Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan Lai
Biographic Data
| ID | 6560656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan Lai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn Yi-Hsuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lai |
| SIGNATURE | LAI J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fu Jen Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8537-7875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond model workers: Emerging labour bio-politics for decent work in Taiwanese screen industries
In response to the recent turn towards resistance in creative labour studies, this article illustrates how below-the-line workers in Taiwan’s screen production negotiate poor and often dangerous workplace conditions, through the lens of Foucauldian concepts of biopower and bio-politics. The Taiwanese workers are asserting their legal right to a proper working environment and reasonable working hours. They have challenged the control dispositifs e…
Dire-Straits: Taiwanese TV screenwriters in the neoliberal and authoritarian 2010s
This article investigates the working life of Taiwanese TV screenwriters who have commuted across the Taiwan Strait since the 2010s to supplement previous research on Taiwanese creative workers in China. My analysis is divided into three parts: (1) the screenwriters’ work structure and problems; (2) how their self-enterprising ethos pushes them to adhere to the Chinese state-market regime; and (3) the competitions in the screenwriting field, thei…
Divergent staging of East Asian patriarchy within the Confucian order in Taiwan’s transnational television drama co-productions
Using Letter 1949 (2009, hereafter Letter) and Fathers Don’t Like Each Other (2011, hereafter Fathers) as case studies, this article explores the contrasting presentations of capitalist patriarchy in the otherwise young-women oriented Taiwanese television dramas that collaborated with China. Their narratives bear marks of the larger Cross-Straits contestations. China’s dominant narrative of capitalist patriarchy traditionalized as Confucian pater…
Introduction: Confucian values and television in East Asia
Once accused for the inertia of Chinese feudalism in responding to Western modernity, Confucianism has been attributed to the resurgence of East Asian economies a century later. From the propositio
Divergent staging of East Asian patriarchy within the Confucian order in Taiwan’s transnational television drama co-productions
Using Letter 1949 (2009, hereafter Letter) and Fathers Don’t Like Each Other (2011, hereafter Fathers) as case studies, this article explores the contrasting presentations of capitalist patriarchy in the otherwise young-women oriented Taiwanese television dramas that collaborated with China. Their narratives bear marks of the larger Cross-Straits contestations. China’s dominant narrative of capitalist patriarchy traditionalized as Confucian pater…
Divergent staging of East Asian patriarchy within the Confucian order in Taiwan’s transnational television drama co-productions
Using Letter 1949 (2009, hereafter Letter) and Fathers Don’t Like Each Other (2011, hereafter Fathers) as case studies, this article explores the contrasting presentations of capitalist patriarchy in the otherwise young-women oriented Taiwanese television dramas that collaborated with China. Their narratives bear marks of the larger Cross-Straits contestations. China’s dominant narrative of capitalist patriarchy traditionalized as Confucian pater…
Introduction: Confucian values and television in East Asia
Once accused for the inertia of Chinese feudalism in responding to Western modernity, Confucianism has been attributed to the resurgence of East Asian economies a century later. From the propositio
Dire-Straits: Taiwanese TV screenwriters in the neoliberal and authoritarian 2010s
This article investigates the working life of Taiwanese TV screenwriters who have commuted across the Taiwan Strait since the 2010s to supplement previous research on Taiwanese creative workers in China. My analysis is divided into three parts: (1) the screenwriters’ work structure and problems; (2) how their self-enterprising ethos pushes them to adhere to the Chinese state-market regime; and (3) the competitions in the screenwriting field, thei…
Beyond model workers: Emerging labour bio-politics for decent work in Taiwanese screen industries
In response to the recent turn towards resistance in creative labour studies, this article illustrates how below-the-line workers in Taiwan’s screen production negotiate poor and often dangerous workplace conditions, through the lens of Foucauldian concepts of biopower and bio-politics. The Taiwanese workers are asserting their legal right to a proper working environment and reasonable working hours. They have challenged the control dispositifs e…
China (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)