Chialan Sharon Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5840724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chialan Sharon Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chialan Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | ISNI: 0000000121935532 Oberlin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6794-9788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the name of love
To Love and Freedom
This paper investigates the contemporary cinematic representation of the White Terror period (1949–1987) in Taiwan. The government started the process of Transitional Justice in 2017, uncovering and articulating the violence of the martial law period, which has coincided with Taiwan’s search for visibility and recognition on the international stage. Meanwhile, the PRC’s military threat to annex Taiwan turns the collective memory of White Terror i…
Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
This article focuses on Wu Ming-Yi's 2015 novel, The Stolen Bicycle, and examines the way individuals’ storytelling is interwoven with scientific and historical facts to construct cultural memory and reinscribe the meaning of native soil. The novel unfolds with the narrator's search for vintage bicycles, which are at once commodities, war vehicles, objects of expertise and connoisseurship, and most important, fetishes that allow characters to art…
Border-crossing and the narrative of the minor
This article studies Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay (2016) as a cinematic representation of Deleuze’s ‘minor literature’. I argue that the film gives rise to collective utterances against social and economic hegemony, particularly in its portrayal of Burmese immigrant characters who, as Agamben’s ‘bare life’, are subject to the violence underlying the biopower of neo-liberalism. A diasporic Burmese Chinese, Midi Z adopts the convention of cinema v…
Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
This article focuses on Wu Ming-Yi's 2015 novel, The Stolen Bicycle, and examines the way individuals’ storytelling is interwoven with scientific and historical facts to construct cultural memory and reinscribe the meaning of native soil. The novel unfolds with the narrator's search for vintage bicycles, which are at once commodities, war vehicles, objects of expertise and connoisseurship, and most important, fetishes that allow characters to art…
Border-crossing and the narrative of the minor
This article studies Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay (2016) as a cinematic representation of Deleuze’s ‘minor literature’. I argue that the film gives rise to collective utterances against social and economic hegemony, particularly in its portrayal of Burmese immigrant characters who, as Agamben’s ‘bare life’, are subject to the violence underlying the biopower of neo-liberalism. A diasporic Burmese Chinese, Midi Z adopts the convention of cinema v…
In the name of love
To Love and Freedom
This paper investigates the contemporary cinematic representation of the White Terror period (1949–1987) in Taiwan. The government started the process of Transitional Justice in 2017, uncovering and articulating the violence of the martial law period, which has coincided with Taiwan’s search for visibility and recognition on the international stage. Meanwhile, the PRC’s military threat to annex Taiwan turns the collective memory of White Terror i…
Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
This article focuses on Wu Ming-Yi's 2015 novel, The Stolen Bicycle, and examines the way individuals’ storytelling is interwoven with scientific and historical facts to construct cultural memory and reinscribe the meaning of native soil. The novel unfolds with the narrator's search for vintage bicycles, which are at once commodities, war vehicles, objects of expertise and connoisseurship, and most important, fetishes that allow characters to art…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Affection (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)