My third presentation in July will be held on the 20th at GIS NTU Convention Center. Several panelists will participate in this event, including Dr. James Lin, author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan: www.hss.ntu.edu.tw/zh-tw/activi...

Mt second presentation in July is scheduled on the 16th at National Taiwan Normal University. And in the same event, Dr. Wayne Soon will also present his new research about the history of single-payer universal health insurance system in Taiwan. Registration link: forms.gle/jfe51ZmoDWYT...

I look forward to giving three presentations in July, related to my book Island Tinkerers in Taiwan. The first one is scheduled on July 14 as an online streaming panel discussion with Dr. Wen-Hua Kuo. Register at tinyurl.com/y2jppt9j.

I am looking forward to visiting Vassar College to give a presentation on TSMC on April 1! pages.vassar.edu/dss/files/20...

North American Taiwan Studies Association has a call for paper for the 31st Annual Conference, June 26- June 28, 2026 Indiana University Bloomington. The theme is Resonance/Dissonance — Taiwan Studies, Knowledge Production, and Power Asymmetry. www.na-tsa.org/home

I am so excited to discover an new YouTube channel about Taiwan by Dr. Sarah Plovnick! 跟台灣研究的專家們分享 Sarah Plovnick 博士的 YouTube 頻道 “台灣沙拉”！ www.youtube.com/@TaiwanSalad

I just did a zoom talk with Digital Materialities working group at the the Center for Internet and Society (CIS, CNRS) in France at cis.cnrs.fr/materialites.... The seminars are fully run by PhD students! It's amazing they created an event poster for my talk. 感謝法國數位物質性研究會的研究生邀請我做線上演講!今秋有三個演講與台灣有關。

So thankful for writer Joyce Yen(顏擇雅)'s endorsement of 科技造浪者, the traditional Chinese version of my Island Tinkerers! I haven't been able to see the physical copy of the book, but it's on Google Play's Books (tinyurl.com/te45du8h)! Link to Yen's short book review: www.facebook.com/share/p/14fR...

感謝 Hansen Hsu 以及 Mountain View 電腦歷史博物館邀請我週二去演講，很高興有機會遇到了很多熱情的觀眾，認識新朋友(特別是康乃爾北加州校友會的John Lin！)，以及跟幾位好久不見的朋友敘舊！這次也有機會可以拍下博物館裡一些展覽的電腦，元件，或資訊，下學期教電腦史的課程的時候，可以用來更新我原來的投影片！（平時上課我已常簡短播放電腦歷史博物館所製作的影片或訪問！）。

A podcast on my book Island Tinkerers is available today. Thanks to senior programs manager Adrienne Wu at Global Taiwan Institute for arranging the interview and publishing the podcast! 華府的智庫「全球台灣研究中心」幫我做了一個關於我的新書以及台灣科技產業的軟實力的訪談，是智庫的經理吳至芳主持的「台灣沙龍」這個節目的最新一集喔，歡迎大家線上收聽！謝謝至芳！ mailchi.mp/globaltaiwan...

I will be talking with Dr. Hansen Hsu, curator of the Software History Center, about my book Island Tinkerers at Computer History Museum on November 4 (7 - 8:15pm PST). Below is a registering link for attending in person or online: computerhistory.org/events/taiwa...

Excited to see that my book Island Tinkerers (@mitpress.bsky.social) is reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

I am looking forward to my visit to the University of Pittsburgh on Monday, October 6. My talk is scheduled at 2pm at 4130 Posvar Hall, hosted by Asian Studies Center. www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/events/i...

Many thanks to questions from Drs. Jennifer Alexander, Jennifer Gunn, Jeff Yost(@justcode.bsky.social), Anna Graber, Hiromi Mizuno, Adam Negri, and more. They, & many audience members, have been to my other presentations on & off campus! I am grateful for their generous support & valuable feedback!

I enjoyed giving the first fall semester colloquium talk for Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's colloquium series last week.

I'll be presenting this Friday! If you are on the campus of the U of Minnesota Twin Cities this week, please consider stopping by hstm's colloquium series. I will present my chapter about Orientalism and tinkerers at 3:35pm, September 12, at 216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125.

Taiwan's STS association will be hosting a panel on new STS books tomorrow in Taichung's science museum. I submitted a video presentation for my book. I am sharing a beautiful poster of these new sts books in Taiwan or about Taiwan--Thanks to Dr. Ching Hung for organizing this panel.

Thank you, Dr. Alexander Magoun and the IEEE History Center, for reviewing my book Island Tinkerers (mitpress.bsky.social, 2025) in the center's March Newsletter! I deeply appreciate his mention of formal and informal STEM skills and Hugo Gernsback in relation to my book! tinyurl.com/4eh4rz87

In today’s Taipei Times, @jamesbaron.bsky.social wrote a book review of my book Island Tinkerers (@mitpress.bsky.social)! www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

At Macalester College yesterday, I received great questions about my book: the role of tinkerers in relation to the government, the relationship between geopolitics and tinkering activities, with regard to TSMC, and the rise and fall of the Orientalist representations of Taiwanese computer makers.

Thanks to Charles Babbage Institute director @justcode.bsky.social' s kind invitation, I will give a presentation about my book Island Tinkerers (@mitpress.bsky.social) virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, 2 p.m. Here is the registration link: cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/i...

I am looking forward to giving a book talk at Macalester College on Feb 13, as a part of the Asian Studies Spring Colloquium series, and co-sponsored by Economics, Geography, and Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science Departments. www.macalester.edu/calendar/eve... @mitpress.bsky.social

Last Saturday I gave a book talk at Pavek Museum about their collections from Philco, Zenith, Ampex, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Atari, and Osborne Computer. I have discussed these companies and their business activities in Taiwan in my book Island Tinkerers. @mitpress.bsky.social

I look forward to the "Rewriting the East Asian History of Science" workshop in Seoul! The two papers I will comment on are Yongjoo Han's paper on technological innovations of Final Fantasy VII & Chih-Heng Su's paper on B&W (TV) as an authoritarian color. Other papers are just fascinating, too!

In Taipei, I met with CEO of publisher 明白文化, who will translate my forthcoming book in to Chinese: Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry @mitpress.bsky.social www.facebook.com/crystal.pres...

I will give a talk at National Taiwan University (in Chinese language) on Dec. 30, 2024 about my forthcoming book: Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry @mitpress.bsky.social

I will give a book talk at the Pavek Museum in St. Louis Park, MN on Jan. 18, 2pm. I visited the museum yesterday to select materials from the collection mentioned in my book. Products made by companies who set up electronic manufacturing factories in Taiwan or are connected to tinkering histories!

Last night, Taiwanese publisher Commonwealth published TSMC founder Morris Chang’s autobiography vol. 2! I bought the E-book right away. When I was writing the chapter 10 about TSMC of my forthcoming book, I used his autobiography vol. 1, published 26 years ago in hard copy. shorturl.at/ZhJrJ /1