Various research achievements have been published by researchers of the institute. Books published in the past two years include: Labor Sociology (Chin-fen Chang), Return to Reality:
Political and Cultural Change in 1970s Taiwan and the Postwar Generation , 2nd edition (A-chin Hsiau), Chronicle of Zhudong Town: Demography and Social Lives (Yu-hsia Lu, et al), Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (edited by Wen-shan Yang, et al), Social Problems in Taiwan , 2nd edition (edited by Hei-yuan Chiu and Ly-yun Chang), Changing Faces of Hakka in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia (edited by Michael H. H. Hsiao), At the Edge of Empires: Examining Modernity in Taiwan (edited by Horng-luen Wang, et al.). In addition, 50 articles in refereed journals, 51 book chapters in Chinese and in English were published.
The Institute organized numerous conferences, workshops and Spring Schools at national and international levels, including:
I. International conferences:
1. IOS- IASA Joint Workshop of Young Sociologists
2. International Forum on the Past, Present and Future of Taiwan Studies beyond Taiwan: Europe, North America and Japan Compared
3. International Conference on Social Critique and Mobilization: A Dialogue between French and Taiwanese Sociologists
4. France-Taiwan Bilateral Conference on Globalization and Urban Dynamics in Asia: Taiwanese and French Perspectives
5. 2011 Taiwan-Hong Kong Sociology and Social Image Conference
6. Conference of “Social Structure and Firms in Transition in Taiwan”
7. EASS 2011 Symposium
8. The Fourth Conference of Taiwan Youth Project, 2011
9. Asian Sociology Workshop 2011: “Divergence and Convergence of Asian Sociologies: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives”
Institute of Sociology
886-2-2652-5100 886-2-2652-5050 http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw
↑Books published in the past two years.
↑Conference posters of past two years.
10. AsiaBarometer Workshop 2011: “Risk, Social Trust and Social Inequality: A Comparative View”
II. National conferences:
1. Conference on the Production, Adoption and Innovation of the Knowledge of Sociological Theory
2. The 15th Conference on the Taiwan Social Change Survey
III. Workshops:
1. 2011 Workshop of Social Network Analysis
2. Workshop on Economic Sociology: Society and Ethnic Economics
3. Workshop on “Gender, Family & Labor Markets: Taiwan Perspectives”
4. Workshop on China Impact Studies
5. “Narrative and Society” Research Workshop 6. “War and Society” Research Workshop
IV. Spring School on Sociology:
1. 2012 Spring Gala: Divergence and Convergence in Taiwanese Society
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Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
886-2-2788-3620 886-2-2651-0591 http://www.litphil.sinica.edu.tw
The Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (ICLP) at Academia Sinica was officially established in July 2002, after thirteen years of preparation. Dr. Siao-chen Hu currently serves as its Director. The Institute now boasts twenty-nine research fellows. To foster innovative research, the Institute supports research projects envisioned by individual fellows while also encouraging collaboration among colleagues with different academic backgrounds but shared interests. Its research achievements—and such areas as Ming-Qing literature, Sinophone literature, studies of the Three Teachings, East Asian Confucian studies, studies of Confucian classics—have won high acclaim in both Taiwan and abroad.
The research scope of the Institute’s Comparative Philosophy group encompasses contemporary Confucianism and East Asian religious traditions in the context of cross-cultural philosophy.
Their new project explores the intellectual interactions between modern East Asia and the West.
Significant Research Accomplishments
ICLP publishes two journals: Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy and Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy; the former won the National Science Council Award for Distinguished Academic Journal in 2003 and 2004 and has been listed as one of the THCI Core journals. Both journals are accessible on-line from the ICLP website. To share research results with the larger academic community and to cultivate further research interests, ICLP publishes volumes of collaborative projects and monographs by research fellows. To date, the Institute has published 155 books, in 226 volumes, covering such areas as classical and modern literature, contemporary Confucianism and philosophy, etc.
Classical studies and critical editions of rare classical works are also one of ICLP’s publication strengths. ICLP is also committed to creating and sharing digital databases for studies of ci poetry, Confucianism and Confucian classics.
Research Projects
The Institute’s five major research directions are Classical Chinese Literature, Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy and Confucian Classics. Members of the Classical Chinese Literature group have made significant contributions to studies of Ming-Qing literature, literature and culture, literature and religion.
Recently, researchers have explored the interaction between the
“construction of knowledge” and the “production of literature” in Ming-Qing times. Texts of “trials and tribulations” also constitute their current research interest. The research foci of the members of the Modern Chinese Literature group are Sinophone literature, translation studies and Taiwan New Cinema and visual culture, etc. They are now exploring the idea of Sinophone literature and culture in a transcultural context. Studies of Confucian Classics of the Institute have covered the Qianlong-Jiaqing, the late-Qing and the Republican periods. Recently, researchers have delved into studies of Taiwanese classical scholarship from the late-Ming to the Japanese occupation periods. The researchers specializing in Chinese Philosophy have undertaken projects on the Three Teachings and Ming-Qing intellectual thought.
Currently they strive to investigate the concept of life and death and the ultimate truth in East Asian philosophy.
↑ Publications of the Institute of Chinese
Literature and Philosophy ↑Conference Posters
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In order to promote advanced Taiwan studies, Academia Sinica initiated the Taiwan History Field Research Project in 1986 under the leadership of academician Kwang-chih Chang (Chinese archaeologist, 1931~2001). In 1988, the Taiwan History Field Research Office was set up by the joint efforts of four major institutes in the humanities and social sciences.
In June 1993, the Council of Academia Sinica approved the establishment of the Preparatory Office of Taiwan History. The Institute of Taiwan History was formally inaugurated in July 2004 after two decades of collective scholarly efforts.
East Asia women's history.
5. Environmental History: Histories of diseases, natural disasters, resource management and colonial medicine in Taiwan and East Asia.
The members of the institute have been conducting the following collaborative projects: 1.Diverse Legacies and Self-creation in Post-war Taiwan History;
2.Environmental Changes and their Effects on Agriculture, Biodiversity and Society in Taiwan.
Significant Research Accomplishments
The scholarly efforts of the ITH researchers are exemplified by the variety of publications that include monographs, journal articles, edited oral histories, diaries, source collections, local gazetteers and research references. The important empirical findings and theoretical insights of the Institute’s leading journal Taiwan Historical Research along with other academic works have received wide acclaim both in Taiwan and abroad.
In addition to conducting advanced research and publishing its research achievements, the institute has frequently organized and sponsored international and domestic symposiums, conferences, workshops, as well as informal seminars and lectures. These events not only facilitate international scholarly exchanges but also encourage promising graduate students from various universites.
With the establishment of the Archives in 2009, the ITH has become the leading institution in Taiwan historical document collection and database compilation. The Archives have also significantly enhanced the general public's interest in the history of Taiwan. The special exhibition “Her History in Taiwan” has attracted more than 8,000 viewers from March to October 2011.
Research Projects
The Institute of Taiwan History is the leading research institution in Taiwan studies aiming to foster first-rate indigenous scholarship and international research on Taiwan. As of May 2012, the institute consists of twenty full-time research fellows with multi-disciplinary backgrounds in history and the social sciences. The institute has set up five research groups focusing on major fields of research and collaborative projects spanning the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The major themes and ongoing research topics of each group are as follows:
1. Socio-economic History: Agricultural reclamation and land ownership in frontier regions of Taiwan; commercial tradition and the development of trade in modern Taiwan.
2. Colonial History: Colonial bureaucracy and local administration in Taiwan;
overseas Taiwanese in the Japanese empire and mainland China.
3. Ethno-History: The history of Taiwanese plain aborigines and Hakka sub-ethnic groups; regional studies on northern Taiwan and hill terrains areas.
4. Cultural History: Colonialism and modernity; political thought and comparative politics; native literature and language; religion, medicine and gender;
Institute of Taiwan History
886-2-2652-5350 886-2-2788-1956 http://www.ith.sinica.edu.tw
↑Conference posters in 2011
↑Publication by ITH
↑Archival collections of ITH, Academia Sinica
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Transcription and Bibliography ; 2011: 1. A Sinitic Historical Phonology: Phonological Restructuring of Written Chinese under the 5th-Century Turkic Sinification 2. Tangut Philology:
Collection of Papers by Professor Hwang-cherng Gong 3. Sino-Tibetan Comparative Linguistics: Collection of Papers by Professor Hwang-cherng Gong 4. Thao Texts and Songs, The Hakka Dialects of Sichuan 5. Comparative Phonology of the Central Xiāng Dialects.