With 2019 marking the forty-year anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, and Canada’s increasing interest in cross-strait issues, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in
Ashley Chen
Originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ashley Deng-Yu Chen was a Rotary exchange student in Slovakia and holds a Bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University in Foreign Languages and Literature Department, with a year of study abroad completed at SOAS, University of London sponsored by the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. She now resides in Canada as a graduate student of anthropology at University of Ottawa. Proficient in Mandarin, English, Spanish and Slovak, she is interested in issues related to identity studies, the anthropological aspect of political life, and the advocacy of Taiwan in international context.