Publishing in Taiwan Studies: Meet the Book Series Editors

Niki Alsford (Brill Series in Taiwan Studies), Michael Cannings (Camphor Press), Dafydd Fell (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series), Nikky Lin (Springer Sinophone and Taiwan Studies & Cambria Taiwan Literature Series)

As part of the 2021 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we kindly ask that you register to attend .

This event will be held online through Microsoft Teams. Here is the LINK .

*Please be aware that all Summer School event times follow British Summer Time (BST)

In this session the editors of a number of Taiwan focused book series will reflect on their experiences of promoting Taiwan Studies publications. We will discuss topics such as what we look for in book proposals, the review process of proposals and manuscripts, the current market for Taiwan Studies books, what we see as promising future publication directions, and how we promote Taiwan Studies publications.

Brill Series in Taiwan Studies

Taiwan Studies is a growing field with increasing influence. The series, founded by J. Bruce Jacobs†, is to publish high quality research which breaks new ground and/or gives new insights to Taiwan. Monographs and edited books from all disciplines as well as cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research are welcome. Comparative research where Taiwan is an important component is welcome as well. The series aims to reach academics, informed readers as well as policy makers.

Cambria Taiwan Literature Series

There is much to laud—and learn—about Taiwan. With its tumultuous history comes a rich, vibrant culture. As Professor Nikky Lin notes in her introduction in A Taiwanese Literature Reader, “There was thus a struggle for the Taiwanese people, driven by the changes and challenges brought about in the transition from a traditional to a modern society, one that was caught between the pull of colonization and modernization. Literature serves as a reflection of an era. We observe the contradictions inherent in the difficulties faced at the time through the lens of Taiwanese literature. Whether these challenges are conflicts rooted in law, culture, class, national identity or otherwise, each is inextricably captured by the pen of its Taiwanese authors.”

Cambria Press is very proud to partner with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and National Taiwan Normal University in launching the Literature from Taiwan Series, which takes us to Taiwan across different periods and offers us rich insights into Taiwan.

Camphor Press is an independent publisher, founded in Taiwan in 2014, and now based in the UK. Under our original imprint we have a range of affordably-priced fiction and non-fiction titles about Taiwan and East Asia for a general audience. In 2017 we acquired Eastbridge Books, which now operates as an imprint covering academic titles, and includes works on politics, history, linguistics, culture, and cross-Strait relations, as well as works in translation. Across both imprints we have eighteen Taiwan-related books in print. Themes for forthcoming titles on Taiwan include the LGBT movement, UK–Taiwan diplomatic relations, imperial propaganda in the Japanese era, and modern-day built heritage preservation. We welcome book proposals on any subject related to Taiwan or the wider East Asia region

The Routledge Research on Taiwan Series was established in 2009 and has already published almost 40 books. We seek to publish quality research on all aspects of Taiwan studies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the books will cover topics such as politics, economic development, culture, society, anthropology and history. This series will include the best possible scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities and welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from younger authors. In addition to research monographs and edited volumes general works or textbooks with a broader appeal will be considered.

Springer Sinophone and Taiwan Studies

This book series aims to stimulate and showcase the best of humanistic and social science research related to Sinophone communities and their cultures in Taiwan and around the globe. By combining Sinophone and Taiwan Studies in one book series, we hope to overcome the limitations of previous methodologies to explore the many aspects of Sinophone communities and Taiwan from expansive perspectives that are comparative, transnational, and relational. The foci of the book series include, but are not limited to, the complex relationship between locality and globality, the interrelations among various categories of identity (national, cultural, ethnic, racial, gender, linguistic, religious, and sexual), the states of multiculturalism versus creolization, the politics and economics of culture, diasporic and anti-diasporic practices and expressions, various forms and processes of colonialism (settler colonialism, formal colonialism, postcolonialism, neo-colonialism), as well as indigeneity.

Organiser: Centre of Taiwan Studies

Contact email: jl91@soas.ac.uk