Professor Robert F Ash
Centre of Taiwan Studies Founder and Professorial Research Associate

- Tel: 020 7898 4525
- Email: ra2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: S134
- Academic Support Hours: By email appointment
Early and medieval Chinese law; palaeography; manuscript culture; Classical Chinese; law and language; law and visual culture
An influential Taiwanese writer who writes about politics, culture and music for major media in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and international media.
Chief Advisor, Business Next (A news media outlet focusing on technology, business and creativity)
Chief editor and Host of Talk to Taiwan (A weekly web-TV program on politics and culture, and has been featured in the Monocle magazine.)
Current position: Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, School of Language and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth
History of UK-Taiwan relations
A specialist in Chinese-language cinema (in particular Taiwan cinema) and the media and democratization in Taiwan
Taiwan. Anthropology of education. Faith communities in Britain.
Professor in Asia Pacific Studies, Head of Asia Pacific Institutes at University of Central Lancashire
Sociology of knowledge, area studies, construction of academic fields, nation building and identity politics
class and ethnicity in migration, gendered migration