After Taiwan’s severance of diplomatic ties with the United States in 1979, the 1980s was a transformative and liberating time for the island-nation, defining Taiwan’s sense of—and search for—identity. As martial law lifted in 1987 after 38 years, the economic boom with a rising middle class informed a new era of cultural development.
Leaning into this history, “The Wild Eighties: Dawn of a Transdisciplinary Taiwan” at
