Taiwans COVID-19 Experience

This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Ming-Cheng M. Lo is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, USA. Lo's research addresses the cultures of democracy in East Asia, as well as the sense-making processes regarding illnesses, disasters, and cultural traumas.

Yu-Yueh Tsai is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, working in the fields of medical sociology, science, technology, and society (STS), and race and ethnicity studies.

Michael Shiyung Liu is Distinguish Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Professor of History affiliated to the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include Japanese colonial medicine, East Asian environmental history, and modern history of public health in East Asia.

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Introduction. Pandemic Governance and Governmentality in Taiwan Part 1: Historical and Contemporary Contexts 1. Dynamics of Quarantine Control to Epidemic Precaution in Taiwan: A historical review 2. Policies Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reflections on Public Health Governance and Public Health Ethics based on Taiwan's Initial Responses Part 2: Liberal Democracy and Pandemic Management 3. Leveraging the Power of Digital Technology for Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan 4. Zero-Covid, Digital Pandemic Control Measures and the Making of the Public Health State in Taiwan 5. Digital Pandemic Measures in the Age of COVID-19: Taiwan's Challenges with Regard to Privacy and Personal Data Protection 6. Digital pandemic governance in Taiwan Part 3: Self-Governance and Individual Citizens 7. To Stay or to Leave? A Study of Noncompliance of COVID-19 Quarantine Regulations in Taiwan 8. Negotiating the Risk-Stigma Assemblage: Quarantine Experiences of Returnees to Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic 9. Comparing the governance of the pandemic between vaccine-free and free vaccine strategies: thick governmentality in Taiwan Part 4: Nationhood, Nationalism, and Global Health 10. The Return of NRICM101 to Taiwan: The Contributions of an Herbal Formula to Both COVID-19 Treatment and Nationalism 11. Which is More Toxic- a Virus or Hostility? Discourse and Sentiment Analysis of the Chinese Government and Media's Statements on Taiwan During the COVID-19 Period 12. Health for All? COVID-19, WHO and Taiwan's Exceptional Governance