Ming-Yeh T Rawnsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ming-Yeh T Rawnsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ming-Yeh T |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawnsley |
| SIGNATURE | RAWNSLEY M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3862-4719 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI, Taiwan Studies, and the Challenge of the Information Crisis
Reflections from the ‘AI and Taiwan Studies Forum’, National Taiwan Normal University, 24 May 2025
Editing the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies
Twenty Years of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (eats)
This report maps out the evolution of the European Association of Taiwan Studies over the last 20 years. Collaboratively authored by two former secretaries-general and the current office holder, the authors trace the Association’s short history and express their gratitude to all colleagues and friends who have contributed to its work. Furthermore, they reflect on how the Association has enriched and expanded the scope of Taiwan studies across Eur…
Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema
This article contributes to two relatively under-researched areas in the existing literature of Taiwanese popular culture and film studies – Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema. We compare five case studies in Taiwanese-language port city cinema: Anping zhuixiang qu ( Nostalgic Song of Anping ) (Chen Yang 1969), Huilai anping gang ( Back to Anping Harbor ) (Wu Feijian 1972), Fenggui lai de ren ( The Boys from Fengkuei ) (Hou…
Screening the Port City
This article contrasts a range of films from around the world that take place within port cities. It presents the port city film as a case of transnational “geographic imaginary” that dramatizes spaces of contact across lifeworlds. The authors find that there are two primary narrative modes in the port city film: a dominant mode in which gender, ethnic, class, and other identities bestowed by the geographic imaginary become inescapable, and a res…
Politics of the everyday
This paper addresses the social and cultural values of Taiwanese-language cinema (or Hoklo topolect films, taiyupian) of the 1950s and the 1960s. Although this cinema was composed primarily of commercial films that were produced cheaply to make a quick profit, it clearly struck a chord with local audiences to be able to reign supreme in the domestic film market for over a decade. As the rise of taiyupian coincided with the island’s transition fro…
The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896–2012, written by Chien-Jung Hsu, (2014)
Leiden: Brill. xviii, 280 pages, €129/$159 (hb) isbn: 978-90-04-22770-5.There are few single-authored books in English on national identity and the media in Taiwan. Gary and Ming-yeh Rawnsley co-authored (2001) Critical Security, Democratization and Television in Taiwan (Ashgate), but their focus was on the island’s democratisation process and the TV industry. The Rawnsleys also co-edited a volume in 2003, Political Communications in Greater Chin…
Introduction to a special issue on Taiwanese-language films ( taiyupian )
In this introduction, the guest editors discuss briefly the context of organising this special issue, the approach of each paper takes, and how they are collectively related to the existing literature of Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian). The guest editors also explain the screening tour of selected taiyupian in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe between 2017 and 2019, which became possible because of support and cooperation of many institutio…
The 3rd World Congress of Taiwan Studies
The Day When the War Ended
The State of the Field of Global Taiwan Studies Institutions
Conference' at SOAS, University of London.The conference aimed to bring together representatives from the leading Taiwan studies programmes in Europe and North America to discuss our experiences and how to make our programmes more sustainable.Following the conference, I published an upbeat essay in the Taiwan Sentinel arguing that we are now experiencing a golden era of Taiwan studies (Fell, 2017).This was followed by two more
Taiwan Cinema
In 2011, the opening of Wei Te-sheng’s Seediq Bale in the Venice film festival competition revealed a different scenario from that of the late 1980s and 1990s, when festivals brought world attention to new directors and unexplored territories. The Golden Lion awarded to Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness (1989) paved the way for establishing the connection between Venice and Chinese-language films. In 1994, the Golden Lion to Tsai Ming-liang’s Viv…
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Introduction Gary D. Rawnsley & Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Part 1: The Development of the Study and the Structure of Chinese Media 1. (Re)-Focusing on the Target: Reflections on a Trajectory of Studying the Chinese Media Yuezhi Zhao 2. China, Soft Power and Imperialism Colin Sparks 3. Evaluating Chinese Media Policy: Objectives and Contradictions Rogier Creemers
Memory, subjectivity and independent Chinese cinema
Researchers of independent Chinese cinema face three challenges. First, it is difficult to obtain materials through legal channels as most of these films are circulated outside the official system
The Impacts of Changing Ruling Parties in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2014: Continuity and Change in Policies in Taiwan
Global Chinese Cinema
The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics, and was both a domestic sensation and an international hit. This book explores the reasons for the film's popularity with its audiences, di…
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: the Wuxia tradition STEPHEN TEO Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2009 ix+230 pp., bibliography, filmography, index, £60.00 (cloth), £19.99 (paper) This book is a
Public Television and Empowerment in Taiwan
This paper analyses the development of public television in Taiwan. It argues that media liberalisation and political democratisation were, on their own, insufficient conditions to encourage the growth of media with links to civil society. Democratisation in Taiwan was essentially an elite-driven process (elites in power and in opposition); in turn, Taiwan's elites - political and intellectual - were the agents behind the development of Public Se…
La réforme du secteur des médias
Political Communications in Greater China
This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity in Greater China; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. \n \nIn the context of increasing cross-border interactions of people, investment and commercial products between the component parts of greater China, the book explores the idea that identity, rather than nation-states or…
The Clandestine War in Asia, 1945-65
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
Regime transition and the media in Taiwan
Taiwan's recent experience of political regime transition suggests the existence of a strong correlation between the promotion of free and diverse media and the level of political change. The government's efforts to create a more liberal media environment are commendable, but, owing to the structure of the market and ownership patterns, the party of government (the Kuomintang) maintains a powerful influence over television and major newspapers. T…
Regime transition and the media in Taiwan
Taiwan's recent experience of political regime transition suggests the existence of a strong correlation between the promotion of free and diverse media and the level of political change. The government's efforts to create a more liberal media environment are commendable, but, owing to the structure of the market and ownership patterns, the party of government (the Kuomintang) maintains a powerful influence over television and major newspapers. T…
The State of the Field of Global Taiwan Studies Institutions
Conference' at SOAS, University of London.The conference aimed to bring together representatives from the leading Taiwan studies programmes in Europe and North America to discuss our experiences and how to make our programmes more sustainable.Following the conference, I published an upbeat essay in the Taiwan Sentinel arguing that we are now experiencing a golden era of Taiwan studies (Fell, 2017).This was followed by two more
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
Public Television and Empowerment in Taiwan
This paper analyses the development of public television in Taiwan. It argues that media liberalisation and political democratisation were, on their own, insufficient conditions to encourage the growth of media with links to civil society. Democratisation in Taiwan was essentially an elite-driven process (elites in power and in opposition); in turn, Taiwan's elites - political and intellectual - were the agents behind the development of Public Se…
Regime transition and the media in Taiwan
Taiwan's recent experience of political regime transition suggests the existence of a strong correlation between the promotion of free and diverse media and the level of political change. The government's efforts to create a more liberal media environment are commendable, but, owing to the structure of the market and ownership patterns, the party of government (the Kuomintang) maintains a powerful influence over television and major newspapers. T…
The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65
The Clandestine War in Asia, 1945-65
Political Communications in Greater China
This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity in Greater China; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. \n \nIn the context of increasing cross-border interactions of people, investment and commercial products between the component parts of greater China, the book explores the idea that identity, rather than nation-states or…
La réforme du secteur des médias
Public Television and Empowerment in Taiwan
This paper analyses the development of public television in Taiwan. It argues that media liberalisation and political democratisation were, on their own, insufficient conditions to encourage the growth of media with links to civil society. Democratisation in Taiwan was essentially an elite-driven process (elites in power and in opposition); in turn, Taiwan's elites - political and intellectual - were the agents behind the development of Public Se…
Global Chinese Cinema
The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics, and was both a domestic sensation and an international hit. This book explores the reasons for the film's popularity with its audiences, di…
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: the Wuxia tradition STEPHEN TEO Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2009 ix+230 pp., bibliography, filmography, index, £60.00 (cloth), £19.99 (paper) This book is a
The Impacts of Changing Ruling Parties in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2014: Continuity and Change in Policies in Taiwan
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Introduction Gary D. Rawnsley & Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley Part 1: The Development of the Study and the Structure of Chinese Media 1. (Re)-Focusing on the Target: Reflections on a Trajectory of Studying the Chinese Media Yuezhi Zhao 2. China, Soft Power and Imperialism Colin Sparks 3. Evaluating Chinese Media Policy: Objectives and Contradictions Rogier Creemers
Memory, subjectivity and independent Chinese cinema
Researchers of independent Chinese cinema face three challenges. First, it is difficult to obtain materials through legal channels as most of these films are circulated outside the official system
Taiwan Cinema
In 2011, the opening of Wei Te-sheng’s Seediq Bale in the Venice film festival competition revealed a different scenario from that of the late 1980s and 1990s, when festivals brought world attention to new directors and unexplored territories. The Golden Lion awarded to Hou Hsiao-hsien’s City of Sadness (1989) paved the way for establishing the connection between Venice and Chinese-language films. In 1994, the Golden Lion to Tsai Ming-liang’s Viv…
The State of the Field of Global Taiwan Studies Institutions
Conference' at SOAS, University of London.The conference aimed to bring together representatives from the leading Taiwan studies programmes in Europe and North America to discuss our experiences and how to make our programmes more sustainable.Following the conference, I published an upbeat essay in the Taiwan Sentinel arguing that we are now experiencing a golden era of Taiwan studies (Fell, 2017).This was followed by two more
The 3rd World Congress of Taiwan Studies
The Day When the War Ended
Politics of the everyday
This paper addresses the social and cultural values of Taiwanese-language cinema (or Hoklo topolect films, taiyupian) of the 1950s and the 1960s. Although this cinema was composed primarily of commercial films that were produced cheaply to make a quick profit, it clearly struck a chord with local audiences to be able to reign supreme in the domestic film market for over a decade. As the rise of taiyupian coincided with the island’s transition fro…
The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan’s Media, 1896–2012, written by Chien-Jung Hsu, (2014)
Leiden: Brill. xviii, 280 pages, €129/$159 (hb) isbn: 978-90-04-22770-5.There are few single-authored books in English on national identity and the media in Taiwan. Gary and Ming-yeh Rawnsley co-authored (2001) Critical Security, Democratization and Television in Taiwan (Ashgate), but their focus was on the island’s democratisation process and the TV industry. The Rawnsleys also co-edited a volume in 2003, Political Communications in Greater Chin…
Introduction to a special issue on Taiwanese-language films ( taiyupian )
In this introduction, the guest editors discuss briefly the context of organising this special issue, the approach of each paper takes, and how they are collectively related to the existing literature of Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian). The guest editors also explain the screening tour of selected taiyupian in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe between 2017 and 2019, which became possible because of support and cooperation of many institutio…
Screening the Port City
This article contrasts a range of films from around the world that take place within port cities. It presents the port city film as a case of transnational “geographic imaginary” that dramatizes spaces of contact across lifeworlds. The authors find that there are two primary narrative modes in the port city film: a dominant mode in which gender, ethnic, class, and other identities bestowed by the geographic imaginary become inescapable, and a res…
Twenty Years of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (eats)
This report maps out the evolution of the European Association of Taiwan Studies over the last 20 years. Collaboratively authored by two former secretaries-general and the current office holder, the authors trace the Association’s short history and express their gratitude to all colleagues and friends who have contributed to its work. Furthermore, they reflect on how the Association has enriched and expanded the scope of Taiwan studies across Eur…
Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema
This article contributes to two relatively under-researched areas in the existing literature of Taiwanese popular culture and film studies – Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema. We compare five case studies in Taiwanese-language port city cinema: Anping zhuixiang qu ( Nostalgic Song of Anping ) (Chen Yang 1969), Huilai anping gang ( Back to Anping Harbor ) (Wu Feijian 1972), Fenggui lai de ren ( The Boys from Fengkuei ) (Hou…
Editing the Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies
AI, Taiwan Studies, and the Challenge of the Information Crisis
Reflections from the ‘AI and Taiwan Studies Forum’, National Taiwan Normal University, 24 May 2025
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · History (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Movie theater (6 works)