We are honored to invite Professor Travis Kong from HKU Dept. of Sociology to share his upcoming book, “Sexuality and the Rise of China.” Professor Kong’s research focuses primarily on sexuality / gender among Chinese populations, masculinity, and the social impact of HIV/AIDS. This new book not only explores the changes in personal identities, communities, […]
Zhongxing (中性), literally meaning ‘middle gender/sex’ or ‘neutral gender/sex’, is a mediated and gendered phenomenon in contemporary East Asian Sinophone societies that refers to young women who do not perform the normative gender regardless of their sexual orientations since the mid-2000s. In this talk, I will explore the lived experience of zhongxing among women in […]
In 2008, as the People’s Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across the Taiwan Strait, it sent millions of tourists in the same direction with the encouragement of Taiwan’s politicians and businesspeople. Contrary to the PRC’s efforts to use tourism to incorporate Taiwan into an imaginary “One China,” tourism aggravated tensions between the […]
由於助孕科技的擴展，人類歷史上，從未如現在，孕產出這麼多的雙胞胎、三胞胎與四胞胎。這帶來什麼樣的挑戰？社會學研究能提出什麼樣的洞察？吳嘉苓教授新出版的英文專書Making Multiple Babies：Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction，分析孕育多胞胎的預想體制。這本書探查自1970年代以來，全球與在地如何治理人工協助生殖科技所造成的多胞胎爭議，並對比比利時、日本與台灣的模式。本書並關切婦女的多胞胎孕產經驗，在求孕、減胎與安胎等歷程，如何糾結希望與風險，生命與死亡。
Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on the notion of heritage, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as “heritage” in a number of societies. The […]
林意唐教授的新書《Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960》運用東亞、西歐及北美的歷史檔案，追尋數字成為全球衛生溝通語言的歷史過程。本書以1917年至1960年間的中國和台灣為案例，呈現數字、專家和決策之間的互動，重現公衛學術界、私人基金會、國際衛生組織如何透過各種行動，共同建立了一個國際專家網絡，並探究這些專家如何根據不同的社經與政治脈絡，採取相應策略使用、解讀統計數據，以求在全球標準和在地現實中取得平衡。
The Dalit (“Untouchable”) leader Bhimrao Ambedkar converted with some 400,000 followers to Buddhism in 1956 as way of protesting untouchability and the caste system. Ambedkar’s rationalist vision of Buddhism focused on social transformation and promoting equality, and his eight million followers today carry on that legacy. Through transnational collaborations and migration in the past thirty […]
Looking at Chinese women’s rural-to-urban migration in China and cross-border marriage migration to Taiwan, in this talk, I explore the link between migration, entrepreneurship, digital worlds, and emotion. Based on ethnographic research in China and in Taiwan -participant observation and 140 interviews, I discuss how migrants’ mobility, affection, and economic action growingly take place across […]
2019年臺灣完成同性婚姻合法化的階段性成果，同年也是首爾酷兒遊行舉辦第20屆的里程碑。我則注意到的是另一個時空上的巧合：2019年臺韓亦同時舉辦了以「文獻檔案」為基礎的酷兒主題創作展；這兩個展覽皆與「酷兒／同志檔案資料庫」的建構緊密連結，也呈現對於兩地酷兒／同志史的反思。本演講將從前述的「檔案」計畫開始談起，回溯「愛」的殖民系譜、以及戰後「褲子氏／穿褲的」生命經驗，討論臺韓同志／酷兒史的交織與分斷。我想透過這三個事／物件的討論指出，雖然臺韓的同志／酷兒運動或多或少都以西方／北美人權論述與社運為參照，但兩地的殖民歷史現實、才是真正驅動當代運動論述與策略的能量，更是同運與酷兒史發展的阻礙與限制。因此「去殖民」的可能路徑之一，即是看見酷兒的邊緣性不只與性／別身分有關，而是跟生命形態緊密扣連，也因此必須將經濟階級、甚或地緣政治連結思考，據此揭露各種權力系統結盟運作的方式，並讓多元參照得以實現。
Amid Western imperialism and the rise of nationalism in East Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a massive shift in language practices took place between about 1870 and 1950, as regional hegemony shifted from China to Japan. Bound for two millennia by their common use of Classical Chinese, elite literati in China, […]