Online Journal:
Asia-Pacific Youth Forum on Humanities and Social Sciences
Why this forum?
With a view to developing literacies in social sciences such as geography, economics, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology, as well as skills of utilizing literature, historical sources, and fieldwork data, the Taiwanese Association for Simulation Education (SimEd Taiwan) organizes the Asia Pacific Youth Forum on Humanities and Social Sciences for adolescents from the Asia-Pacific region to transform their academic interests into fruitful research outcomes.
The Forum envisions to create a platform for idea exchange among high schoolers with analytical and critical thinking from different cultural backgrounds.
Read the annual regulation for more information on the Forum.
Forum highlights in 2020
With a view to encouraging students to dig into research on social issues, the Taiwanese Association for Simulation Education (SimEd Taiwan)—the host of the Taiwanese Economics Olympiad (TEO)—envisions to open up more opportunities for youngsters not only from Taiwan but also from overseas. An online journal of the Asia Pacific Youth Forum on Humanities and Social Sciences is now a pick for high school students with passion for humanitarian and social issues!
In 2020, a great number of articles passed the two-round review process and are accepted in the journal. The two-round review process includes first-round academic reviews and feedback and second-round editor reviews and feedback.
As COVID-19 is still a pandemic with unforeseeable solutions in the world, most essays focus on relations between the pandemic and society, e.g. health inequality, learning gaps, technology in disease prevention, and life in the post-pandemic era. Some other articles focus on sustainable development around the authors’ communities, including externalities of industrial activity and development justice in rural areas.
Most authors are from Taiwan. The Forum also received articles from China, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Authors of accepted articles all shed light on issues in their communities or societies. Discussions on COVID-19 is thus a good example for better understanding of how global public health challenges have been experienced and dealt with in different societal contexts.
Although the Forum is just at its initial stage, the power of youth to change the world is always an aspiration of the Forum organizer. With the aspiration in mind, we look forward to future sparks of knowledge ignited in the Forum for a better world!
Academic works from young talents
Surnames beginning with C
Food Delivery’s Steep Growth under COVID-19: Labor Problems behind the High Degree of Freedom
Chan-Yu Chen
Comparing Covid-19 Pandemic in Taiwan, Italy, and the U.S. with the ARIMA Model
Sean Yi-Shiang Chen
COVID-19 and Our Sick Planet: A New Era of Earth Exploration
Shuan-Lin Chen
Public Healthcare Insurance System: A Cure to Health Inequality
Phebe Ting Syuan Chang
Using National Health Insurance integrated with technology to fight COVID-19
Ding-Yuan Chen
Fangcang Hospitals, A Solution for Disease Control
Lu Chen
Exclusivity: How Businesses Can Use It to Their Advantage
Sophie Chiang
Whose Advantages of Technology? Exacerbated Inequalities During the Global Pandemic
Yun-Jui Chiang
Harms of Online Learning for Students in Impoverished Areas: An Analysis of Literary Review
Po-Siang Chiu
Rural Development vs. Environmental Justice: The 6th Naptha Cracker’s Role in Mailiao Township
Amy Chou
Taiwan Donates 17 Million Masks Worldwide as an Act of Unofficial Diplomacy to Gain Global Status and Recognition
Mo-Fei Murphy Chuang
Environmental Impact of COVID-19: Recovery of Air Quality and Animal Habitat
Anna Chung
Surnames beginning with F, H, J, K
The Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health: Stress and Discrimination
Xinyue Fang
Erren River: The Past Resurfacing
Audrey Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Summer Harriet Chwang, Ruby Kuo
Early Boosting Digit-Prevention Measures? COVID-19 and Distance Learning Dilemma in Taiwan
Kuan-Wei Huang
Health Inequality in Different Healthcare Systems during COVID-19: the U.S. and China as examples
Hongxuan Huang
The Effectiveness of the Siege in China during COVID-19
Wuxi Jia
Proliferation of Borders: Evolution of Hong Kong-China Relations from SARS to COVID-19
Shengxiang Jin
Taiwan and South Korea’s COVID-19 Containing Strategies: A Preliminary Comparison
Wei-Man Kao
Technology Cold War between the US and China: Causes and Effects of the US Ban on Huawei
Alan Kuo
“Private Rights” for “Public Goods”? Analyzing Implications of the Dapu Conflict in Taiwan
Ting-Yu Kuo
Surnames beginning with L, M, N, O, P, Q
Air Pollution Overturn by COVID-19: Chance to Save the World
Yen-Chen Lai
ROC Consumer Voucher vs. ROC Triple Stimulus Voucher
Chi Lee
The Last Wealth Insurance: Gold ETFs or Physical Gold?
Ching-Wei Lin
How Will COVID-19 Shape Public Events? A Case Study of the NBA
Aiden Jay Lo
Using SIR Model with Population Flow to Simulate Transmission of COVID-19 between Counties in Taiwan
Po-Ting Lin, Becker Cheng, Chi-Wei Chen
“Sing Sweet but Put a Little Dirt on It”—a Service or Disservice? Hualien Asia Cement Corporation’s Externalities and Its Internalization
Shih-Chen Lin, Yo-Jhen Tseng, Chien-Wei Fang, Huan-Chi Tseng
Lead Them Through the Shadows: An Investigation of the Marginalized Homeless in Wanhua
Wei-Che Lin
Disparity Among Races During COVID-19: Asians and Africans in America
Yuting Emily Ma
QE or Not QE: Evaluation of the Possibility of QE in China
Fei Nan
Government Power and Individual Rights during Covid-19: A corpus-based analysis on the usage of should/yinggai in English and Chinese Culture
Zi Ying Ong
Universal Challenges of Gentrification When Redeveloping Cities: Lessons Taipei Can Draw From the World
Shao Cheng Ong
Did the Watchdog Bark? The Media Agenda Setting in Response to COVID-19
Isabella Peng
Face Mask Wastes and the Environment Challenge during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amanda Qin
Surnames beginning with R, S, T, W, Y, Z
The Association of Ethnicity between Covid-19 Mortality Rates in the U.S.
Jassie Roberts
Analysis on the Efficiency of Language Policies in Mainland China during COVID-19
Libo Tan
The Dilemma Between Economics and Politics: the Geopolitics of Kinmen’s Water Diversion Project
Yi-Jie Tsai
Has Covid-19 stopped economic development? The emerging goods profit model
Hongjian Wang
Viewing China’s Public Opinion Issue in the Case of Mekong River Dam Controversy
Shaoqiu Wang
Domestic Violence in the Age of COVID-19
Siruo Wang, Zhouyan Gao
The Achievement Gap in Guizhou, China, Despite the Help of the Government
Haoran Wei
Examination for Negative Oil Price: An Out of the Common Incident
Shelley Weng
Predicting Infection Numbers of COVID-19 with the Simplified SIR Model
Huan-Cheng Wu
Multiculturalism Without the Awareness of Social Class
Jesse Wu
Coincidence, or Not? Correlation Between Pandemics and El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Jui-En Wu
“No, I don’t understand it!”: Multilingualism and COVID-19 in Taiwan
Shang-Chen Wu, Vera Huang
Termination Year for Lusheng: Identity of Mainland Chinese Students in Taiwan and the Allocation of Medical Resources during COVID-19
Hao Yang
The Correlation between Stereotypes and Disease Outbreaks: A Case Study of Homeless People in Taiwan
Ting-An Yang, Po-Chun Hsu
A Turning Point: The Reascension of Food Delivery Platforms During COVID-19 Pandemic
Wei Yen
Hidden Effects Of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Revelation of Inequality in Human Society
Zichuan Zhang
Luxury Industry under the Pandemic Crisis: COVID-19’s Influences and the Industry’s Future
Langxuan Zhao