Sponsored by the East Asia National Resource Center and Taiwan Education and Research Program

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT

Hybrid Event

Lindner Family Commons

1957 E St NW Room 602

AND

Online

Re-Articulations: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies explores the important changes and key debates in the evolution of foreign literature studies in Taiwan to showcase the historical and institutional forces that have formed and shaped it—to grasp how in each historical conjuncture foreign literature studies interacted with its own social contexts and the transformation of global structures. In this talk, Wang will introduce the book by emphasizing on the political aspect of this institutional history and focusing on two specific cases: the transpacific trajectory of TA Hsia and his involvement in the study of Modern China, and the debates surrounding the translation of subjectivity in the 1990s. These two cases will shed light on how Cold War politics left imprints on the development foreign literature studies in Taiwan.

This event will be on the record and a recording will be available on the NRC YouTube channel after the event. 

Registration

The event is open to the public. Registered guests will receive details for joining the Zoom meeting. 

The George Washington University Masking and Vaccination Policy for On-Campus Guests.

GW policy requires that all visitors to campus be fully vaccinated and boosted. Staff will be checking proof of vaccination at the door. To streamline the process, guests can download the CLEAR Health Pass app, but the app is not required. Guests are also required to wear masks while in campus buildings. If you are unable to adhere to these guidelines, we encourage you to attend the event virtually.

Speaker

Dr. Andy Wang Chih-Ming, Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute

Moderator

Liana Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese language and literature, GW

Speaker

Andy Wang Chih-ming is associate research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, working in the intersected fields of transpacific American literature and inter-Asia cultural studies, especially on the questions of intellectual production and diasporic connections. He the chief-editor of Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies (2017-2023) and the author of Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013). He also coedited a number of projects, including (with Daniel Goh) Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017) and (with Yu-Fang Cho) “The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies,” American Quarterly 69.3 (2007). His book (in Chinese) Re-Articulations: Hundred Years of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan is forthcoming from Linking Press in Taiwan.

Moderator

Liana Chen is an Assistant Professor of Chinese language and literature at the George Washington University. She holds a PhD from Stanford University, and an MA from National Taiwan University. Dr. Chen is the author of Literati and Actors at Work: The Transformations of Peony Pavilion on Page and On Stage in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2013). Her areas of teaching and research focus on Chinese drama and theatre, Chinese literature of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Taiwanese literature and film. Liana Chen’s research has been supported by The American Council of Learned Societies and Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GW.

Taiwan Education and Research Program, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and East Asian National Resource Center Presents

Taiwan Humanities Lecture Series 

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

7:30 pm – 8:45 pm EST

Zoom Event

Join us for a book talk with Professor Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang on his book “The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan“

About

The Great Exodus examines one of the least understood forced migrations in modern East Asia—the human exodus from China to Taiwan following the Nationalist collapse and Chinese Communist victory in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs on the subject, the book tells a very different story from conventional historiographies the Chinese civil war and Cold War Taiwan. Underscoring the displaced population’s trauma of living in exile and their poignant “homecomings” four decades later, Yang presents a multiple-event trajectory of repeated traumatization with the recurring search for home, belonging, and identity. By portraying the Chinese civil war exiles in Taiwan both as traumatized subjects of displacement and overbearing colonizers to the host populations, this thought-provoking work challenges the established notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation. It speaks to the importance of subject position, boundary-crossing empathic unsettlements, and ethical responsibility of researching, narrating, and representing historical trauma.

Registration

The event is open to the public. Registered guests will receive details for joining the Zoom meeting.

Speaker

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Associate Professor of History, The University of Missouri

Moderator

Liana Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature; Director, The Taiwan Education and Research Program (TERP), GW

Speaker

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (楊孟軒) is an Associate Professor of East Asian History in the Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. Dominic completed his PhD in the Department of History, University of British Columbia (2012). He has been a recipient of multiple SSHRC awards (Canada) and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation grants, as well as the Taiwan Fellowship. Dominic has published articles in journals such as China Perspectives, Taiwan shi yanjiu (Taiwan Historical Research), Journal of Chinese Overseas, Historical Reflections, and Journal of Chinese History. His first book The Great Exodus from China won the Memory Studies Association First Book Award in 2020, and in 2021, was selected as a Finalist for the International Book Award in the category of History: General. For his research, Dominic also received University of Missouri Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award in 2020. He is the first faculty in University of Missouri Department of History to receive this honor in the award’s twenty-year history.

Moderator

Liana Chen is an Assistant Professor of Chinese language and literature at the George Washington University. She holds a PhD from Stanford University, and an MA from National Taiwan University. Dr. Chen is the author of Literati and Actors at Work: The Transformations of Peony Pavilion on Page and On Stage in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2013). Her areas of teaching and research focus on Chinese drama and theatre, Chinese literature of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Taiwanese literature and film. Liana Chen’s research has been supported by The American Council of Learned Societies and Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GW.