Bruce Jacobs is an Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy (2008), Democratizing Taiwan (2012), and The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard (2016). He edited the four-volume work Critical Readings on China-Taiwan Relations (2014) and is co-editor and contributor to the forthcoming Changing Taiwanese Identities.