Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen

Navigating in Stormy Waters

Gunter Schubert, Chun-yi Lee, Gunter Schubert, Chun-yi Lee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781032072807
• eBook ISBN: 9781000457520
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book offers a substantive assessment of the first Tsai Ing-wen administration, investigating different policy fields and issues from 2016 to 2020, prior to Tsai's election for a second term.

Providing a balanced account of government performance under Tsai's Ing-wen's reign, chapters in this edited volume combine theory and extensive empirical data to highlight both achievements and shortfalls of her administration. Chapters range comprehensively from topics of the implementation of same-sex marriage, curriculum reform, 'transitional justice', industrial policy and pension reform, which have been celebrated by domestic Tsai Ing-wen supporters, but have also met with considerable opposition from within Taiwanese society. Externally, cross-strait relations, the New Southbound Policy and the triangular relationship with China and the USA, which embodied major challenges for Tsai's first administration, are also analysed as key reference points throughout.

Featuring contributions from twenty six internationally renowned Taiwan scholars, Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen is an essential resource for students and scholars of Taiwanese politics and society, cross-strait relations and international relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Situating Tsai Ing-wen’s first term: Three decades of presidential discourse in Taiwan
• 3 Tsai Ing-wen, the sandwich president
• 4 Liang’an vs. kua’an: The two dimensions of Taiwan-China relations during the first Tsai administration
• 5 Decoding the cyber strait: Taiwan’s responses to the Chinese cyber threat under Tsai Ing-wen
• 6 The increasing irrelevance of industrial policy in Taiwan, 2016–2020
• 7 The war of referenda in 2018: Analysing the interaction between social movements and political parties
• 8 The rough-and-tumble of Taiwan’s pension reform in the first administration of Tsai Ing-wen, 2016–2020
• 9 The reorientation of history teaching in Taiwan’s 12-year Basic Education
• 10 A noble dream undelivered: The quest for transitional justice during Tsai Ing-wen’s first term
• 11 ‘It’s not marriage!’: Framing and mobilising in the anti-same-sex marriage movement
• 12 Productivity, cohesion and dignity: The contestation of migration policy under the first Tsai Ing-wen administration
• 13 Assessing the first years of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy: The case of Vietnam
• 14 Stronger than ever?: US-Taiwan relations during the first Tsai administration
• 15 Taiwan, Japan and the European Union under the Tsai administration’s New Southbound Policy: Viable alternatives? Republic of China
• 16 Trilateral humanitarian aid: Continuities and changes in Taiwan’s aid policy before and during the first administration of Tsai Ing-wen
• Index