It is doubly hard to know where certain things came from. Let along stating the epistemology as if it is the first thing to do. It is not, because it is actually the most complex one out of the all.
While many countries either were directly colonised by one of the west and got their direct influences (such as Hong Kong, Chile, Brazil), or having a very clear historical heritage (such as Japan), Taiwan has been colonised by Japan (non-western) and has its national identity in formation.
Which they expect you to know them so well that you should be the one to know where they get lost. How comfortable is that? 🧐
Or you run into the risk of “orientalising” your work. Additionally, you will have to convince the “western population” that what you are proposing is useful to them in three sentences. Where, they didn’t even capable of telling you at which point they got lost.
The difficulty of doing academic work as a Taiwanese in Europe, and in the context of the “Academics” that predominately written in English is that: You will be asked to either embrace epistemology that is not foreign to the “western” so that it is a “valid epistemology” (following in the replies)
