Hong-Chi Shiau
Biographic Data
| ID | 291242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hong-Chi Shiau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hong-Chi |
| FAMILY NAME | Shiau |
| SIGNATURE | SHIAU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shih Hsin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6737-028X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Branding the diva: Popular feminism and the platform economy in a Chinese-language Netflix meta-drama
This study examines the gendered political economy of fame, self-branding, and affective labor in platformized entertainment through Born for the Spotlight (2024), a rare Chinese-language Netflix serial that fuses reality TV, documentary, and scripted drama. Set within Taiwan’s low-budget media ecology, the show follows female contestants who perform affective labor and navigate precarious alliances in a media environment in which emotional inten…
Thai boys’ love pilgrimages and experiential tourism: Chinese female fandom in a queer utopia
Little New Meat’ and ‘Korean Warm Men’: Performance of regional heterosexual masculinities among Taiwanese millennials
Much of the academic research on the Korean Wave has focused on transcultural hybridity, with little analysis of how the Korean Wave has challenged and reshaped the site of heterosexual masculinities among millennials. Through ethnographic and focus-group interviews, this article explicates how Taiwanese masculinities have been negotiated and constructed in response to the Korean Wave, based on both Taiwan and Korea sharing a Confucian culture th…
Performing Chineseness, Translated Histories: Taiwanese Cartoonist Chen Uen’s Ink-brush Comic Aesthetics and Digital Pedagogy
This study aims to examine the notion of “multimodal digital pedagogy” through participatory paratexts created among students. Within the field of research on the intersection of arts, media, new technologies, and digital pedagogy, Chen Uen’s work presents an opportunity for educators and students to engage with challenging transnational symbolic dimensions. Taiwan has witnessed an increasing pluralism of aesthetic pedagogy epitomized by Chen’s i…
Fissures in the commercial cinematic space: Screening Taiwanese documentary blockbusters
This study explores the trajectory of how a new wave of documentary making has incorporated or resisted dominant social forces to create fissures in the commercial cinematic spaces. Two documentary blockbusters The Long Goodbye (2010) and Beyond Taiwan (2013) are examined to explicate how the restructuring of cinematic spaces in Taiwan has facilitated changes in documentary screening culture and spectatorships, leading to the recent documentary r…
Guiltless consumption of space as an individualistic pursuit: Mapping out the leisure self at Starbucks in Taiwan
Despite the popularity of spending leisure time at Starbucks, leisure researchers have neglected coffee drinking space. This study explicates how Starbucks consumers are not purchasing coffee but instead are consuming comfort, pleasure and a western middle-class image as well as space to pursue their activities – whether study, work or simply some time alone. By employing participant observation together with ethnographic interviews with 34 infor…
Bonding Gossip as an Identity Negotiation Life Phase: A Study of Multimodal Texting via Smartphone Among Taiwanese College Freshmen
Drawn on ethnographic interviews with 17 informants as well as seven focus group interviews, this study examines how college freshmen text on social media via smartphones to formulate collegiate bonding. Gossip is common between two individuals to avoid collapsed context, so both parties can ascertain the meaning derived from such situated interaction; it is less frequently among multiple small group users. Three linguistic genres of gossip ident…
Lavender Mandarin in the sites of desire: Situating linguistic performances among Taiwanese gay men
Private Sponsorships and Independent Film Exhibition in Taiwan
Following the deregulation of the Taiwanese film exhibition industry in the late 1990s, local movie theatres increasingly have spurned domestic productions in favour of more dependable Hollywood blockbusters. With little commercial support for the screening of their projects, independent filmmakers in Taiwan have begun to turn to private sponsors as a means of securing theatrical deals. This article explores the historical development of this pra…
Guiltless consumption of space as an individualistic pursuit: Mapping out the leisure self at Starbucks in Taiwan
Despite the popularity of spending leisure time at Starbucks, leisure researchers have neglected coffee drinking space. This study explicates how Starbucks consumers are not purchasing coffee but instead are consuming comfort, pleasure and a western middle-class image as well as space to pursue their activities – whether study, work or simply some time alone. By employing participant observation together with ethnographic interviews with 34 infor…
Little New Meat’ and ‘Korean Warm Men’: Performance of regional heterosexual masculinities among Taiwanese millennials
Much of the academic research on the Korean Wave has focused on transcultural hybridity, with little analysis of how the Korean Wave has challenged and reshaped the site of heterosexual masculinities among millennials. Through ethnographic and focus-group interviews, this article explicates how Taiwanese masculinities have been negotiated and constructed in response to the Korean Wave, based on both Taiwan and Korea sharing a Confucian culture th…
Lavender Mandarin in the sites of desire: Situating linguistic performances among Taiwanese gay men
Private Sponsorships and Independent Film Exhibition in Taiwan
Following the deregulation of the Taiwanese film exhibition industry in the late 1990s, local movie theatres increasingly have spurned domestic productions in favour of more dependable Hollywood blockbusters. With little commercial support for the screening of their projects, independent filmmakers in Taiwan have begun to turn to private sponsors as a means of securing theatrical deals. This article explores the historical development of this pra…
Lavender Mandarin in the sites of desire: Situating linguistic performances among Taiwanese gay men
Fissures in the commercial cinematic space: Screening Taiwanese documentary blockbusters
This study explores the trajectory of how a new wave of documentary making has incorporated or resisted dominant social forces to create fissures in the commercial cinematic spaces. Two documentary blockbusters The Long Goodbye (2010) and Beyond Taiwan (2013) are examined to explicate how the restructuring of cinematic spaces in Taiwan has facilitated changes in documentary screening culture and spectatorships, leading to the recent documentary r…
Guiltless consumption of space as an individualistic pursuit: Mapping out the leisure self at Starbucks in Taiwan
Despite the popularity of spending leisure time at Starbucks, leisure researchers have neglected coffee drinking space. This study explicates how Starbucks consumers are not purchasing coffee but instead are consuming comfort, pleasure and a western middle-class image as well as space to pursue their activities – whether study, work or simply some time alone. By employing participant observation together with ethnographic interviews with 34 infor…
Bonding Gossip as an Identity Negotiation Life Phase: A Study of Multimodal Texting via Smartphone Among Taiwanese College Freshmen
Drawn on ethnographic interviews with 17 informants as well as seven focus group interviews, this study examines how college freshmen text on social media via smartphones to formulate collegiate bonding. Gossip is common between two individuals to avoid collapsed context, so both parties can ascertain the meaning derived from such situated interaction; it is less frequently among multiple small group users. Three linguistic genres of gossip ident…
Little New Meat’ and ‘Korean Warm Men’: Performance of regional heterosexual masculinities among Taiwanese millennials
Much of the academic research on the Korean Wave has focused on transcultural hybridity, with little analysis of how the Korean Wave has challenged and reshaped the site of heterosexual masculinities among millennials. Through ethnographic and focus-group interviews, this article explicates how Taiwanese masculinities have been negotiated and constructed in response to the Korean Wave, based on both Taiwan and Korea sharing a Confucian culture th…
Performing Chineseness, Translated Histories: Taiwanese Cartoonist Chen Uen’s Ink-brush Comic Aesthetics and Digital Pedagogy
This study aims to examine the notion of “multimodal digital pedagogy” through participatory paratexts created among students. Within the field of research on the intersection of arts, media, new technologies, and digital pedagogy, Chen Uen’s work presents an opportunity for educators and students to engage with challenging transnational symbolic dimensions. Taiwan has witnessed an increasing pluralism of aesthetic pedagogy epitomized by Chen’s i…
Branding the diva: Popular feminism and the platform economy in a Chinese-language Netflix meta-drama
This study examines the gendered political economy of fame, self-branding, and affective labor in platformized entertainment through Born for the Spotlight (2024), a rare Chinese-language Netflix serial that fuses reality TV, documentary, and scripted drama. Set within Taiwan’s low-budget media ecology, the show follows female contestants who perform affective labor and navigate precarious alliances in a media environment in which emotional inten…
Thai boys’ love pilgrimages and experiential tourism: Chinese female fandom in a queer utopia
Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)