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[2025] A Cross-national and Multi-year Study of Participation in After-School Tutoring Among Eighth-Graders A Cross-national and Multi-year Study of Participation in After-School Tutoring Among Eighth-Graders

Min-Hsiung Huang

Taiwanese Sociology, 49 (June 2025): 1-55

This cross-national analysis examines participation in after-school tutoring, which is very common among students in Taiwan. The study presents cro... (more......)

[2025] Cancel Culture: Race and Justice in Yellowface Cancel Culture: Race and Justice in Yellowface

Chih-Ming Wang

Reivew of English and American Literature 46: 51-82. (THCI)

Over the past decade, a phenomenon known as cancel culture has emerged in the global society, using criticism of speech and consumer boycotts to co... (more......)

[2025] Equity and Marxist Buddhism Equity and Marxist Buddhism

Tzu-Wei Hung

Australasian Philosophical Review 8 (4):318-337.

While humans have developed universal capacities for detecting unfair behaviours, the nature of equity and how to achieve it remain debated. The co... (more......)

[2025] Beyond Intuitive Know-How Beyond Intuitive Know-How

Cheng-Hung Tsai

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 24(2), 381-394. (A&HCI, Scopus)

According to Dreyfusian anti-intellectualism, know-how or expertise cannot be explained in terms of know-that and its cognates but only in terms of... (more......)

[2025] Sleep quality and cognitive life expectancy in the United States Sleep quality and cognitive life expectancy in the United States

Chi-Tsun Chiu

Chi-Tsun Chiu, Ching-An Chen+, Juwen Wang+, and Mary Beth Ofstedal, 2025, “Sleep quality and cognitive life expectancy in the United States”, RESEARCH ON AGING, Online ahead of print., 0. (SSCI) (IF: 1.8; SSCI ranking: 59.5%)

Millions worldwide suffer from sleep problems and dementia, yet effective treatments and predictions remain elusive. As populations age, these issu... (more......)

[2025] Late-life disability may increase with more frequent insomnia symptoms and sleep medications use over time Late-life disability may increase with more frequent insomnia symptoms and sleep medications use over time

Tuo-Yu Chen (Tim)

Chen Tuo-Yu, Lee Soomi, Buxton Orfeu M, 2025, “Late-life disability may increase with more frequent insomnia symptoms and sleep medications use over time”, SLEEP, online ahead, 0. (SCIE) (IF: 5.3; SCI ranking: 13.7%,16.2%)

Study Objectives: This study investigated whether disability status increased with the frequency of insomnia symptoms and sleep medication usa... (more......)

[2024] Phronesis and Emotion: The Skill Model of Wisdom Developed Phronesis and Emotion: The Skill Model of Wisdom Developed

Cheng-Hung Tsai

Topoi-An International Review of Philosophy, 43(3), 1011-1019. (A&HCI)

This paper further develops the model of wisdom I constructed in Wisdom: A Skill Theory (Cambridge UP). More specifically, it takes the "emoti... (more......)

[2024] Taiwan and the "New Cold War" Taiwan and the "New Cold War"

James Lee

EurAmeica, 54(1), 69-116. (TSSCI, THCI, ESCI)

The concept of the “new Cold War” has featured prominently in recent debates about the present and future of U.S.-China relations. Mean... (more......)

[2024] Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China

Chien-Huei Wu

248 pages, UK: Taylor & Francis Group.

Switching Diplomatic Recognition Between Taiwan and China: Economic and Social Impact is a collective effort to examine the economic and social imp... (more......)

[2024] The US CHIPS Act and Its Impacts on the WTO and China The US CHIPS Act and Its Impacts on the WTO and China

Der-Chin Horng

Journal of World Trade, V. 58, No. 5 (October 2024), pp. 781-806. (SSCI)

In 2022 the US enacted the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act, providing USD 52.7 billion in subsidies to enhance th... (more......)

[2024] Secondary Use of Health Data for Medical AI: A Cross-Regional Examination of Taiwan and the EU Secondary Use of Health Data for Medical AI: A Cross-Regional Examination of Taiwan and the EU

Chih-hsing Ho

Asian Bioethics Review, e00279-4, e00279-4。(Scopus)

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of data governance mechanisms concerning the secondary use of health data in Taiwan and the European Uni... (more......)

The Political Form of the European Union and the Inter-State Social-Contract Aspect of the EU Treaties: Revisiting the Federation Theories of Pufendorf, Montesquieu and Rousseau

[2024] The Political Form of the European Union and the Inter-State Social-Contract Aspect of the EU Treaties: Revisiting the Federation Theories of Pufendorf, Montesquieu and Rousseau The Political Form of the European Union and the Inter-State Social-Contract Aspect of the EU Treaties: Revisiting the Federation Theories of Pufendorf, Montesquieu and Rousseau

Yung-Djong Shaw

《人文及社會科學集刊》，36(4), 857-902。(TSSCI)

The theory of federation provides an accurate description of EU’s func-tioning, a sound explanation of the source of its political legitimacy... (more......)

[2023] Why human prejudice is so persistent: A predictive coding analysis Why human prejudice is so persistent: A predictive coding analysis

Tzu-Wei Hung

Social Epistemology, 37(6), 1-19. (SSCI, A&HCI) (doi: 10.1080/02691728.2023.2237942)

Although the relationship between prejudice and predictive coding has attracted more attention recently, many important issues remain to be investi... (more......)

[2023] The EU’s Proposed Anti-coercion Instrument: Legality and Effectiveness The EU’s Proposed Anti-coercion Instrument: Legality and Effectiveness

Chien-Huei Wu

Journal of World Trade, 57(2), 297-316. (SSCI)

The close integration of the world economy and global interdependence has introduced an opportunity for a foreign nation to interfere in the sovere... (more......)

[2023] Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels

Chih-Ming Wang

Contemporary Literature, 63(3), 399-423. (doi:10.3368/cl.63.3.399)

Examining Ha Jin’s novels, especially those on contemporary Chinese American experiences in the crossfires of US-China competition, this arti... (more......)

[2023] Compliance, procrastination and refusal: American COVID-19 vaccination trust and value orientation Compliance, procrastination and refusal: American COVID-19 vaccination trust and value orientation

Rueyling Tzeng

VACCINE, 41(34), 4950-4957. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.06.060)

Introduction COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy studies, most of which were completed prior to the release of the vaccine, speculated on factors ... (more......)

[2023] Sino-American Relations under the Trump Administration Sino-American Relations under the Trump Administration

Cheng-Yi Lin

Taipei City: Wu-Nan Book Inc., 2023. 552 pages.

本專書《川普政府中美關係專題研究》收錄的六篇論文，曾發表於2022年3月中央研究院歐美所舉行的「2017-2021年川普政府美中臺關係及其影響」研討會。專書也收錄川普政府美中臺關係的重要文獻。川普總統人格特質特殊，領導方式、不可預測性備受爭議。習近平對內強勢統治、對外改變周邊現狀，加上美中貿易... (more......)

[2023] The Most Dangerous Place around the Taiwan Strait The Most Dangerous Place around the Taiwan Strait

Cheng-Yi Lin

New Taipei City: Linking Publishing, 2023, 374 pages.

冷戰期間，美國與中國有相當長的時期不重視南海與東海。美國是超級強權，外交政策有優先順序，沒有出現問題的地區常不在它的雷達上；中國則是睡醒的大國，一覺醒後發現有核心利益卻長期忽視或力有未逮。這種情況近年出現轉變，在習近平上任前，便先有中國與菲律賓的南海黃岩島漁船衝突事件，接續有日本民主... (more......)

[2022] From the Cultural Cold War to the Cold War Culture: the Literary Communication and Cultural Politics of World Today From the Cultural Cold War to the Cold War Culture: the Literary Communication and Cultural Politics of World Today

Te-Hsing Shan

Taipei: Bookman Books, 2022, 251 pages.

To curtail the expansion of the “Communist Bloc” led by the USSR, the United States of America carried out cultural diplomacy missions ... (more......)

[2022] Wisdom: A Skill Theory Wisdom: A Skill Theory

Cheng-hung Tsai

76 pages, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009222884

What is wisdom? What does a wise person know? Can a wise person know how to act and live well without knowing the whys and wherefores of his own ac... (more......)

[2022] Civil Philosophy Civil Philosophy

Norman Y. Teng

Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2022, 384 pages.

Taiwan sits in a special place where the US-dominated Western civilization and the classical civilization inherited from East Asia collide. The pos... (more......)

[2022] "Rule by Algorithms? A Preliminary Study on the Tension Between the Rule of Law and AI" "Rule by Algorithms? A Preliminary Study on the Tension Between the Rule of Law and AI"

Hung-Ju Chen

EurAmerica, 52 (2), 175-245.

Artificial legal intelligent systems have been extensively developed to perform various legal tasks. However, rare discussions focus on the questio... (more......)

[2022] “A Marriage of Convenience: A Critique of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment” “A Marriage of Convenience: A Critique of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment”

Chien-Huei WU

Age of Ferment: Developments in Asian–European Trade Relations, pp. 163-178, Tokyo, Japan: The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s Regional Economic Programme Asia (SOPAS).

This chapter examines the dramatic developments of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) and explores what brought the EU and Ch... (more......)

[2022] The Struggle Between Democracy and AI Under Neoliberalism The Struggle Between Democracy and AI Under Neoliberalism

Chien-Yi Lu

EurAmerica, 52(2), 117-173. (TSSCI)

AI developed in healthy democratic societies bears little resem-blance to that developed in plutocracies or oligarchies. The AI that has thrived in... (more......)

[2021] Law and Politics on Export Restrictions: WTO and Beyond Law and Politics on Export Restrictions: WTO and Beyond

Chien-Huei Wu

UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 284 pages.

Delving into export restrictive measures this book links the key areas of WTO law, public international law, investment and competition law to expo... (more......)

[2021] Re-Articulations: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan Re-Articulations: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan

Chih-Ming Wang

Taipei: Linking Publishing, 2021, 588 pages.

Re-Articulations: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies examines the introduction, interpretation, and interrogation of western literature in ... (more......)

[2021] Practical Wisdom, Well-Being, and Success Practical Wisdom, Well-Being, and Success

Cheng-Hung Tsai

PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (A&HCI, EBSCO Publishing) (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12797)

Practical reasoning is necessary for human survival and flourishing, and it is the condition that makes possible the economic, social, political an... (more......)

[2020] The EU Banking Union: Theories and Policies The EU Banking Union: Theories and Policies

HORNG, DER-CHIN

Taipei: NTU Press, 2020, 532 Pages.

The global financial crisis of 2008 highlighted many shortcomings of banking supervision in the EU, in particular, the general limitation of bankin... (more......)

[2020] Surviving Democracy--Mitigating Climate Change in A Neoliberalized World Surviving Democracy--Mitigating Climate Change in A Neoliberalized World

LU, CHIEN-YI

New York: Routledge, 2020, 154 pages.

Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing... (more......)

[2020] The African American Women in the Dilemma, 1920-1950 The African American Women in the Dilemma, 1920-1950

HUANG, WEN-LING

Taipei: NTHU Press, 2020, 332 pages.

African Americans were not truly freed at the end of the Civil War. Rather, in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court legitimated many Southern state laws re... (more......)

[2019] Transpacific Asymmetries: Masao Miyoshi and Asian American Studies Transpacific Asymmetries: Masao Miyoshi and Asian American Studies

Chih-Ming Wang

Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture, 46(3), 89-115.

This article address the issue of asymmetry in the transpacific imagination by returning to and unpacking the work of Masao Miyoshi who though trai... (more......)

[2019] EU External Relations under the Lisbon Treaty: Legal and Policy EU External Relations under the Lisbon Treaty: Legal and Policy

Chien-Huei Wu

Taipei: Wunan Press, 2019. 400 pages.

This book systemically examines how the EU obtains and exercises its external competence and how this competence-exercising is overseen by legislat... (more......)

[2019] Phronesis and Techne: The Skill Model of Wisdom Defended Phronesis and Techne: The Skill Model of Wisdom Defended

Cheng-Hung Tsai

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2019. (A&HCI)

Contemporary philosophers have contributed to the development of the skill model of wisdom, according to which practical wisdom is practical skill.... (more......)

[2018] On the Sit-chûn Scholars of Taiwanese Philosophy On the Sit-chûn Scholars of Taiwanese Philosophy

Tzu-Wei Hung

Philosophy East and West 69:4 (2018).

This paper examines a specific set of pre-war Taiwanese philosophers, called the Sit-chûn scholars. Sit-chûn means “existence&rdq... (more......)

[2018] Chinatown and Beyond: Ava Chin, Urban Foraging, and a New American Cityscape Chinatown and Beyond: Ava Chin, Urban Foraging, and a New American Cityscape

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 25.1 (2018): 5-24.

In this essay, I consider how urban foraging reconnects urbanites’ body with the materiality of the city through flâneurs’ leisur... (more......)

[2018] Challenges of the EU General Data Protection Regulation for Biobanking and Scientific Research Challenges of the EU General Data Protection Regulation for Biobanking and Scientific Research

Chih-hsing Ho

Journal of Law, Information and Science, 25(1) (2018): EAP. 1-20.

This paper discusses challenges arising from the application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the context of biobanking and b... (more......)

[2018] Former Nazi Officers in the Near East: German Military Advisors in Syria, 1949–56. Former Nazi Officers in the Near East: German Military Advisors in Syria, 1949–56.

Chern Chen

The International History Review 40/4 (2018): 732-751.

In the early days of the Cold War, Syria was the first Arab country where former army officers of the Nazi Germany played an active role as militar... (more......)

[2017] Back to the City: Urban Agriculture and the Reimagining of Agrarianism in Novella Carpenter's Farm City Back to the City: Urban Agriculture and the Reimagining of Agrarianism in Novella Carpenter's Farm City

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou

Neohelicon 44 (2017): 403-415.

In this essay, I examine how Novella Carpenter, while paying dutiful homage to the American agrarian ideal, diverges from dominant agrarian discour... (more......)

[2017] Brexit and Its Impact on the UK’s Plural Legal System Brexit and Its Impact on the UK’s Plural Legal System

Der-Chin Horng

National Taiwan University Law Journal, 46 (2017): 1017-1114.

Abstract This paper discusses the legal problems and constitutional challenges caused by Brexit and its impact on the UK’s plural legal s... (more......)

[2016] Gender-role Expectations and Fertility Rates in EU Member States Gender-role Expectations and Fertility Rates in EU Member States

Chyong-fang Ko

Sociology and Anthropology 4 (2016): 980-986.

The author uses data from the European Values Study 2008 to investigate possible links between gender-related attitudes... (more......)

[2016] A Comparison of Educational Differences on Physical Health, Mortality and Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan and the United States. A Comparison of Educational Differences on Physical Health, Mortality and Healthy Life Expectancy in Japan and the United States.

Chi-Tsun Chiu, Mark D. Hayward and Yasuhiko Saito

Journal of Aging and Health 28 (2016): 1256-1278.

Abstract OBJECTIVE: This study examined the educational gradient of health and mortality between two long-lived populations: Japan an... (more......)

[2015] Das Steinlager Allendorf. Zur Geschichte der Kriegsgefangenenlager deutscher Gnerälen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg Das Steinlager Allendorf. Zur Geschichte der Kriegsgefangenenlager deutscher Gnerälen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Chern Chen

Zeitschrift für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde 120 (Dec. 2015), 189-206.

The article "Das Steinlager Allendorf. Zur Geschichte der Kriegsgefangenenlager deutscher Gnerälen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg" (The ... (more......)

[2015] Claiming the Sacred: Indigenous Knowledge, Spiritual Ecology, and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism Claiming the Sacred: Indigenous Knowledge, Spiritual Ecology, and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou

Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 12.1 (June 2015): 71-84.

This essay examines the persistent engagement with cosmopolitan inclusivity through the endorsement of indigenous sacredness in works of ethnograph... (more......)

[2015] Democratic Implications of the Treaty of Lisbon Democratic Implications of the Treaty of Lisbon

Chien-Yi Lu

EurAmerica, 45(3) (2015), 357-408.

How did the Treaty of Lisbon fare in addressing the EU’s democratic deficit? The main criticism regarding the democratic implications of Euro... (more......)

[2014] Confidence-Building Measures in the South China Sea and Implications for USTaiwan-China Relations Confidence-Building Measures in the South China Sea and Implications for USTaiwan-China Relations

Cheng-Yi Lin

Yann-huei Song and Kenyuan Zou (eds), Major Law and Policy Issues in the South China Sea, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 257-276.

China and ASEAN are committed to the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea and the 2011 Implementation Guidelines that ... (more......)

[2014] What Action Comprehension Tells Us About Meaning Interpretation What Action Comprehension Tells Us About Meaning Interpretation

Tzu-Wei Hung

Communicative Action: Selected Papers of the 2013 IEAS Conference on Language and Action, Singapore: Springer, 2014, pp. 125-137.

Despite intensive debates regarding instrumental action and word meaning, few studies have examined their relationship. In this work, I first analy... (more......)

[2014] A Study of the Obama Administration’s Policy and Position on the South China Sea Issue A Study of the Obama Administration’s Policy and Position on the South China Sea Issue

Yann-Huei Song

裘兆琳編，《中美關係專題研究2009-2011》，台北：中央研究院歐美研究所，2014，頁49-78。

This article examines changing or unchanged policy position of the U.S. government, in particular under the Obama Administration, on the South Chin... (more......)

[2013] After-School Tutoring and the Distribution of Student Performance After-School Tutoring and the Distribution of Student Performance

Min-Hsiung Huang

Comparative Education Review 57 (2013): 689-710.

Findings from recent studies indicate that the use of afterschool tutoring is not unique to East Asia and may have become more popular across count... (more......)

[2013] Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America

Chih-Ming Wang

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013, 224 pages.

Transpacific Articulations studies Chinese students’ literary and political activities in the United States and beyond from the 1850s to the ... (more......)

[2013] Examining Administrative Effect on Changes in TANF Caseloads in the United States Examining Administrative Effect on Changes in TANF Caseloads in the United States

Lee-Joy Cheng ；Seng-Lee Wong

Administration in Social Work, 37(1) (2013), 39-58.

In 2011, the U.S. government spent $940 billion on means-tested welfare assistance – much more than what it spent on public education and nat... (more......)

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