Shu‐mei Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shu‐mei Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shu‐mei |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8323-0888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Heritage at transnational work
Spatiotemporal distribution and influencing factors of enteric fever in China
Background: Enteric fever primarily affects the southwestern and central regions of China. Although the overall incidence rate has declined, certain areas have seen an increase in cases, necessitating further investigation into their geographic distribution, clustering areas, and potential influencing factors. Methods: City-level data from 2001 to 2020 were analyzed. Spatial clustering was identified, and wavelet transform analysis explored perio…
Here we are together
Walking through our differences
In this commentary, I respond to Shawn Bodden’s (2025) work ‘Working Through Our Differences’, which discusses the limits of ontology in critical geographical theories. I build upon Bodden's invitation to bring attention to ordinary voices and acts to understand how people place themselves instead of pointing people to their proper place. I echo the proposal and at the same time, suggest that we might want to even follow how people walk with plac…
Memory, borders, and justice
This article brings attention to the moral aspect of remembering by examining the emerging interest in wartime documentary heritage in East Asia, particularly epitomized in recent competitions and disputes over nomination processes of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Memory of the World. It examines China and Japan’s attempts at pursuing MoW registers and leading the commemoration of Jewish passages in wartime …
Normalisation of evacuation under slow emergencies
Hong Kong, in contrast to its previous image as a glamourous global city, has recently been associated with negative keywords such as oppression, fear, violence and even human rights emergency, following the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Movement and later the implementation of National Security Law (NSL) in 2020. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Special Area Administration presented a post‐NSL policy direction as promising a ‘Beautiful New Hong Kong’. This …
Hong Kong
Special termsHong Kong: a future in archivesAll authorsShu-Mei Huang & Wing Yin Cheunghttps://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2182941Published online:11 April 2023Table Download CSVDisplay TableAdditional informationNotes on contributorsShu-Mei HuangShu-Mei Huang is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. Her research interests include dark heritage, Indigenous heritage, and memory conf…
Right to toilets? infra-bio-urbanism over human waste, memories, and housing inequality
This research attends to how urban tenants bring matong (toilets in the form of urine buckets)-which are a material, semiotic, and marketable piece of infrastructure-into the debates over the remaking of a heritage district in Hongkou, Shanghai. Challenges abound for the site, which is occupied by prewar buildings where Jewish refugees found shelter during the war and more than 10 thousand Chinese tenants moved in after the Jews left. Until 2020,…
Staging indigenous heritage
The past decade witnessed obvious progress and a growing interest in indigenising museology in general and repatriating collections of indigenous properties acquired from indigenous communities in
Indigenous heritage in diplomacy
Purpose This paper illustrates how Taiwan has tried to mobilize its prehistory Austronesian linguistic heritage and indigenous cultural memories to reposition itself in the Asia-Pacific. It examines how the attempt has gradually evolved into cross-border exchange and partnership based on the interconnectivity across the Pacific on different levels. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on policy review of the Taiwan government's growi…
The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities
Amid increasing interest in city branding in East Asia, the municipalities of Gunsan (South Korea) and Chiayi (Taiwan) chose colonial heritage-making as their city branding strategies to recreate their cities’ identities and regenerate their economies. Both cities were mostly built by Japanese imperial authorities and thrived in the 1920s and 1930s but deteriorated in the post-colonial period. Seeking to overcome long economic recessions, these t…
The paradox of cultivating community resiliency
Place‐Making
Place‐making is an assemblage of related concepts and practices predicated on the phenomenon of place. Although scholars have mostly focused on human actions in particular locations and have prioritized the significance of materiality, some have argued that place is porous and multiscalar and contains multiple human and nonhuman actors. As a process, it can be conceived of as a bundle of numerous actors rather than as a prescribed territory. As p…
Difficult heritage diplomacy? Re-articulating places of pain and shame as world heritage in northeast Asia
The recently increased interest in transnational, serial nominations for UNESCO World Heritage status and comparable forms of official recognition demonstrates the critical role of heritage as diplomacy. There are both opportunities and challenges, nevertheless, when treating difficult heritage as diplomacy, such as in the case of colonial prisons embedded in memories of punishment and imprisonment across borders. In a study of two defunct prison…
Liminoid space and place-fixing in urban activism
The past 10 years witnessed a resurgence of youth activism in East Asia. While some may consider it as simply reflecting a broader, general trend of young people reacting to the neoliberalizing world, this paper pays special attention to the changing cultural geographies of East Asia that underlie part of the picture. In 2014, the Sunflower movement in Taiwan was triggered by a group of young people who occupied the Legislative Yuan, paralyzed th…
Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice
This article presents an alternative approach to understanding urban farming. Through the lens of feminist theories of regenerative politics, it demonstrates that urban farming can be rearticulated as/for/from within a transformative planning practice. Drawing on planning practices in the less studied terrain of Hong Kong—the New Territories bordering mainland China—this article illustrates how urban farming can be seen as an enabling, cross-scal…
Understanding disaster (in)justice
Existing disaster studies scholarship tends to uncritically privilege official institutional responses to disasters over bottom-up, community-based reactions and adaptations in the longer term. Meanwhile, the state-recognized disasters mostly exclude socioeconomic and environmental contradictions that generate disasters by making people vulnerable in the first place. Discussion of disaster justice, then, is limited to the immediate state response…
Remembering and Representing Imprisonment in Postcolonial Cities
At the Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison (LRJP) Museum, I was drawn to a photo display in which one old Japanese man is regretfully writing down his testimony (Fig. 31.1). The Japanese physician Goga Shyoichi was the medical officer in the prison from May 1944 to July 1945. The narratives at the side frame Shyoichi’s memories through shame and guilt, quoting the physician’s own writing entitled: “Retrospect of the Days in Lushun Prison” (published in …
Ethics of heritage
Research into prison tourism and prison heritage has not taken enough time to understand how historical change has left impacts in urban contexts, which sometimes continues even after the prisons are decommissioned. This paper discusses the punitive state in the context of the historical penal landscape of Taipei through an exploration of how an historical prison was designed, built, partially demolished, preserved and redeveloped under three pol…
Can Travelling Mothers Ever Arrive? Articulating Internal and International Migration within a Transnational Perspective of Care
Tracing the continuously changing dynamics between China and its quasi‐independent capitalist ‘special territory’, Hong Kong, this paper brings together the under‐recognised cross‐border caregivers and over‐recognised care consumers in the wake of multiple care crises, articulating how internal and international migration clashes in the borderlands crossed by various kinds of travelling mothers from the Mainland. With a focus on care as social pr…
Understanding disaster (in)justice
Existing disaster studies scholarship tends to uncritically privilege official institutional responses to disasters over bottom-up, community-based reactions and adaptations in the longer term. Meanwhile, the state-recognized disasters mostly exclude socioeconomic and environmental contradictions that generate disasters by making people vulnerable in the first place. Discussion of disaster justice, then, is limited to the immediate state response…
Ethics of heritage
Research into prison tourism and prison heritage has not taken enough time to understand how historical change has left impacts in urban contexts, which sometimes continues even after the prisons are decommissioned. This paper discusses the punitive state in the context of the historical penal landscape of Taipei through an exploration of how an historical prison was designed, built, partially demolished, preserved and redeveloped under three pol…
Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice
This article presents an alternative approach to understanding urban farming. Through the lens of feminist theories of regenerative politics, it demonstrates that urban farming can be rearticulated as/for/from within a transformative planning practice. Drawing on planning practices in the less studied terrain of Hong Kong—the New Territories bordering mainland China—this article illustrates how urban farming can be seen as an enabling, cross-scal…
The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities
Amid increasing interest in city branding in East Asia, the municipalities of Gunsan (South Korea) and Chiayi (Taiwan) chose colonial heritage-making as their city branding strategies to recreate their cities’ identities and regenerate their economies. Both cities were mostly built by Japanese imperial authorities and thrived in the 1920s and 1930s but deteriorated in the post-colonial period. Seeking to overcome long economic recessions, these t…
Difficult heritage diplomacy? Re-articulating places of pain and shame as world heritage in northeast Asia
The recently increased interest in transnational, serial nominations for UNESCO World Heritage status and comparable forms of official recognition demonstrates the critical role of heritage as diplomacy. There are both opportunities and challenges, nevertheless, when treating difficult heritage as diplomacy, such as in the case of colonial prisons embedded in memories of punishment and imprisonment across borders. In a study of two defunct prison…
Liminoid space and place-fixing in urban activism
The past 10 years witnessed a resurgence of youth activism in East Asia. While some may consider it as simply reflecting a broader, general trend of young people reacting to the neoliberalizing world, this paper pays special attention to the changing cultural geographies of East Asia that underlie part of the picture. In 2014, the Sunflower movement in Taiwan was triggered by a group of young people who occupied the Legislative Yuan, paralyzed th…
Can Travelling Mothers Ever Arrive? Articulating Internal and International Migration within a Transnational Perspective of Care
Tracing the continuously changing dynamics between China and its quasi‐independent capitalist ‘special territory’, Hong Kong, this paper brings together the under‐recognised cross‐border caregivers and over‐recognised care consumers in the wake of multiple care crises, articulating how internal and international migration clashes in the borderlands crossed by various kinds of travelling mothers from the Mainland. With a focus on care as social pr…
Here we are together
Memory, borders, and justice
This article brings attention to the moral aspect of remembering by examining the emerging interest in wartime documentary heritage in East Asia, particularly epitomized in recent competitions and disputes over nomination processes of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Memory of the World. It examines China and Japan’s attempts at pursuing MoW registers and leading the commemoration of Jewish passages in wartime …
The paradox of cultivating community resiliency
Can Travelling Mothers Ever Arrive? Articulating Internal and International Migration within a Transnational Perspective of Care
Tracing the continuously changing dynamics between China and its quasi‐independent capitalist ‘special territory’, Hong Kong, this paper brings together the under‐recognised cross‐border caregivers and over‐recognised care consumers in the wake of multiple care crises, articulating how internal and international migration clashes in the borderlands crossed by various kinds of travelling mothers from the Mainland. With a focus on care as social pr…
Remembering and Representing Imprisonment in Postcolonial Cities
At the Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison (LRJP) Museum, I was drawn to a photo display in which one old Japanese man is regretfully writing down his testimony (Fig. 31.1). The Japanese physician Goga Shyoichi was the medical officer in the prison from May 1944 to July 1945. The narratives at the side frame Shyoichi’s memories through shame and guilt, quoting the physician’s own writing entitled: “Retrospect of the Days in Lushun Prison” (published in …
Ethics of heritage
Research into prison tourism and prison heritage has not taken enough time to understand how historical change has left impacts in urban contexts, which sometimes continues even after the prisons are decommissioned. This paper discusses the punitive state in the context of the historical penal landscape of Taipei through an exploration of how an historical prison was designed, built, partially demolished, preserved and redeveloped under three pol…
Liminoid space and place-fixing in urban activism
The past 10 years witnessed a resurgence of youth activism in East Asia. While some may consider it as simply reflecting a broader, general trend of young people reacting to the neoliberalizing world, this paper pays special attention to the changing cultural geographies of East Asia that underlie part of the picture. In 2014, the Sunflower movement in Taiwan was triggered by a group of young people who occupied the Legislative Yuan, paralyzed th…
Urban Farming as a Transformative Planning Practice
This article presents an alternative approach to understanding urban farming. Through the lens of feminist theories of regenerative politics, it demonstrates that urban farming can be rearticulated as/for/from within a transformative planning practice. Drawing on planning practices in the less studied terrain of Hong Kong—the New Territories bordering mainland China—this article illustrates how urban farming can be seen as an enabling, cross-scal…
Understanding disaster (in)justice
Existing disaster studies scholarship tends to uncritically privilege official institutional responses to disasters over bottom-up, community-based reactions and adaptations in the longer term. Meanwhile, the state-recognized disasters mostly exclude socioeconomic and environmental contradictions that generate disasters by making people vulnerable in the first place. Discussion of disaster justice, then, is limited to the immediate state response…
Place‐Making
Place‐making is an assemblage of related concepts and practices predicated on the phenomenon of place. Although scholars have mostly focused on human actions in particular locations and have prioritized the significance of materiality, some have argued that place is porous and multiscalar and contains multiple human and nonhuman actors. As a process, it can be conceived of as a bundle of numerous actors rather than as a prescribed territory. As p…
Difficult heritage diplomacy? Re-articulating places of pain and shame as world heritage in northeast Asia
The recently increased interest in transnational, serial nominations for UNESCO World Heritage status and comparable forms of official recognition demonstrates the critical role of heritage as diplomacy. There are both opportunities and challenges, nevertheless, when treating difficult heritage as diplomacy, such as in the case of colonial prisons embedded in memories of punishment and imprisonment across borders. In a study of two defunct prison…
Staging indigenous heritage
The past decade witnessed obvious progress and a growing interest in indigenising museology in general and repatriating collections of indigenous properties acquired from indigenous communities in
Indigenous heritage in diplomacy
Purpose This paper illustrates how Taiwan has tried to mobilize its prehistory Austronesian linguistic heritage and indigenous cultural memories to reposition itself in the Asia-Pacific. It examines how the attempt has gradually evolved into cross-border exchange and partnership based on the interconnectivity across the Pacific on different levels. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on policy review of the Taiwan government's growi…
The ‘commodified’ colonial past in small cities
Amid increasing interest in city branding in East Asia, the municipalities of Gunsan (South Korea) and Chiayi (Taiwan) chose colonial heritage-making as their city branding strategies to recreate their cities’ identities and regenerate their economies. Both cities were mostly built by Japanese imperial authorities and thrived in the 1920s and 1930s but deteriorated in the post-colonial period. Seeking to overcome long economic recessions, these t…
The paradox of cultivating community resiliency
Hong Kong
Special termsHong Kong: a future in archivesAll authorsShu-Mei Huang & Wing Yin Cheunghttps://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2182941Published online:11 April 2023Table Download CSVDisplay TableAdditional informationNotes on contributorsShu-Mei HuangShu-Mei Huang is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. Her research interests include dark heritage, Indigenous heritage, and memory conf…
Right to toilets? infra-bio-urbanism over human waste, memories, and housing inequality
This research attends to how urban tenants bring matong (toilets in the form of urine buckets)-which are a material, semiotic, and marketable piece of infrastructure-into the debates over the remaking of a heritage district in Hongkou, Shanghai. Challenges abound for the site, which is occupied by prewar buildings where Jewish refugees found shelter during the war and more than 10 thousand Chinese tenants moved in after the Jews left. Until 2020,…
Walking through our differences
In this commentary, I respond to Shawn Bodden’s (2025) work ‘Working Through Our Differences’, which discusses the limits of ontology in critical geographical theories. I build upon Bodden's invitation to bring attention to ordinary voices and acts to understand how people place themselves instead of pointing people to their proper place. I echo the proposal and at the same time, suggest that we might want to even follow how people walk with plac…
Memory, borders, and justice
This article brings attention to the moral aspect of remembering by examining the emerging interest in wartime documentary heritage in East Asia, particularly epitomized in recent competitions and disputes over nomination processes of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Memory of the World. It examines China and Japan’s attempts at pursuing MoW registers and leading the commemoration of Jewish passages in wartime …
Normalisation of evacuation under slow emergencies
Hong Kong, in contrast to its previous image as a glamourous global city, has recently been associated with negative keywords such as oppression, fear, violence and even human rights emergency, following the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Movement and later the implementation of National Security Law (NSL) in 2020. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Special Area Administration presented a post‐NSL policy direction as promising a ‘Beautiful New Hong Kong’. This …
Spatiotemporal distribution and influencing factors of enteric fever in China
Background: Enteric fever primarily affects the southwestern and central regions of China. Although the overall incidence rate has declined, certain areas have seen an increase in cases, necessitating further investigation into their geographic distribution, clustering areas, and potential influencing factors. Methods: City-level data from 2001 to 2020 were analyzed. Spatial clustering was identified, and wavelet transform analysis explored perio…
Here we are together
Heritage at transnational work
Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · China (7 works) · History (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works)