Taiwan Lecture Series - Sommersemester 2007
Chang Lung-chih: Taiwan History
Mei Chia-Ling: Taiwan Fiction
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Island of Histories: Six Excursions through Taiwanese History and Historiography |
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This lecture series attempts to offer a critical and comparative overview of contemporary Taiwanese historiography from the viewpoint of a practicing historian in Taiwan. Like many post-colonial societies, the revision of history in Taiwan has become a contested enterprise of collective memory and identity politics. The situation is further complicated by domestic and international politics of Taiwan’s problematic sovereignty and statehood. |
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1. Re-imagining Community from Different Shores: Historical Revisionism in a Divided Democracy 2. Crossing the Great Divides: A Brief History of Taiwan Historical Writing, 1895-1975 3. Discovering History in Taiwan: the Emergence of a “Taiwan-Centered” History since the 1980s 4. Words and Things: Sources and Methods of Taiwan Historical Studies 5. From Modernization to Colonial Modernity: Issues and Debates in Taiwanese Historiography 6. Taiwan Unbound: In Search of New Island History in a Global Age |
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“Young Taiwan: Youth Imaginary and National Discourse in Twentieth Century Fiction from Taiwan” | |||
This lecture series explores twentieth-century fiction from Taiwan, starting from the double perspectives of “Youth imaginary” and “National discourse.” “Youth” is the golden period of one’s life, often associated with vigor, new life, and hope. Ever since the late Qing and Liang Qichao’s motion of “Young China,” it has become a powerful symbol in the imagination of national renaissance. Accordingly, twentieth-century Chinese fiction has time and again depicted the youth in its quest for adulthood, using it as a metaphor for the nation’s searching a path of development. “Youth imaginary” and “National discourse” are thus deeply interwoven and interacting in literary praxis. Taiwan, however, under Japanese colonial rule for fifty years, has come up with both literary forms and a development trajectory of its own and unique bearing. The lecture series focuses on this point; the six lectures analyze literary “Youth imaginary” and “National discourse,” in order to illuminate step by step the development of twentieth-century Taiwan fiction and its related issues. The first two lectures address fiction written during the era of Japanese rule, while lectures three to six are devoted to fiction from the post-war period; the problems addressed include space, |
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1. Where is (s)he going? The quest of the youth in Taiwan fiction from the colonial period 2. Body politics and youth imaginary: A Taiwanese body, or the emperor’s body? 3. Youthful modernity and young literature: The theme of growing up in modernist literature and the nativist turn 4. National imagination and the politics of writing: Soldiers’ commune fiction during the 1980’s and 1990’s 5. Youth and Taipei in Pai Hsien-yung’s novels: From Taipei People to Crystal Boys 6. Orphan? Crystal boy? Wild child? – The father/son/family/nation relationship and its breakdown in post-war Taiwan fiction |
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July 9 |
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09:00-11:00 |
Intro Session |
Mei |
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11:00-13:00 |
Intro Session |
Chang |
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14:00-16:00 |
Public Lecture 1 |
Mei |
Where is (s)he going? The quest of the youth in Taiwan fiction from the colonial period |
16:00-18:00 |
Public Lecture 1 |
Chang |
Re-imagining Community from Different Shores: Historical Revisionism in a Divided Democracy |
July 10 |
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09:00-11:00 |
Session 2 |
Mei |
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11:00-13:00 |
Session 2 |
Chang |
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14:00-16:00 |
Public Lecture 2 |
Chang |
Crossing the Great Divides: A Brief History of Taiwan Historical Writing, 1895-1975 |
16:00-18:00 |
Public Lecture 2 |
Mei |
Body politics and youth imaginary: A Taiwanese body, or the emperor’s body? |
July 16 |
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09:00-11:00 |
Session 3 |
Mei |
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11:00-13:00 |
Session 3 |
Chang |
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14:00-16:00 |
Public Lecture 3 |
Mei |
Youthful modernity and young literature: The theme of growing up in modernist literature and the nativist turn |
16:00-18:00 |
Public Lecture 3 |
Chang |
Discovering History in Taiwan: the Emergence of a “Taiwan-Centered” History since the 1980s |
July 17 |
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09:00-11:00 |
Session 4 |
Mei |
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11:00-13:00 |
Session 4 |
Chang |
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14:00-16:00 |
Public Lecture 4 |
Chang |
Words and Things: Sources and Methods of Taiwan Historical Studies |
16:00-18:00 |
Public Lecture 4 |
Mei |
National imagination and the politics of writing: Soldiers’ commune fiction during the 1980’s and 1990’s |
July 23 |
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09:00-11:00 |
Session 5 |
Mei |
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11:00-13:00 |
Session 5 |
Chang |
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14:00-16:00 |
Public Lecture 5 |
Mei |
Youth and Taipei in Pai Hsien-yung’s novels: From Taipei People to Crystal Boys |
16:00-18:00 |
Public Lecture 5 |
Chang |
From Modernization to Colonial Modernity: Issues and Debates in Taiwanese Historiography |
July 24 |
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09:00-11:00 |
Session 6 |
Mei |
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11:00-13:00 |
Session 6 |
Chang |
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14:00-16:00 |
Public Lecture 6 |
Chang |
Taiwan Unbound: In Search of New Island History in a Global Age |
16:00-18:00 |
Public Lecture 6 |
Mei |
Orphan? Crystal boy? Wild child? – The father/son/family/nation relationship and its breakdown in post-war Taiwan fiction |