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As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to screen Girls’ School, a groundbreaking yet often overlooked work by one of Taiwan’s early female directors, LEE Mi-mi.

Security forces tend to enjoy a monopoly over violence within any given state. In some states, such as Thailand, they are also leading political and economic actors. Thus, military finance or “khaki capital” is of paramount importance. Using the framework of Historical Institutionalism, this study scrutinizes the path-dependent evolution of khaki capital over time in Thailand.

As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are honoured to screen the award-winning film Super Citizen Ko, directed by Wan Jen, one of Taiwan’s most important social realist filmmakers.

In a period of extreme flux in the international system, diplomacy has never been more essential or more challenging. Drawing on his long career as a British and European Union diplomat, including as a head of mission and Managing Director for both Africa and the Middle East, Dr Nick Westcott offers a vivid and practical exploration of the craft of diplomacy: how to handle crises, negotiate with adversaries, support local staff, engage civil society, and navigate the pressures of representing one’s country abroad.

In this year’s SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to present a screening of Unknown (2023), directed by Lin Yu-Chan — an award-winning documentary that quietly yet powerfully captures everyday life, labour, and community.

This presentation explores how people build a sense of place and community in the development zones and corridors that have become focal sites of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia.

Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects

Dr Willy Lam will focus on Xi Jinping's relations with the people's Liberation Army (PLA) top brass.