Mainland China Studies Newsletter

Mainland China Studies Newsletter
The Mainland China Studies Newsletter has been co-published by the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University and Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan since 1994. The Research and Educational Center for China Studies and Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations, established by the department, is responsible for editing. Since initial publication, its readership has spread around the world, and its contributors have come to include those from the humanities and social sciences, in Taiwan and Mainland China, including senior academics, well-known writers, young academics, think tanks researchers, and policy-makers. The purpose of the Mainland China Studies Newsletter is to fill the existing gap between academic journals and general magazines, to provide a forum for academic issues that cannot be easily published through regular channels, including reflections, teaching materials, references, articles, and book reviews related to Mainland China Studies, and reports on research projects, academic conferences, research institutions, academic theses, and important academic figures. The newsletter specifically emphasizes a variety of perspectives, and respects and encourages reflections on historic events and communication between cultural studies and the social sciences. In the 1980s, the social science perspective was introduced into the field of Mainland China Studies in Taiwan, and since then, the contours of this field have gradually blurred. The space created by the newsletter has encouraged communication among social science, history, and cultural studies; through this cross-pollination of academic fields, Mainland China Studies has been consolidated and promoted as a field of academic knowledge, which has been the greatest contribution of the Mainland China Studies Newsletter.