... to legalization efforts and legalization itself did not occur overnight, although pro-legalization politicians and the public may have been slow to identify changing trends in public opinion. For example, majorities in the Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) in 2012 and 2015 supported legalization (54.97 and 59.35...

... on Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to see whether the ongoing trade war between the US and China (enemy) would alter the public's willingness to provide military assistance to Taiwan (enemy's enemy). Findings The authors first find that US national interests only matter when the public considers China's...

...Jenshuo Hsu Purpose This paper explores how the student movement in Taiwan transformed after the abolition of martial law. After democratization, there were three large-scale student protests, in 1990, 2008 and 2014. This paper explores the development through this period of student movement...

...Chen-Yu Lin; Yun-Siou Chen; Yan-Shouh Chen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore censorship on popular music in Taiwan and how the practices have influenced the consumption and production of music in the post-martial law period. Design/methodology/approach Through adopting grounded...

...Jian-Bang Deng; Hermin Indah Wahyuni; Vissia Ita Yulianto Purpose This paper is mainly focused on labor migration from Southeast Asia to Taiwan, showing a route of south–south mobility and discussing the causes of migrant workers in Taiwan, the issues faced by migrant workers as well as public...

...Jon S.T. Quah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the contextual differences and causes of police corruption in Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan and to assess their governments’ effectiveness in minimising this problem. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Wai Kwok Benson Wong Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how post-1997 Hong Kong has been perceived in Taiwan and to critically evaluate the demonstration effects of Hong Kong under the “One Country, Two Systems” policy on cross-strait relations. Design/methodology/approach...

...Chun-Hao Li; Shu-Yao Hsu Purpose Since the 1990s, an imbalanced marriage market has ushered in a great number of female immigrants, mainly from China and certain ASEAN countries, into Taiwan. These immigrant brides lose their original social networks and face difficulties acculturating, which...

...Wen-Shan Yang; Yao-Chi Shih; Yang-Tzu Li Purpose Although coresidence with children when one becomes old is an ideal in Chinese society, the drastic socio-economic development in Taiwan has brought some fundamental changes to living arrangements of the elderly population. The purpose of this paper...

...Richard Clarence Bush Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the USA seeks to promote its interests in peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait in the context of Taiwan’s unique political status and its democratic system. Design/methodology/approach – A narrative analysis...

...Dr Jon S.T. Quah; Professor Chilik Yu; Ernie Ko; Yu-Chang Su; Chilik Yu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the multiple anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) in Taiwan and their conflict resolution. The birth of the Agency Against Corruption (AAC) in 2011 created...

...Dr Jon S.T. Quah; Professor Chilik Yu; Jon S. T. Quah Purpose – The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to ascertain the levels of effectiveness of the anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) in China, Japan, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan; second, to explain why some of these ACAs are more...

... in the Greater China Area. This study aims to examine how universities in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are partnering with other institutions in order to deliver collaborative EMBA programmes for this educational market. Design/methodology/approach The article uses case study as research approach...

... of Taiwan as a services hub for the region (Hong Kong shares this aspiration of regional services hub); high ranking national universities are integral to that vision. For all the case studies, there is a similar context (explicitly stated) of national economic development as an element of the “competition...