Speakers and Talks:<\/p>\n
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- Chris Berry(King\u2019s College London) reflects on his experiences introducing Taiwanese-language cinema in the West with the \u201cTaiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema\u201d project. He asks, how do you launch an unknown cultural brand? And he reflects on the new role of universities as cultural incubators today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King\u2019s College London. In the 1980s, he worked for China Film Import and Export Corporation in Beijing, and his academic research is grounded in work on Chinese cinema and other Chinese screen-based media, as well as neighbouring countries. He is the author of\u00a0Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China<\/em>(2004); co-author with Mary Farquhar of\u00a0China on Screen: Cinema and Nation\u00a0<\/em>(2006); and co-editor with Luke Robinson of\u00a0Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation\u00a0<\/em>(2017) and co-editor with Ming-yeh Rawnsley of a special issue on \u201cTaiwanese-language films (Taiyupian)\u201d for the\u00a0Journal of Chinese Cinemas<\/em>\u00a0(2020).<\/p>\n
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- Chi Ta-wei\u00a0(National Chengchi University) will talk about (1) disabilities as shown in Taiyupian and (2) disabilities as shown in Taiwanese cinema in the 21st century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Ta-wei Chi (PhD, Comparative Literature, UCLA) is an associate professor of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University, Taipei, where he teaches LGBTQ studies and disability studies.\u00a0 His Chinese-language monograph,\u00a0A History of Tongzhi Literature: An Invention in Taiwan<\/em>\u00a0discusses how Taiwanese literature from the 1950s to the present day that depicts LGBT lives has served as an alternative public space in which homosexuality was imaginable, even in times when homosexuality in public was not. His queer science fiction novella,\u00a0Membrane<\/em>, has been translated into French and Japanese and is being translated into English (to be published by Columbia University Press). His queer science fiction story collection,\u00a0Pearls<\/em>, is translated into French and published in France in 2020.<\/p>\n
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- Corrado Neri\u00a0(Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3) proposes\u00a0a close reading of some interesting and apparently contradictory agendas in Lin Tuanqiu (May 13th<\/sup><\/em>,\u00a0The Husbands Secret<\/em>,\u00a0Six Suspects<\/em>) and Xin Qi movies (The Bride who has returned from Hell,<\/em>Dangerous Youth<\/em>) where contemporary audiences can discover, under heavily moralistic overtones, intriguing representations of \u201cdevious\u201d, alternative, enticing forms of sin and sex, crime and exploitation in order to help us further understand Taiwanese martial law cinema and culture. He also tries\u00a0to decipher the legacy of 60s crime movie in contemporary cinema.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Corrado Neri is associate professor at the Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3. He has conducted extensive research on Chinese cinema in Beijing and Taipei and published many articles on books and magazine (in English, French and Italian). His book\u00a0Tsai Ming-liang<\/em>\u00a0on the Taiwanese film director appeared in 2004 (Venezia, Cafoscarina).\u00a0Ages Inquiets. Cin\u00e9mas chinois: une representation de la jeunesse<\/em>, was printed in 2009 (Lyon, Tigre de Papier).\u00a0His third book,\u00a0Retro Taiwan<\/em>, has recently been published for l\u2019Asiath\u00e8que (Paris, 2016). He co-edited (with\u00a0Kirstie Gormley) a bilingual (french\/english) book on Taiwan cinema (Taiwan cinema\/Le Cin\u00e9ma taiwanais<\/em>, Asiexpo, 2009);\u00a0Global Fences<\/em>\u00a0(with Florent Villard, IETT, 2011);\u00a0Reinventing Mao: Maoisms and National Cinemas\/La R\u00e9invention de Mao.\u00a0Mao\u00efsmes et Cin\u00e9mas Nationaux\u00a0<\/em>(Special issue of\u00a0Cin\u00e9ma & Cie International Film Studies Journal\u00a0<\/em>(with Marco Dalla Gassa, Federico Zecca) and\u00a0Politics and Representation in Sinophone Cinema after the 1980s\/Politique et Repr\u00e9sentation dans le Cin\u00e9ma Sinophone apr\u00e8s 1980\u00a0<\/em>(Special #55 de\u00a0Monde Chinois Nouvelle Asie<\/em>, with Jean-Yves Heurtebise).<\/p>\n
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- Robert Chen(National Chengchi University)\u00a0proposes\u00a0to\u00a0talk\u00a0about\u00a0the\u00a0evolution from the end of Taiwan New Cinema to the current state of Taiwan cinema in terms of subject matters and generic transformation represented by some key films from the end of 20th century till now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Robert\u00a0Chen\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0Professor\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Department of Radio-TV, National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His publications include\u00a0The Historical-Cultural Experiences of Taiwan New Cinema<\/em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0Film Empire: Another Gaze at Cinema and Cultural Studies<\/em>\u00a0(1995), and\u00a0Through a Screen Darkly: One Hundred Years of Reflections on Taiwan Cinema<\/em>\u00a0(2013). His translation works include\u00a0Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age<\/em>\u00a0(by Paolo Cherchi Usai, 2004),\u00a0Psychoanalysis and Cinema<\/em>\u00a0(by Vicky Lebeau, 2004), and\u00a0Film Theory: An Introduction\u00a0<\/em>(by Robert Stam, 2nd<\/sup>edition, 2012).<\/p>\n
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Moderator:\u00a0Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley\u00a0is Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is also Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Rawnsley is the founding Editor-in-Chief,\u00a0International Journal of Taiwan Studies<\/em>\u00a0(2018\u2013present), co-sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) and Academia Sinica. She is a co-organiser of \u2018Taiwan\u2019s Lost Commercial Cinema\u2019 screening tour and research project on Taiwanese-language cinema of the 1950s\u20131970s (with Chris Berry, 2017\u20132019 & with Chris Berry, Corrado Neri and Wafa Ghermani, 2020\u20132021).<\/p>\n
Global Taiwan Studies Cultural Salon is a collaboration between IJTS, EATS, NATSA, and JATS.<\/p>\n
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Editor in Chief:\u00a0<\/strong>Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley\u00a0(European Association of Taiwan Studies)<\/em><\/p>\n
Executive Editorial Board:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Lung-chih Chang\u00a0(Academia Sinica)<\/em><\/p>\n
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang\u00a0(University of Texas at Austin)<\/em><\/p>\n
Kuei-fen Chiu\u00a0(National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan)<\/em><\/p>\n
Dafydd Fell\u00a0(SOAS, University of London)<\/em><\/p>\n
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao\u00a0(Academia Sinica & Organising Committee of the World Congress of Taiwan)<\/em><\/p>\n
Gunter Schubert\u00a0(T\u00fcbingen University<\/em>)<\/p>\n
Book Review Editor:\u00a0<\/strong>Gary D. Rawnsley\u00a0(University of Nottingham Ningbo China)<\/em><\/p>\n
International Journal of Taiwan Studies Editorial Office<\/p>\n
Address: Centre of Taiwan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, WC1H 0XG, UK<\/p>\n
- Robert Chen(National Chengchi University)\u00a0proposes\u00a0to\u00a0talk\u00a0about\u00a0the\u00a0evolution from the end of Taiwan New Cinema to the current state of Taiwan cinema in terms of subject matters and generic transformation represented by some key films from the end of 20th century till now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Corrado Neri\u00a0(Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3) proposes\u00a0a close reading of some interesting and apparently contradictory agendas in Lin Tuanqiu (May 13th<\/sup><\/em>,\u00a0The Husbands Secret<\/em>,\u00a0Six Suspects<\/em>) and Xin Qi movies (The Bride who has returned from Hell,<\/em>Dangerous Youth<\/em>) where contemporary audiences can discover, under heavily moralistic overtones, intriguing representations of \u201cdevious\u201d, alternative, enticing forms of sin and sex, crime and exploitation in order to help us further understand Taiwanese martial law cinema and culture. He also tries\u00a0to decipher the legacy of 60s crime movie in contemporary cinema.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Chi Ta-wei\u00a0(National Chengchi University) will talk about (1) disabilities as shown in Taiyupian and (2) disabilities as shown in Taiwanese cinema in the 21st century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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