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About Li-Ping Chen

Li-Ping Chen is Dornsife Teaching Fellow in General Education 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 Dornsife Teaching Fellow in General Education 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.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Li-Ping:

East Asian Studies August 28, 2023

Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals

Beth Tsai

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
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Taiwan New Cinema (first wave, 1982–1989; second wave, 1990 onward) has a unique history regarding film festivals, particularly in the way these films are circulated at major European film festivals …
East Asian Studies May 16, 2023

Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

A Critical Reader

Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
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 Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi …
East Asian Studies April 18, 2023

The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan

Freedom in the Trenches

Li-Chun Hsiao

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches (Lexington Books, 2022) argues that what appeared to be a “genesis” of new literature engendered by the …
East Asian Studies March 17, 2023

One China, Many Taiwans

The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism

Ian Rowen

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell UP, 2023) shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People’s Republic of China pointed over a …
East Asian Studies February 21, 2023

Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. Although it can be analyzed through frameworks of Japanophone literature and Chinese literature, and the more …
East Asian Studies December 14, 2022

Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy

Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang

Nicholas de Villiers

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
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 Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan …
East Asian Studies November 11, 2022

Renegade Rhymes

Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan

Meredith Schweig

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist Party ended …
East Asian Studies October 21, 2022

On Saving Face

A Brief History of Western Appropriation

Michael Keevak

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
In On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation (Hong Kong UP, 2022), Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two …
East Asian Studies August 17, 2022

Global Taiwanese

Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World

Fiona Moore

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In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along …
East Asian Studies July 19, 2022

Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond

Relational Citizenship

Hsin-I Cheng

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Citizenship is traditionally viewed as a legal status to be possessed. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship (Lexington, 2021) proposes the concept of relational citizenship to articulate the value-laden …
East Asian Studies June 15, 2022

The Musha Incident

A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan

Michael Berry

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On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a …
East Asian Studies May 20, 2022

Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors

Andrew D. Morris

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories …
East Asian Studies April 19, 2022

Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context

A Translation Studies Perspective

Szu-Wen Kung

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context (Routledge, 2021) explores the social, cultural, and linguistic implications of translation of Taiwan literature for transnational cultural exchange. It demonstrates principally how asymmetrical …
East Asian Studies March 24, 2022

Time and Migration

How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

Ken Chih-Yan Sun

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Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life (Cornell UP, 2021) interrogates how long-term immigrants …
East Asian Studies February 7, 2022

Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater

Peilin Liang

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Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body, Liang shows how theater practitioners of minoritized cultures adopt transformance as a strategy to …
East Asian Studies January 24, 2022

Queer Taiwanese Literature

A Reader

Howard Chiang

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center of lesbian, gay, bisexual …
East Asian Studies December 15, 2021

Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin

Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions

Chun-Yi Peng

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Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions (Springer, 2021) explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media …
East Asian Studies November 23, 2021

Indigenous Cultural Translation

A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

Darryl Sterk

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Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale (Routledge, 2020) is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous …
East Asian Studies November 5, 2021

Remapping the Contested Sinosphere

The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan

Chia-Rong Wu

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In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. From the early seventeenth century to …
East Asian Studies September 21, 2021

Taiwan's Green Parties

Alternative Politics in Taiwan

Dafydd Fell

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, Dafydd Fell’s Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan …