Center for Taiwan Studies
My Brother Song-Fen Kuo: His Heart on the Road of Nostalgia 我的哥哥郭松棻—鄉愁路上的魂魄 Speaker: Professor Jane Kuo (University of California, San Diego) Time: October 12, 2023, 5:00-6:30 pm (PDT) Zoom Information: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84361744906 ID: 843 6174 4906 The talk will be in Chinese Song-Fen Kuo is recognized as a distinctive novelist in Taiwanese literature. Through this presentation, and as his…
Please join us for “Queer Sinophone Cultures: A 10th Anniversary Conference” An event at HKU co-sponsored by UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies Date: December 22, 2023, 9:00 am-6:15 pm (Hong Kong Time) In face-to-face mode only Event Registration Here
Labor and Social Revolt in the Sinosphere: How China’s Rise Impacted Workers and Class Politics in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 1989-present Eli Friedman Co-sponsored by the East Asia Center and the Center for Taiwan Studies Wednesday February 21 12:30-2 pm PST In-Person: SSMS 2001 Zoom: tinyurl.com/Globalw24 From the late 1980s on, China came to be far and…
Queer Homecoming as Tactics of Intervention E.K. Tan (Stony Brook University) May 8, 2024, Wednesday 12:30 pm-1:45 pm (PT) Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/4177296373?pwd=dW9MWXNRYUtLc3pJS3ltZXo0VkhWUT09 Meeting ID: 417 729 6373 Passcode: 752786 In this presentation, I discuss the concept of “queer homecoming” as a critical intervention into the normative patrilineal kinship structure in Sinophone societies, defined by traditional…
Chiang Kai-shek’s “Righteous Compatriots” in the Global Cold War: Displacement and Relief of Dachen Refugees in the First Taiwan Strait Crisis Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (University of Missouri-Columbia) May 29, 2024 Wednesday 12:30pm-1:45pm (PT) Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/4177296373?pwd=dW9MWXNRYUtLc3pJS3ltZXo0VkhWUT09 Meeting ID: 417 729 6373 Passcode: 752786 In the midst of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis in early 1955,…
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