This book presents a critical intervention into the evolving field of Taiwan Studies. It offers a kaleidoscopic view of how Taiwan can be engaged across a variety of global research agendas—from coloniality and migration to digital sovereignty, memory politics, and queer futurity.

Exemplifying the field's growing methodological and thematic richness and drawing from disciplines such as anthropology, political science, gender studies, and history, this book frames Taiwan not as a static geopolitical object but as a generative site of epistemic, cultural, and political possibility. This book demonstrates how Taiwan's complexity speaks directly to global debates on democracy, indigeneity, ecological crisis, and the politics of knowledge.

Combining theoretical sophistication with empirical depth, this book serves as both a scholarly milestone and a pedagogical toolkit for rethinking the field's boundaries. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners engaged in Taiwan Studies, East Asian Studies, postcolonial theory, global studies, and comparative area studies.

Amélie Keyser-Verreault 何梅俐 is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Her research explores body politics, gender, family and resistance in East Asia, with an interest in qualitative, art-based, decolonial, and intersectional methods. Current projects include low fertility, postnatal care in Taiwan, and Taiwanese migration to Japan.

Josie-Marie Perkuhn leads the joint postdoctoral research project Taiwan as a Pioneer (TAP) at Trier University and is a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University. Trained in political science and Chinese studies, she researches international relations, maritime security, and contemporary policy issues, with extensive experience in Taiwan-focused academic cooperation.

Felix Brender 王哲謙 is Hou Family Fellow (2026–2027) at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Previously, he served as a research assistant with the Taiwan as a Pioneer project at Trier University. His research examines Chinese relational security practices and the politics of identity, memory, and transitional justice in Taiwan.