Speaker / 江紹褀 Travis Shiu Ki Kong (Associate Professor, Sociology / the University of Hong Kong) Review / Sara Friedman (Professor, Gender Studies / Indiana University) Host / 呂青湖 Lake Lui (Associate Professor, Sociology / National Taiwan University) Date / 2023.06.15 Time / 12:30-14:00 Place / College of Society R108 Abstract / In Sexuality and […]
Professor Gi-Wook Shin, a sociology professor from Stanford University, has been cordially invited for an academic visit to give a public lecture. From an international perspective on South Korea, he will delve deeply into the discussion of what the societal emotions that have gradually shifted from anti-Japan to anti-China come from.
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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 urban China and Hong Kong, drawing from in-depth interviews and online discourse analysis. I argue that an identitarian approach is inadequate in understanding this precarious and ambiguous position in doing gender. Instead, informed by an interdisciplinary framework of transnational feminist and queer Asian studies, I propose a practice approach to understand the fluidity, precarity, and situatedness of women’s strategic resistance against gender binaries in their everyday life.
One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. 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 two polities, polarized Taiwanese society, and pushed Taiwanese popular sentiment farther toward support for national self-determination. The book’s ethnographic treatment of tourism as a political technology provides a new lens for social scientists and area specialists to examine the geopolitics of tourism, which has transformed the globe.