Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Video: Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse
A talk by Shelley Riggers discussing her book about Taiwan's importance.
September 30, 2011
Davidson College’s Shelley Rigger is one of America’s top specialists on Taiwan and on Taiwan’s evolving relations with China and with the United States. On September 27, 2011, Prof. Rigger spoke at the USC U.S.-China Institute on her new book Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011). Rigger explains how Taiwan exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. The work highlights and political breakthroughs so impressive they have been called "miracles." Rigger links these accomplishments to Taiwan's determined society, vibrant culture, and unique history. Drawing on arts, economics, politics, and international relations, Rigger explores Taiwan's importance to China, the United States, and the world. Considering where Taiwan may be headed in its wary standoff with China, she traces how the focus of Taiwan's domestic politics has shifted to a Taiwan-centered strategy.
Shelley Rigger is Brown Professor of Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. She’s taught there since 1993. Rigger is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard. She’s the author of Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (2001), as well as monographs such as Taiwan’s Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwanese Nationalism (2006) and many articles.
This video is also available on the USCI YouTube Channel.
Prof. Rigger later spoke at a USCI webinar on Taiwan's 2020 election (USCI | YouTube) and on her book on Taiwan's role in China's economic rise, The Tiger Leading the Dragon (USCI | YouTube).
USCI documentary, The Thaw: Taiwan and China’s Changing Relationship
Part 1, primarily about economic ties (USCI website or the USCI YouTube channel)
Part 2, primarily about security issues (USCI website or the USCI YouTube channel)
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