SOAS Politics

17/04/2026

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?

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...

15/04/2026

26/02/2026

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.

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…

05/02/2026

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.

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...

23/10/2025

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

Cheng Li-wun’s surprise election as leader of the KMT party is also likely to widen domestic political divisions

25/09/2025

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

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...

11/09/2025

The SOAS Politics Department Graduation Ceremony Photo!