Michael Hsiao

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Ph.D., is the Director of Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and Professor of Sociology, National Taiwan University, in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Confucius Institutes and the Question of China’s Soft Power Diplomacy

07.06.2012

After a period of relative calm, Beijing’s promotion of the ever expanding number of overseas Confucius Institutes (CIs) since 2004 came to the attention of...

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Su Tseng-Chang and the Future of the DPP

06.22.2012

After the loss of the January 2012 presidential election, the opposition-Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan had been searching for a new chairperson to lead...

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The Changing Political Landscape in Taiwan: Implications of the Special Municipality Elections

12.03.2010

Taiwanese voters cast their ballots on November 27 under the shadow of an unexpected and mysterious gunshot on the eve of five special municipality elections....

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Transformations in China’s Soft Power toward ASEAN

11.24.2008

Among U.S.-led like-minded alliances, a nascent China policy position has been formulated based on the idea of “international socialization” [1]. The idea is to enmesh...

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