A digital version of Brill Academic Publishers’ <i>Taiwan Encyclopedia</i> is to be uploaded in November, which would be the first time an international publishing house has published an encyclopedia focused on the nation.
The Netherlands-based publishing house said it decided to publish the <i>Taiwan Encyclopedia</i> due to growing demand among academics and others in the international community to understand Taiwan, adding that it is interested in Taiwan-related research.
Brill asked Academia Sinica Institute of Sociology adjunct research fellow Michael Hsiao (蕭新煌) to be the editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia.
He started work on the publication in September 2020.
The encyclopedia explores Taiwan through 14 fields,
By Yang Yuan-ting and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerA digital version of Brill Academic Publishers’ Taiwan Encyclopedia is to be uploaded in November, which would be the first time an international publishing house has published an encyclopedia focused on the nation.