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About Li-Ping Chen
Li-Ping Chen is a visiting scholar in Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts.Li-Ping Chen is a visiting scholar in Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts.
NBN Episodes hosted by Li-Ping:
February 26, 2026
Island Tinkerers
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a forme…
January 26, 2026
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan (U Hawai'i Press, 2025), Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: …
November 6, 2025
Good Wife, Wise Mother
In Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule (U Washington Press, 2024), female education and citizenship serve as a l…
October 10, 2025
A Chinese Reformer in Exile
A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911 is an encyclopaedic reference work docu…
January 20, 2025
Questioning Borders
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomad…
October 11, 2024
Afterlives of Letters
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature bec…
August 27, 2024
Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020
Accounting for the unique characteristics of Taiwan’s cinema from 2008 to 2020, Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice (…
July 27, 2024
Passing, Posing, Persuasion
Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections be…
June 27, 2024
Building a Nation at War
Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harva…
May 18, 2024
Indoctrinating the Youth
Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960 (U Hawaii Press, 2024) examines how the Guomindang (GMD o…
March 4, 2024
Transpacific Reform and Revolution
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the turbulent end of China’s imperial system, violent revolutionary movements, and the fraught …
February 10, 2024
Malaysian Crossings
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the Wes…
December 19, 2023
Global Medicine in China
Today I talked to Wayne Soon about his book Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History (Stanford UP, 2020). In 1938, one year into the Second Sino…
November 9, 2023
Rival Partners
Taiwan has been depicted as an island facing the incessant threat of forcible unification with the People’s Republic of China. Why, then, has Taiwan …
October 5, 2023
Unsettling Exiles
The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in…
August 28, 2023
Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals
Taiwan New Cinema (first wave, 1982–1989; second wave, 1990 onward) has a unique history regarding film festivals, particularly in the way these film…
May 16, 2023
Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century
Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader (Springer, 2023) is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Can…
April 18, 2023
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches (Lexington Books, 2022) argues that what appeared to be…
March 17, 2023
One China, Many Taiwans
One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell UP, 2023) shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as t…
February 21, 2023
Taiwanese Literature as World Literature
Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. Although it can be analyzed thro…
December 14, 2022
Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy
A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema—and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre—Tsai …
November 11, 2022
Renegade Rhymes
Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law …
October 21, 2022
On Saving Face
In On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation (Hong Kong UP, 2022), Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept o…
August 17, 2022
Global Taiwanese
In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwa…