Chih-Ming Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chih-Ming Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chih-Ming |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8318-7680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain
This essay engages in border studies by articulating a “liminal island chain,” linking Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as a frontier of democracy in the rise of a new Cold War. Tracing the theoretical evolution from boundary to border and bordering in the recent scholarship, it aims to counter the island chain idea in international relations theory with an indigenous settler colonial perspective on the one hand, and to approach democracy as a pol…
‘The end of the common world’: Covid anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan
This paper provides ethnographic sketches of the struggles of bordered lives – mainland spouses and their families, PRC students and overseas Taiwan – during the pandemic time when their rights to enter or return to overseas Taiwanese was denied as part of the preventive measures against COVID-19. By conducting interviews with mainland spouses from a distance and looking at the discussion of a Facebook group called 'Overseas Taiwanese COVID-19 Se…
Arif Dirlik in Mandarin: Radical interventions in China, Taiwan, and global entanglements
This article examines Arif Dirlik’s works in Mandarin, specifically Revolutionary China (2015) and After Colonialism? (2018), to tease out the politics of translation in China and Taiwan. Reading Dirlik’s works against these contexts of translation, it argues that despite various appropriations in respective contexts, Dirlik’s works in Mandarin have presented a consistent position against global modernity and colonialism that cannot be separated …
Refugee, returnee, borderland: The accidental activists and Krys Lee’s How I Became a North Korean
Working through the entanglements of diaspora, national identification, and minority formation in the protracted aftermath of the Korean War, this article intends to take the dyadic subject of North Korean defector/refugee as an entry point for unpacking the rhetoric of freedom and salvation. Taking a cultural studies approach that regards literature as a terrain of political engagement for reconsidering the narratives of freedom in relation to t…
Crisis of the human and the responsibilities of art/education
In the twenty-first century, we are experiencing a new round of acceleration in the Anthropocene. On all fronts, art and education are facing new challenges and chances. On the one hand, the technological and media developments have compelled art, design, and knowledge production to change, whereas the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in education and learning. As a consequence, the ideas of art educ…
Transpacific Asymmetries
In honor of the late Masao Miyoshi, whose work has opened a transpacific dimension in Asian American studies, this essay first explores the notion of asymmetry, which is seminal to his critical vision, to build an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating the transnational impulses in recent Asian American literature. Using asymmetry as an analytical lens, it then provides a critical interpretation of Ruth Ozeki’s important novel A Ta…
Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America
In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the U.S. and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China-and other Asian countries-have embarked on this transpa…
Affective rearticulations: Cultural studies in and from Taiwan
This essay introduces the peculiar state of cultural studies from Taiwan by reflecting on its moments of emergence and the projects it strives to accomplish with recent updates. While it is inevitable that a survey of this nature is doomed to be cursory and selective, it hopes to delineate and address the predicaments of cultural studies in and from Taiwan and the struggles therein, as it strives not only to get its voices heard, but also to char…
The future that belongs to us’: Affective politics, neoliberalism and the Sunflower Movement
The Sunflower Movement that took place in Taiwan in spring 2014 has been an epochal event for Taiwan, China, and East Asia. Many critics identified China as the most important factor for triggering the movement, while others emphasized the internal contradictions of economy, politics, and culture within Taiwan as reasons for its outburst. Although the Sunflower Movement has been treated as Taiwanese resistance to political and economic integratio…
Introduction to the Forums
Introduction to the Forums Chih-ming Wang (bio) and Yu-Fang Cho (bio) Contributors to these forums come from a wide range of positions and concerns, but all attempt to engage and reorient American studies through the intertwined vectors of the Chinese factor and the transpacific. Though the first forum is oriented toward the question of transpacific methodology and the second forum focuses more on the historical and contemporary US–China dynamics…
Introduction: The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now
Introduction:The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now Chih-ming Wang (bio) and Yu-Fang Cho (bio) On December 2, 2016, US president-elect Donald Trump tweeted that he received a call of congratulations from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, and when questioned, defended himself with these wry complaints: “Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call”…
Teaching American Studies in Taiwan: Military Bases and the Paradox of Peace and Security in East Asia
Memory films and the politics of revisiting: On Amir Muhammad's films about the Communist Party of Malaya
This article argues that Amir Muhammad's two films about the Community Party of Malaya—The Last Communist and Village People Radio Show—can be understood as “memory films”: films that search for, create, question, and function as memories, especially when they are no longer in place, or nowhere to be found. Its reading of Muhammad's films also engages with a discussion of the politics of revisiting as it pertains to the invocation of the Malayan …
Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America
In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the United States and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China—and other Asian countries—have embarked on thi…
Minjian East Asia Forum: Feelings and imaginations
Politics of Return: Homecoming Stories of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings, such as Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge (1997) or Kien Nguyen's The Unwanted (2001), this article focuses instead on Vietnamese-US narratives about the experience of physical returns…
Charlie Chan: The untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history
Charlie Chan: the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history, by Yunte Huang, New York, W. W. Norton, 2010, 354 pp., $26.95 (hardback), ISBN 0393069621 Almost
Geopolitics of Literature: Foreign literature studies in early twentieth-century China
Foreign literature studies, since its emergence in the early twentieth century, has been an important field of study and discipline in the Chinese humanities. Its emergence, through translation and education, signified a profound transformation in Chinese culture with regard to what literature is and does, and engendered a series of debates on the meanings and functions of literary knowledge at a time when the idea of literature is irrevocably We…
Writing Across the Pacific: Chinese Student Writing, Reflexive Poetics, and Transpacific Modernity
This article investigates Chinese student writing from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on its Anglophone beginning in the 1900s and its critical reflections on the study-abroad experience in the 1970s. It argues that Chinese student writing expanded the Chinese American literary tradition and enables a critical reflection on Chinese Americanness as an articulation of transpacific relation and modernity. It ends with a reconsi…
Cosmopolitanism without empire? Tense and tender ties in Don Lee's Country of Origin
This article approaches the question of "lived cosmopolitanism" through the eyes of transnational mixed-race adoptees. In recent years, adoption has been understood as a paradox evolving in the tension of humanitarian benevolence on the one hand and as a biopolitical scheme of Western imperialism on the other. Mixed-race adoptees are at once viewed as cosmopolitan figures that transcend race and nation and as abject, displaced figures that are pr…
Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan
Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan Chih-ming Wang (bio) Abstract Aided by the publication of Marlon Hom's essay on Chinese American literature in Taiwan in 1982, Asian American studies has gradually established itself in Taiwan's academies since the 1980s. Witnessing the growing popularity of the Asian American literature and culture in Taiwan, Asian American studies in Taiwan, however, have not yet thought thoroughly about its relation…
The future that belongs to us’: Affective politics, neoliberalism and the Sunflower Movement
The Sunflower Movement that took place in Taiwan in spring 2014 has been an epochal event for Taiwan, China, and East Asia. Many critics identified China as the most important factor for triggering the movement, while others emphasized the internal contradictions of economy, politics, and culture within Taiwan as reasons for its outburst. Although the Sunflower Movement has been treated as Taiwanese resistance to political and economic integratio…
Introduction: The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now
Introduction:The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now Chih-ming Wang (bio) and Yu-Fang Cho (bio) On December 2, 2016, US president-elect Donald Trump tweeted that he received a call of congratulations from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, and when questioned, defended himself with these wry complaints: “Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call”…
Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan
Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan Chih-ming Wang (bio) Abstract Aided by the publication of Marlon Hom's essay on Chinese American literature in Taiwan in 1982, Asian American studies has gradually established itself in Taiwan's academies since the 1980s. Witnessing the growing popularity of the Asian American literature and culture in Taiwan, Asian American studies in Taiwan, however, have not yet thought thoroughly about its relation…
Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain
This essay engages in border studies by articulating a “liminal island chain,” linking Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as a frontier of democracy in the rise of a new Cold War. Tracing the theoretical evolution from boundary to border and bordering in the recent scholarship, it aims to counter the island chain idea in international relations theory with an indigenous settler colonial perspective on the one hand, and to approach democracy as a pol…
Politics of Return: Homecoming Stories of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings, such as Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge (1997) or Kien Nguyen's The Unwanted (2001), this article focuses instead on Vietnamese-US narratives about the experience of physical returns…
Minjian East Asia Forum: Feelings and imaginations
Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan
Thinking and Feeling Asian America in Taiwan Chih-ming Wang (bio) Abstract Aided by the publication of Marlon Hom's essay on Chinese American literature in Taiwan in 1982, Asian American studies has gradually established itself in Taiwan's academies since the 1980s. Witnessing the growing popularity of the Asian American literature and culture in Taiwan, Asian American studies in Taiwan, however, have not yet thought thoroughly about its relation…
Geopolitics of Literature: Foreign literature studies in early twentieth-century China
Foreign literature studies, since its emergence in the early twentieth century, has been an important field of study and discipline in the Chinese humanities. Its emergence, through translation and education, signified a profound transformation in Chinese culture with regard to what literature is and does, and engendered a series of debates on the meanings and functions of literary knowledge at a time when the idea of literature is irrevocably We…
Writing Across the Pacific: Chinese Student Writing, Reflexive Poetics, and Transpacific Modernity
This article investigates Chinese student writing from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on its Anglophone beginning in the 1900s and its critical reflections on the study-abroad experience in the 1970s. It argues that Chinese student writing expanded the Chinese American literary tradition and enables a critical reflection on Chinese Americanness as an articulation of transpacific relation and modernity. It ends with a reconsi…
Cosmopolitanism without empire? Tense and tender ties in Don Lee's Country of Origin
This article approaches the question of "lived cosmopolitanism" through the eyes of transnational mixed-race adoptees. In recent years, adoption has been understood as a paradox evolving in the tension of humanitarian benevolence on the one hand and as a biopolitical scheme of Western imperialism on the other. Mixed-race adoptees are at once viewed as cosmopolitan figures that transcend race and nation and as abject, displaced figures that are pr…
Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America
In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the United States and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China—and other Asian countries—have embarked on thi…
Minjian East Asia Forum: Feelings and imaginations
Politics of Return: Homecoming Stories of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Intrigued by the question of diasporic return, this article is concerned with the cultural politics of what I call “homecoming stories” of the Vietnamese diaspora. In order not to be confused with the imaginary returns that have been practiced in many Vietnamese-US writings, such as Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge (1997) or Kien Nguyen's The Unwanted (2001), this article focuses instead on Vietnamese-US narratives about the experience of physical returns…
Charlie Chan: The untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history
Charlie Chan: the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history, by Yunte Huang, New York, W. W. Norton, 2010, 354 pp., $26.95 (hardback), ISBN 0393069621 Almost
Memory films and the politics of revisiting: On Amir Muhammad's films about the Communist Party of Malaya
This article argues that Amir Muhammad's two films about the Community Party of Malaya—The Last Communist and Village People Radio Show—can be understood as “memory films”: films that search for, create, question, and function as memories, especially when they are no longer in place, or nowhere to be found. Its reading of Muhammad's films also engages with a discussion of the politics of revisiting as it pertains to the invocation of the Malayan …
Teaching American Studies in Taiwan: Military Bases and the Paradox of Peace and Security in East Asia
Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America
In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the U.S. and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China-and other Asian countries-have embarked on this transpa…
Affective rearticulations: Cultural studies in and from Taiwan
This essay introduces the peculiar state of cultural studies from Taiwan by reflecting on its moments of emergence and the projects it strives to accomplish with recent updates. While it is inevitable that a survey of this nature is doomed to be cursory and selective, it hopes to delineate and address the predicaments of cultural studies in and from Taiwan and the struggles therein, as it strives not only to get its voices heard, but also to char…
The future that belongs to us’: Affective politics, neoliberalism and the Sunflower Movement
The Sunflower Movement that took place in Taiwan in spring 2014 has been an epochal event for Taiwan, China, and East Asia. Many critics identified China as the most important factor for triggering the movement, while others emphasized the internal contradictions of economy, politics, and culture within Taiwan as reasons for its outburst. Although the Sunflower Movement has been treated as Taiwanese resistance to political and economic integratio…
Introduction to the Forums
Introduction to the Forums Chih-ming Wang (bio) and Yu-Fang Cho (bio) Contributors to these forums come from a wide range of positions and concerns, but all attempt to engage and reorient American studies through the intertwined vectors of the Chinese factor and the transpacific. Though the first forum is oriented toward the question of transpacific methodology and the second forum focuses more on the historical and contemporary US–China dynamics…
Introduction: The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now
Introduction:The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now Chih-ming Wang (bio) and Yu-Fang Cho (bio) On December 2, 2016, US president-elect Donald Trump tweeted that he received a call of congratulations from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, and when questioned, defended himself with these wry complaints: “Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call”…
Refugee, returnee, borderland: The accidental activists and Krys Lee’s How I Became a North Korean
Working through the entanglements of diaspora, national identification, and minority formation in the protracted aftermath of the Korean War, this article intends to take the dyadic subject of North Korean defector/refugee as an entry point for unpacking the rhetoric of freedom and salvation. Taking a cultural studies approach that regards literature as a terrain of political engagement for reconsidering the narratives of freedom in relation to t…
Crisis of the human and the responsibilities of art/education
In the twenty-first century, we are experiencing a new round of acceleration in the Anthropocene. On all fronts, art and education are facing new challenges and chances. On the one hand, the technological and media developments have compelled art, design, and knowledge production to change, whereas the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence have brought about a revolution in education and learning. As a consequence, the ideas of art educ…
Transpacific Asymmetries
In honor of the late Masao Miyoshi, whose work has opened a transpacific dimension in Asian American studies, this essay first explores the notion of asymmetry, which is seminal to his critical vision, to build an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating the transnational impulses in recent Asian American literature. Using asymmetry as an analytical lens, it then provides a critical interpretation of Ruth Ozeki’s important novel A Ta…
Arif Dirlik in Mandarin: Radical interventions in China, Taiwan, and global entanglements
This article examines Arif Dirlik’s works in Mandarin, specifically Revolutionary China (2015) and After Colonialism? (2018), to tease out the politics of translation in China and Taiwan. Reading Dirlik’s works against these contexts of translation, it argues that despite various appropriations in respective contexts, Dirlik’s works in Mandarin have presented a consistent position against global modernity and colonialism that cannot be separated …
‘The end of the common world’: Covid anxieties, bordered lives and democratic censorship in Taiwan
This paper provides ethnographic sketches of the struggles of bordered lives – mainland spouses and their families, PRC students and overseas Taiwan – during the pandemic time when their rights to enter or return to overseas Taiwanese was denied as part of the preventive measures against COVID-19. By conducting interviews with mainland spouses from a distance and looking at the discussion of a Facebook group called 'Overseas Taiwanese COVID-19 Se…
Post/Colonial Geography, Post/Cold War Complication: Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a Liminal Island Chain
This essay engages in border studies by articulating a “liminal island chain,” linking Okinawa, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as a frontier of democracy in the rise of a new Cold War. Tracing the theoretical evolution from boundary to border and bordering in the recent scholarship, it aims to counter the island chain idea in international relations theory with an indigenous settler colonial perspective on the one hand, and to approach democracy as a pol…
Political science (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · History (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · China (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (10 works) · History (10 works)