Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1372469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvia Li-Chun Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvia Li-Chun |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Daily ethnic-racial support from family and peers
Limited research has investigated the changes in ethnic-racial support that adolescents received during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study collected 2-week, daily data from 185 Midwest U.S. ethnic-racial minority adolescents (14.60 years old; 52% female) at two waves, spanning about 1 year apart. For the Pandemic Cohort (936 days of data, 41 participants; 2019–2020), peer cultural socialization declined significantly from before to during the pand…
Documenting Taiwan on Film
1. Introduction Tze-lan D. Sang and Sylvia Li-chun Lin 2. Re/Making Histories: On Historical Documentary Film and Taiwan: A People's History Daw-Ming Lee 3. Re-Creating the White Terror on the Screen Sylvia Li-chun Lin 4. Reclaiming Taiwan's Colonial Modernity: The Case of Viva Tonal: The Dance Age, Tze-lan D. Sang 5. Cultivating Taiwanese: Yen Lan-chuan and Juang Yi-tseng's Let it Be (Wu Mi Le), Bert M. Scruggs 6.The Politics and Aesthetics of S…
Engendering Victimhood
This essay examines the current state of Taiwanese culture through the project of restoration of history, focusing on a corpus of literary works that represent Taiwan's 2/28 Incident and its aftermath, the White Terror. Post-martial law Taiwan witnessed the birthing of a new nation with burgeoning writings of a new historiography, particularly in the literary field. Writers have re-created scenes and the effects of atrocity in order to fill in th…
Six Lives in Search of a Character
Six Lives in Search of a Character fl^w ^ The 2009Newman Prize Lecture ^X^mB Mo Yan It seems ironic to ask someone called "Mo Yan" to speak in frontof so many people. Thirty years ago, when a man with the name "Guan Moye" took a character from his given name, Mo, split it into two characters, and changed it intoMo Yan, he did not fully realize the implications of this rebellious act of changing both family and given names. Back thenhe was thinkin…
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades of martial law that became known as the White Terror. During this period, talk of 2/28 was forbidden and all dissent violently suppressed, but since …
Toward a New Identity
By examining the music of two popular Taiwanese rock groups, Black List Studio and New Formosa Entertainment Troupe, this article explores the formation of a new Taiwanese identity. Specifically, this article studies the range of languages used by these two groups- Mandarin, Taiwanhua, Hakka, and English-as the primary trajectory of my inquiry into the phenomenon, and predicament, of Taiwan's quest for a new identity. During the first decade afte…
Soul of Chaos
Toward a New Identity
By examining the music of two popular Taiwanese rock groups, Black List Studio and New Formosa Entertainment Troupe, this article explores the formation of a new Taiwanese identity. Specifically, this article studies the range of languages used by these two groups- Mandarin, Taiwanhua, Hakka, and English-as the primary trajectory of my inquiry into the phenomenon, and predicament, of Taiwan's quest for a new identity. During the first decade afte…
Soul of Chaos
Toward a New Identity
By examining the music of two popular Taiwanese rock groups, Black List Studio and New Formosa Entertainment Troupe, this article explores the formation of a new Taiwanese identity. Specifically, this article studies the range of languages used by these two groups- Mandarin, Taiwanhua, Hakka, and English-as the primary trajectory of my inquiry into the phenomenon, and predicament, of Taiwan's quest for a new identity. During the first decade afte…
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades of martial law that became known as the White Terror. During this period, talk of 2/28 was forbidden and all dissent violently suppressed, but since …
Engendering Victimhood
This essay examines the current state of Taiwanese culture through the project of restoration of history, focusing on a corpus of literary works that represent Taiwan's 2/28 Incident and its aftermath, the White Terror. Post-martial law Taiwan witnessed the birthing of a new nation with burgeoning writings of a new historiography, particularly in the literary field. Writers have re-created scenes and the effects of atrocity in order to fill in th…
Six Lives in Search of a Character
Six Lives in Search of a Character fl^w ^ The 2009Newman Prize Lecture ^X^mB Mo Yan It seems ironic to ask someone called "Mo Yan" to speak in frontof so many people. Thirty years ago, when a man with the name "Guan Moye" took a character from his given name, Mo, split it into two characters, and changed it intoMo Yan, he did not fully realize the implications of this rebellious act of changing both family and given names. Back thenhe was thinkin…
Documenting Taiwan on Film
1. Introduction Tze-lan D. Sang and Sylvia Li-chun Lin 2. Re/Making Histories: On Historical Documentary Film and Taiwan: A People's History Daw-Ming Lee 3. Re-Creating the White Terror on the Screen Sylvia Li-chun Lin 4. Reclaiming Taiwan's Colonial Modernity: The Case of Viva Tonal: The Dance Age, Tze-lan D. Sang 5. Cultivating Taiwanese: Yen Lan-chuan and Juang Yi-tseng's Let it Be (Wu Mi Le), Bert M. Scruggs 6.The Politics and Aesthetics of S…
Daily ethnic-racial support from family and peers
Limited research has investigated the changes in ethnic-racial support that adolescents received during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study collected 2-week, daily data from 185 Midwest U.S. ethnic-racial minority adolescents (14.60 years old; 52% female) at two waves, spanning about 1 year apart. For the Pandemic Cohort (936 days of data, 41 participants; 2019–2020), peer cultural socialization declined significantly from before to during the pand…
Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)