest Editors Bart Dessein (Professor, Ghent University) Kuo-chun Yeh (Professor and the EU Jean Monnet Chair, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University) Yu-Tzung Chang (Professor, Department of Political Sciences, National Taiwan University) About the Journal The Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy (JSSP) is published quarterly by the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS), Academia Sinica. It is a tier 1 core journal in the multidisciplinary field indexed in the Taiwan Social Sciences Citation Index (TSSCI). About the Special Issue This special issue calls for submissions of studies on ■ Geopolitical and Security Issues Paper topics may include the impact of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” on the global geopolitical order; de...

Sorry it is not in English but my extension related to Taiwan's brain drain: was it mainly attributed to Taiwan's monetary policies or mainland China's economic gravity? Agenda:  http://www.teaweb.org.tw/UpFile/1/Attach/2021-12/10541169895.pdf?

Great honor as the first lecturer to present my research.   The three EU partners (UGent-Groningen-Goettingen) that are involved in this Taiwan Chair decided to jointly organize a series of 6 online lectures by the Taiwan Chair holders.  The details of the series are on the website:  https://www.ugent.be/chinaplatform/en/news-events/news/taiwan-lectures-cafe-2021.htm

Chin-peng CHU, deputy Principal of NDHU and Jean Monnet Chair, is the new president of CAPS.  Note that CAPS in Taipei was funded in 1932 at Nanking and then re-started in 1953 at Taiwan. http://www.capstaipei.org.tw/introduction/

It is necessary to understand the East Asian development before we think of the EU-East Asia Industrial interactions.  Moreover, the Taiwan-China relation is important for the adjustment of East Asian industrial supply chains.  I will teach this course mainly for postgraduate students to prepare for their advanced studies.  Therefore , the main course materials will be recent journal publications, or the newest working papers of the last three years by academic institutions including the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), IMF, Work Bank, BIS, CEPR, and ECB, etc.  Some issues related to the EU’s values (e.g., environmental pollution) are also covered.  The topics and readings (working papers and journal articles) will be updated according to the newest research results.  For instance, the papers below were the required readings of this course in the academic year 2020-2021: Campante, Filipe R., Davin Chor, and Bingjing Li (2019) “The political e...

For achieving the goal of the project “EU-East Asia Industrial interactions,” it is necessary to understand the EU’s strategies but also East Asian (especially China’s) development.   This course is 36 hours in a semester for undergraduate students taking the Program of Mainland  China Study at NTU.   Half of the course will cover issues related to the EU-China relations, especially for the EU’s response to China’s  BRI, Made in China 2025, and even China Standardization 2035, have been an important point for China’s industrial upgrading, the  changes in East Asian supply chains, and the EU’s industrial policies.   It will cover the following topics: 1.       Theory of industrial policies for the advanced and emerging economies 2.       Diplomatic interaction between the EU and China since 2005 3.       China’s BRI the responses from other countries (The cases of the EU, 17+1, ...

Prof. Dr. Chin-Peng Chu, deputy president of NDHU and Jean Monnet Chair, invited me comment on the paper by Dr. Zsuzsa Ferenczy (VUB).