Taiwan 101: Studying, Working, and Traveling in Today’s Taiwan

This book provides a practical, up-to-date, guide to navigating life in Taiwan. It is not a travel guidebook, but rather provides detailed information for the foreign resident in Taiwan. It provides information from renting apartments, taking care of your daily needs, what and where to eat, Taiwanese business culture, and how to get around.

Matthew B. Christensen is Professor of Chinese at Brigham Young University, where he has been teaching for the past 26 years. He is also the director of the BYU Chinese Flagship Center and has been working with that program since 2002. He has directed and managed Flagship and Study Abroad programs at Nanjing University since the late 90’s. His research interests include the relationship between language and culture, Chinese culinary culture, Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese linguistics, and Cantonese language and culture. Some recent publications and related research includes: Henrietta S. Yang is Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics and former Co-Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi (UM) from 2013 to 2021. Before joining the University of Mississippi, Yang served as a teaching team leader for an Intensive Foreign Area Officer Program (FOA) at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California before she joined the faculty at Morehouse College where Yang was Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Yang has directed and managed study abroad programs at Shanghai University in China and National Chung Cheng University and Tamkang University in Taiwan for more than 10 years. Her research interests include Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese linguistics, the interface between instructional technology and language teaching, and formal syntactic theory.