Horng-Luen Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Horng-Luen Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Horng-Luen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2914-7208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards a renewed conceptualization of the war–society nexus
In an effort to contribute to the ‘third wave’ in the sociological study of war, as represented by Siniša Malešević and others, this article seeks to shed new light on the war–society nexus by proposing a synthetic theoretical framework and incorporating perspectives from East Asia. Drawing on the work of William Sewell Jr, it argues that war should be analysed as a historical event that transforms both material resources and cultural schemas. Th…
War frames
In spite of a boom in war studies in a range of disciplines, war remains marginal to sociology. Moreover, the dominant tone in war studies is a Western-centred criticism of militarization that tends to neglect weaponized colonialism and imperial irredentism in other parts of the world. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and hybrid war with other European countries is such a case; another is China’s growing military hybrid warfare against nei…
Cultivating “Postmodern Citizens”? Reflections on the New Trends of Education in Taiwan
The institutionalist theory of world polity advanced by John W. Meyer and his colleagues provides us an insightful analytical tool to understand the ontological basis of the contemporary world constituted by nation-states and citizens, both of which are constructed through the rationalization process of modernity. However, does this theory still hold in a so-called postmodern or global era, in which the foundations of nation-states are said to be…
How Are Taiwanese Shanghaied
Using the English verb shanghai as a pun, this essay analyzes the ways in which Taiwanese were induced into an undesirable situation during the course of Taiwan's recent interactions with China. As Shanghai (re)emerges as a global city, we have witnessed a “Shanghai fever” in Taiwan since 2000 that is rather different than the so-called mainland fever of the previous period. Men and women of various backgrounds—entrepreneurs and professionals, st…
Regulating Transnational Flows of People
This article challenges the widely held "mobility thesis" by examining the current regime of mobility in regulating transnational flows of people-namely, passports and visas-from an institutionalist perspective. An institutional device linking individuals to the state, the passport is a manifestation of both citizenship and sovereignty. As such, the passport has to be situated in a broader international context in which "organized hypocrisy" (Kra…
National Culture and Its Discontents
In his groundbreaking Nationalism Reframed, Rogers Brubaker challenges conventional understandings of nations and nationalism by advancing a distinctive, if not innovative, approach to the subject. Drawing on recent theoretical developments that problematize the realist ontology implicitly assumed in previous literatures, Brubaker calls for an institutionalist approach to the study of nations and nationalism. As he points out, nation and nationho…
Rethinking the Global and the National
This article explores the interplay between the globalization process and the nation/nation-state by examining the case of contemporary Taiwan. Globalization is analyzed along four dimensions: flows of people, flows of culture, economic globalization and international/transnational institutions. Along each dimension, it is found that globalization has had a profound impact upon how cultural and political elites imagine their nation, leading to ri…
Rethinking the Global and the National
This article explores the interplay between the globalization process and the nation/nation-state by examining the case of contemporary Taiwan. Globalization is analyzed along four dimensions: flows of people, flows of culture, economic globalization and international/transnational institutions. Along each dimension, it is found that globalization has had a profound impact upon how cultural and political elites imagine their nation, leading to ri…
How Are Taiwanese Shanghaied
Using the English verb shanghai as a pun, this essay analyzes the ways in which Taiwanese were induced into an undesirable situation during the course of Taiwan's recent interactions with China. As Shanghai (re)emerges as a global city, we have witnessed a “Shanghai fever” in Taiwan since 2000 that is rather different than the so-called mainland fever of the previous period. Men and women of various backgrounds—entrepreneurs and professionals, st…
National Culture and Its Discontents
In his groundbreaking Nationalism Reframed, Rogers Brubaker challenges conventional understandings of nations and nationalism by advancing a distinctive, if not innovative, approach to the subject. Drawing on recent theoretical developments that problematize the realist ontology implicitly assumed in previous literatures, Brubaker calls for an institutionalist approach to the study of nations and nationalism. As he points out, nation and nationho…
Towards a renewed conceptualization of the war–society nexus
In an effort to contribute to the ‘third wave’ in the sociological study of war, as represented by Siniša Malešević and others, this article seeks to shed new light on the war–society nexus by proposing a synthetic theoretical framework and incorporating perspectives from East Asia. Drawing on the work of William Sewell Jr, it argues that war should be analysed as a historical event that transforms both material resources and cultural schemas. Th…
War frames
In spite of a boom in war studies in a range of disciplines, war remains marginal to sociology. Moreover, the dominant tone in war studies is a Western-centred criticism of militarization that tends to neglect weaponized colonialism and imperial irredentism in other parts of the world. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and hybrid war with other European countries is such a case; another is China’s growing military hybrid warfare against nei…
Rethinking the Global and the National
This article explores the interplay between the globalization process and the nation/nation-state by examining the case of contemporary Taiwan. Globalization is analyzed along four dimensions: flows of people, flows of culture, economic globalization and international/transnational institutions. Along each dimension, it is found that globalization has had a profound impact upon how cultural and political elites imagine their nation, leading to ri…
Regulating Transnational Flows of People
This article challenges the widely held "mobility thesis" by examining the current regime of mobility in regulating transnational flows of people-namely, passports and visas-from an institutionalist perspective. An institutional device linking individuals to the state, the passport is a manifestation of both citizenship and sovereignty. As such, the passport has to be situated in a broader international context in which "organized hypocrisy" (Kra…
National Culture and Its Discontents
In his groundbreaking Nationalism Reframed, Rogers Brubaker challenges conventional understandings of nations and nationalism by advancing a distinctive, if not innovative, approach to the subject. Drawing on recent theoretical developments that problematize the realist ontology implicitly assumed in previous literatures, Brubaker calls for an institutionalist approach to the study of nations and nationalism. As he points out, nation and nationho…
How Are Taiwanese Shanghaied
Using the English verb shanghai as a pun, this essay analyzes the ways in which Taiwanese were induced into an undesirable situation during the course of Taiwan's recent interactions with China. As Shanghai (re)emerges as a global city, we have witnessed a “Shanghai fever” in Taiwan since 2000 that is rather different than the so-called mainland fever of the previous period. Men and women of various backgrounds—entrepreneurs and professionals, st…
Cultivating “Postmodern Citizens”? Reflections on the New Trends of Education in Taiwan
The institutionalist theory of world polity advanced by John W. Meyer and his colleagues provides us an insightful analytical tool to understand the ontological basis of the contemporary world constituted by nation-states and citizens, both of which are constructed through the rationalization process of modernity. However, does this theory still hold in a so-called postmodern or global era, in which the foundations of nation-states are said to be…
Towards a renewed conceptualization of the war–society nexus
In an effort to contribute to the ‘third wave’ in the sociological study of war, as represented by Siniša Malešević and others, this article seeks to shed new light on the war–society nexus by proposing a synthetic theoretical framework and incorporating perspectives from East Asia. Drawing on the work of William Sewell Jr, it argues that war should be analysed as a historical event that transforms both material resources and cultural schemas. Th…
War frames
In spite of a boom in war studies in a range of disciplines, war remains marginal to sociology. Moreover, the dominant tone in war studies is a Western-centred criticism of militarization that tends to neglect weaponized colonialism and imperial irredentism in other parts of the world. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and hybrid war with other European countries is such a case; another is China’s growing military hybrid warfare against nei…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Globalization (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works)