SOAS Politics

Dafydd Fell will be speaking at Charles University, Prague next Thursday. The title of his lecture will be: Debating China: How Taiwan’s Political Parties Discuss Relations with China in their Political Advertising?

Debating China: public lecture by Prof. Dafydd Fell | Department of Sinology 16.4.2026 Nezařazené The third lecture in the series “Cross-Strait Relations in Context: Perspectives on the Relationship Between Taiwan and China” Debating China: How Taiwan’s Political Parties Discuss Relations with China in their Political Advertising? by Professor Dafydd Fell (SOAS) When...

Congratulations to SOAS Politics graduate Ricarda Rodenas on publishing this piece in Taiwan Insight! What About Trans Rights? Taiwan’s Ongoing Struggle for Self-ID. Ricarda took our SOAS University of London module Elections, Gender and Social Movements in Taiwan as part of an undergraduate International Relations degree.

What About Trans Rights? Taiwan’s Ongoing Struggle for Self-ID Written by Ricarda Rodenas. This article describes Taiwan’s ongoing struggle over legal gender recognition, focusing on the continued requirement of sex-reassignment surgery to change one’s legal g…

Today Dafydd Fell appeared on the TaiwanPlus show Zoom in Zoom Out to discuss his new book co-authored with Wang Hsiang: The Twilight Years of Taiwan's Sugar Railways! After their Taiwan book tour, we will be holding the London launch at SOAS on February 20.

When Taisugar Moved the Country’s Leading Export ｜Zoom In Zoom Out During the 1950s and 1960s, Taiwan's sugar railways supported the country's chief export: sugar cane. Accounting for 70-80% of all exports, sugar cane produc...

Dafydd Fell was interviewed for this Financial Times piece on Taiwan's largest opposition party's leadership election.

Taiwan’s new opposition leader risks US ire with soft tone on China Cheng Li-wun’s surprise election as leader of the KMT party is also likely to widen domestic political divisions

Yuka Kobayashi spoke to the ABC News on China’s decision to stop seeking special developing-country treatment in the WTO.

China to stop seeking special treatment from World Trade Organization | The World | ABC NEWS The World Trade Organization and the United States have welcomed China's announcement that it will no longer seek special treatment afforded to developing co...

The SOAS Politics Department Graduation Ceremony Photo!