17.07.2023

Lecture: WANG Dong, "Taiwan in International Law: The Beginnings"

On 25 July 2023, Prof. Dr. Dr. WANG Dong (Lived Places Publishing, New York) hold a lecture on ""Taiwan in International Law: The Beginnings"

"Taiwan in International Law: The Beginnings" by Prof. Dr. Dr. WANG Dong (Lived Places Publishing, New York)
The Colloquium is held on 25. July 2023 at 4:15 pm in room 30 of the Department of Chinese and Korean Studies in Tübingen, Wilhelmstraße 133.
You may also attend online via Zoom:

Meeting Link: zoom.us/j/92607969591

Abstract Taiwan’s legal status has been in contention for over two hundred years that still exercises politicians, historians, and legal specialists to this day. Statements of diplomatic convenience paste over latent conflicts of existential significance for global and local multi-parties/colonizers involved; principles of international law are not only confounded by diverging moral claims and historical projections around the world, but equally by strategic and practical power relations that have continuously morphed without durable agreements or resolutions. As part of Professor Wang’s independently conducted project, this presentation examines some fascinating historical sources and claims to make sense of the very beginnings of Taiwan in international law.

Bio Prof. Dr. Dr. Dong Wang is collection editor of Asian Studies at Lived Places Publishing (New York), H-Diplo review editor, research associate at Harvard Fairbank Center (since 2002), a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice chair of the Association for Asian Studies (Ann Arbor) editorial board. Her single-authored books in English are: Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong Kong (2023), The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2nd and rev. ed. 2021), Longmen’s Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China (2020), Managing God’s Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952 (2007), and China’s Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (2005).