The proposed research aims to investigate the transnational adoption of children from the perspectives of actors in ‘sending’ countries. These perspectives have received insufficient attention in adoption research so far, ...read more
This project investigates how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accommodated the novel category of "religion" and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations ...read more
The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, is intended to subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at an accredited educational institute abroad. The goal ...read more
This project examined early marriage practices among Syrian refugees in Jordan in relation to their Sexual and Reproductive Health. The team of this collaborative anthropological research project consisted of anthropologists based in ...read more
This is a study on the concept of 'good doctor' in the earliest Chinese medical treatises, and an assessment of the position of the art of medicine in traditional Chinese ...read more
The latest developments in techno-sciences often find new forms of expression in art practices, situated at the border of art and science, combining insights from biological sciences, notably biotechnology and ...read more
What is the potential of not-understanding (Nichtverstehen) for a critique of culture and subversive aesthetic strategies? How do forms of situational representation actualize this potential? These questions are addressed by ...read more
Performance scholar Una Chaudhuri observed in her keynote lecture at the Psi conference in Stanford in 2013 that the logic of climate change is a very complex one, having no ...read more