On Wednesday, October 20th, UW-TSP will host Professor Melissa J. Brown for her talk, “Tigers on the Mountain: Assessing Is Taiwan Chinese? Today”

This virtual event will start at 3:30pm Pacific Time.
Please RSVP to receive an event invite via email: https://forms.gle/pFF2WHyMG6DGC5VHA

Since Is Taiwan Chinese? came out in 2004, there have been many changes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in academia. Professor Brown will revisit the main points of her book, discuss the contexts of the book’s creation, and assess which conclusions still hold and which conclusions need what kind of revision.

Melissa J. Brown is Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Washington-Seattle. She was on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati and Stanford University before going to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard in 2011 and joining the HJAS staff in 2014.