For Broadsides, the blog of the North American Conference on British Studies, I wrote on restarting my academic career in Taiwan, a place that underwent a fierce struggle for democracy & freedom of speech in the 80s & 90s, at a time when both are under threat in the US www.nacbs.org/post/teachin...

🙏 to @briankerg.bsky.social for having me & @mhar4.bsky.social on @cimsec.bsky.social's podcast to discuss "Revolutionary Taiwan". Why was democratization in Taiwan linked to demilitarization & why does Taiwan need to remilitarize now to protect its democracy? 🎹 to learn! cimsec.org/sea-control-...

Thanks to Anthony Kao for having @mhar4.bsky.social and me on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social East Asia Studies podcast :) "Revolutionary Taiwan helps readers understand why Taiwan’s democratization process encompasses a series of “revolutionary” transformations" newbooksnetwork.com/revolutionar...

So grateful to be home on the west coast - even, especially now - on a mini-book tour for "Revolutionary Taiwan". @mhar4.bsky.social & I are speaking to the @ucsandiego.bsky.social community today, Feb 3rd at 12 pm @ the Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club. Thanks to the UCSD Center for Taiwan Studies!

Celebrating "Revolutionary Taiwan", today the 2nd bestselling Asia book on Bookshop.org 🙂 @mhar4.bsky.social & I tell the story of how a self-consciously TWese nation was built in the unlikeliest geopolitical circumstances, a revolution that remains unrecognized globally bookshop.org/p/books/revo...