Autonomy, Alliance or Take Over: The Relationship between Taiwan's Small and Mainstream Parties
Date: 12/26 (Tue)
Time: 12:10 – 13:10 p.m.
Venue: Room 270723, 7/F, North Wing, General Building
(Sign up before: 25 Dec 2023)
Host: Dr. Philip Liu（Professor & Chair, GIDS, IMAS, NCCU）
Speaker: Prof. Dafydd Fell (Professor of Department of Politics and International Studies, Director of Centre of Taiwan Studies SOAS University of London)
About the speaker:
Dafydd Fell’s interest in Taiwanese politics began after a year as a language student in Taipei in the late 1980s.
Dafydd’s main research focus has been on Taiwan’s political parties and electoral politics. His first book, Party Politics in Taiwan (Routledge, 2005) examined party change in the first fifteen years of multi-party politics.
He also has shifted his attention towards Taiwan’s social movements, publishing an edited book titled Taiwan’s Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou in 2017. Recently, he has edited a number of volumes on Taiwan, including Taiwan Studies Revisited, published in 2019, Taiwan’s Economic and Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities (2021) and Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous Peoples (2021). His latest single authored book is Taiwan’s Green Parties (Routledge 2021) and he is currently working with three co-authors on a Chinese version of the book. He is also the book series editor for the Routledge Research on Taiwan Series.
Dafydd has been active in developing the field of Taiwan studies at SOAS and beyond. He helped establish the European Association of Taiwan Studies in 2004 and was the Association’s Secretary General for 8-years. As Director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies he has helped develop the world’s most extensive Taiwan Studies teaching, academic events and publications programme.
