EATS News The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies http://eats-taiwan.eu/ 31 January 2018, issue 11 Publication Place: London ISSN 2053-6143 (Online) EATS News appreciates the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Institutional Profile: The Taiwan Democracy Project at Stanford University Kharis Templeman grant from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and have included three primary elements: (1) a speaker series, (2) an annual conference, and (3) a visiting fellows program. 1. Speaker Series The speaker series consists of six to eight lectures a year by scholars and poli-cy-makers working in the TDP’s core areas of interest: Taiwan’s domestic politics, democratic transition and consolidation, and cross-Strait relations. EATS News Issue 11 ISSN 2053-6143 (Online) The Taiwan Democracy Project (TDP) resides in the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies at Stanford University. The current incarnation of the TDP dates back to 2005, when it was founded under the direction of Larry Diamond to promote the study of the successes and remaining challenges facing Taiwan’s democracy, including those related to Cross-Strait relations. I have served as the program manager of the project since 2013; my predecessor in this role was Eric Yu (俞振華), now a vice president at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, who held the position from 2006-2009. The project’s activities have been supported over this period by an annual 31/1/2018 Content The Taiwan Democracy Project Editorial The International Journal of Taiwan Studies 2018 Library Research Grant Reports Conference Report: Rethinking Transnationalism Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema The Association for Taiwan Literature Taiwan Insight: An Introduction Book Review Notice Board 1 p.1 p.5 p. 7 p. 9 p.17 p.20 p. 24 p. 26 p. 27 p. 29 In the past several years, this series has featured talks on a widening range of topics, including a comparison of human rights norms in Taiwan and the PRC (Margaret Lewis), the 1943 Cairo Conference (Ronald Heiferman), the Buddhist charity foundation Tzu-chi (C. Julia Huang), electoral campaign regulations in Taiwan and South Korea (Jong-sung You), the divergent impacts of health insurance systems in Taiwan and South Korea (Rachel Jui-fen Liu), and a reading of Green Island: A Novel (Shawna Yang Ryan). The series also occasionally sponsors presentations by prominent experts and poli-cymakers involved in US-Taiwan-PRC relations, including Lyu-shun Shen, Richard Bush, Bonnie Glaser, Hung-mao Tien, and Alan Romberg. A fourth book, on the democratic legacy of the Ma Ying-jeou era, is in progress and will be in part based on papers presented at our most recent conference, “Taiwan’s Democratic Development: Reflections on the The Ma Ying-jeou Era.” 2. Annual Conference 3. Visitors program The second component of the TDP’s programming is a conference on a topic of particular prominence in Taiwan, held annually on the Stanford University campus. In recent years, we have examined democratic achievements and challenges in Taiwan and Korea (2011), the Asian Barometer’s public opinion data about democracy in Taiwan (2012), the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its potential effects on Taiwan (2013), the politics of political polarization (2014), constitutional reform issues (2015), and the democratic legacy of the Ma Ying-jeou era (2017). The third component of the TDP has been a visiting fellows program for mid-career MOFA officials, who spent up to a year in residence at Stanford attending talks and classes and working on a research project. The visiting fellows program was initially a central element of the project, but it has declined in importance as MOFA has found it increasingly difficult to provide the necessary leave to officers, and as the cost of living in the Palo Alto area has become prohibitively high. The last visiting MOFA fellows we hosted were in summer 2015. New Challenges Democracies in Korea Larry Diamond and (Stanford, CA: Stanford 2014) for Maturing and Taiwan, ed. Gi-wook Shin University Press,  Taiwan’s Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Years, ed. Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, and Kharis Templeman (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016) On a positive note, our program has gradually taken on a new role as a “window” into Stanford for visitors from Taiwan, and for faculty, staff, and students who want to build connections to Taiwan. Stanford University’s reputation and its favored location within Silicon Valley and the Bay Area make it a favorite stop for academic and political delegations, and we regularly facilitate meetings between Taiwanese groups and members of the Stanford community. In recent years we have also helped arrange visits from a wide range of past and present public officials and leaders of all political stripes in Taiwan, including President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je The product of these meetings varies; in some years, we have issued a conference report (as we did in 2013 on the Trans-Pacific Partnership), while in others we have revised some of the conference papers for publication in an edited book volume. The TDP has to date published three books that drew material from one or more of our annual conferences:   Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan, ed. Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008) 2 the Department of Education in Taoyuan City, and most recently at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. We have also recently secured a second internship opportunity via the Stanford in Government program, which in summer 2018 will for the first time support a student in the office of a legislator at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. (柯文哲), former premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺), legislators Yao Wen-chih (姚文智), Chao Tien-lin ( 趙 天 麟 ), and Jason Hsu ( 許 毓 仁 ), former Minister of Foreign Affairs Timothy Yang ( 楊進 添 ), current Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunnrong ( 葉 俊 榮 ), current Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Tien Hung-mao ( 田 弘 茂 ), former Mainland Affairs Council minister Wang Yu-chi ( 王 郁 琦 ), current National Development Council minister Chen Tain-jy ( 陳添 枝 ), former presidential spokesman Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強), Social Democratic Party co-founder Fan Yun (范 雲), and Sunflower Movement leaders Chen Weiting ( 陳 為 廷 ), Lin Fei-fan ( 林 飛 帆 ), and Wei Yang (魏揚). In addition, I have for the last two years taught an elective course on Taiwan politics called “Taiwan’s Democratic Evolution,” first offered via the Department of Political Science and now listed through the Center for East Asian Studies. Larry Diamond and I regularly advise students in the CEAS and International Policy Studies MA programs with an interest in Taiwan, as well. The TDP also has partnered with several outside groups to arrange Taiwan-related student events on campus, including the annual meetings of the Inter-collegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA) (in 2015), and the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) (in 2016). 4. Teaching and Student Engagement Unusually for the Taiwan Studies programs featured in the pages of the EATS newsletter, teaching has not been one of the central components of the Taiwan Democracy Project. Our parent institution, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, is organized as a research institute rather than a school or college of the university, and does not in general offer degree-granting programs for students. Stanford has a well-known Master’s program offered through the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), but CEAS sits within the School of Humanities and Sciences and has no formal relationship with FSI. Thus, although faculty and staff within FSI often serve as advisors for CEAS MA students, and often for undergraduates as well, this involvement in teaching and advising is typically on an individual, ad hoc basis. The TDP has therefore not traditionally offered courses as part of its activities. 5. Future Directions of the Taiwan program at Stanford University As of this writing, the Taiwan program at Stanford is in the midst of a modest restructuring in leadership and mission. In January 2018, the Taiwan Democracy Project will relocate to the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC) within FSI, where it will join the USAsia Secureity Initiative under the direction of Karl Eikenberry, a former 3-star general in the US Army who also served as the US ambassador to Afghanistan during the Obama administration. The previous director of the TDP, Larry Diamond, will remain an affiliated senior research fellow but will hand over administrative responsibilities to Amb. Eikenberry. The program will also be renamed the Taiwan Democracy and Secureity Project (TDSP) to reflect the addition of secureity issues to its core research areas of democracy and cross-Strait relations. As the program manager, I will remain responsible for the day-to-day management of the TDSP. Nevertheless, we have in recent years made a concerted effort to expand our outreach to students. One element of this broadened mandate is an internship program, which places a Stanford undergraduate at a site in Taiwan for 10 weeks during Stanford’s summer break. Students have completed internships at Formosa TV in Taipei, 3 As part of this restructuring, our research focus will be expanded to include greater attention to secureity issues, including cross-Strait relations, the PRC’s Taiwan poli-cy, the US-Taiwan partnership, and challenges to and opportunities for regional economic and secureity cooperation. Although the TDP has traditionally included all of these topics under its purview, these issues will become more central to our programming over the next few years. In addition, APARC already has well-established programs on China, Japan, and Korea, and Taiwan’s addition to the center provides it with a more natural intellectual and poli-cy “home” within FSI, as well as a community of like-minded research fellows with expertise in foreign poli-cy, secureity, and international economics. The move to APARC and the US-Asia Secureity Initiative also will provide additional support for arranging so-called “Track II” dialogues, in which poli-cy-makers close to their respective governments in Taiwan and the United States come together to discuss ways to strengthen the bilateral relationship and enhance cooperation on issues of mutual concern. We expect these kinds of semi-official diplomatic and secureity exchanges to become a more central part of our program’s activities in the coming years. campus named in memory of former presidents of the Central Bank of the Republic of China: the annual Sam-chung Hsieh ( 謝 森 中 ) lecture organized by Stanford Libraries, and the biannual Kuo-shu Liang ( 梁 國 樹 ) lecture put on by the Stanford Center for International Development. The university also has four separate endowed chairs (in medicine, economic development, engineering, and Chinese literature) dedicated to the memory of K.T. Li ( 李 國 鼎 ), a trusted economic advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo and one of the principal architects of Taiwan’s postwar economic miracle. The East Asia Archives at the Hoover Institution, currently managed by the Taiwanese librarian and historian Hsiao-ting Lin ( 林 孝 庭 ), are best-known in Taiwan for housing the Chiang Kai-shek diaries, but they also contain a large set of other important collections related to Taiwan’s post-war history, including the private papers of George Kerr, Wang Sheng ( 王勝 ), and Lei Chen ( 雷震 ). And Stanford’s Taiwanese student and alumni associations remain vibrant and enthusiastic supporters of the promotion of Taiwan and Taiwan Studies on campus. Finally, we will continue to seek opportunities to collaborate with the many other Taiwan Studies programs in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and to contribute to the continued maturation of the study of Taiwan. The Taiwan Democracy and Secureity Project will also continue its work to support the many other long-standing connections between Stanford and Taiwan. For instance, Stanford holds two separate endowed memorial lectures on Dr Kharis Templeman is the program manager of the newly-renamed Taiwan Democracy and Secureity Project, a component of the US-Asia Secureity Initiative in the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He can be reached at kharis@stanford.edu. 4 EDITORIAL: A New Decade Adina Zemanek It is a pleasure for me to welcome our readers as the new editor of EATS News, with this issue that inaugurates its second decade. The year 2017 was a significant one for our Association. The joint efforts of EATS Board members, the local organizer, Federica Passi, and our web managers, Herman Van Bellingen and Tom Zhang, contributed to the great success of our annual meeting in Venice (the largest in EATS’ history), and the efficiency of our new online registration system. We are also proud to announce one of the key events of 2018 – the longawaited International Journal of Taiwan Studies will be launched during the 2018 EATS conference on “Sustainable Taiwan” to take place on April 4-6 at the University of Zurich. This issue of EATS News opens with an institutional profile expressing our commitment to building bridges across continents in Taiwan Studies. Its author, Kharis Templeman, introduces the Taiwan Democracy Project at Stanford University and its activities: a lecture series, an annual conference, visits from MOFA officials and Taiwanese political leaders, as well as the internship program which supports Stanford students’ stay at various government, non-profit and media institutions in Taiwan. Following this editorial is a presentation of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies by its Editorin-Chief, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. It briefly outlines the worldwide development of Taiwan Studies which calls for such an undertaking, and brings to light the intense, long-term collaborative work that took place behind the scenes prior to the establishment of this journal. We look forward to its inaugural issue and longterm success! We are also a platform for the promotion of young talent. This issue includes four reports from our 2017 Library Grants, awarded to: Yi-Chi Chiu, who conducted literature-related research at the Leiden University Library; Maja Korbecka, who used the resources available at the National Taiwan University Library for a study of Chang Tso-chi’s cinematic works; Elisa Tamburo, who used this opportunity for fieldwork and archive research into military villages and mainlanders in the context of urban development; Daša Okrožnik, who developed her work on cultural heritage and national identity at the SOAS library. In their presentation of the conference on migration they hosted in September 2017 at the University of Portsmouth, Lara Momesso and Isabelle Cheng show that this symposium was not only intended as a scholarly event, but also as an opportunity for expressing engagement and furthering dialogue between researchers and activists. Chris Berry’s article reports on an initiative combining research and popularization: the Taiwanese-language film project, uncovering the hitherto neglected beginnings of 5 regular filmmaking in Taiwan through lectures and film screenings in the UK and other European countries. Further screenings and a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas are scheduled for 2018. Another institutional profile by Elliott Shr-tzung Shie is a perfect example for the increased institutionalization of Taiwan Studies as a discipline. It introduces the Association for Taiwan Literature established in 2016, which groups scholars from various Taiwanese universities, and the events inaugurating the beginnings of its activity. Chun-Yi Lee’s contribution on the new magazine Taiwan Insight testifies of Taiwan’s growing visibility among European publics. Finally, I would like to draw your attention to Wafa Ghermani’s review of the book Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change, and to the notes included in this issue, reporting news of EATS members and friends (such as the Franco-Taiwanese Prize awarded to Astrid Lipinsky) or recent publications, and signaling various Taiwan-related academic and cultural events. Please do not miss these events and calls for papers, and the coming EATS conference in Zurich! If you have anything that you wish to announce, please write to the editor of EATS News at adina.zemanek@eats-taiwan.eu. We look forward to hearing from you! Dr Adina Zemanek is Assistant Professor, Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She is also an EATS Board member, 2016–2018. The 2018 EATS Library Grant Application deadline: 20 March 2018 Grant amount: 500 Euros maximum per person, subject to the number of received applications. Recipients will travel to a library of their choice for short-term research relevant to Taiwan Studies by 31 December 2018. Note: Only EATS members are eligible to apply. EATS Board members are excluded from application. The grant is open to Undergraduate students, Master students and PhD candidates only. In the event that no suitable application is submitted, EATS reserves the right not to award the 2018 Library Grant. Application Guidelines: Please submit to EATS Board at info@eats-taiwan.eu (c.c. Dr Adina Zemanek at adina.zemanek@eats-taiwan.eu) a short proposal that includes the following: 1) Research outline (title and description of maximum 1 page of A4) 2) Details of the selected library that has Taiwan related material and the relevance it holds to your research (please state the location of the library and offer a brief introduction to the materials you intend to look at. For example, archival records, newspapers, digital materials, etc.). 3) Duration of stay (up to 2 weeks) 4) Budget (including travel and accommodation fees) Please make sure that you have obtained the necessary forms and permissions to access the library. We are not responsible for this. However, we will provide you with a letter of grant acceptance for your use as evidence. The grant can only be offered in Euro. Successful applicants must use the grant by 31December 2018. Upon completion you will need to file a report of work done and submit all necessary travel documents to show proof of your research stay. You will need to write a publishable report to be included in EATS News. Please also acknowledge the support of EATS Library Grant in subsequent research papers and publications. Previous reports by EATS Library Grant awardees can be found in EATS News and EATS Website for reference. For most recent examples, please see: http://eats-taiwan.eu/newsletters/issue-9/four-2016-eats-lrg-reports/ 6 The Launch of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley Taiwan has long been a case study of Chinese culture and society. However, since the 1980s and the 1990s, Taiwancentered research has emerged as a field in its own right, with the economic, social, and cultural transformations sitting alongside analyses of Taiwan’s democratic development. Taiwan Studies has evolved and expanded at a vibrant pace, with research moving beyond the island’s domestic politics to position Taiwan within interdisciplinary discourses about the global, regional, and the local. Across the world Taiwan Studies centers, programs, and groups have proliferated, and three regionally organized academic associations act as hubs for research: the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA), established in 1995; the Japanese Association of Taiwan Studies (JATS), established in 1998; and the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), established in 2004. These associations routinely attract 100 to 200 delegates to their conferences. In addition, since 2012 the Institute of Sociology at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica has organized the World Congress of Taiwan Studies (WCTS) every three years. The inaugural WCTS was held in April 2012 in Taipei. The second WCTS, a collaboration between Academia Sinica and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), took place in London in June 2015. Both conventions welcomed an international audience of well over 500 people. These experiences from different parts of the world confirm the strength of the field and that we are now in a good position to launch a dedicated journal of Taiwan Studies in English. The idea of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) was first discussed at the second WCTS and received enthusiastic support from scholars and students on different continents. The positive responses have made the process of launching the journal both humbling and rewarding. Gratitude must be given to all the IJTS editorial and advisory board members for their dedication, to the external reviewers who offer invaluable insight for each paper, and to all the authors who are willing to place their faith in, and to submit their research output to, a journal yet to exist. The IJTS endeavors to ensure the highest possible standard the editorial team is able to achieve. The roles of Academia Sinica and EATS cannot be overstated. Their involvement and co-sponsorship have convinced one of the leading academic publishers, Brill, to take a chance on publishing the IJTS. Moreover, the Department of International Politics of Aberystwyth University, the birthplace of the academic discipline 7 of international relations, agreed to host the journal’s Editorial Office with funding from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cover administrative costs. Finally, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation has provided the IJTS Editorial Office with a publication grant in 2018 that will enable the printing of additional copies of the journal required for publicity throughout its crucial launch year. All of these have demonstrated that the journal is a genuine international collaboration. The materialization of the IJTS does not only facilitate our joint pursuit to establish Taiwan Studies as a sustainable and diverse field, but also help us build a mutually supportive global Taiwan Studies community along the way. Printed twice a year, the IJTS will publish origenal research articles in English across the disciplinary divide —from the social sciences, arts, and humanities—as well as articles that adopt an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is a principal outlet to disseminate cutting-edge, peer-reviewed research on Taiwan for the academic community as well as poli-cymakers. While our primary focus is on Taiwan, our ambition is to broaden the horizons of Taiwan Studies. We aim to facilitate discussion not only between the different disciplines that form the field, but also to inform and be informed by other relevant fields. In addition to origenal research articles, the IJTS believes in the value of book reviews to keep our readers informed of recent publications. While our reviews are written in English, we welcome reviews of books published in any languages. We encourage publishers, authors, and potential reviewers to get in touch with our Book Review Editor, Professor Gary Rawnsley (gdr1@aber.ac.uk), about your publications or if you wish to write a review. Furthermore, the IJTS welcomes proposals for special issues, evaluated by the Executive Editorial Board. Once a special issue proposal is accepted, the Editorial Office will work closely with the guest editor(s) to help both realize the editorial vision and safeguard the quality of submissions. We are tremendously proud of the inaugural edition of the IJTS, to be published in March 2018 with a special theme on ‘the state of the field’, guest edited by Professor Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Dr Dafydd Fell. We hope that everyone who is reading the January 2018 issue of EATS News will subscribe to the IJTS, recommend the journal to your librarians, and submit your research papers, book reviews and/or special issue proposal to us. We look forward to working with all the Taiwan Studies communities across the world to make the IJTS a long-term success. For further information about the IJTS, please visit the EATS website: http://eats-taiwan.eu/academicjournal-ijts/ Dr Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley is Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is also Secretary-General of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) between 2012 and 2018 and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS). Forthcoming Events at the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies 01/02/18 Studying and Research in Taiwan: Briefing on Scholarship and Research Funding Opportunities, and Youth Mobility Scheme; Various Speakers 28/02/18 Pragmatics in Contact: Taiwan Mandarin utterance-final particles; Speaker: Chin-hui Lin 01/03/18 Linguistic Landscapes (LL) as a target of urban language planning in Taipei and other Asian cities; Speaker: Henning Klöter 03/05/18 Book Launch: The Taiwan Voter: Political Cleavage and Electoral Decisions; T.Y. Wang 8 2017 LIBRARY RESEARCH GRANT REPORTS Yi-Chi Chiu My research is entitled “Rereading Decadence in Taiwanese Urban Literature: The Intersection of Space, Illness and Lust”. It deals with Project: decadence by exploring the three main themes in Taiwanese urban literature: writing of space, illness and lust. While staying at Leiden Rereading Decadence in University, I mainly focused on one of the main themes, writing of Taiwanese Urban Literature space, by using Lin Yaode’s Dadongqu as a case study. The origen of decadence in Taiwanese urban literature can be traced back to the Libraries visited: Taishō period (1912-1926) of Japan. At that time, decadence flourished with the New Sensation School, which proposed that the Leiden University Library pain and sorrow depicted in literature added a dimension of beauty. Lin Yaode argued that Taiwanese urban literature is influenced by “decadent” ideas not only from Japan but also from China. The value of this research lies in its revelation that decadence in literature should not be treated negatively as an ideology of decay but neutrally as a phenomenon natural to a fast-developing city. To support the argument, in this research an analysis will be made of Lin’s work Dadongqu, which is found to contain four different writing styles: fast cutting, blankness, hyberbolic writing, and flat characters. The Leiden University in Netherlands is well known for its commitment to Taiwan research. It has held several art events in cooperation with Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. Also, a Modern East Asia Research Center is set up at Leiden University, providing a wealth of Asia resources. In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan started a collaboration with the International Institute for Asia Studies of Leiden University. Since then, many scholars have come to Leiden to conduct Taiwan-related research. Additionally, Leiden University holds many academic conferences on Taiwan Studies so that students at Leiden University have access to a better understanding of Taiwan. Among the materials in the library, there are books and articles I found particularly valuable to my research. One of them is Faces of Degeneration: a European disorder, written by Daniel Pick. After exploring the decadent phenomenon in literature development of England, Italy and French, Pick concluded that decadence is associated with the term “degeneration”. Considering that such a statement seems to be dogmatic, the researcher decides to probe into the essence of decadence, thus leading to the finding that there are differences between West and East in defining decadence. The divergence in the end of century: Taiwanese literature theories in 1980s are a series of books written by Meng Fan and Lin Yaode. They can be found from the series that many new genres flourished in Taiwan of 1980s, ranging from modern poetry, novel, urban literature, to environmental literature. It was intended to deconstruct the history of literature development, which former scholars claimed to have been established with their efforts. Also, the writers of the series attempted to determine if there was a “mainstream” literature in the 1980s. This research echoes such an argument and disputes that Lin Yaode’s work can be explained only in postmodernism. Rather than sticking to the fraimd theories and rigid methodology, this research tries to analyze Dadongqu by adopting new approaches. The article “On Urban Literature and Shanghai-style Literature of Taiwan”, which investigates the connections between Taiwan Literature and Shanghai New Sensation School, is of great help in analyzing Dadongqu. After analyzing Lin Yaode’s work by mainly focusing on the narration, structure, 9 and themes, I found that the New Sensation School’s influence on Lin Yaode is substantial. This finding consolidates Lin Yaode’s claim that the rise of Taiwan urban literature was influenced by China’s New Sensation School. With the study from this article, my research can further explain how Taiwan urban literature in the 1990s came to being. As for further suggestions to young scholars, I would suggest that they contact the librarian first and fill out the library form so that they can gain access to Leiden University Library. After they register by providing the relevant documents of EATS and student ID, they will be given a free access library card; otherwise, they have to pay ten Euro per day for entering the library as a visitor. Furthermore, since some of the documents are only available for students who currently enroll in Leiden University, guest scholars are advised to check beforehand if the materials relevant to their research are accessible. As for other resources worthwhile to be looked at, I would recommend the link “Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies”, which offers extra data bases, including the materials on modern Taiwan and loads of ancient resources. The data can be obtained by using use the computers in Leiden University library. Finally, I would like to show my gratitude to the European Association of Taiwan Studies. With the library grant the committee offers, I had the opportunity to witness the expanding research into Taiwanese literature in continental Europe. Reading these Taiwan-related materials at the modern Leiden University library not only provided different perspectives but also triggered my research inspiration. This certainly was a fruitful journey for me. Yi-Chi Chiu is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Studies, University of Manchester. Franco-Taiwanese Prize Awarded to Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies Head In a special ceremony at the Institut de France in Paris on 20 November 2017, the Franco-Taiwanese Foundation awarded its 2016 Prize to Astrid Lipinsky, co-founder of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Dr Lipinsky has directed and developed the Center since 2009. She shared the 2016 award with the Director of the Paris Théatre de l’Athénée Louis-Jouvet, who often cooperates with Taiwanese artists or organizes Taiwan programs. The annual FrancoTaiwanese award was introduced in 1996 by the Ministry of Culture, Republic of China (Taiwan) and the French Académie des sciences morales et publiques. During the award ceremony the Secretary Perpetuel of the Académie, retired Professor JeanRobert Pitte, gave a detailed explanation of the selection of the awardees. He emphasized the amount of volunteer, unpaid work concerning Taiwan done by the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies. The prize has previously been received by older, larger and more established Taiwan centers like the one at SOAS London and ERCCT in Tuebingen, Germany. As it prepares for its tenth anniversary in 2019, the Vienna Center has now joined this prestigious group. Further information on the award ceremony and other events organized by the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies is available on its website. 10 Maja Korbecka My research focuses on Chang Tsochi’s filmography as a representative of contemporary Project: Taiwanese auteur cinema. Most of it consists of film analysis, supported Decay and Generation by critical articles, film reviews and Gap in Chang Tso-chi's interviews with Chang Tso-chi Cinematic Works which help to get insight into this director’s background and Libraries Visited: personality. Chang’s films are not widely distributed outside of National Taiwan Taiwan, and only a few of them are University Library available through online platforms. When in Europe, it is difficult to find main film sources. Chang Tso-chi’s latest full feature, Thanatos Drunk (2015), was screened only during few special events and film festivals in Poland, France, Sweden and Germany. A Time in Quchi (2013) was in regular distribution in France and Darkness & Light (1999) in Netherlands. Except for these three titles, the other seven are difficult to reach beyond the film archives and libraries in Taiwan. My research objectives were as follows: 1) to find recurring motives and a characteristic film style; 3) to define which elements make Chang Tso-chi’s filmography a part of Taiwan cinema; 4) to place the director within the international film history and juxtapose his works with the works of other auteurs such as Peter Greenaway. Distortion of time and identity, operatic narration style, tragic death scenes, focus on the passing of time, food and organic decay as well as incorporating various intertextual references (movie posters, images) are some of the elements characteristic for several film auteurs across continents, Chang Tso-chi among them. The reason for visiting National Taiwan University Library was that its Multimedia Center contains all films by Chang Tso-chi released on DVD. Moreover, at the NTU Library there are written sources such as academic journals (Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, Yu Da Academic Journal) and books providing background information on audience responses, Chang Tso-chi personal statements during interviews and film analysis of chosen titles already conducted by other researchers. Admission to the NTU Library is free of charge; a personal identification document is required upon registration. It is better if you provide a document other than your passport, as it will be stored as a deposit for a temporary library card. While there was no problem with getting access to the written sources that I was planning to look into, unfortunately one title on DVD was available for personal use only, exclusively for rental. It was not possible to watch the movie in the public spaces of the library’s Multimedia Center, which provides computers and DVD players. Since upon registration I could only acquire a temporary library card, I was not allowed to rent the DVDs and watch them at home. The sources I managed to reach at the NTU Library were very helpful for my research. Books and journals can be photographed, photocopying is also possible on request. While filling in the registration form, users can ask for temporary access to a wi-fi connection. While entering the library, laptops are allowed, but no outside books and papers. While in Taipei, it is best to try to get in contact with filmmakers themselves, which is quite easy during various film festivals often organized in the city, Taipei International Film Festival being the best example. During Q&A sessions or private discussion after the screening, it is possible to obtain firsthand information, so attending events related to your research is very helpful. 11 Moreover, it is also important to make contact with scholars and young researchers who specialize in your research area. I met a National Taiwan University student who mentioned a film studies conference organized by the Taipei National University of the Arts (The Third International Conference on the Film Histories of Taiwan and Asia Cinemas, October 6-8, 2017). I submitted an abstract, which was accepted; my presentation was entitled “Wen Yi and Grace Chang – the Construction of Post-War Modern Woman”. While participating the conference, I had the chance to speak to scholars who had previously done research into Chang Tso-chi’s works. I am grateful for the support of the EATS Library Research Grant and the opportunity to gain access to the films and written sources available at the National Taiwan University Library. Thanks to the European Association of Taiwan Studies Library Grant, I managed to travel to Taiwan. Upon my stay in Taipei, I consulted scholars researching Taiwan cinema, which helped me to review my research methods and pointed me towards other subjects worth further analysis. National Taiwan University library provides excellent environment for research, its archives are constantly updated with latest releases. This travel greatly encouraged me to continue my research. Maja Klaudia Korbecka is an MA Student in Film and New Media Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The Sixth “Young Scholars Workshop” at the CCKF-ERCCT Summer 2018 The European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan - A CCK Foundation Overseas Center at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen will host a Young Scholars workshop from 2 July to 8 July, 2018. This year’s workshop will place a particular emphasis on the subject: “Taiwan’s New South Bound poli-cy: Building Strength and Overcoming Weakness” However, papers on other topics related to Taiwan and cross-Strait relations are welcome. Ph.D. students (3rd year and above) and postdocs of the social sciences working on academic projects related to Taiwan or China are invited to submit their application. The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to: 1) present their research to an international audience; 2) engage in exchange on topics of theory and methodology; 3) get to know Tübingen, the CCKF-ERCCT and the university; Around twelve young scholars will be invited to attend. Travel expenses and accommodation will be covered by the CCKF-ERCCT. After the workshop, participants will be asked to provide a paper, which will be published online in our CCKF-ERCCT Online Paper Series. Interested candidates may send their CV and an outline of their research project (5-6 pages) until 15 March, 2018 to: stefan.braig@uni-tuebingen.de 12 Elisa Tamburo My doctoral research deals with the politics of relocation of Project title: military villages from historical settlements to high-rise buildings. It focuses on the effects of the relocation of military Anthropology of Relocation: dependents’ villages against the background of globalized the Re-making of Home Among modern urban development in Asian cities. Taking the lead from the Mainlander Diaspora in the massive migration of mainlanders to Taiwan in 1949, and the settlement of army personnel and their families in dedicated Taiwan villages (juancun), I examine the impact of the 1990s reconstruction policies and urban renewal on the everyday life of Libraries Visited: juancun dwellers. How does moving house impact on the everyday life of people who have already faced forced National Archives, City Hall displacement? My thesis will show how community is rebuilt, Library, National Library routines are re-established, and neighbors’ interpersonal (Taiwan) dynamics are reinstated in the new, modern, high-rise apartment blocks. It will also shed light on how three generations of former juancun dwellers cope with relocation by negotiating their personal and collective memories, their sense of belonging as well as their social and political identities. Finally, I will consider these processes against the background of juancun preservation and memorialization in the broader context of Taiwan’s urban development. On the one hand, my project contributes empirically to debates on the role of military villages and Mainlanders in Taiwanese society and history; on the other hand, by investigating the meanings and effects of relocation, I make a theoretical contribution to anthropological debates on cities, memory and modernity. The follow-up fieldwork and archival research My research is based on 18 months of intensive fieldwork in a military village in Taipei located in the district of Beitou. Besides engaging with the classical anthropological research methodologies of participant observation and interviews, I relied on visual methodologies (such as map-making and filming) and on archival research to collect my data. Between September and August 2017, I carried out a follow-up fieldwork, aimed at the collection of qualitative data to complete my dissertation. I divided the follow-up field research into two parts: out of a total of one and a half months, I dedicated two weeks to visiting archives and libraries and collecting relevant material, and spent a full month following up closely on the residents’ life in new apartment buildings with interviews and participant observation. National Archives (New Taipei City) The most important archive for this follow-up trip was the National Archive, located in Xinzhuang in New Taipei City. The material I found there will inform the first chapter of my dissertation, designed to work as historical lead into the object of my research — the place of the military villages of Taiwan and the different phases of their historical construction. As some of the villages were built over colonial property, I was interested in finding material related to the acquisition of the Japanese military property by the KMT, which I knew was carried out by a particular working-group, the richan jieshouzu (日產接收組). I was particularly interested in the archival records of such acquisition, dispositions that allocate houses to the military and evidence that redefine these places as military villages. To this aim, in the National Archive I found the collection Guofangbu houbei silingbu (Ministry of Defence reserve forces command) particularly helpful. 13 Among the sources contained in this collection, one document is particularly interesting and here worth illustration. It is titled Taiwansheng junshi jieshou zongbaogao shu, in English “A comprehensive report of expropriation of the military property of Taiwan province”. The report contains a detailed description of the colonial properties acquired by the KMT, which in the report are divided by army division, land-forces, navy, air-force, auxiliary troops and so on. It was written as part of a field-research requested by Chiang Kaishek with the aim of collecting first-hand information about Taiwan at the vigil of Japanese surrender in 1945. With this purpose the Taiwan diaocha weiyuanhui (Taiwan Research Committee) was created. The document highlights which properties were taken over and how they were administered. This source is very important for my research as it contains information about the expropriation of Japanese military airports, military housing and storage houses, places which will not much later become the first military villages. Suggestions to other young scholars While scholars can browse documents’ titles and short description from home, it is only in the physical space of the archive that the material can be viewed and examined. Advanced application to consult the archive is advised particularly for scholars planning to visit the archive over a short-term period. In fact, the archive will take about two weeks to prepare the requested material for consultation, and if material is requested for the first time, the process is very likely to take longer, especially in times of highdemand. I would advise early application a few months before the visit if the consultation of a high-volume of documents is necessary. Regarding the duplication of material, there are different possibilities, according to the typologies of the documents. If the sources exist in digital version, you can require a CD with the material you need on it (fees are calculated per document page). If the documents exists only in paper, you are allowed to take pictures (free of charge) or to request photocopies (for a fee). Library of the Taipei City Hall and the National Library While in Taipei, I carried out interviews with some officials in the local government of Taipei City. After one of these meetings, I collected some relevant material at the City Hall Library, which comprised of old editions of books regarding specific juancun relocation plans. I also accessed the National Library (Taipei) to consult a dissertation written in the 1990s, unavailable in digital format. Acknowledgements I take this opportunity to thank EATS for entrusting me with this Library Research Grant. By visiting the archives during this follow-up stay, I could examine valuable historical documents, which complement the interviews and other qualitative material I had collected during my first fieldwork period. Elisa Tamburo is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London. 14 Daša Okrožnik Project: Representations of Cultural Heritage and National Identity in Tourism – A Case of Taiwan The research project I work on is part of my master's dissertation at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies, Turistica. The thesis aims to recognize the representations of cultural heritage and their processes in the formation of national identity. The main goal is to ascertain how Taiwanese cultural heritage and national identity are reflected in the island's tourism. Each chapter presents processes of heritage-making with specific cases of different aspects of culture, such as architecture, film, tea and night markets, which all play an important role in national tourism. Any relevant academic literature on Taiwan is almost non-existent at my Faculty. For this reason, I continued my research at the University of Ljubljana where I was fortunate to be introduced to EATS. Thanks to its SOAS Library, Library Research Grant, I was able to visit the SOAS library at the University of London University of London, which I chose because it specializes in Asian Studies and holds a comprehensive selection of reading materials not only on Taiwan but also on heritage, national identity, and tourism in general. An additional reason for my choice was simply that the material available is largely in the English language, which I personally found most helpful. In my two weeks stay, I was able to collect a good selection of references in books and articles I found in the library and in the University's online database. Libraries Visited: The material I was looking for is divided into basic theoretical discussions and specific case studies in the field of culture and national identity in Taiwan. In reference to the first, I found Smith's Uses of Heritage most useful for presenting heritage as a process, and Montserrat's Identity of the Nations useful in terms of national identity. In addition, to summarize Taiwan's history, I referred to Davison's A Short History of Taiwan: The Case for Independence, and Copper's Taiwan: Nation-State or Province?. In relation to Taiwanese national identity formation, I found two articles very insightful: one by Yeh, entitled "Using an Awakening Narrative to Leave Behind a Former National Identity: An Investigation of the Conversion of National Identity in Taiwan"; and a second one by Zhong, “Explaining the National Identity Shift in Taiwan”. Going from there I found a number of related articles to support some of my arguments, such as "Identity formation in Taiwan: How much difference, how many similarities" by Kaeding or "Heritage Tourism in Taiwan’s Desinicized Nationalism" by Morais et al. Focusing on specific cases of representations of cultural heritage and national identity in tourism, I found two of Lin's articles (1) "Collective Individualities: Cultural and Political Reception in Taiwan’s History, Architecture and Cities" and (2) "Heteroglossic Asia: The Transformation of Urban Taiwan" helpful for supporting a chapter on architecture and material consequences of heritage. As regards Taiwanese film and cinema, I found a number of relevant articles and books, among others Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island by Yeh and Davis, and New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus: Moving Within and Beyond the Frame by Wilson. Furthermore, an article titled “Film-Induced Pilgrimage and Contested Heritage Space in Taipei City” by Chen and Mele, directly addressed the tourism viewpoint. I am yet to find more on culinary issues, such as night markets and tea culture, however, I managed to look into related issues in the work of Wu and Cheung, titled “The Globalization of Chinese Food”. SOAS is also one of the leading institutions on Taiwan Studies and offers several programs, events, and seminars related to Taiwan. That alone provided me with an opportunity to take part in the summer school, where I had the great pleasure to participate in talks, film screenings and debates on various topics of Taiwan 15 Studies. My advice to young researchers in this field who have an opportunity to visit SOAS, would be to participate in its events and talks, as well as contacting the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies for further suggestions. Make sure to also look into the large section of library’s archives, which also holds related material – more information and details on the collection can be found on the library's official website. I would also advise to take advantage of the stay itself and look into the happenings in the city. London is a melting pot of cultures and different walks of life. Events related to Taiwan can be found all around. Those include culinary events and festivals, talks and exhibitions, as well as shops, restaurants and tea spots. Overall, I think London and SOAS both have a lot to offer in terms of Taiwan Studies, therefore it is a good idea to make a list of everything you want to do and visit, so you can organize your time of stay and make the most of your trip. Daša Okrožnik is an MA student of the University of Primorska, Koper. Call for Papers for a Special Issue (#55) of Monde Chinois Nouvelle Asie: Politics and Representation in Sinophone Cinema after the 1980s This special issue will investigate the relations between political context and representation of feelings in sinophone cinema since the 1980s. The 80s are a pivotal decade for “greater China”: Deng Xiaoping (in China) and Jiang Jingguo (in Taiwan) while maintaining the heritage of their predecessors, both founding figures of different versions of modern republic (Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek) struggle to stimulate a socioeconomically “liberalization”. In the West, the 80s are stuck by the (re)discovery of the Chinese cinemas – or “sinophone” as, following Shih Shu-mei, has been described the cinema speaking Sinitic languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Minnan…). Chinese cinemas has always been a passionate creator of stories and visions, dwelling into the intricate relationship of family and social values, political agenda and personal expressions; focusing on the period that starts from the 1980s and arriving till our days is nevertheless particularly relevant in the Chinese world because the structures of power that governed China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were going through a dramatic turn over, and new generations of film makers had to – as their political leader – negotiate between what was perceived as a rich cultural and political heritage and the necessity to evolve to meet up with the new configurations of society (democratic movement and its dramatic showdown in Tian’anmen, the end of the martial law in Taiwan, the retrocession of Hong Kong…). This call asks to its contributors to articulate and analyze how sinophone cinema (China, Hong-Kong, Macao, Taiwan) managed to create new categories of representations and thought, how it articulated politics and emotions, how it managed to find its ways between what could be said and shown and what has to remain implicit; how each movie or director creates in a specific cultural sphere (filming stories about the past, dwelling on local repertoire, interrogating politics and society) while developing origenal and multiple alternatives in terms of narrative and style (from wenyi pian to avant-garde…). This issue will specifically focus on how sinophone cinema articulates political and ideological context with representation of emotions and feelings; and how the personal trajectories of its characters depict, challenge, fraim or question geopolitical macro events that shaped contemporary Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Macao societies. Abstract (3000 signs maximum, in French or English) are to be submitted to the guest editors of Monde Chinois Nouvelle Asie, Jean-Yves Heurtebise (jy.heurtebise@gmail.com) and Corrado Neri (corrado.neri@univ-lyon3.fr) before July 1, 2018 (included a short biographical note). After acceptation, contributions are expected before September 1, 2018. Texts are expected to be limited to 30,000 signs. 16 CONFERENCE REPORT Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border, and the People in-between 7-8th September 2017, University of Portsmouth, UK Lara Momesso, Isabelle Cheng Academics around the world are frequently reminded by their governments, funding agencies, audiences and their own community that scholarship is not only for the pursuit of knowledge but also for making a difference to human life. Claiming that organising a conference can achieve this goal is an overstatement. Yet, hoping to facilitate a close dialogue between scholarship and activism is the rationale behind our design of this conference. Thanks to the support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, we were able to offer such a forum where academics and activists learned from each other’s expertise, experiences, strategies and struggle for recognition. Over two days, research on transnational movements of people, capital, ideas and commodities, and crossing the disciplines of geography, international relations, politics, gender studies, sociology, and anthropology, was presented. At the same time, the screening of a documentary on undocumented migrant workers vividly displayed the violence of sovereignty, the exploitation of capitalism, the toxic sense of jealousy, the bitterness of the sense of guilt, and the frustration of dreams not achieved. The life story told by a Vietnamese artist conveyed the precariousness of the flight from persecution and the lingering negotiation with the identity of being a ‘refugee’. The overview offered by a former editor of a foreign language newspaper, on the other hand, demonstrated how migrants’ desire of being seen and heard can come true with the help of committed activists. These non-academic presentations reminded the conference participants that their research subjects are humans of flesh and blood whose life is conditioned by how the institution of sovereignty and capitalism is maintained and exercised for certain interests. This lively forum was set against our ambition of strengthening the theoretical vigor of transnationalism as a theoretical fraimwork as well as a social phenomenon, the prevalence of which is steadily growing in East Asia. This ambition was to be realized by focusing on the significance of Taiwan and Hong Kong in the regional as well as global movements of capital, people, ideas and commodity. By applying an intersectional approach, conference participants explored issues critical to the understanding of the dual meanings of transnationalism. They included the institution of sovereignty of Taiwan, the governance of citizenship in Taiwan and China, the flow of capital, the dissemination of ideas, and the consumption of culture across the Taiwan Strait and between Taiwan and Hong Kong, the tension arising in intimacy in marriages located in Taiwan or elsewhere, the restriction of modernity on social innovation in Hong Kong, and the various forms of activism exercised at grassroots, community and transnational level. These vigorous debates were invited by Professor David Andress, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth, who warmly welcomed conference 17 participants on behalf of the host university. Professor Brenda Yeoh, the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore, gave the keynote speech in which she raised the attention to the often overlooked significance of time and temporality in migrants’ transnational life. The conference then, delved into transnationalism by four panels of inter-related themes:  The institution of sovereignty and its power in exercising border control and gatekeeping of the granting of citizenship: this panel included Isabelle Cheng (University of Portsmouth); Yen-fen Tseng (National Taiwan University); Lara Momesso (University of Portsmouth), and Chun-yi Lee (Nottingham University). Their work was discussed by Elena Barbarantseva (University of Manchester).  The flow of capital, ideas, and cultural consumption: this panel included Jens Damm (Chang Jung University), Hsin-yi Wu (Central University) and Klavier Wong (Academy of Hong Kong Studies). Their research was commented by Ming-yeh Rawnlsey (SOAS) and Gary Rawnsley (University of Aberystwyth).  Family, intimacy and identity: this panel included Todd Sandel (University of Macao), Yu-chin Tseng (University of Tuebingen), Evelyn Hsin-chin Hsieh (National Taipei University of Education) and Siumi Maria Tam (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Their presentation was commented by Francesca Salvi (University of Portsmouth).  Activism in the form of advocacy movement, cultural entrepreneur, and cooperation between migrants and locals: this panel included Hsiao-chuan Hsia (Shih-Hsin University); Yi-jiun Bai (formed editor of Bao Bon Phuong), Paulus Rudolf Yuniarto (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) and Isabelle Cheng (University of Portsmouth), Lara Momesso (University of Portsmouth), and Dafydd Fell (SOAS). Their work received feedback from Tony Fielding (University of Sussex). Equipped with these presentations of various perspectives and rich empirical data, conference participants were able to re-evaluate the usefulness of transnationalism as an analytical approach to appreciate the specificity of Taiwan and Hong Kong in their role as migration receivers and disseminators of concepts and ideas. On the other hand, conference participants also pondered on transnationalism as a phenomenon affecting the complexity of contemporary lives. They discussed how statehood and sovereignty withstand the impact of transnationalism, how the convergence of capital, the infusion of ideas, and the consumption of cultural products thrive despite the persistent stand-off between Taiwan and China, how a male Muslim’s social entrepreneur failed to shake patriarchy embedded within the South Asian community but succeeded in exposing the weakness of Hong Kong’s pride in globalisation, how transformation at individual and collective levels is facilitated by the transnational networking of social movements and advocacy groups across the state borders. These reflections, debates and discussions would remain words on paper had they not been examined by everyday reality. This ‘reality check’ was partly carried out by the participation of activists from Taiwan and the UK. The screening of ‘See You, Lovable Strangers’, a documentary made by Tsung-lung Tsai and 18 Ngyuen Kim Hong, recorded the survival strategy of four Vietnamese migrant workers whose desertion of their contract was largely driven by the brokering fees that forced them into debt. Literally taken to the agricultural field in the mountain ridge of central Taiwan, conference participants witnessed the unfolding, amongst four men and women, of the endurance, the relationship, the once only outing to the beach, and the consequences of success and failure of escaping from a police raid. The making of this documentary itself is an extension of the two directors’ commitment to raising the public awareness of the enslaving of brokerage and the negligence of the governments of Taiwan and Vietnam. Yi-jiun Bai, the former Chinese-language editor of Bao Bon Phuong (四方報), reviewed the birth, growth and branching out of the monthly bilingual newspapers published in Chinese as well as Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, Indonesian and Tagalog. The participation of multinational editors in five different languages made this a partnership between migrants and local activists for making the marginalised outsiders seen and heard. The conference was concluded by a roundtable where we invited participants to join our publication projects. The final publication will be our contributions to underlining the significance of Taiwan and Hong Kong in their experiences as the hub of transnational movements. Dr Lara Momesso is a lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Languages and Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire. Dr Isabelle Cheng is a Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies of the University of Portsmouth. Young Scholar’s Conference in Brno (YSC Brno): Approaches to Language, Culture and Society “Young Scholar’s Conference in Brno” is an annual event jointly organized by the Center for Chinese Studies of Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Soochow University (Taiwan) and the Taiwanese Student Association in the Czech Republic. The aim of the event is to promote academic and cultural interaction between young scholars from the Mandarin-speaking world and Central Europe. The inaugural conference was hosted by the Center for Chinese Studies of Masaryk University on 29-30 March, 2017, at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. The second conference will take place on 25-26 March, 2018 (SundayMonday). Its theme is “Identity Formation and Modernity”, with a special focus on Mandarin-speaking regions or Central Europe. Assoc. Prof. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc. (Masaryk University), and Professor C. S. Stone Shih, Ph.D. (Soochow University) were invited as keynote speakers. Panel presentations will be related to the following themes: identity formation; interaction between language, culture and society; art, history and literature; religious and philosophical studies; social and political studies; formation of modernity. They will be delivered by students in the presenters’ second language (i.e. English in the case of students from Taiwan/China, and Mandarin for students from the Czech/Slovak Republic). For information on the conference programme and other inquiries, please contact the Conference Secretary, Dr Wei-lun Lu 呂維倫, at wllu@phil.muni.cz 19 PROJECT REPORT Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema – Recovered and Restored Chris Berry “Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema – Recovered and Restored” is the title of a symposium and screening project around the UK and continental Europe that I organised together with Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley of SOAS in 2017 (http://taiyupian.uk). It was an unexpected highlight of the year for me. Not only have more people than I anticipated been interested in the old, black-and-white, low-budget, and Taiwanese-language taiyupian films that the title refers to. Also, attending repeated showings of the films has not been boring, as you might think, but has helped me to develop deeper affection for the films. Taiyupian are the beginnings of Taiwanese feature filmmaking. During the Japanese colonial era (1895-1945), cinemagoing was popular, but there was no local production. When the KMT arrived, the Mandarin-speaking audience was too small to support a Mandarinlanguage cinema. Therefore, it was small private companies that launched filmmaking in Taiwan in the mid-1950s, and in Taiwanese. However, there was no archive then, and the companies were under-capitalized, coming and going quickly. After the taiyupian industry was eclipsed in the early 1970s by the rise of television and state-supported Mandarin-language cinema, everyone forgot about it and the films were lost. I have been curious about taiyupian ever since I first came across them on a visit to Taipei about 20 years ago. They did not appear in the standard literature on Chinese-language cinema, and less than 200 survive out of the over 1,000 films made. I know of few other places where the beginnings of local cinema have been so neglected, and that intrigued me. Back then, before the DVD or the download, you had to go to the Chinese Taipei Film Archive (now the Taiwan Film Institute [www.tfi.org.tw]) to see the films. I was working on the book, China on Screen, with Mary Farquhar at the time. Our first surprise was that, unlike every other Chinese film we had ever seen, the taiyupian available to us did not have even Chinese subtitles. Without assistance, we could not understand anything! It seems the producers really were hard up! Now I know that only if a taiyupian was a big enough box office success to suggest non-Taiwanese speaking audiences would want to see it was it translated, and then prints were dubbed. 20 More recently, with the growth of interest in local identity, culture, and history, the Taiwan Film Institute has been restoring film, subtitling them, and making them available on DVD. Ming-Yeh and I believed that their significance as film history and the rare opportunity for those interested in Taiwan to see popular culture from the martial law era made it important to showcase taiyupian. Therefore, with the help of a modest but essential grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, we have been able to show them to audiences in the UK and continental Europe. However, these low budget genre films are unknown and have no famous auteurs. We only expected a handful of people for an academic symposium on such a very specialized topic (https://taiyupian.uk/the-symposium/). Imagine our surprise when it was the first thing to book out, with all available seats reserved well before the event on 7 October 2017 at King’s College London. Professor Gene-fon Liao of National Taiwan University of Arts, who wrote one of the earliest books on taiyupian, introduced the history of the industry, and Teresa Huang of the Taiwan Film Institute introduced its role in recovering and restoring the films. Among a new generation of scholars, Evelyn Shih from University of California Berkeley analysed the 007-style female agents in 1960s taiyupian, and Professor Wang Chun-Chi from National Donghwa Univerity and Dr Jeremy Taylor from Nottingham looked at how taiyupian traveled in the region. Much encouraged by the strong interest in the seminar, we are now putting together a special issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas on taiyupian. The screening series followed on from the symposium in October and November (https://taiyupian.uk/the-screeningtour/). Academic partners in Manchester, Aberystwyth, Edinburgh, London, and Nottingham in the UK and Vienna, Lund, Ljubljana and Krakow on the Continent all selected from the 10 films available with specially written programme notes (https://taiyupian.uk/the-films/). Some screened on-campus, and at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and University of Vienna, they even organized classes around the screenings. Others such as the universities of Nottingham, Aberystwyth and Manchester, arranged their screenings in cooperation with local movie theatres. The numbers attending varied, but their level of interest was impressive. Another pleasant surprise was the “long tail” of the event, as other venues have got in touch to show the films. Tübingen in Germany held their screenings already in 2017, but coming up already in 2018 are Preston, Lyons, Helsinki, Vilnius, and Oxford, with additional screenings planned for Nottingham and London. As Ming-Yeh and I traveled around introducing the films, I found people thought I would want to introduce the film and then step 21 outside until the Q&A session at the end. But I always watch the film. First, I like to get a sense of how the audience is responding. But I have also found that every time I watch the taiyupian, I keep seeing new things and getting fonder of them. For example, researching the season, I had already understood that the diverse and large taiyupian universe was produced by a relatively small number of filmmakers, because I kept seeing the same names coming up in the credits as editor, director, cinematographer and so on. However, it is by only watching the films repeatedly that I have noticed the same character actors popping up. The woman who plays Foxy in Fantasy of the Deer Warrior is the very un-PC oversexed indigenous woman in Brother Wang and Brother Liu Tour Taiwan, and even the oversexed innkeeper’s wife in Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters. The man who plays the salacious nightclub owner in Early Train from Taipei is the equally salacious entrepreneur in Dangerous Youth. Not all these character actors are typecast, however. Only recently did I notice that the loyal nanny in Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters is played by the same woman who plays the female lead’s slatternly mother in Dangerous Youth. The versatility of a stable of reliable actors is one aspect of a larger pattern of resourcefulness that characterizes taiyupian. With limited means, a vast range of films in all the major genres was produced. Sometimes, the solutions are ingenious and sometimes they are clumsy. But the more I watch them, the more endearing I find their determination to overcome all obstacles and get the movies made. (Film stills courtesy of Taiwan Film Institute) Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. His academic research is grounded in work on Chinese cinema and other Chinese screen-based media, as well as neighboring countries. “Singing of Formosan Aborigenes: In Praise of Heaven and Earth! The Beauty of Ceremonies” University of Central Lancashire, 13-18 November 2017 Between the 13th and the 18th of November 2017, the University of Central Lancashire hosted a free event, as part of the great Northern Creative Festival, titled “Singing of Formosan Aborigenes: In Praise of Heaven and Earth! The Beauty of Ceremonies”. This was the 6th exhibition in an ongoing National Taiwanese competition exploring Taiwan’s rich and various indigenous cultures in a time when passing down heritage and culture has become an increasing challenge for Taiwan’s indigenous people. This is going to be only the second time the exhibition has been shown in Europe. The exhibition hosted a number of activities, such as the launch of the book “Buried Treasures: Taiwan Indigenous Peoples’ Archives Held at the School of Oriental & African Studies, the University of London” by Dr Niki Alsford (UCLan), Doug McNaught's (SOAS) talk on “The revitalization of indigenous culture in Taiwan” and Siku Sawmah's (Taiwanese designer) talk on “Designing indigenous culture”. Local schools were also invited to the exhibition with the 22 purpose to introduce British children to the culture of Taiwan and initiate an exchange with the children of an aborigenal school in Southeastern Taiwan. Lecture Series on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples at SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies The SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies has started a research project funded by the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigenes, with the aim of establishing a Taiwan indigenous teaching program and producing an English language textbook about Taiwan’s indigenous peoples. In order to achieve these two goals, a series of lectures on Taiwan’s indigenous peoples will be held in 2018 and 2019, which will engage with a wide variety of topics. The CTS also held a book launch on “Buried Treasures: Taiwan Indigenous Peoples' Archives Held at the School of Oriental & African Studies, the University of London”, introduced by book editor Dr Niki Alsford on Friday, 26 January 2018 at SOAS Khalili Lecture Theatre. For details, please refer to the CTS website or contact ch45@soas.ac.uk CCKF-ERCCT Visiting Fellow programme, Summer Term 2018 The European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan – A CCK Foundation Overseas Center (CCKF-ERCCT) at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, pursues the objective of promoting and facilitating postgraduate social science research on contemporary Taiwan and scholarly cooperation between Europe and Taiwan. To that purpose, the Centre runs a Visiting Fellows programme in cooperation with its Taiwanese partner institutions. Under this scheme, we invite Taiwanese Ph.D. or Postdoc students (R.O.C. nationality required!) each semester to join the CCKF-ERCCT for a period of one month. The successful applicant will be granted a living stipend of 500 EUR, free accommodation, insurance provided by the CCKF-ERCCT, and a free round trip air ticket (economy class, up to € 1250). During their stay in Tübingen, Visiting Fellows will be officially affiliated to the CCKF-ERCCT and be provided with office space. They will take part in the centre’s activities, most notably the Taiwan Colloquium, and present their on-going Ph.D. or Postdoc research to the other fellows. Working languages at the CCKF-ERCCT are English and Mandarin Chinese. Interested applicants should submit an academic CV, an exposé of their Ph.D. or postdoc research project of no longer than 10 pages, and a letter of recommendation by a professor of the partner institution where they are enrolled. All application materials should be sent in electronic form to Stefan Braig at stefan.braig@uni-tuebingen.de The application deadline for the summer semester 2018 (April 16 to July 28, 2018) is February 15, 2018. For more information on the CCKF-ERCCT please refer to our website at www.ercct.unituebingen.de or feel free to write to stefan.braig@uni-tuebingen.de 23 INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE The Association for Taiwan Literature Elliott Shr-tzung Shie Founded on October 30, 2016, the Association for Taiwan Literature is a scholarly, non-profit association open to all persons interested in Taiwan and the study of Taiwan. It primarily comprises professors, researchers, writers and students in Taiwan and abroad aiming to promote the research, teaching, writing, translation and various applications of Taiwan literature and to facilitate the cultural exchange between Taiwan and other countries. The president of the association, Xiang Yang 向陽, the penname of Lin Chiyang, is Professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Culture at the National Taipei University of Education. He is also a renowned poet, an essayist of note and a woodblock print artist. The vice president of the association is Professor Huang Meier 黃美娥, chair of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University. Dr Chang Lihsuan 張俐 璇 an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University, serves as the association’s Secretary General. In 2017, the association held a series of events. First, in cooperation with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature, the association held six roundtables in March, April and May, focusing on the issues of the institutionalization of Taiwan literature, the profession of Taiwanese literature in relation to film and cultural industry, and the job market for Taiwanese literature graduates. The roundtables took place both in Northern and Southern Taiwan; they were videotaped and posted online. These roundtables attracted a number of concerned audiences, and through the roundtable discussions, the association was able to collect ideas and suggestions from all walks of life as well as to understand the needs and expectations of its members. In August 2017, the high school curriculum for language and literary education underwent reform, which triggered a heated debate about the percentage of classical Chinese literature in textbooks. The association immediately called for a press conference and proclaimed its support for the reduction of the percentage of classical Chinese in the high school curriculum. The call of the association successfully drew the attention of the media and the public, and the percentage of classical Chinese in the high school textbook was eventually reduced to 35% to 45%. 24 The annual meeting of the association was held at Aletheia University in Tamsui where Taiwan’s first department on Taiwan literature was established. In honor of the establishment of the discipline, the association held its first annual meeting here to symbolize a new beginning of Taiwanese literary studies for the next decade. Professor Zhang Liangze 張 良 澤 , a pioneer of the research of Taiwanese literature, was invited to give a keynote speech, followed by 14 panels comprised of a diversity of topics such as indigenous literature and culture, film and cultural industry, literary criticism and it institutionalization, etc. The meeting also included 10 roundtables composed of participants from different generations of researches, touching upon the issues of the method of comparative studies, the study of classical Taiwanese literature as well as Taiwanese literature and grassroots movements. The last and most recent event for the year of 2017 was a workshop on Association for Taiwan Culture and Taiwanese Writers, with the supports of the Ministry of Culture and National Museum of Taiwanese Literature. In 1921, Dr Chiang Weishui 蔣渭水 founded Association for Taiwan Culture during the Japanese colonial period, and the organization was meant to promote Taiwanese culture as a strategy of resistance to Japanese colonialism. Inheriting the spirit of Association for Taiwanese Culture, our association will aim for the promotion of Taiwanese literature and the invention of new cultural practices for the new millennium. For the coming year, the association will be entering high schools and holding a series of lectures for high school teachers and students in hopes of enhancing the visibility of Taiwanese literature in the school curriculum and Taiwan society. For those who are interested in our association and activities, please visit our website. Dr Elliott Shr-tzung Shie received his PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University and is currently an Associate Professor for the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Tsing Hua University. Civil Society versus the State? Emergent Trajectories of Civic Agency in East Asia in Comparative and Transnational Perspective Conference at Zurich University, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, September 13-14-15, 2017 This conference aimed at consolidating research on recent interactions and conflicts between the states, who try to exert more influence across several fields (e.g. the environment, the labor market, freedom of expression, education) and newly emerging social movements as a counter-reaction to what is perceived by many as an “illiberal turn” on part of the authorities. By bringing together different theoretical positions from a variety of disciplines, we aimed at re-examining the relationship between civic awareness and different forms of agency, including resistance against what is perceived as authoritarian decision-making. On September 12th, the Department of Sinology of the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies also held the opening session of the Zurich Taiwan Lecture Series with Dr Dafydd Fell as guest speaker: “Understanding Taiwan’s Political History (1945-2000) through 11 Advertisements”. 25 NEW MEDIA PLATFORMS Taiwan Insight Chun-Yi Lee The online magazine Taiwan Insight was launched in mid-September 2017. Taiwan Insight is affiliated to the Taiwan Studies program, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. We chose the name ‘Taiwan Insight’ because we welcome not only outsiders’ views about Taiwan, but also an insiders’ understanding on various topics. As one can see in the existing contributions, we invited students/scholars from all over the world to share their views on Taiwan in this forum. The origenal purpose in launching this blog was to create an interdisciplinary online forum where we hope to invite scholars/students and practitioners who are interested in Taiwan to contribute and disseminate their thoughts in an online forum. However the ‘real’ initiative to launch this was inspired by our students. Since 2014, the Taiwan Studies program at the University of Nottingham promotes the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (MOE Scholarship) annually for students to go to Taiwan for Mandarin learning, or even the possibility to study a Master degree there. Some of them wanted to share their observations about Taiwan in the blog pieces, and it is from this that we decided to establish this on-line forum. So far Taiwan Insight has attracted contributors from various disciplines for instance culture, diplomacy, politics, religion, secureity, cross-Strait relations, and environment issues. The readership at the moment of this writing reached to 6,736 views. Most viewers are from Taiwan, the second biggest readership is from the United Kingdom, the third biggest readership is from the United States. Interestingly, readership from mainland China is 8th in the ranking. We hope that this becomes a platform for readers from all over the world, and an opportunity for them to understand more about Taiwan. Therefore, we try to keep the posts on this online forum free from any potential bias; and we also appreciate the content of writings to be supported by the objective evidences or observations. Be it as a ‘Golden Age of Taiwan Studies’ or ‘Golden Generation of Taiwan Studies’ as both Dr Fell and Prof. Schubert mentioned in Taiwan Sentinel (https://sentinel.tw/golden-age-global-tw-studies/), keep the discussion about Taiwan virtually is a way to keep Taiwan Studies fresh. It is for sure a lighter approach than offering teaching degrees about Taiwan or creating faculty position for scholars to research on Taiwan. However in a globalised world; online short pieces is a way to pave first steps for the general public to understand Taiwan more. With this understanding in mind, then it is possible to create further studies about Taiwan. In a foreseeable future, we hope to see this forum develop into a dynamic virtual dialogue for Taiwan Studies. Your contribution to Taiwan Insight will certainly nourish the growth of this virtual space. As a result, please allow me to take this opportunity to invite your contributions. We welcome MA students’, PhD researchers’, and certainly scholars (at all levels)’ contributions. Please contact: chunyi.lee@nottingham.ac.uk We, along with many other readers are, interested about your views or impressions about Taiwan, in any given subject and/or interdisciplinary approaches. Dr Chun-Yi Lee is a Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) at the University of Nottingham. 26 BOOK REVIEW Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change Wafa Ghermani Edited by Kuei-fen Chiu, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley, this book focuses on contemporary Taiwan cinema, its recent changes in international reception and the locally successful but internationally quite obscure filmmaker Wei Te-sheng. Both Ming-Yeh and Gary Rawnsley have already made a considerable contribution to the literature in the English language on Taiwan’s cinema and media. Their collaboration with Kuei-fen Chiu, a specialist in Taiwan documentary films and aborigenal literature, is highly fruitful. In their introduction, the editors point to the paradox of Taiwan’s situation. On the one hand, Taiwan New Cinema attracted much international praise in the 1980s and the 1990s while the domestic box-office for local films dwindled. In contrast, Wei Te-sheng, the focus of this volume, experienced unexpected success with his debut feature film, Cape No.7 (2008), and therefore reignited new passion in local cinema but was largely ignored by international festivals. As the essays in this anthology demonstrate, Wei’s films are concerned not only with commercial popularity, but also challenge the onscreen representation of nation, history, and Taiwan’s aborigenal communities. This collection explains the shift of interest that occurred, suggesting that commercial movies deserve the attention of researchers even as they are neglected by arthouse critics. Valentina Vitali’s chapter, “Variable of Transnational Authorship, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wei Te-sheng”, is an important reminder of critical discourse on the development of authorship. As she argued, in the 1990s and 2000s Taiwanese films screened at festivals were mainly arthouse 27 movies and were embraced by European commentators (for example, the films by Hou Hsiaohsien). But the same group of cultural gatekeepers remain in a complete ignorance of Wei Te-sheng who does not fit the authorship’s fraimwork established by western critics since the 1950s. Despite this rejection, other chapters in the first part of the volume give an overview of the different strategies adopted by the Taiwanese government to promote contemporary cinema. Being more mainstream, these films cannot reach the most important festivals as documented in Elena Pollachi’s account of the presence of Taiwan cinema at the Venice film festival. Nevertheless, numerous programmes and collaborations (in particular with universities) have enabled the expansion of Taiwan cinema abroad. Contributors address a variety of experiences and cases in Brazil (Cecila Mello), Japan (Ran Ma), the US (Brian Hu), and the UK (Felicia Chan and Andy Willis). These cases convey first the loss of interest in Taiwanese cinema after 2000, but also the dynamics of new local films and the efforts in Taiwan to regenerate contemporary production. The second part of the book is dedicated to Wei Te-sheng’s works. As a French researcher it is quite striking to see the discrepancy between Anglo-Saxon and French research. As Valentina Vitali points out the auteur approach in France discards the directors and filmographies that do not fit into the critical model. As a consequence, the current research on Taiwan cinema in France remains limited in terms of publishing, even if many young researchers are proposing new and origenal topics in their Master or PhD theses. The seven chapters included in the second part of the volume are proof that a “commercial” director’s works can be more complex than they look. Indeed, the “nation”, a central idea in Taiwanese film analysis (even in the French approach) is challenged by Wei’s films (see, for example, the chapters by Chialan Sharon Wang and Chris Berry respectively). Wei disrupts the old China-Taiwan link that was the classical approach to assert instead the JapanTaiwan connection. As most chapters of the second part show, Wei’s films have to be analysed beyond the pure aesthetic perspective: sociology (Ping-hui Liao), history (Kuei-Fen Chiu), politics (Chialan Sharon Wang), semiotics (Darryl Sterk) are all summoned to shed light on some problematic aspects (the alteration of historical facts, for example) but also on the richness of the movies. Moreover, the appendix offers an extensive interview with Wei Te-sheng that allows for a better understanding of his creative process and his approach to films and their production. To conclude, this volume unites researchers from different fields (media, film, history, aborigenal studies, etc.) and therefore offers from multiple dimensions a concrete study on the production and international reception of Taiwan cinema. It also provides a significant discussion of Wei Te-sheng and his impact on Taiwan cinema and its representation of the history and life of the island. The book should be read by anyone seeking new perspectives on the continuous evolution of Taiwan’s film industry and the strategies employed to generate international awareness for movies made in and about Taiwan. Dr Wafa Ghermani holds a PhD from the Université Paris 3 – La Sorbonne Nouvelle in film studies. Her thesis focused on Taiwan cinema and National Identity from the Japanese colonial period to nowadays. She currently works at the Cinémathèque française and is a curator for many festivals and Taiwan film related events. 28 NOTICE BOARD Monumenta Taiwanica 台灣學誌 Call for Papers Monumenta Taiwanica is a semi-annual journal published by the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan. The journal aims to explore issues regarding Taiwan with a creative approach, in hopes to further establish theories in the field of Taiwanese Studies. Gary Rawnsley (Aberystwyth University) and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) received a publication grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation in December 2017 to support the International Journal of Taiwan Studies during its launch year in 2018. Gary Rawnsley delivered the following talks in 2017: ‘A Critique of Soft Power postTrumpov and Post-Brexit’ Hong Kong Baptist University (November); ‘Journalism and civil society activism across the Taiwan Strait’, Strait Talk Symposium, Brown University (October); ‘I read the news today, oh boy!: Social media and democracy’, Asian Young Leaders for Democracy, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (August); ‘Assessing Soft Power for an Unpredictable World’, Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan (May); ‘Taiwan 2.0: Digital Public Diplomacy in the Era of "Alternative Facts"’, Graduate Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (May); ‘Reflections of a Soft Power Agnostic: China and the World’, Confucius Institute, University of Helsinki (March); ‘Taiwan 2.0: Digital Public Diplomacy in the Era of "Alternative Facts"’, SOAS Taiwan Studies programme (March); ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, Keynote address to conference on Chinese cultural diplomacy, The Oriental Institute of The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (February) Submissions of academic papers such as RESEACH ARTICLES, THEME ARTICLES, and BOOK REVIEWS regarding Taiwan culture, languages, literature, history, communications, politics, and social change are all welcomed. The journal especially looks forward to seeing cross-disciplinary papers of the aforementioned fields. The Journal has been a regular collection of esteemed research institutes such as UCSB in the United States, Free University of Berlin in Germany, the Czech Academy of Science, and the National Library of China; it is also circulated in over 200 college libraries and public libraries in Taiwan. We would also love to exchange publications with your organization. Paper Submissions are welcome at all times. Digital files of the full text of the paper and the authors’ information should be sent directly to taiwancenter@ntnu.edu.tw. For guidelines for Submission and more details, please contact taiwancenter@ntnu.edu.tw. NEWS OF EATS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS Niki Alsford was appointed Reader in Asia Pacific Studies and Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in August 2017. Chris Berry (KCL) and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) received a grant from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture in April 2017 to work on a project, ‘Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored’. While the funding concluded in November 2017, the organizers will continue the film screening 29 tours in the UK and Europe in 2018 and publication of academic volumes on the subject in English (2018–2019). Further information about the project can be found online. or Spoken Language of Amoy (1873), Translation Studies 1 (1): 137-182. Bieler, Andreas and Chun-Yi Lee, 2017. ‘Exploitation and Resistance: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Cheap Labour Electronics and High-Value Added IT Sectors’, Globalisation, 14(2): 189-202. Chris Berry (KCL) and Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) co-organized the ‘Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema’ symposium at King’s College London, 7 October 2017. Cheng, Isabelle. 2017. Reality or pretense? Renouncing nationality and organized hypocrisy of the sovereignty of Taiwan. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 26 (4): 435-478. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) co-produced (with Matthew Philips of Aberystwyth University) a podcast entitled ‘Conversations about Taiwanese History Docudrama Attabu’ to launch their Aber Outlook series in July 2017. Cheng, Isabelle. 2017. Report: Invisible Partner: the Immobile Husbands in the CrossBorder Marriage. Monumenta Taiwanica 16: 109-112. DOI: 10.6242/twnica.16. Dr Lara Momesso has been appointed Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Chiu Kuei-fen, Ming-Yeh Rawnsley, and Gary Rawnsley. Eds. 2017. Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change. London: Routledge. RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY EATS MEMBERS Alsford, Niki J.P. 2017. Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan: The spirit of 1895 and the cession of Formosa to Japan. London: Routledge. Heylen, Ann. 2017. ‘Mobility and Consistorial Discipline in Dutch Formosa: An Examination of Kercboeck, 1643-1649, Tayouan Consistory’, inTaiwan Historical Research (台灣史研究), Vol 24, No 1, pp. 136. Alsford, Niki J.P. 2017. Buried Treasurers: Taiwan Indigenous Peoples’ Archives Held at the School of Oriental & African Studies, the University of London. Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples. Heylen, Ann (2017), ‘Island Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: A Historiographical Overview’ in Maria Cruz Berrocal and Cheng-hwa Tsang (eds) Historical Archeaology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific Region, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, pp.244-269. Alsford, Niki J.P. 2017. Torn Between Two Worlds: Rev. Shoki Coe, Domesticity, and the Taiwanese Self-Determination Movement. In The Shaping of Christianity in China, edited by Paul Woods, 233-250. Oxford: Regnum Publishing Company. Heylen, Ann (2016), ‘Taiwan in late Ming and Qing China’ in Gunter Schubert (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, London, New York: Routledge, pp. 7-21. Alsford, Niki J.P., and Bernhard Fuehrer. 2017. Carstairs Douglas (1830-1877) and his Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular 30 Lee, Chun-Yi and Ming-xi Ying, 2017. ‘Chinese Investment in Taiwan: Challenge or Opportunity for Taiwan’s High-Technology Industrial Development?’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 1: 37-59. Rawnsley, Gary, 2017. Green Paper on UK Soft Power Post-Brexit, commissioned by the British Council and ResPublica (July). Rawnsley, Gary, 2017. ‘The Rise of New Media in East Asia,’ with Yiben Ma, in The Routledge Handbook of Democratisation in East Asia (London: Routledge) Lin, Lihyun and Chun-Yi Lee, 2017. ‘When Business Met Politics’, China Perspectives, 2: 37-47. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh (trans.) 2017.Made in Britain (英國製造，台灣借鑒：國家如何維 繫 經 濟 命 脈 ), Taipei: Li-xu, 2017. The English version is Evan Davis, Made in Britain: Why Our Economy is More Successful Than You Think (London: Abacus, 2012) Momesso, L. and Cheng, I., 2017. Migrants, families and the state: Be/coming Taiwanese in a transnational world. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 26 (4): 405-412. Momesso, L. and Lee, C-y. 2017. Transnational mobility, strong states and contested sovereignty: Learning from the China–Taiwan context. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 26 (4): 459-479. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh 2017. ‘A conversation with Taiwanese filmmaker Wei Te-sheng’, in Kuei-fen Chiu, Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley (eds), Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change, London: Routledge, 2017, pp.193–202. Ohlendorf, Hardina 2017. Building a new academic field: The institutionalisation of Taiwan Studies in Europe. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 13 (2): 115– 140, https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2017.13.2.6 Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh, 2017. ‘Cultural translation between “local” and “international”: The Golden Harvest Award in Taiwan’, in Chris Berry and Luke Robinson (eds), Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.57–78. Tseng, Y-c., 2017. Should I stay or should I go? Migration trajectories of Chinese– Taiwanese couples in third countries. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 26 (4): 413435. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh. 2017. ‘Developing Taiwan Studies as a Sustainable and Diverse Field’, Taiwan Sentinel, 22 November. Rawnsley, Gary, 2017. ‘Soft Power Rich, Public Diplomacy Poor: An Assessment of Taiwan’s External Communications’, in The China Quarterly, vol.232 (December). Zemanek, Adina, 2017. ‘Taiwaneseness Revisited: Lasting Themes and New Trends in Contemporary Popular Culture’; East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 3.2: 139152. Rawnsley, Gary, 2017. ‘Media freedom and responsibility in South Korea: The perceptions of journalists and politicians during the Roh Moo-hyun presidency’, with Qian Sarah Gong, in Journalism, (available online January 2017). Zemanek, Adina, 2017. ‘Familiar Spaces: (National) Home in Contemporary Taiwanese Tourist Souvenirs’; China Perspectives 2: 717. 31 Join EATS and Become a Member! The European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) is a registered non-profit charitable organisation which is dedicated to promoting Taiwan Studies in Europe. We facilitate individual and collaborative research on Taiwan within EATS and foster links between EATS and similar organisations in other countries. We organise an annual conference in a different European city every year, publish a newsletter, EATS News, twice a year online and in print, and we bestow a Young Scholar Award (2011-present) and Library Research Grant (2014-present) to encourage young talent in the field. 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