BOOK · 2026
葬送的福利年（金）
Challenges and Solutions of Taiwan's Pension Reform
Taiwan's Labour Insurance fund will run out by 2028 — not just a financial black hole, but a rupture in the country's intergenerational contract. This volume reframes the debate beyond the conventional, drawing on European and Japanese reforms to address generational justice, gender equality, labour market change, and pension financialisation.
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Edited by Yeh, Chen, Shih & KuTaipei: Chuliu
BOOK · 2018
轉型中的東亞福利體制
The Transforming East Asian Welfare Regimes
A comparative study of welfare-regime reform across Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong. Examines why political-economic transitions led to divergent reform pathways, and rethinks the limitations of the standard "East Asian welfare regime" perspective.
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Yeh, C-Y. (sole author)Hong Kong: City Univ. of HK Press
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COMMENTARY ・ East Asia, Frontline
East Asia, Frontline ── reading the underlying mood of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China through manga, popular culture, and social data. A lighter but still serious register, alongside the academic writing.
Another figure walking out of a manga: Reading Sanae Takaichi through Seijika Mae and Shima Kōsaku
As Shohei Ohtani sets a two-way record in Los Angeles that even Major never rehearsed, Japan looks at "an outward-stretching dream"; meanwhile in Nagatachō another manga-born figure approaches the summit of power. The essay reads Takaichi through the "method" of Seijika Mae and the "anxiety" of Shima Kōsaku as Japan's "absolute realism".
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