Are you dead set on staying in Taiwan? There are good programs overseas.
I guess I was wrong about NTU then. I probably just misunderstood what my coworkers were telling me
If my wife wasn’t so insistent on staying here, I would have done grad school at a university in America. There’s just way more diversity in terms of research especially in my field (social psychology). Here there are two social psychology program taught in English in all of Taiwan (one at Asia University in Taichung and the other at national chung Cheng university in Chiayi). Both are way too far from Taipei for me to make them work so I had to switch to Asian Studies (I have a degree in political science as well so it does still fit). It’s made things much more challenging, although I am happy I live in Taipei and so far my program has been really great.
But if you don’t have reasons to stay like this, I’d say look into a PhD abroad