We are delighted to announce the winner of the Center for Taiwan Studies Audio Interview Award for Winter 2022: Lauren Lee, a UCSB undergraduate student. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to CTS’s research project, Made in Taiwan—examples of interviews conducted by UCSB students of individuals who grew up in Taiwan.
Please check out Lauren’s interview of Vicky on the CTS Youtube channel here. The next CTS Audio Interview Award will be given in May 2022. For more details, visit website.
To encourage international students and individuals to undertake Mandarin Chinese language study in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) established the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION HUAYU ENRICHMENT SCHOLARSHIP (HES) Program. The application period is February 1 – March 1, 2022.
In addition to the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) and starting this year, the Ministry of Education launched the Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Program (TFETP) to expand the recruitment of English teachers and teaching assistants. Please see the links below for more information on both of these wonderful opportunities:
Ring in the Year of the Tiger by celebrating Lantern Festival with us this Friday, February 18, 3-5pm in the HSSB Courtyard! There will be snacks, games, and trivia. All are welcome!
Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger outlays than ivory, rhino horn, and big cats put together. Nearly all rosewood logs are sent to China, fueling a $26 billion market for classically styled furniture. Vast expeditions across Asia and Africa search for the majestic timber, and legions of Chinese ships sail for Madagascar, where rosewood is purchased straight from the forest. The international response has been to interdict the trade, but this misunderstands both the intent and effect of China’s appetite for rosewood, causing social and ecological damage in the process. Drawing on fieldwork in China and Madagascar, Annah Zhu upends the pieties of Western-led conservation, offering a glimpse of what environmentalism and biodiversity protection might look like in a world no longer ruled by the West.
Annah Zhu is an Assistant Professor of environmental globalization at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD in society and environment from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters in environmental management from Duke University. She is a veteran of the United Nations’ Environment Program in Geneva, and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar. Her work has been published in Science, Geoforum, Political Geography, Environment International, and American Ethnologist.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM
University of California, Santa Barbara
Humanities & Social Change Center
Robertson Gymnasium 1000A
Cosponsors: Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; Environmental Studies Program
China plans to send its first manned mission to Mars by 2033, and eventually establish a permanent colony on the planet. Many outside China see this ambitious turn towards space colonization as an attempt to establish global leadership in science and technology. But what is the cultural significance of Mars and Martian colonization for the Chinese? To form a better appreciation for Chinese conceptualizations of the relationship between nature and humanity that will shape the country’s interplanetary future, George Zhu urges us to begin with one of China’s most well known artistic treasures, the Meat Shaped Stone. Making connections across centuries of art, environmental management, and imperial ambition, Zhu outlines a possible future for Mars–and the Earth–in what portends to be the Chinese century.
George Zhu received his master’s in English literature from the University of California Irvine. He is the co-founder of Double Bind Media, a production company specializing in experimental documentary film and other visual media based in Los Angeles and the Netherlands. Currently, he resides in the Netherlands where he develops and produces a range of multidisciplinary new media work. He is also a writer interested in contemporary Chinese culture, environmentalism, endangered species, climate change, and science studies.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
1:00 PM — 2:30 PM
University of California, Santa Barbara
Humanities & Social Change Center
Robertson Gymnasium 1000A
Cosponsors: Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; Environmental Studies Program
Come mingle with your classmates, professors, and new friends!! We will provide delicious snacks, live music performances, a photo booth, and fun games!!
Join us for the Chinese Language Program Autumn Festival Tea Time / Welcome Party!
Friday, Oct. 22 2pm-4pm @HSSB Courtyard
Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies, Chinese Language Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, with support from our CLP Volunteers, CSSA ICE (International Cultural Exchange) and Jasmin Echo
