Smart Talk with Bruce Jacobs

East Asia Institute (EAI) held the 46th Smart Talk Forum with Professor Bruce Jacobs from Monash University on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

Prof. Jacobs is an expert whose research focus includes Chinese politics, Taiwan, and Asian democracy. In this forum, Prof. Jacobs analyzed the democratization of South Korea and Taiwan by emphasizing the historical similarities in democratic processes of the two countries to better understand the development and processes of Asian democracy. He compared the Gwangju Uprising, otherwise known as May 18 Democratic Uprising, and the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979, two of the prominent mass movement for democracy in South Korea and Taiwan respectively, to shed light on similarities and differences of two democracies.

Presenter

Bruce Jacobs, Monash University