Mark Mcconaghy
Biographic Data
| ID | 241667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Mcconaghy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconaghy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONAGHY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8419-1876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thinking the Republic of China, written by Rur-bin Yang
Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, by Peng Hsiao-yen
Can Marxism, liberalism, and Chinese neo-traditionalism co-exist/co-become ( gongsheng )? Provisional reflections on Jon Douglas Solomon’s The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Ame…
The Potentials and Occlusions of Zhonghua Minguo/Taiwan: In Search of a Left Nationalism in the Tsai Ing-wen Era
Tsai Ing-wen has consistently referred to the nation that she governs as 中華民國台灣 (The Republic of China Taiwan), the term representing a major rhetorical feature of her administration. Breaking from the exclusively Taiwan-centered discourse which traditionally defined DPP politics, Tsai has seemingly created an entirely new name for the state she governs. This article examines both the discursive potentials, but also the occlusions, of this newly …
Thinking the Republic of China”: An International Symposium’
In the summer of 2021, scholars working in seven different countries gathered online to hold a series of seven different forums, each dedicated to discussing one aspect of National Tsinghua University professor Rur-bin Yang’s upcoming scholarly monograph Thinking the Republic of China (Forthcoming). The forum engaged with the following questions: what are the ideals of the Republic of China ( roc )? How can one understand the meaning of the roc i…
Between Centralizing Orthodoxy and Local Self-Governance: Taiwanese Sinophone Socialism in Hong Kong, 1947-49
This article examines the New Taiwan Series (NTS), a journal published between 1947 and 1948 in Hong Kong by Taiwanese socialists who fled the island following the 228 Uprising. It does so to intervene in ongoing debates in the field of Sinophone studies. While two major theorizations of the Sinophone exist-one that sees the field as a network of minoritized sites that operate against China-centrism, and the other grounding the Sinophone in a lyr…
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction
This paper examines the regional fiction of early twentieth century China in order to understand how such texts presented the object world of rural life. In doing so it addresses a gap in the historiography of material culture in modern China, which has emphasized urban commodity regimes and has paid far less attention to the ways in which pre-existing object practices endured into the time of the modern Republic. Building off of the methodologic…
The Polyphonic Condition: Sin Wenz , Topolect Writing and the Linguistic Limits of Nation-building in Revolutionary China, 1933–1956
This essay examines the Latinxua Sin Wenz movement, which was launched in China in 1933 by CCP-affiliated activists as a means of promoting topolect writing in a variety of Latin-based alphabets. Seeing the imposition of a national language across polyphonic societies as an integral part of the violence of capitalist developmentalism, the Sin Wenz movement opted instead to promote local linguistic empowerment in Latin-based alphabets. Seen in rel…
Filaments in Time and Space: Lien Heng’s Elegant Words and the Linguistic Ecology of Taiwan in the 1930s
This article revisits the debate which occurred in the early 1930s regarding ‘Taiwanese Language Writing’ to argue that these discussions represented an extended interrogation of the linguistic ecology of the island: how written scripts and spoken sounds functioned in Taiwan to make meaning in relation to a larger environmental, animistic, and social whole. Set against the backdrop of this debate, the 1932 work Elegant Words by the famed intellec…
Where You Labor Is Where You Sing: The New Folksong Movement of 1958 and the Fissured Mediascape of Maoist China
This article examines the New Folksong Movement (NFM) of 1958–1959, which was launched by the Chinese Communist Party in conjunction with the Great Leap Forward (GLF) campaign. It employs an analytical strategy called fissured reading, whereby a discursive assemblage that seems ideologically uniform can be made to reveal the myriad tensions that its own positive facade works to conceal. While the NFM seems suffused with songs of praise for the GL…
Printing the Voice of the People: Folksong Weekly and the Heterogeneity of Chinese Folk Culture
Liberalism in contemporary China: Questions, strategies, directions
This article will examine the strategies by which a number of intellectuals in China have staked out a liberal position in their work over the last decade, doing so in the face of opposition not only from rival intellectual groups but also the state's ideological machinery. The writings of these intellectuals take up themes inherent to the liberal political tradition, including democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law. Collectively, they…
Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures, and Genres
In her contribution to this edited volume of essays on the literary life and works of Eileen Chang (張愛玲), Hsiu-Chuang Deppman makes a telling remark about the compulsive draw Chang’s fiction has ha
Liberalism in contemporary China: Questions, strategies, directions
This article will examine the strategies by which a number of intellectuals in China have staked out a liberal position in their work over the last decade, doing so in the face of opposition not only from rival intellectual groups but also the state's ideological machinery. The writings of these intellectuals take up themes inherent to the liberal political tradition, including democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law. Collectively, they…
Where You Labor Is Where You Sing: The New Folksong Movement of 1958 and the Fissured Mediascape of Maoist China
This article examines the New Folksong Movement (NFM) of 1958–1959, which was launched by the Chinese Communist Party in conjunction with the Great Leap Forward (GLF) campaign. It employs an analytical strategy called fissured reading, whereby a discursive assemblage that seems ideologically uniform can be made to reveal the myriad tensions that its own positive facade works to conceal. While the NFM seems suffused with songs of praise for the GL…
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction
This paper examines the regional fiction of early twentieth century China in order to understand how such texts presented the object world of rural life. In doing so it addresses a gap in the historiography of material culture in modern China, which has emphasized urban commodity regimes and has paid far less attention to the ways in which pre-existing object practices endured into the time of the modern Republic. Building off of the methodologic…
Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures, and Genres
In her contribution to this edited volume of essays on the literary life and works of Eileen Chang (張愛玲), Hsiu-Chuang Deppman makes a telling remark about the compulsive draw Chang’s fiction has ha
Liberalism in contemporary China: Questions, strategies, directions
This article will examine the strategies by which a number of intellectuals in China have staked out a liberal position in their work over the last decade, doing so in the face of opposition not only from rival intellectual groups but also the state's ideological machinery. The writings of these intellectuals take up themes inherent to the liberal political tradition, including democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law. Collectively, they…
Printing the Voice of the People: Folksong Weekly and the Heterogeneity of Chinese Folk Culture
The Polyphonic Condition: Sin Wenz , Topolect Writing and the Linguistic Limits of Nation-building in Revolutionary China, 1933–1956
This essay examines the Latinxua Sin Wenz movement, which was launched in China in 1933 by CCP-affiliated activists as a means of promoting topolect writing in a variety of Latin-based alphabets. Seeing the imposition of a national language across polyphonic societies as an integral part of the violence of capitalist developmentalism, the Sin Wenz movement opted instead to promote local linguistic empowerment in Latin-based alphabets. Seen in rel…
Filaments in Time and Space: Lien Heng’s Elegant Words and the Linguistic Ecology of Taiwan in the 1930s
This article revisits the debate which occurred in the early 1930s regarding ‘Taiwanese Language Writing’ to argue that these discussions represented an extended interrogation of the linguistic ecology of the island: how written scripts and spoken sounds functioned in Taiwan to make meaning in relation to a larger environmental, animistic, and social whole. Set against the backdrop of this debate, the 1932 work Elegant Words by the famed intellec…
Where You Labor Is Where You Sing: The New Folksong Movement of 1958 and the Fissured Mediascape of Maoist China
This article examines the New Folksong Movement (NFM) of 1958–1959, which was launched by the Chinese Communist Party in conjunction with the Great Leap Forward (GLF) campaign. It employs an analytical strategy called fissured reading, whereby a discursive assemblage that seems ideologically uniform can be made to reveal the myriad tensions that its own positive facade works to conceal. While the NFM seems suffused with songs of praise for the GL…
The Potentials and Occlusions of Zhonghua Minguo/Taiwan: In Search of a Left Nationalism in the Tsai Ing-wen Era
Tsai Ing-wen has consistently referred to the nation that she governs as 中華民國台灣 (The Republic of China Taiwan), the term representing a major rhetorical feature of her administration. Breaking from the exclusively Taiwan-centered discourse which traditionally defined DPP politics, Tsai has seemingly created an entirely new name for the state she governs. This article examines both the discursive potentials, but also the occlusions, of this newly …
Thinking the Republic of China”: An International Symposium’
In the summer of 2021, scholars working in seven different countries gathered online to hold a series of seven different forums, each dedicated to discussing one aspect of National Tsinghua University professor Rur-bin Yang’s upcoming scholarly monograph Thinking the Republic of China (Forthcoming). The forum engaged with the following questions: what are the ideals of the Republic of China ( roc )? How can one understand the meaning of the roc i…
Between Centralizing Orthodoxy and Local Self-Governance: Taiwanese Sinophone Socialism in Hong Kong, 1947-49
This article examines the New Taiwan Series (NTS), a journal published between 1947 and 1948 in Hong Kong by Taiwanese socialists who fled the island following the 228 Uprising. It does so to intervene in ongoing debates in the field of Sinophone studies. While two major theorizations of the Sinophone exist-one that sees the field as a network of minoritized sites that operate against China-centrism, and the other grounding the Sinophone in a lyr…
Neither remnants nor commodities: Spirit objects in early twentieth century Chinese regional fiction
This paper examines the regional fiction of early twentieth century China in order to understand how such texts presented the object world of rural life. In doing so it addresses a gap in the historiography of material culture in modern China, which has emphasized urban commodity regimes and has paid far less attention to the ways in which pre-existing object practices endured into the time of the modern Republic. Building off of the methodologic…
Thinking the Republic of China, written by Rur-bin Yang
Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, by Peng Hsiao-yen
Can Marxism, liberalism, and Chinese neo-traditionalism co-exist/co-become ( gongsheng )? Provisional reflections on Jon Douglas Solomon’s The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Ame…
Chinese history and philosophy (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · China (8 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works)