The Sunflower Movement: How a student-led occupation transformed the nation
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Venue
- Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
- Room
- B103
About this event
The 2014 Sunflower Movement, a 24-day student-led occupation of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan and its surrounding area, was the largest social movement in Taiwan's history.
A protest against the near-passage of a trade deal with China, the movement transformed Taiwan's political culture and redirected its geopolitical trajectory. This eyewitness account will clarify its causes, give a tour of the occupation sites and their social and spatial structure, and trace its lasting impacts.
Speaker's Biography
Dr Ian Rowen
Ian Rowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He is the author of One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell University Press, 2022), and the editor of Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror (Cambria Press, 2021).
Previously an assistant professor of Geography and Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, he earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
About 2023 SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School
The Centre of Taiwan Studies (CTS) at the SOAS, University of London is excited to present a 2.5-day Summer School programme filled with engaging talks, seminars, and roundtables, taking place right after the EATS annual conference from the afternoon of June 28 to June 30 2023.
In our commitment to promoting the study of Taiwan, we are pleased to offer free and open-to-public attendance for the Summer School. We highly encourage individuals from all walks of life who are interested in Taiwanese culture and Taiwan studies attend our course.
