Fang-Long Shih
Biographic Data
| ID | 189874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fang-Long Shih |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fang-Long |
| FAMILY NAME | Shih |
| SIGNATURE | SHIH F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I Am Chinese, Not Chinese: Some Implications of an Ambiguity and Proposals for Alternatives
Prompted by the meme, “我是華人不是中國人,” and playing on its (machine-) translation into English as “I am Chinese, not Chinese,” this article explores how in English the word “Chinese” ambiguates what are two separately named concepts in Chinese: 華人 ( Huaren , referring to Chinese ethnicity) and 中國人 ( Zhongguoren , referring to Chinese citizenship). Within the prc Firewall, the official designation is: 華人也是中國人, translated as Chinese are also Chinese), w…
Introduction: What’s in the Name “Chinese”? Translocation and Hua-logy
From Politics to Culture
Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt
New Atheism is characterized by a binary logic that pits religion against science, belief against doubt, a pre-modern past against a modern present. It generates a temporal sensibility and attitude toward being modern that is a 'survival' of late-nineteenth-century anthropology, where religious belief and the past were bound together in opposition to science and the present. We analyze this binary logic and then, in response, present two ethnogra…
Generating power in Taiwan: Nuclear, political and religious power
This paper addresses how religion is playing an increasingly important role in empowering anti-nuclear protests at Gongliao in Taiwan. It begins by describing how the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan was originally dependant on the opposition political party, and then examines how growing disaffection with party politics at Gongliao has resulted in a local temple dedicated to the goddess Mazu coming to the forefront of the struggle. This paper fra…
Chinese ‘bad death’ practices in Taiwan: Maidens and modernity
This article interrogates so-called ‘bad death’ rituals and their cultural implications in the Chinese patrilineal society of Taiwan. It begins by outlining the significant features of ‘good death’ rituals through which the discontinuity of biological death is transformed into the social continuity of being an ancestor. Importantly, only those among the dead with male heirs are entitled to become ancestors. The article then looks at ‘bad death’ p…
Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. \n \nAs the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and …
Generation of a new Space: A maiden temple in the Chinese religious culture of Taiwan
This paper addresses a significant gender issue in the Chinese religious culture of Taiwan. The exclusion of deceased maidens from family and ancestral lineages leaves relations between the living and the dead disordered. People believe that homeless maidens become restless, polluting ghosts after death who will bring misfortune to their family and others in society. The case study examined here is a correction to the exclusion/pollution/homeless…
The Formation and Function of the Category "Religion" in Anthropological Studies of Taiwan
This paper has two sections. The first constitutes a reflection on anthropological analyses of religion in Taiwan. We try to demonstrate that a shift has occurred in the conduct of these analyses that reflect engagements with the notion of "orientalism" and debates about the concept of "culture". We argue that the formation of the category "religion" in anthropology served a specific function: to signify the pre-modern. We outline the breakdown o…
Generating power in Taiwan: Nuclear, political and religious power
This paper addresses how religion is playing an increasingly important role in empowering anti-nuclear protests at Gongliao in Taiwan. It begins by describing how the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan was originally dependant on the opposition political party, and then examines how growing disaffection with party politics at Gongliao has resulted in a local temple dedicated to the goddess Mazu coming to the forefront of the struggle. This paper fra…
The Formation and Function of the Category "Religion" in Anthropological Studies of Taiwan
This paper has two sections. The first constitutes a reflection on anthropological analyses of religion in Taiwan. We try to demonstrate that a shift has occurred in the conduct of these analyses that reflect engagements with the notion of "orientalism" and debates about the concept of "culture". We argue that the formation of the category "religion" in anthropology served a specific function: to signify the pre-modern. We outline the breakdown o…
Generation of a new Space: A maiden temple in the Chinese religious culture of Taiwan
This paper addresses a significant gender issue in the Chinese religious culture of Taiwan. The exclusion of deceased maidens from family and ancestral lineages leaves relations between the living and the dead disordered. People believe that homeless maidens become restless, polluting ghosts after death who will bring misfortune to their family and others in society. The case study examined here is a correction to the exclusion/pollution/homeless…
The Formation and Function of the Category "Religion" in Anthropological Studies of Taiwan
This paper has two sections. The first constitutes a reflection on anthropological analyses of religion in Taiwan. We try to demonstrate that a shift has occurred in the conduct of these analyses that reflect engagements with the notion of "orientalism" and debates about the concept of "culture". We argue that the formation of the category "religion" in anthropology served a specific function: to signify the pre-modern. We outline the breakdown o…
Generation of a new Space: A maiden temple in the Chinese religious culture of Taiwan
This paper addresses a significant gender issue in the Chinese religious culture of Taiwan. The exclusion of deceased maidens from family and ancestral lineages leaves relations between the living and the dead disordered. People believe that homeless maidens become restless, polluting ghosts after death who will bring misfortune to their family and others in society. The case study examined here is a correction to the exclusion/pollution/homeless…
Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. \n \nAs the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and …
Chinese ‘bad death’ practices in Taiwan: Maidens and modernity
This article interrogates so-called ‘bad death’ rituals and their cultural implications in the Chinese patrilineal society of Taiwan. It begins by outlining the significant features of ‘good death’ rituals through which the discontinuity of biological death is transformed into the social continuity of being an ancestor. Importantly, only those among the dead with male heirs are entitled to become ancestors. The article then looks at ‘bad death’ p…
Generating power in Taiwan: Nuclear, political and religious power
This paper addresses how religion is playing an increasingly important role in empowering anti-nuclear protests at Gongliao in Taiwan. It begins by describing how the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan was originally dependant on the opposition political party, and then examines how growing disaffection with party politics at Gongliao has resulted in a local temple dedicated to the goddess Mazu coming to the forefront of the struggle. This paper fra…
From Politics to Culture
Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt
New Atheism is characterized by a binary logic that pits religion against science, belief against doubt, a pre-modern past against a modern present. It generates a temporal sensibility and attitude toward being modern that is a 'survival' of late-nineteenth-century anthropology, where religious belief and the past were bound together in opposition to science and the present. We analyze this binary logic and then, in response, present two ethnogra…
I Am Chinese, Not Chinese: Some Implications of an Ambiguity and Proposals for Alternatives
Prompted by the meme, “我是華人不是中國人,” and playing on its (machine-) translation into English as “I am Chinese, not Chinese,” this article explores how in English the word “Chinese” ambiguates what are two separately named concepts in Chinese: 華人 ( Huaren , referring to Chinese ethnicity) and 中國人 ( Zhongguoren , referring to Chinese citizenship). Within the prc Firewall, the official designation is: 華人也是中國人, translated as Chinese are also Chinese), w…
Introduction: What’s in the Name “Chinese”? Translocation and Hua-logy
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)