Hsin‐yi Yeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4276300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hsin‐yi Yeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hsin‐yi |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeh |
| SIGNATURE | YEH H Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taipei University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Democratizing Technology and Enhancing the Inclusivity of Technology Policies
This article investigates the democratization of technology policymaking through an analysis of the 100 T-forums held in Taiwan between 2019 and 2021, marking the first systematic incorporation of lay citizens’ perspectives into technology governance. Prior to this initiative, large-scale deliberative communication in technology policy remained largely absent; this project offers critical insight into its potential and limitations. Initiated by t…
Technological experiences and end-users' identification work - investigating expectant mothers' prenatal ultrasound experiences and their reconfigurations
Investigating expectant mothers’ pregnancy in Taiwan, this paper examines prenatal ultrasound as an ongoing invention of its users in general and pregnant women in particular. Instead of being passive consumers, pregnant women actively invent and reconfigure prenatal ultrasound using flexible interpretation and strategic reinscription. There is an inevitably ambivalent technological experience of prenatal ultrasound across cultures. Whereas pregn…
Distributing Money to Commemoration
This article brings the aspect of collective memories (and thus identity) back “in” to facilitate our understanding of the intriguing relationship among memories, places, and deliberative projects. While we observe that the memories of a place assign meanings to it and thereby not only imbue a “sense of place” to local members but also influence the process of deliberation, we claim that the process of deliberation can serve as a place-(re)making…
The construction of identification with mnemonic engineering—toward a conceptual framework of identity-remembering
The construction of collective memory (and the formation of people’s identification) is a social process; however, this process is under-theorized. This article proposes a conceptual framework through which to understand the identity-remembering process. Several significant elements to consider are pointed out and discussed. Mnemonic engineering indicates that social actors strategically employ available mnemonic techniques and resources to promo…
Managing uncertainty by adopting a hybrid way of knowing
The participant observation that I conducted during late 2013 through early 2014 in a Taiwanese medical center guides me to acknowledge the hybrid way of knowing that intensive care unit (ICU) patients' caregivers adopt to cope with illness. On the one hand, ICU patients' caregivers rely on modern medicine to understand their family member's circumstances; on the other, they depend on folk-religious beliefs to tell them what happened, is happenin…
Telling a shared past, present, and future to invent nationality
Consistent with memory studies’ emphasis on the tight relationship between memory and identity, this article regards nation-building as an ongoing social process of nation-remembering. Taking the official Chinese nationalism in Taiwan from 1949 through 1987 as the case, this study aims to demonstrate the significant role that commemorative narratives play in nation-remembering. Facing extraordinary difficulties, the master commemorative narrative…
Using an awakening narrative to leave behind a former national‐identity
National‐identity has become a civil religion and a major source of how people define themselves. Changing one's nationality thus is a salient event/social process in today's society; therefore, people's nationality conversion deserves more academic attention. Treating the convert as a social type and regarding people's self‐reports (or converts' accounts) as topics for analysis, this article examines the Taiwan case to illuminate how people tell…
Maintaining and Strengthening a Shaky Regime with Mnemonic Work
This paper investigates the invention of a Chinese National Day from 1949 through 1987 in Taiwan to illuminate the significance of mnemonic work in nation-building. The 1949 Retreat after the Chinese Civil War resulted in a serious legitimacy crisis for the government of the Republic of China; thus, (re)inventing the National Day became an important mission to maintain and even strengthen this shaky regime. While the role of the standardized comm…
Voice with Every Bite
Through an examination of vegetarians' practical boundary-work, this paper not only highlights the significance of people's dietary identity but also accounts for how the triadic relationship among social groups complicates people's boundary-work. This paper illuminates vegetarians' strategies for managing cultural membership and identity in a triadic group relationship—namely, meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans. In the triadic group constellati…
A Sacred Bastion? A Nation in Itself? An Economic Partner of Rising China? Three Waves of Nation‐Building in Taiwan after 1949
Agreeing with the constructivist approach to nationalism, this article argues that the prevailing ambiguous attitude towards nationality among people in Taiwan is a reflection of different waves of nation‐building − each led people to imagine a distinct nation − and the mixture of these waves during past decades. Whereas all nations are artificially imagined, ‘the style in which they are imagined’ should be examined. This article aims to distingu…
Boundary Objects and Public Deliberation
Consistent with studies on inclusive management, this paper adopts the concept of “boundary object” and therefore an emergent approach to explain the collaboration of heterogeneous social actors in public deliberation. My long-term participant observation of the consensus conferences in Taiwan from 2002 through 2005 in general and the transcript of a national consensus conference on prenatal examination in 2005 in particular form the data sources…
Boundaries, Entities, and Modern Vegetarianism
Taking the emergence of the first vegetarian organization in Victorian England as a case, this article argues that "what vegetarianism is" is an ongoing social process that is determined by how social actors link its boundaries. Although in hindsight, people tend to take what an idea is for granted and treat it as a constant, what an idea was, is, and will be in fact depends heavily on what ideas can penetrate the boundaries of the specific idea …
Voice with Every Bite
Through an examination of vegetarians' practical boundary-work, this paper not only highlights the significance of people's dietary identity but also accounts for how the triadic relationship among social groups complicates people's boundary-work. This paper illuminates vegetarians' strategies for managing cultural membership and identity in a triadic group relationship—namely, meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans. In the triadic group constellati…
Boundaries, Entities, and Modern Vegetarianism
Taking the emergence of the first vegetarian organization in Victorian England as a case, this article argues that "what vegetarianism is" is an ongoing social process that is determined by how social actors link its boundaries. Although in hindsight, people tend to take what an idea is for granted and treat it as a constant, what an idea was, is, and will be in fact depends heavily on what ideas can penetrate the boundaries of the specific idea …
A Sacred Bastion? A Nation in Itself? An Economic Partner of Rising China? Three Waves of Nation‐Building in Taiwan after 1949
Agreeing with the constructivist approach to nationalism, this article argues that the prevailing ambiguous attitude towards nationality among people in Taiwan is a reflection of different waves of nation‐building − each led people to imagine a distinct nation − and the mixture of these waves during past decades. Whereas all nations are artificially imagined, ‘the style in which they are imagined’ should be examined. This article aims to distingu…
Technological experiences and end-users' identification work - investigating expectant mothers' prenatal ultrasound experiences and their reconfigurations
Investigating expectant mothers’ pregnancy in Taiwan, this paper examines prenatal ultrasound as an ongoing invention of its users in general and pregnant women in particular. Instead of being passive consumers, pregnant women actively invent and reconfigure prenatal ultrasound using flexible interpretation and strategic reinscription. There is an inevitably ambivalent technological experience of prenatal ultrasound across cultures. Whereas pregn…
Telling a shared past, present, and future to invent nationality
Consistent with memory studies’ emphasis on the tight relationship between memory and identity, this article regards nation-building as an ongoing social process of nation-remembering. Taking the official Chinese nationalism in Taiwan from 1949 through 1987 as the case, this study aims to demonstrate the significant role that commemorative narratives play in nation-remembering. Facing extraordinary difficulties, the master commemorative narrative…
Boundary Objects and Public Deliberation
Consistent with studies on inclusive management, this paper adopts the concept of “boundary object” and therefore an emergent approach to explain the collaboration of heterogeneous social actors in public deliberation. My long-term participant observation of the consensus conferences in Taiwan from 2002 through 2005 in general and the transcript of a national consensus conference on prenatal examination in 2005 in particular form the data sources…
Boundaries, Entities, and Modern Vegetarianism
Taking the emergence of the first vegetarian organization in Victorian England as a case, this article argues that "what vegetarianism is" is an ongoing social process that is determined by how social actors link its boundaries. Although in hindsight, people tend to take what an idea is for granted and treat it as a constant, what an idea was, is, and will be in fact depends heavily on what ideas can penetrate the boundaries of the specific idea …
Voice with Every Bite
Through an examination of vegetarians' practical boundary-work, this paper not only highlights the significance of people's dietary identity but also accounts for how the triadic relationship among social groups complicates people's boundary-work. This paper illuminates vegetarians' strategies for managing cultural membership and identity in a triadic group relationship—namely, meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans. In the triadic group constellati…
A Sacred Bastion? A Nation in Itself? An Economic Partner of Rising China? Three Waves of Nation‐Building in Taiwan after 1949
Agreeing with the constructivist approach to nationalism, this article argues that the prevailing ambiguous attitude towards nationality among people in Taiwan is a reflection of different waves of nation‐building − each led people to imagine a distinct nation − and the mixture of these waves during past decades. Whereas all nations are artificially imagined, ‘the style in which they are imagined’ should be examined. This article aims to distingu…
Maintaining and Strengthening a Shaky Regime with Mnemonic Work
This paper investigates the invention of a Chinese National Day from 1949 through 1987 in Taiwan to illuminate the significance of mnemonic work in nation-building. The 1949 Retreat after the Chinese Civil War resulted in a serious legitimacy crisis for the government of the Republic of China; thus, (re)inventing the National Day became an important mission to maintain and even strengthen this shaky regime. While the role of the standardized comm…
Telling a shared past, present, and future to invent nationality
Consistent with memory studies’ emphasis on the tight relationship between memory and identity, this article regards nation-building as an ongoing social process of nation-remembering. Taking the official Chinese nationalism in Taiwan from 1949 through 1987 as the case, this study aims to demonstrate the significant role that commemorative narratives play in nation-remembering. Facing extraordinary difficulties, the master commemorative narrative…
Using an awakening narrative to leave behind a former national‐identity
National‐identity has become a civil religion and a major source of how people define themselves. Changing one's nationality thus is a salient event/social process in today's society; therefore, people's nationality conversion deserves more academic attention. Treating the convert as a social type and regarding people's self‐reports (or converts' accounts) as topics for analysis, this article examines the Taiwan case to illuminate how people tell…
Managing uncertainty by adopting a hybrid way of knowing
The participant observation that I conducted during late 2013 through early 2014 in a Taiwanese medical center guides me to acknowledge the hybrid way of knowing that intensive care unit (ICU) patients' caregivers adopt to cope with illness. On the one hand, ICU patients' caregivers rely on modern medicine to understand their family member's circumstances; on the other, they depend on folk-religious beliefs to tell them what happened, is happenin…
The construction of identification with mnemonic engineering—toward a conceptual framework of identity-remembering
The construction of collective memory (and the formation of people’s identification) is a social process; however, this process is under-theorized. This article proposes a conceptual framework through which to understand the identity-remembering process. Several significant elements to consider are pointed out and discussed. Mnemonic engineering indicates that social actors strategically employ available mnemonic techniques and resources to promo…
Distributing Money to Commemoration
This article brings the aspect of collective memories (and thus identity) back “in” to facilitate our understanding of the intriguing relationship among memories, places, and deliberative projects. While we observe that the memories of a place assign meanings to it and thereby not only imbue a “sense of place” to local members but also influence the process of deliberation, we claim that the process of deliberation can serve as a place-(re)making…
Technological experiences and end-users' identification work - investigating expectant mothers' prenatal ultrasound experiences and their reconfigurations
Investigating expectant mothers’ pregnancy in Taiwan, this paper examines prenatal ultrasound as an ongoing invention of its users in general and pregnant women in particular. Instead of being passive consumers, pregnant women actively invent and reconfigure prenatal ultrasound using flexible interpretation and strategic reinscription. There is an inevitably ambivalent technological experience of prenatal ultrasound across cultures. Whereas pregn…
Democratizing Technology and Enhancing the Inclusivity of Technology Policies
This article investigates the democratization of technology policymaking through an analysis of the 100 T-forums held in Taiwan between 2019 and 2021, marking the first systematic incorporation of lay citizens’ perspectives into technology governance. Prior to this initiative, large-scale deliberative communication in technology policy remained largely absent; this project offers critical insight into its potential and limitations. Initiated by t…
Sociology (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Nationalism (4 works)