Profile

Dr. Chen-Dong Tso is professor in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. The positions Dr. Tso had held previously include Board Member at Strait Exchange Foundation, Director for Mainland Affairs at Kuomintang, President of Prospect Foundation, and Director of Taiwan Public Governance Research Center, and Executive Director of China Studies Center at National Taiwan University. In addition, he had been visiting fellows at Stimson Center in Washington D.C. and at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia in University of Tokyo. 

Selected Publication

•    Tso, Chen-Dong, “Business Groups, Institutions, and the China–Vietnam Rice Trade,” Asian Survey, Vol. 59, Number 2, March/April, 2019, pp. 360–381
•    Tso, Chen-Dong, “China’s About-face to the TPP: Economic and Security Accounts Compared,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol 25, Iss 100, Jul 2016, pp. 613 - 627
•    Yeh, Kuo-Chun & Chen-Dong Tso, “Policy Configurations of China and East Asian Countries after the Global Crisis: A Tri-lemma Analysis” China: An International Journal, Vol 13, No. 1, April 2015, pp. 139–154 
•    Tso, Chen-Dong, 2012, “The U.S.-Taiwan FTA during the Bush-Chen Era Revisited: Trade and Strategic Accounts Compared” Issues & Studies, 48, No. 1 (March 2012): 51-84 
•    Tso, Chen-Dong, “Regulatory Competition and Accountability: Comparing Universal Service in Telecommunications in Australia and Taiwan,” Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 68, No. S1, March 2009, pp. 27 – 39 
•    Tso, Chen-Dong, “Computer Scientists and China’s Participation in Global Internet Governance,” Issues & Studies, Iss. 44, June 2008 
•    Tso, Chen-Dong, 2004, “State-Technologist Nexus in Taiwan’s High-Tech Policymaking: Semiconductor and Wireless Communication Industries,” Journal of East Asia Studies, Vol. 4 Issue 2, May 2004, pp. 301 – 328. 

Research Interests

International Political Economy
East Asian Regionalism
Cross-Strait Relations 

Teaching

Political Economy of Cross-Strait Relations