Contributors (in chapter order)
Opening Essay Bo Tedards received his Master’s of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Tufts University, and his bachelor in Political Science from Yale University. He is an American citizen residing in Taiwan for over 15 years. During that time, he has worked for the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, the Institute for National Policy Research, the Taipei Times, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000–2005, Research and Planning Board). Since 2004, he has worked at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, first as coordinator of the World Forum of Democratization in Asia (WFDA), a new regional network of democracy advocates, and then also as director of the International Cooperation Department.
Society & Culture David Blundell earned his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, and has lived in Taiwan since the 1980s. Work on life histories and visual documentation from the insider’s point of view best describes his research methods. Dr Blundell is the anthropology editor for the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) working on Pacific languages mapping. He edited Austronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History, Ethnology, Prehistory (2000, revised 2009). Prof Blundell teaches at National Chengchi University in Taipei where he offers courses on language and culture, multiculturalism and the modern citizen, visual anthropology and filmmaking, aesthetics, sociolin guistics, anthropology of belief systems, Asia-Pacific cultural history, and the cultural and ethnic structure of Taiwan. Ann Heylen, Ph.D. in Chinese Studies, K. U. Leuven, Belgium, is associate professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature and Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center at National Taiwan
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