\u3000\u3000Professor Liu began with a brief history of \u201cAsian American\u201d as an ethnicity, and gave an overview of the main approaches for research into Asian American identity, including her own focus of Asian settler colonialism, which examines Asian (American) participation in settler colonialist projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u3000\u3000Professor Liu argues that the broader identity of Asian American is maintained through a narrative of continuous racial repression. In Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression<\/em>, Liu writes that \u201cTo feel Asian American is to sense a collectivized history of racial injury, despite its categorical internal demographic and ideological heterogeneities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u3000\u3000In discussing region and nationality, Professor Liu went on to explain how the fields of Asian American studies and Taiwan Studies have regarded each other and evolved, especially in response to the end of the Cold War, globalization, and protectionism\u2014all factors in why modern Asian American studies tends to see Taiwan as a retrograde counterpart to a romanticized socialist China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u3000\u3000Professor Liu closed with an assessment of what the two fields of Asian American studies and Taiwan Studies can offer one another, and how they can address each other\u2019s blind spots: Asian American studies can broaden the scope of research and refine the narrative of Taiwan from pure victim to a union of identities; Taiwan Studies can prevent the romanticization of Chinese nationalism, highlight interactions between ethnicity and geopolitics, and give voice to Sinophone critiques of China and imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u3000\u3000The lecture was followed by a Q&A session, which included discussions of research into pro-China NGOs such as the Qiao Collective, racial capitalism, the Sinophone left, and the difficulties in studying the hierarchies and divisions within \u201cAsian American.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u3000\u3000Given the success of the summer\u2019s lecture series, Professor Shih will be holding another series on \u201cTaiwan and Sinophone Studies across Disciplines\u201d (\u8de8\u5b78\u79d1\u7684\u53f0\u7063\u8207\u83ef\u8a9e\u8a9e\u7cfb\u7814\u7a76) in December this year, featuring guest speakers Alvin Wong, Howard Chiang (\u59dc\u5b78\u8c6a), Chen Ruey-lin (\u9673\u745e\u9e9f), and Nishi Masahiko (\u897f\u6210\u5f66). More information here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u3000\u3000This summer, the International Taiwan Studies Center 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