Isle of Time
Democratic Deepening, Transitional Justice, and Taiwanese Identity

New Formosa

20 Volumes

Vol. 1

The First Party Turnover

By the late 1990s, Taiwan's political landscape stood at an unprecedented crossroads. More than half...

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Vol. 2

The SARS Storm

In the spring of 2003, an unprecedented new coronavirus slipped quietly into Taiwan from abroad, and...

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Vol. 3

The Shooting on the Nineteenth of March

At 1:45 in the afternoon on March 19, 2004, President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu w...

Vol. 4

Taipei 101

On December 31, 2004, as the New Year's bells rang out over Taipei's Xinyi district, a skyscraper re...

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Vol. 5

The Red Shirts and the Trial

2006 was the third year of Chen Shui-bian's second term. In May, the president's son-in-law, Chao Ch...

Vol. 6

One Island, One Day

On January 5, 2007, the Taiwan High Speed Rail officially entered service. From that day, streamline...

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Vol. 7

A Letter from the Cape

In the summer of 2008, a domestic film set against the backdrop of Hengchun in Pingtung — Cape No. 7...

Vol. 8

Morakot and the Village of Xiaolin

Typhoon Morakot made landfall in Hualien on August 7, 2009. Its winds were not exceptional; it moved...

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Vol. 9

The White Shirts and Hung Chung-chiu

Hung Chung-chiu was a corporal in the 542nd Brigade of the Sixth Army Corps, born in 1989, a graduat...

Vol. 10

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan From Above

Chi Po-lin was a civil servant at the National Expressway Engineering Bureau, and part of his job wa...

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Vol. 11

Sunflowers in the Chamber

On the night of March 18, 2014, a group of students and citizens climbed over the walls, broke throu...

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Vol. 12

Treasures Beneath the Skies

On December 28, 2015, the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum officially opened for trial ...

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Vol. 13

The First Woman President, and an Apology

On January 16, 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was elected president with 6,894,744 votes, 56.12 percent. On the ...

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Vol. 14

Love Without Distinction

On May 17, 2019, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed on its third reading the Enforcement Act of Judici...

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Vol. 15

Three Years of the Pandemic

On December 31, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control sent an email to the World Health Organization...

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Vol. 16

The Silicon Shield

In April 1976, nineteen engineers from the Industrial Technology Research Institute flew to Pennsylv...

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Vol. 17

Cross-Strait Dynamics

Entering the twenty-first century, the Taiwan Strait once again became one of the most closely watch...

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Vol. 18

Transitional Justice

When martial law was lifted in 1987 and the ban on new political parties and newspapers followed, Ta...

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Vol. 19

The Voices of the Land

Entering the twenty-first century, Taiwanese society gradually awoke to a profound crisis: the mothe...

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Vol. 20

Taiwanese Identity — Who Am I?

"Are you Taiwanese, Chinese, or both?" This deceptively plain survey question, first posed systemati...

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