Mainland China Student Study in Taiwan: Motivation, Impression, Potential Political Reform Agent

Harryanto Aryodiguno (President University)
Tiara Cornelia (Institute of China and Asia Pacific Studies)

AEGIS : Journal of International Relations
Vol 6, No 1 (2022)

Since opened in 2011, the number of Chinese students goes to Taiwan for 6 months exchange grew more and more every year. What things that motivate the Chinese student to come to Taiwan? Is it related to the current both country’s political condition? What they been thinking about Taiwan, before and after they came? Will they obtain a new perspective about cross-strait disputes? Will they be the agent of democratic political reform in China in the future?